Chuck

Although well traveled, Chuck is a Montana native, born in Choteau and raised on the east slopes of Glacier National Park on the Blackfoot Indian Reservation.  His career as a performer is a little sporadic:  as a child he once sang on stage with Don Ho in Hawaii, but insists it did no lasting damage (although he admits to still owning and playing a ukulele). In the early '80s he spent a few years in the Flathead Valley, singing and playing lead guitar in a rock band. After moving to Bozeman to finish school, however, he returned to his acoustic roots.  He was only recently dragged back out of the closet, kicking and screaming (or was that him singing?)  to perform in public again.  In addition to lending his vocals to the DupliKates, he plays lead acoustic guitar, mandolin, banjo and harmonica. By day he is a mild mannered computer programmer.  Slip a Gibson guitar on him though, and he still thinks he's Pete Townsend. Probably best to just humor him...

Chuck and his wife Gigi have a business called MusicLingua, which teaches foreign languages to young children, primarily through music.  Most of the music is original, and Chuck does it all himself.  Well...OK, the kids and women singing on the songs are not him, but most of the MUSIC is...