Michael grew up in Saint John, New Brunswick and Toronto, Ontario.
1986 - 1990 played in a full-time band throughout New Brunswick, P.E.I.,
Nova Scotia, Cape Breton and Newfoundland.
1990 - 1995 studied music at Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA,
graduating "magna cum laude".
1996 - 2006 played in a full-time band traveling from Florida to Arizona
to the Yukon Territories to Ontario.
October 2006 joined the Colly Shaw Band.
Michael's musical attributes are guitar, vocals, sequence programming,
website creation, video production, song writing and arranging,
audio production (live and personal studio).