Fiddlin’ Pete LIVE @ Distant Brewing

Fiddlin’ Pete Watercott has been playing music for over 50 years. At age ten Pete began playing the viola. In 1964, Pete’s sister, Kit, brought a plywood sunburst “Stella” guitar into the Watercott home. Pete took to strummin’ out the folk ballads of Woody Guthrie, Joan Baez, Phil Oaks, Pete Seeger, and anything that Sing Out! Magazine would print.

About 1970 Pete met life long friend and fellow songwriter, Larry Long. The pair traveled extensively throughout the U.S., hitchhiking, hopping freights, and in the mid-seventies traveling in the Lone Prairie Schooner and the Red Caboose. Adding Neil Gelvin and Dale Cannon, they formed a group “Nevada Swing,” and embarked on a bi-centennial North American tour.

In 1976 Pete met Kathryn, and two years later they married! They ended up settling in Bishop, CA. It’s where you will find Pete & Kathryn today along with two cats, Coale and Mancha, six chickens, Iris, a very intelligent Border Collie, and loveable new mutt, Benson, who is not the sharpest pencil in the box.

Celebrating the wild Mustang’s heritage in the West, Pete has led horseback songwriting groups with Rock Creek Pack Station, drawing inspiration from the wild horses. Now in a seventh season, Pete has self produced a popular summer Dinner Concert series at the Pokonobe Lodge in Mammoth Lakes, CA. Pete has also produced six albums, (CDs), including “Songs of Curley Fletcher” the only recording dedicated to the work of the great Western poet.

In recent years, Pete has been invited to perform at the Woody Guthrie Festival in Okemah, Oklahoma, Elko National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Millpond Music Festival, Canadian River Music Festival, The Lone Pine Film Festival, Larry Fest in Wisconsin, Minneapolis Monarch Festival, and the “Stars” Theater of Bakersfield, CA.

Fiddlin’ Pete’s music is perfect for many events! Performing solo or with long time friend and guitarist, Neil Gelvin, Pete’s shows feature original songs, traditional folk songs and western classics, with some hot fiddle tunes thrown in to spice things up.