Rhythm Road Bios

Kevin Walsh, bassist for Rhythm Road lives in Augusta County with his wife Christine, daughter Beverly and son Daniel. Kevin's musical training started in 1963 with Trinity Church choir, and progressed through high school and college band programs playing trumpet. In addition to performing with local bands Staxx, Jazpar, LeGroove, and Wanda and the White Boys, Kevin traveled across the country with the folk group Windfall. He has also enjoyed time in the orchestra pit at the Oak Grove Theater and with the Waynesboro Players. When he's not performing, Kevin works in Product Development for NTELOS in Waynesboro.

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Jim Harrington lives in Staunton with his wife, Constance, and his daughter, Kate. When he is not playing the accordion, he serves on the faculty of Mary Baldwin College, and is involved in a number of civic activities. He received his first accordion as a Christmas gift from his parents in 1962, and has enjoyed experimenting with the possibilities which the instrument offers in a variety of musical genres, including folk, rock and roll, zydeco and celtic.

Buddy Thomas, a self-taught guitarist, is a native of Augusta County and has taught guitar to thousands of valley residents for over thirty years. Buddy has played with a host of area bands and is currently playing with Rhythm Road, Wanda and the White Boys, Joyful Noise, The Augusta Guitar Ensemble, and free-lance solo work. He is a prolific songwriter, and many of his songs have been performed and recorded by Rhythm Road and W&TWB. Buddy also has played for the Waynesboro Players, Waynesboro Choral Society, and Staunton Choral Society. Buddy spends the rest of his time with his wife Bonnie, children October, Miranda, Ben and grandson Brad.

Joe Dockery seems to have come full circle in his transition from playing the drum set with local bands, the Findells, LeGroove and Wanda and the White Boys to playing hand drums with Rhythm Road. As a child, Joe would save the empty cylinder "Quaker Oats" oatmeal containers to pound out his early awareness of simple rhythms. Joe laments, however, that those all-cardboard containers were far superior in sound quality when compared to today's plastic tops. For the past 23 years, Joe has used his hands in his vocation as a practicing Staunton chiropractor. He has also developed an elementary school program called the Rhythms of Health, explaining how our world and our bodies function rhythmically, and that health can be attained by maintaining these natural rhythmic phenomena.