Marvin "Mo" Pair (Guitar, Bass Guitar, Recorder)

Marvin “Mo” Pair is a graduate student at the University of Oklahoma in Native American Studies where he is transcribing American Indian music using Western musical notation. He has been studying American Indian music (pow wow music in particular) for over 20 years, most notably under renowned Ponca singer, Harry Buffalohead, in the early 1990’s.

Mo also plays guitar, electric bass, recorder, and trumpet. He was raised in a musical family and began a sincere study of music while a teenager in the mid-1980’s. He enjoys the following musical styles: folk, bluegrass, country, blues, Americana, and rock. He is also a prolific songwriter and band leader. He has released nineteen albums under three different Austin, TX-based bands (Grass, Groovin Ground, and Bright Star Catalogue). For the past five years, Mo has played for a living on the road, covering twenty-six states in the United States and two Canadian provinces.

Mo’s formal education is in engineering from the University of Texas; he believes in correlating music and mathematics and is a proponent of using musical notation. He has taught lessons in Austin, TX for five years and enjoys a “Mr. Mo” program, teaching kids’ and folk songs to young children in day cares and Montessori schools.