1. Boyd Calvin Tinsley was born on May 16,1964 and is an American violinist and mandolinist who is best known for having been a member of the Dave Matthews Band.
19 Facts About Boyd Tinsley
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Boyd Tinsley's was a musical family; his father was a choir director and his uncle a bassist who played the trumpet for local bands.
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Boyd Tinsley studied with Isidor Saslav, then concertmaster of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra but, at age 16, decided he did not want to pursue a career in classical music.
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Boyd Tinsley studied history at the University of Virginia, where he was a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity.
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Boyd Tinsley still had his own band and would often join Matthews' concerts after playing his own gigs.
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We just wanted some fiddle tracked on this one song "Tripping Billies", and Boyd Tinsley was a friend of Leroi.
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Boyd Tinsley co-wrote the Jurassic 5 song "Work It Out", and a song which he co-wrote, "Break Free", appeared on the Dave Matthews Band's 2023 album Walk Around the Moon.
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Boyd Tinsley performed on all 10 of the band's studio albums, and its 14 live albums.
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In October 2024, when the Dave Matthews Band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Boyd Tinsley was included as an inductee.
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On February 3,2018, Boyd Tinsley announced that he was taking a leave of absence from the band, citing exhaustion and the need to focus on his health and family.
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Boyd Tinsley responded to the suit, saying that reports of his alleged behavior were "one-sided" and that he would defend himself in and out of court.
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The parties reached an out-of-court settlement in June 2019, with Boyd Tinsley agreeing to pay $837,000.00.
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In 2000, Boyd Tinsley made a guest appearance on The Getaway People's second album, Turnpike Diaries.
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In 2003, Boyd Tinsley released a solo album, True Reflections, featuring the title track he had written over a decade earlier.
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On March 20,2009, Boyd Tinsley appeared with former US poet laureate Rita Dove at the Paramount Theater in Charlottesville when she launched her poetry book Sonata Mulattica, about 19th-century violin virtuoso George Bridgetower; Boyd Tinsley is mentioned in the first poem in the book, "The Bridgetower".
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Boyd Tinsley composed and performed a musical piece for the event, read a poem from the book and discussed his musical life in particular and the role of classically trained African-American musicians in general with Dove.
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Boyd Tinsley was the producer, writer and composer for the 80-minute cinematic opera Faces in the Mirror, in which he appeared as an actor.
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Boyd Tinsley played in a celebrity doubles tennis match in 2007 with John McEnroe against Pete Sampras and Autria Godfrey.
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Boyd Tinsley has recorded a song called "The Ghosts of Wimbledon" for the 2006 ESPN coverage of the tournament.