Biography
Corey Ticknor - mandolin, vocals
It's no secret that pink suede has been largely suppressed by the Canadian music establishment since the turn of the millennium. Especially if you happen to play a blue mandolin.
After finishing a music degree as a trombonist, this musical "Jekyll and Hyde" skipped the continent for a year's shadowy existence in pubs and on buskable street corners of Europe with the celtic trio Mangy Coyote. He returned and began gigging with Brandon's rocking hipsters, the Armchair Radicals, where he first met Dust Poet bandmate Evans. After wedding a sweet young clarinetist and spending two years in the Paraguayan bush teaching Mennonites to dance, he returned to freelance as a jazz trombonist and occasional landscaper in Winnipeg.
After a couple of years managing a woodlot on the banks of the Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick, Ticknor now finds himself commuting for Dust Poets engagements from the Irish bar-band ghetto of Phoenix AZ.