other Celtic nations. Blending Americana, Irish Traditional, and Bluegrass music, The Pints create a unique musical style sure to get the pub singing and dancing! The Pints are seasoned musicians who bring connection, passion and energy to their performance. Band Members
Matthew Dixon
Matthew Peyton Dixon has been performing and writing music professionally since the age of 16. Getting his start playing percussion with the Spirit of Atlanta Drum and Bugle Corps from 2001-2003. in Percussion Performance at the University of North Texas in 2009. While attending undergrad, Matthew studied everything he could ranging from jazz, classical, drumline, and world percussion. From 2007-2016 he accompanied and composed for dance at the University of North Texas and from 2010-2016 at Texas Woman’s University. Since 2016 he has been the resident accompanist and composer at Denison University and in 2018 was hired at The Ohio State University accompanying and composing for the dance department. Matthew has also been a resident accompanist at the world famous American Dance Festival since 2016 and has played for the Joffrey Ballet and David Dorfman dance intensives. He has composed over 40 works for dance, has 7 solo albums, many album recordings with bands, toured extensively throughout the U.S., and has 4 volumes of poetry. Matthew currently lives in Columbus, Ohio working with Denison University and The Ohio State University dance departments as well as playing percussion with many different local and national artists. Jeff Kanel
Jeff has been playing violin since the age of seven. Suzuki trained, he played through high school, focused on classical repertoire, eventually playing with the Cleveland Symphony Youth Orchestra in the late ‘80s. While Jeff always enjoyed classical music, he was enthralled with a Tommy Makem performance at an Irish Festival. The unique ornamentation and lilt of Irish tunes had stuck with him ever since. Fast forward 25 years… Jeff dusted off his violin, determined that he would finally play Irish music. Jeff began performing locally with native Irish talent in Ballybeg Banter. It was during this period that he also learned mandolin, guitar, and bit of bodhran. In 2019, Jeff joined The Pints where he performs on mandolin, fiddle, and vocals. His musical experience now spans Irish, French Canadian, Bluegrass and American folk music. Ed Tatum
Ed has been playing guitar and singing for over 50 years. Beginning with the British Invasion music of the 60’s he continued with the rock genres of the 70’s and 80’s before branching out into American Folk and Irish Pub Tunes. He has played in a number of rock bands and with the Irish American Pub Band, Uisce Beatha, in Richmond, Va. Ed has recently started performing solo as well. Since moving to Columbus in 2015, Ed has been active in participating and performing with the Columbus Folk Music Society as well as the Irish music community. He and Matthew began playing together in 2017 and, with Jeff, formed The Pints in 2019. Heidi White
Heidi is a Columbus native and has played and sung music most of her life. She started her first band in the 4th grade and hasn’t stopped playing since. She has worked as an acoustic single and duo and has sang and played keys with a few rock bands. Bluegrass music got Heidi back to her choral music roots. She began playing bass and singing as an original member of Grassahol. Heidi still plays bluegrass with some of her former bandmates in Wood Pickers and Timbrewolves. After persistent begging from the band and encouragement from other musician friends, Heidi took the opportunity to join The Pints in 2022 and started a crash course in Irish music.
