Okay, so here's the page where I tell you everything about myself in a media friendly way that can be used in festival programs and on websites.  Oh boy, better make it good! It's written in third person so that it seems like someone else wrote it, but you know the truth...

Trevor Mills came to music during his student years while he was studying Nuclear & Quantum Physics and Engineering at the University of Toronto. He'd been around folk music his entire life, having attended folk festivals since childhood with his father Paul Mills (who produced Stan Rogers' albums), but when he started actually playing gigs he caught a bug that he hasn't been able to shake since. He began writing the odd song (many of which were really odd) and playing bass around that time too. When he graduated he laid the groundwork for the nomad lifestyle he's been leading ever since by hopping into a car and driving clean across Canada to discover the music and beauty this great land has to offer. Oh, the life was grand. Not a care in the world, staying up late and playing music, meeting fantastic people and making lifelong friends.

But, alas, the money ran out. So, he got a computer job...

...and a haircut...

Then that thing happened in New York where those two towers fell down. Well, the computer industry did NOT like that and his company went under. So, Trevor went back to the music life. He decided to try a bunch of different things in the music industry to see what he liked. On top of continuing to perform solo gigs and play bass with the likes of Aengus Finnan, Evalyn Parry and Eve Goldberg, he also dabbled in management, album production, event promotion, community building and website design. His management days were short lived, but he did help to introduce a fantastic Toronto group called The Undesirables to the Canadian Folk circuit.  His community building came in the form of a songwriter's collective called The New Foundation that ran for a couple of years at Toronto's Hugh's Room. At it's peak, the collective included over 400 songwriters from across North America, many of whom would gather at a monthly show that celebrated new writing.  It was a very exciting scene.  

But the road was calling.  He wasn't done with exploring Canada yet.  So, he packed up his things and moved to (of all places) Winnipeg, MB.  "Why Winnipeg?" everyone asked him. Well, the truth is, Winnipeg has one of the most exciting music scenes in Canada.  While there, he met a fantastic singer named Laine Hoogstraten and formed a short lived but celebrated band called The Welcome Back Carters.  Blending folk with funk, this band allowed Trevor to really explore his bass playing.  It was a great time, though as mentioned short-lived.  You see, although it does have a great music scene, Winnipeg is also really cold during the winter (they don't lie), and really far away from...well...everywhere.  In the dead of winter, 2005, Trevor got a call that would take him away from Winnipeg, away from Canada and away from the music industry.

He went and got himself another job.  (Crazy fool!)

This time he ended up in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (remember Three Mile Island?) working in a cubicle farm programming mainframe computers.  Oh the glow of the flourescent lights.  Oh, the endless days of kahki pants.  Oh the completely stress-free lifestyle of a steady paycheque and a ton of freetime!!  He used that time to develop his skills as a website developer.  If you ask him to describe some of his web projects, be prepared for geek talk and geek passion.   

Then, Trevor went and bought himself an upright bass and set down to learn how to play the thing.  Oh what a glorious time it was.  But all the while, he knew that inevitably the axe was going to fall and the dream situation was going to end.  That's exactly what happened in the spring of 2007, at which point Trevor found himself once again without a care in the world, plus a ton of free time.

So, after spending a summer doing such fun things as taking a primitive skills course (he can now make fire by rubbing sticks together), attending the Kerrville Folk Festival for the 5th year in a row, and trying his hand as Artistic Director of the wonderful Eaglewood Folk Festival in Ontario, he decided to go back to college.  He enrolled himself into the prestigious Humber College jazz program to study bass.  That's what he's doing right now.  We have it on good authority that he loves it!

There you have it.  Now, go to the music page and check out some of my music.  Or go to the YouTube page and check out some of my favourite YouTube videos (never let it be said that Trevor Mills doesn't want you to have a good time!)