A whimsical tale: Born under the crescent moon and palmetto trees of Charleston, South Carolina, Big Dave McCurry took up harmonica at 16 after watching a guy on a street corner play south of San Francisco in the late sixties and thinking, "hey, that's for me." Hours of solo practice in acoustic stairwell heaven to Lee Oskar and War, Canned Heat, John Mayall, Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson, and Corky Siegel while Mom, Dad, and now famous older brother were off to church on Sunday mornings. After surviving suburban hell in the SF bay area, Professor Dave teamed up with various college players in California, adding his folk and blues harp in 12 string duets to tunes by John Prine, Hoyt Axton, and a host of country/rock favorites. Santa Cruz College band Sweet Release provided R&B and Rock distraction from psychology degree with weekend gigs, playing Curtis Salgado, Sam and Dave, Sons of Champlin, Allman Bros., The Band, The Dead, out in bars and campus parties, and opening an outdoor festival one night for Tower of Power. A voluntary 3 years in The Gambia, West Africa later added juju, palm wine flavor and more crescent moon spirituality to the musical brew. More degrees, more education, more distraction performing and recording with political folk tooney Tom Neilson and Mark Lynd in happy valley Massachusetts off and on the years since. more Africa (this time in Malawi) - Kwela, and lots of High-Life and Reggae in between then and now. Last time back from Africa in the former South-West (Namibia), playing with the Flying Hippos while battling the remnants of evil apartheid and aiding reconciliation to present day New Jersey (with evil remnants of township segregation and no reconciliation), falling in with The Mighty Accents and Phatman with Sam Cooper and Jefferson Starship trooper Slick Aguilar. Big Dave joins The Professors with fellow Monmouthkateer, Chad Dell.