Miles Quale

Accomplished in both bluegrass fiddle and jazz violin, Miles Quale plays and sings with depth beyond his years. With his brother Teo, Miles performed at the Grand Ole Opry in 2019. They’ve performed on festival mainstages such as Strawberry Music Festival and CBA’s Father’s Day Bluegrass Festival with their 4-piece bluegrass band, Crying Uncle. In 2023, the band received IBMA’s Momentum Band of the Year award. Miles was awarded a Whippoorwhill Arts Fellowship which enabled him to travel around the world studying and recording music with masters such as Darol Anger and many others in places such as Finland, India, and Indonesia. Miles started with the violin at the age of 3 and switched to bluegrass fiddle at age 6. At age 12, he started teaching at Manning Music of Berkeley and he currently teaches jazz violin at Oaktown Jazz, Oakland. He’s taught festival workshops and music camps such as California Bluegrass Association’s “Kids on Bluegrass” and the Freight & Salvage’s “Fiddle Kids” program. Miles currently studies at UCLA with a double major in Global Jazz and Astrophysics.