Bio
Born and raised in Winston-Salem, NC, Margaret White started playing violin in sixth grade. After several years of classical and orchestral work, she made the leap to both Chapel Hill, NC, and rock bands.
At the start of her band experience, Margaret was playing only violin with Mike Garrigan, though soon she was experimenting with it through a distortion pedal in the Starry Wisdom Band, which thus led to her nickname of "Mog the Destroyer," since shortened to simply "Mog."
Over time, and with the advent of new bands, Mog began adding vocals and expanded her instrumental range to include electric bass, keyboards, banjo, guitar, cello, viola, jaw harp, and the occasional other random addition.
Mog was a founding member of Chapel Hill's The Comas and played with them for several years, adding violin, bass and vocals to their first two albums, "Wave to Make Friends" and "A Def Needle in Tomorrow." During this time she also began playing with Tift Merritt and Regina Hexaphone and kept this busy schedule for about a year.
In 2001, Mog got offered a touring position with Sparklehorse. With them she sang and played violin, bass, banjo and glockenspiel. The year on the road and conflicting schedules led to her departure from The Comas, though she was soon to join forces yet again with John Harrison, former Comas drummer, in the new band he was fronting, North Elementary.
At the start of 2003 Mog was offered a position with Cat Power singing and playing violin, bass and keys. Much of the year was spent on the road, with time at home spent recording for Regina Hexaphone and North Elementary. A few weeks in October were spent on the road with the Welsh band Gorky's Zygotic Mynci when their violinist was unable to make the trip, and three weeks playing in the string section for Belle and Sebastian followed this directly.
2004 held a tour with Mog's former Sparklehorse bandmate, Kendall Jane Meade, and her project, Mascott, small tours with Belle and Sebastian and Cat Power, and cd releases and tours for both North Elementary (Lose Your Favorite Things) and Regina Hexaphone (The Beautiful World). In September she moved to Brooklyn. Since the move to the big city she's been playing regularly with Kevin Devine, Mascott, Jennifer O'Connor and Portastatic.
At the start of her band experience, Margaret was playing only violin with Mike Garrigan, though soon she was experimenting with it through a distortion pedal in the Starry Wisdom Band, which thus led to her nickname of "Mog the Destroyer," since shortened to simply "Mog."
Over time, and with the advent of new bands, Mog began adding vocals and expanded her instrumental range to include electric bass, keyboards, banjo, guitar, cello, viola, jaw harp, and the occasional other random addition.
Mog was a founding member of Chapel Hill's The Comas and played with them for several years, adding violin, bass and vocals to their first two albums, "Wave to Make Friends" and "A Def Needle in Tomorrow." During this time she also began playing with Tift Merritt and Regina Hexaphone and kept this busy schedule for about a year.
In 2001, Mog got offered a touring position with Sparklehorse. With them she sang and played violin, bass, banjo and glockenspiel. The year on the road and conflicting schedules led to her departure from The Comas, though she was soon to join forces yet again with John Harrison, former Comas drummer, in the new band he was fronting, North Elementary.
At the start of 2003 Mog was offered a position with Cat Power singing and playing violin, bass and keys. Much of the year was spent on the road, with time at home spent recording for Regina Hexaphone and North Elementary. A few weeks in October were spent on the road with the Welsh band Gorky's Zygotic Mynci when their violinist was unable to make the trip, and three weeks playing in the string section for Belle and Sebastian followed this directly.
2004 held a tour with Mog's former Sparklehorse bandmate, Kendall Jane Meade, and her project, Mascott, small tours with Belle and Sebastian and Cat Power, and cd releases and tours for both North Elementary (Lose Your Favorite Things) and Regina Hexaphone (The Beautiful World). In September she moved to Brooklyn. Since the move to the big city she's been playing regularly with Kevin Devine, Mascott, Jennifer O'Connor and Portastatic.
