Piers Caldwell (Mr. Squirrel) has been actively immersed in the music and theater worlds for a decade.

When he landed his first gig with a local repertory theater in 1998 at age 10, Piers found himself bitten by the performing bug. He joined an acting troupe, and began appearing in a variety of plays spanning Shakespeare to Neil Simon over the course of the next 8 years.

Throughout this time, however, he was constantly rummaging through record bins and family members’ libraries feeding his ...