Danny Noveck

Danny NoveckDanny Noveck plays Irish music on guitar, fiddle and mandolin. He’s known in the contra dance world for his 1990s recordings with Kerry Elkin and Kate Barnes and he tours with the band Fresh Fish. Since then, he’s been a sought-after accompanist in the Chicago, New York and Boston Irish music scenes. Danny has toured and recorded with a wide range of musicians including John Whelan, Ruthie Dornfeld’s American Café Orchestra, Baltimore’s Old Bay Ceili Band and most recently,

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Elizabeth LaPrelle

Elizabeth LaPrelleElizabeth LaPrelle is a scholar and singer of Appalachian Ballads from Rural Retreat, Virginia. She built her style and repertoire from research into archival recordings, family, and friends. She started making recordings with her family as a teen and received her undergraduate degree from the College of William and Mary with a major in Southern Appalachian Traditional Performance. In the experimental folk duo Anna & Elizabeth, she toured internationally and helped re-popularize the “crankie” performance art form.

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Sam Amidon

Sam Amidon (2)Sam Amidon is a singer and multi-instrumentalist (fiddle, banjo, guitar) from Brattleboro, Vermont. A member of the Amidon family, he has been involved in folk music his whole life, including playing in the contradance bands Popcorn Behavior and Wild Asparagus as a teenager. Over the last 20 years he has released a series of solo albums of songs on the record labels Nonesuch, Bedroom Community, and River Lea, and toured internationally.

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Sally Jablonsky

Sally JablonskyBorn and raised on a farm south of Spokane, Washington, Sally Jablonsky has 20 years of teaching experience, and grew up playing old time and other fiddle styles with her family and at fiddle festivals. When she’s not fiddling around, Sally makes art, teaches painting, and watches the trees move in the wind.

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Brian Dolphin

Brian DolphinBrian Dolphin is a Thomas J. Watson Fellow, Fulbright recipient, and doctoral candidate in Ethnomusicology at the CUNY Graduate Center.  He has studied and performed folk and original music all over the world, in villages and large venues alike. He leads an active life as a songwriter, performer, producer, and songleader, uniting diverse communities through the “Dolphin & You” Patreon and Community Sing, Ukrainian Village Voices, and the Philly Folk Choir.

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Mary Wesley

Raised in the cradle of Vermont’s Green Mountains, Mary Wesley found her way to a Burlington contra dance in the fall of 2005 and was immediately hooked. She was later happy to learn that the tradition is in her DNA – she is the granddaughter of two square dance callers!

Mary loves to share her infectious joy for traditional dancing with dancers of all ages and she has something to offer every crowd.

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Sophie Wellington

Sophie WellingtonSophie Wellington is a Boston based musician—fiddler, flatpicker, jazz vocalist, and percussive dancer. She has a distinctive voice across these instruments, and her music creates a dialogue between them. Her solo project is influenced by her upbringing in old time Appalachian music, study of jazz vocal improvisation (Berklee Class of 2022), social dancing and Appalachian flatfooting.

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Stefan Amidon

Stefan lives in Brattleboro, Vermont with his wife Zara Bode and their two children. He graduated from Oberlin Conservatory as a jazz percussion major. Stefan is percussionist, singer and founding member of the Sweetback Sisters, a “honky tonk band for the modern cowboy and girl”, featuring lead singers Zara Bode and Emily Miller; a founding member and bass singer in Starry Mountain Singers a cappella ensemble (which also includes Zara Bode), and,

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Joanna Reiner Wilkinson

Joanna Reiner Wilkinson has taught English dance for over two decades.  In addition to being one of the leaders of the Philadelphia-based Germantown Country Dancers, her calling has taken her from Amherst to Ann Arbor, from NEFFA to Hey Days, from St. Croix to Vancouver, and other points abroad, including many sessions for the Country Dance & Song Society (CDSS) and CDS Boston Centre at Pinewoods Camp.  While known for her clear calling and instruction,

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Ben Schreiber

Ben Schreiber, a fiddler and tune writer rooted in the contra dance scene, brings a diverse musical palette influenced by his Midwest upbringing and years in the San Francisco Bay Area. Having started with the Suzuki method at an early age, Ben’s musical journey has been enriched through exploration of folk music. While best known for his contributions to contra dance bands like Uncle Farmer, the Dam Beavers, Offbeats, and Potent Brew, he also performs with the newly-established chamber-folk trio,

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