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Mark Greenberg Mark Greenberg is an educator, writer, musician, and proprietor of Upstreet Productions, specializing in traditional folk music and oral history. He was a co-founder of the Philadelphia Folk Workshop and currently teaches American music history at the University of Vermont. He was the text editor of, and a writer for, the JVC-Smithsonian/Folkways VideoAnthologies of Music and Dance of The Americas, and his radio program, “On & On,” was broadcast for 12 years on WNCS. For more information about Mark Greenberg: www.upstreetproductions.com.
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Multi-instrumentalist Teddy Weber has been a full-time touring musician and recording session player for over 10 years. He is mostly known for his work in the NY-based genre-blending outfit, The Wiyos, but Teddy also co-founded the bluegrass duo, The Hunger Mt Boys. In these two groups he has toured all over the US, Canada, UK, Europe, and released eight albums and numerous singles and EPs. His instrumental work appears on recordings by Devendra Banhart, Pokey Lafarge and numerous others in the Americana genre. Teddy began as a classically trained cornetist but for the past decade he has focused mostly on guitar and console steel guitar. Photo Credit:Plaid Photography.
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Ted Ingham took up the banjo over a decade ago, after playing guitar for twenty years. He has attended old-time music workshops and festivals, and learned from master banjo players Tom Mackenzie, Pete Sutherland, and Dan Margolies. Ted offers individual clawhammer lessons to beginning through intermediate students, and has taught beginning, advanced beginning, and intermediate clawhammer classes at the Summit School since 2008. He has also served on the Summit School Board since its inception. Ted plays banjo and guitar for the “House Carpenters,” a string band featuring Katie Trautz, Dan Haley, and Noah Hahn, which released a CD of the same name in 2009. To hear some of his music, visit
http://www.banjohangout.org/myhangout/music.asp?id=19586
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Tom MacKenzie has been a musician for more than forty years now. His main instruments are the Banjo and Hammered Dulcimer but he can move around with comfort on Guitar, Ukulele and Keyboard. His style has been described and subtle and understated, but at the same time, complex. He performs regularly with the Woods Tea Company but can also be found at many dances, weddings and sessions around the region. Tom is a wonderful teacher who is able to key in on individual needs and tailor the experience to go in whatever direction the student would like to explore. Patience and the willingness to wander from the lesson plan are his strong suits.
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| Heidi Wilson, when not serving as the School-year Program Director for EarthWalk Vermont is a singer-songwriter and recording artist. She has been leading a cappella singing groups for 7 years, and currently teaches kids folk singing classes at the Summit School for Traditional Music and Culture.
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Gregory Douglass is The Creative Advisor, and he launched http://thecreativeadvisor.com to provide working musicians with quality content, experienced training, powerful resources, and creative advice. TheCreativeAdvisor.com is committed to helping independent musicians fast-track their careers through tutorials, interviews with music industry experts, and online creative coaching. Our passion for quality video, audio, and informational content is at the heart of TheCreativeAdvisor.com – and it's our independent road map for today's music industry.
Douglass is an internationally renowned independent singer/songwriter and an expert indie artist with over a decade of experience as a full-time musician. He is the Founder of Emote Records, and has independently released eight critically acclaimed albums, along with a multitude of digital singles and music videos. He has sold over 75,000 songs digitally on his own and his videos have amounted to over 600,000 views on Youtube alone. He has mastered the art of crowdsourcing and has raised up to six figures in campaign funding to finance his music over the years. Douglass' evocative, alternative sound "channels everyone from Stevie Wonder to Fiona Apple in a way that's terrifyingly mature for someone so young" according to Instinct Magazine, and NPR's "Morning Edition" has coined him "one of New England's best-kept secrets." Douglass has shared the stage with artists like Jason Mraz, Regina Spektor, Grace Potter, They Might Be Giants, Shawn Colvin, and Margaret Cho.
Contact:
gregory [AT] gregorydouglass [DOT COM]
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Rick Winston was one of the members of Jack's Hill Contra Band, which was in the forefront of the contra dance revival in Central Vermont during the 1970s. He played fiddle and piano in that band, and has since played the accordion with the Nisht Geferlach Klezmer Band and has given accordion lessons. He taught Beginning Contra Dance Ensemble for two semesters at Community College of Vermont in the late 70s.
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Composer, accordionist, and pianist Jeremiah McLane brings together French, Celtic and North American Roots music in a style that is at once exuberant and introspective, tender and passionate. He places familiar sounds in unusual settings, and combines a gift of improvisation with a keen appreciation for the power of melody.
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Katie Trautz has studied old-time fiddle and Appalachian folk music with some of the best instructors in the nation, including Pete Sutherland, James Bryan, Greg Boardman, James Bryan, Bill Hicks, Jimmy Triplett and Alan Jabbour. Katie has toured with the Village Harmony Choir in the USA and Europe, and studied harmony singing with both Ginny Hawker and Sheila Kay Adams. She presently teaches private fiddle lessons and performs in a number of ensembles, including Mayfly and Knotty Pine. Katie cofounded Summit School with Rebecca Singer and served as its first Director until 2012.
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This musical couple now living in East Montpelier, Vermont, met at a benefit for the Champlain Festival in 1986. Strongly influenced by the playing of the great musicians of East Galway and County Clare, both Benedict and Hilari have played and taught widely at Irish music festivals and events such as the Catskills Irish Arts Week, the Chris Langan Weekend in Toronto, the St. Louis Tionol, the Piper's Gathering in North Hero, and the Champlain Valley Folk Festival. Known as insightful and generous teachers, Benedict and Hilari are also engaging performers on uilleann bagpipes, penny whistle, Irish harp, and button accordion. They have shared the stage with some of the finest musicians of our day. Either individually or as a duo, they have also appeared as guest performers on CDs by fiddlers Sarah Blair, Becky Tracy and Laurel Martin, piper Brian McNamara, and accordionist Patty Furlong.
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Kristina Stykos is a music producer, recording engineer, songwriter and performer. Her recording studio, Pepperbox Studio in Chelsea VT is solar, wind and generator powered, and fully off-the-grid. She has a specialist certificate in audio engineering from the Berklee School of Music in Boston, has engineered & produced over 15 albums and has her own indie label, Thunder Ridge Records.
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Colin McCaffrey is a full-time record producer, songwriter, composer and performer with a constantly growing catalog of songs, compositions and production credits to his name. He has taught songwriting workshops and residencies for more than a decade in the region; and is constantly listening to, writing, editing, recording and absorbing songs. Colin lives along the Kingsbury branch of the Winooski river with his wife, children's novelist Laura Williams McCaffrey, and two daughters.
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Jordan Mensah grew up in Accra, the capital of Ghana. As a child, Jordan learned his ancestors’ tribal drumming styles, dances, and songs from his uncles. At age 12, Jordan joined a dance troupe that performed in Accra. He has performed across the United States, and now teaches West African drumming and dance in Central Vermont. Jordan is the founder and director of the Shidaa African Cultural Project in Montpelier (www.shidaafricult.com).
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Sarah Blair began playing Irish fiddle in Providence, Rhode Island's thriving traditional Irish music scene. She honed her playing as a sought-after session leader in Boston and in the world of American contra dancing. With her band The Sevens and with other ensembles, Sarah has played at festivals, concerts, and dance weeks from Alaska to Quebec to Florida. Her most unusual gig was filling in for fiddler Liz Carroll for a portion of The Eagles' singer Don Henley's 2000 tour. In 2001, the Sevens were featured on NPR in an interview with Noah Adams. She is included in "Handy with the Stick: Fiddler Magazine's Best of Irish fiddling," a forthcoming book profiling top Irish fiddlers by Brendan Taaffe.
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Credit to Seven Days: (http://www.7dvt.com/2012mark-struhsacker-cold-outside)
"Over the past 35 years, Morrisville-based guitarist Mark Struhsacker has carved out a modest career as a busy sideman. The founder of the WDEV Radio Rangers — which he started some 26 years ago in an attempt to re-create the live country-music radio-show feel from the 1940s and ’50s — is a Vermont fixture who has played on innumerable local folk, country and bluegrass recordings. Oddly, though, he never produced an album of his own work. Until now. On Cold Outside, Struhsacker finally snags the spotlight for himself and delivers a collection of originals and old favorites that leaves the listener wondering what the hell took so long.."
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Art Edelstein is a fingerstyle guitarist specializing in Celtic music and has five albums to his credit. Art uses a variety of “alternate” guitar tunings in his playing. He has studied with Martin Simpson, Seth Austin, Pierre Bensusan, El McMeen and Steve Baughman. He has written extensively on the subject of Celtic music and guitar for music magazines and is the author of a biography on the Irish harper/composer Turlough Carolan. He currently performs as part of the Borealis Guitar Duo. www.arthuredelstein.com
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