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Sandy MacIntyre - Cape Breton Fiddle
Doug MacPhee - Cape Breton
Piano (update below)
Randal Bays - Irish Fiddle
Sarah-Jane Fifield - Scottish Fiddle
Paul Anastasio - Swing Fiddle
Craig Duncan - Bluegrass and Old Time Fiddle
Rodney Miller - New England Fiddle
Ken Perlman - Clawhammer Banjo, leading the Banjo Program
Loretta Thompson - Scottish Fiddle
Jennifer Sordyl - Beginning Fiddle
Arlene &
Bruce Patterson - Fiddle, Guitar, Piano, Theory
Margot
Krimmel - Harp (update below)
Byron Berline - Bluegrass Fiddle
William Coulter - Guitar
Abby Newton - Cello
Dan Gellert - Banjo & Old Time Fiddle
Larry Edelman - Mandolin, Dance Caller
Daniel Steinberg - Piano, Flute, Tin Whistle, Vocal
Frank Fyock - Orchestra, Composition
Steve Scott - Cello, Bass
Tina Gugeler - Hammered Dulcimer (update
below)
The Clawhammer Banjo Program - Click Here for more information
Frank Ferrel - New England Fiddle
Tony McManus - Guitar
Barry Phillips - Cello
Peter Barnes - Piano, Flute, Tin Whistle
Ed Miller
- Scottish Songster
And More Artists Are Being Added! -- Please Check Back Frequently!
Update 5/14/06: Tina
Gugeler, back by popular demand, will be teaching hammered
dulcimer and bodhran week one.
Update 4/23/06: Margot
Krimmel will be teaching harp both weeks.
Update 4/12/06: Doug MacPhee
will be the Cape Breton piano player. Mary MacIntyre is
starting a new job, so regretfully, she had to change plans.
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 , Cape Breton Fiddle - Sandy was born in Cape Breton and was raised in a typically musical Cape Breton family. Both his parents were fiddlers, and Sandy has been playing, recording, teaching and promoting traditional Cape Breton Fiddle music for over 40 years. He has traveled extensively in Canada and has made trips to Scotland as well as the Shetland and Orkney Islands doing fiddle workshops and concerts. He appeared for five years on the CBC National TV show “Ceilidh” from Halifax with other players such as Winnie Chafe, Buddy MacMaster, John Campbell, Cameron Chisholm, and Doug MacPhee. Sandy is a favorite among RMFC regulars, and this will be his third visit to RMFC.
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 - Irish Fiddle. The Cork Examiner, Ireland's second largest newspaper, called Randal Bays "a rare beast, a master of both the fiddle and the guitar", and Fiddler Magazine said he is "among the best Irish style fiddlers of his generation." That's high praise for this self-taught American whose recordings and concerts have earned him recognition on both sides of the Atlantic as a multi-instrumentalist of uncommon talent. As writer Don Meade put it in "The Irish Voice" (New York, Jan. 2001) "Still best known to many for his beautiful guitar accompaniment on fiddler Martin Hayes' early recordings, Randal himself is a marvelous fiddler, one of the best in the country." Randal's grasp of the Irish fiddle style is rare among non-Irish musicians, a result of more than twenty-five years of fiddling, listening, and sharing many a late-night session with the finest traditional musicians. In his workshops and private lessons, the focus is on helping non-Irish fiddlers internalize a sense of an authentic Irish style, making the music their own while nurturing respect and understanding for its roots in Irish culture. Visit Randal's website. |
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 early career included playing fiddle with bluegrass legends such as Bill Monroe, Dillard and Clark and Country Gazette. After moving to Los Angeles in 1969, he soon became one of the most popular fiddlers in the music business. His long list of performing and recording credits includes The Rolling Stones, The Eagles, The Band, The Byrds, Elton John, Alabama, Mary Chapin Carpenter, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Rod Stewart, John Denver, Earl Scruggs, Emmylou Harris, Tammy Wynette, Mason Williams, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson and Vince Gill. He also has extensive television and movie sound track credits and has appeared in Star Trek, Blaze, Back to the Future III, and Basic Instinct. Berline has recorded seven solo albums including his highly acclaimed "FIDDLE & A SONG" with guest performances from Vince Gill, Mason Williams, Earl Scruggs and Bill Monroe. In 1996 the album was nominated for two Grammy awards, 'Best Album of the Year' and 'Best Song of the Year'. In 1995 Byron returned to his home state of Oklahoma where he opened a Fiddle Shop in the town of Guthrie, for the purpose of "visiting, trading and jamming" with folks who enjoy their music. (Stones Fans, that's Byron on Country Honk, cut three of Let It Bleed!!) Visit Byron's website. |
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 - Scottish Fiddle. A native and resident of
Scotland, Sarah-Jane was taught by the great Donald Riddell, who
inspired many generations of Highland fiddle players. From Donald,
Sarah-Jane gained a deep understanding of the Highland style of
fiddle playing. Her style is very influenced by the Highland
bagpipe, and she has a particular love of playing – and teaching –
strathspeys. She is a fluent Gaelic speaker, and the Gaelic influences can
also be heard in her playing. Sarah-Jane is an extremely gifted and
experienced fiddle teacher, having started teaching when she was
just 12. At present, she teaches the most advanced class at
Edinburgh’s Adult Learning Project. As a performer, Sarah-Jane was
one of the leading acts at the Grand Concert of the 2004 Fiddle
Festival in Edinburgh |
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 began studying the violin at age nine. He moved
from classical training to the world of American popular and fiddle
music, performing in a bluegrass band and competing in many fiddling
contests while still in his teens. An opportunity to perform and
study with the legendary jazz violinist Joe Venuti in the mid-1970s
helped shape Paul’s swing jazz style. At about the same time, Paul’s
friendship with electric mandolinist Tiny Moore resulted in a
successful audition with country music legend Merle Haggard. Jumping
at the chance to join The Strangers, Paul was able to tour the U.S.
and Europe for six unforgettable months.
Paul is not only a fine performer but a respected popular music
historian and teacher as well, with close to forty years spent researching the
role of the violin in American popular music. He has studied and
performed with the top fiddlers in popular music, including Western
swing and country legends Joe Holley, Cliff Bruner, Johnny Gimble
and Buddy Spicher. Paul has taught at Mark O’Connor’s Fiddle Camp, Johnny Gimble Swing Week, Centrum’s Festival of American Fiddle Tunes, The Swannanoa Gathering and Augusta Heritage Swing Week.
Paul’s discography, with sound bites, can be found on the Web at www.SwingCatEnterprises.com |
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 , Piano - One of Cape Breton's best known pianists, Dougie
will be making his fourth appearance at Rocky Mountain Fiddle Camp. His pupils know him as a master of the art, with a massive repertoire of tunes, including ones he learned from his mother, who was also an accomplished pianist. It's the Cape Breton tradition. Dougie lives in New Waterford, Cape Breton, on the Atlantic Coast, where music, dancing, fiddle, and piano are a way of life. He has played and recorded with numerous Cape Breton fiddlers, most recently with David Greenberg on Tunes Until Dawn. |
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an active Nashville musician fluent in both country and classical styles. He began his
study of the violin when he was eight and went on to garner a
Bachelor of Music degree from Appalachian State University in Boone,
North Carolina. Craig's performance experience includes the Grand
Ole Opry, the Porter Wagoner Show, and TV specials with various
country and bluegrass artists.Craig has been the featured instrumentalist on over fifty record
albums, with sales in excess of three million. He is a member of the
National Fiddler's Hall of Fame and Who's Who in Music and Musicians
and is recognized internationally for his numerous books and
arrangements of fiddle music published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
He has produced numerous recordings for the gift shop market in a
variety of musical styles. As a hammered dulcimer player, he is
known for his work on Green Hill's Country Mountain series as
well as Brentwood Music's Smoky Mountain series. He is active
in the Nashville music industry as an instrumentalist, contractor,
producer and arranger. In addition to his performance activities, he
is also Adjunct Professor of Fiddle at the Belmont School of Music
in Nashville, Tennessee. He is actively involved in carrying on the
tradition of American fiddling and is engaged in research, writing,
and teaching in this field. Visit
Craig's Website. |
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 is widely considered to be the foremost exponent of
New England style fiddling, a uniquely American blend of French
Canadian and Celtic influences. He has earned a reputation as one of
the Nation's finest dance fiddlers, aiming his virtuosity at the
feet of the dancers without restricting his own musical
inventiveness. His recordings, "Airplang" (Rounder Records) and "New
England Chestnuts" (Vol. 1 and 2) have become classics for fiddlers
worldwide, and many of his original compositions have gone on to
become fiddle tune standards. In 1983 he was designated a "Master
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 's love of traditional melody is framed by a
classical sense of composition and realized with an
impeccable and sensitive guitar technique. William's well
exercised craftsmanship and his unusual ability to direct
the voices of the guitar as if they were a steel-string
choir make the music come to life in his hands.
With his extensive discography and history of acclaimed performances,
William Coulter continues to approach the music he makes on
the guitar with an essential humility. He lets the music
speak and sing for itself. He creates the impression that
his music rises up from the curved wood and shining strings
on its own spirited impulse, a song made by the wind rather
than by frets and fingers.
Visit
William's Website. |
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 , Scottish Songster - Ed is originally from Edinburgh, Scotland, and now lives in Austin, Texas. He continues his singing, with regular gigs in Austin and tours throughout North America, taking his songs and stories everywhere from coffee houses and folk clubs to festivals and Highland Games. Ed's repertoire is representative of the breadth of the Scottish folk revival, including ageless ballads and the songs of Robert Burns, as well as more recent songs which are entering the folk repertoire and keeping it fresh. From children's street songs to songs of nationalism, emigration and urban life, a performance by Ed Miller gives the audience an education (in the most entertaining way) in the constants and changes of Scottish life. Ed's voice soars as distinctive, smooth and satisfying as a good malt whisky. As the folk music critic for The Scotsman newspaper wrote, "we couldn't ask for a more tasteful and accomplished ambassador of Scots song". Visit Ed's Website. |
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 began his fiddling at age 8, influenced first by his
grandfather, a traditional musician and native of Ohio and West
Virginia. His father's family originally came from the Longford area
of Ireland via Maritime Canada. Frank rekindled his interest in
traditional fiddling under the influence of local Irish,
French-Acadian, and Canadian Maritimes fiddlers while stationed at
the old Charlestown Navel Shipyard in Boston in the 1960's. Those
were the days when Kerry fiddler Paddy Cronin held forth at the old
Greenville Tap in Dudley Square, while next door, and up and down
Dudley Street, Cape Breton Irish and French Acadian maritime music
drifted out of dancehall windows at such legendary venues as the
Rose Croix, O'Connell Hall and the Hibernian. There you could dance
to the fiddling of Winston Scotty Fitzgerald, Bill Lamey, Tommy
Doucet, and Angus Chisholm, just to mention a few. And if it wasn't
the dances, there was always the old Hillbilly Ranch on Washington
Street down in the Combat Zone, a good place to listen and sit in
with the likes of Bill Keith, Tex Logan, and the Lilly Brothers.
Over the years,
Frank has won numerous fiddling competitions and toured extensively
throughout North America and Europe, including two tours as guest
artist with the internationally acclaimed Celtic ensemble, The Boys
of the Lough. Visit Frank's
Website. |
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 has been playing piano, flute and assorted other
instruments for traditional dancing since 1971, and has been
invited to most major contra, square, British Isles and vintage
dance events throughout the United States, performing for dances and
concerts, leading ensemble workshops, and generally acting in a
crazy and often undignified manner. Averaging over 250 engagements
per year since 1980 he is arguably one of Boston's busiest
musicians, and has also played for festivals and tours in England,
France, Denmark, Shetland, Scotland and Czechoslovakia. He works
with the bands Bare Necessities, Yankee Ingenuity, Culchullan, Fresh
Fish, A Panel of Experts, and B.L.T.
and has performed with many traditional greats including Seamus
Connolly, Joe Derrane, Cathie Ryan, Chris Norman, Alasdair Fraser,
Rodney Miller, and Joe Cormier. Visit Peter's Website. |
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 , Guitar - Self taught from childhood, initially
through listening to the family record collection, McManus abandoned
academia in his twenties to pursue music full time. The session
scene in Glasgow and Edinburgh provided the springboard for gigs
around Scotland and a studio set for BBC Radio, frequently
rebroadcast, began to spread the word.
In a relatively short time Tony’s music has come to define a new
role for the guitar in Celtic music. He has come to represent Celtic
music in the guitar world, making regular appearances at guitar
specific events where just a few years ago jigs and reels would be
unheard of. He is now invited annually to the Chet Atkins Festival
in Nashville, has appeared at Guitar Festivals in Soave and
Pescantina, Italy; Frankston, Australia; Issoudun, France;
Kirkmichael, Scotland; Bath and Kent, England; Bochum and Osnabruck,
Germany and has taught at five of Steve Kaufman’s Acoustic Kamps in
Maryville, Tennessee. He recently appeared at the famous Ryman
Auditorium in Nashville in the “All Star Guitar Night” featuring
Steve Morse, Bryan Sutton, Muriel Anderson, Béla Fleck and Victor
Wooten and headlined by the legendary Les Paul.
Visit Tony's Website. |
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 , Piano, Flute, Tin Whistle, Vocals - Daniel's
repertoire of traditional music was nourished and broadened in the
basement of the San Francisco Folk Music club. During that time, he
developed his unique approach to piano accompaniment for fiddle
music, and has since appeared in concert with many luminaries of the
traditional music scene, including Joe Cormier, Lisa Ornstein,
Rodney Miller, Bertram Levy, Frank Ferrel, Pete Sutherland, Cathie
Whitesides, and Mark Simos.
Daniel has appeared at music and dance festivals
throughout the United States, and has been an instructor at the
Augusta Heritage Festival, Puget Sound Guitar Workshop, Lark In The
Morning, Pinewoods Music and Dance Camp, and the Festival of
American Fiddle Tunes. He has performed abroad in the former Soviet
Union and at the Shetland Isles Folk Festival. Visit Daniel's Website. |
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Cello - A perpetual regular at RMFC, Abby is well known for her
groundbreaking work in the revival of the cello in American and
Scottish traditional music. In the the mid-seventies, she began
performing with John Cohen and Jay Ungar in the Putnam String County
Band, making it the first modern string band with a cello. At the
same time, she began an active and continuing recording career,
performing on over 100 recordings of prominent folk artists. Abby's
solo CDs "Crossing to Scotland" (1997) and "Castles, Kirks, and
Caves" (2001), have earned her critical acclaim both in the US and
abroad. She has appeared on Prairie Home Companion and in 2001,
Fiona Ritchie, of the nationally syndicated NPR show Thistle and
Shamrock, did a feature program on Abby's music and her influence on
the folk cello movement. In addition to many workshops conducted in
Scotland promoting the use of the cello as both a melodic and
rhythmic instrument in traditional music, Abby has taught in the US
at Gaelic Roots, the National Strings Workshop, the Swannanoa
Gathering and Rocky Mountain Fiddle Camp. Mel Bay published her
first collection of Celtic tunes for cello and the second is in the
works. The combination of her teaching, performing and publishing
have inspired many amateurs and professionals to enjoy playing
traditional music on the cello. Visit Abby's Website. |
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 , Cello - Barry Phillips has been musician, arranger and producer of many recordings of Celtic and American folk music on the Gourd label including the music of Ireland, Scotland, American Shaker music, Shape Note tunes, Colonial American folk and classical. His most recent release, "Tråd." is a collection of Scandinavian tunes arranged for cello, nyckelharpa and fiddle. Besides his own recordings, Barry has concertized and recorded with fiddler Alasdair Fraser, guitarist Martin Simpson, sitarist Anoushka Shankar, and arranged and performed at the "Concert for George" (Harrison). Barry received a Masters of Music degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Since 1996 Barry has been a student of, and a compositional assistant to Ravi Shankar. Visit Barry's Website. |
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 , Banjo, Guitar - Ken again leads the Rocky Mountain Banjo Program for the first week of camp (August 7-14). Ken is both a pioneer of the banjo style known as "melodic clawhammer," and a master of finger style guitar. He draws his material from traditional sources -- the music of Scotland, Ireland, Cape Breton, Prince Edward Island and the American South. He has written some of the most widely respected banjo and guitar instruction books of modern times, and he has been on staff at prestigious teaching festivals around the world. He has toured much of the world and made several recordings. Visit Ken's Website |
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 Margot
Krimmel, Harp – Margot is a very popular performer and
teacher in the Boulder area.
She studied with Sylvia Woods, Helen Hope, and Deborah
Henson-Conant. In
1991, she won First Place in the Pop and Jazz Harpfest (Folk Harp
division). In 1995,
she was a featured performer at the Harpfest.
She also has both First Place and Best of the Festival
honors from the Longs Peak Scottish/Irish Highland Festival in
Estes Park. She has
recorded her own CD’s, as well as being featured on numerous
CD’s of others. Her
teaching includes creative practice techniques, arranging, theory,
improvisation and composition, stressing good, classical technique
and musicality. Visit
Margot’s Website. |
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 , Cello, Bass - Steve is a talented multi-instrumentalist who has broad professional experience, including chamber/symphonic, jazz and Dixieland, folk, and Celtic. He has performed at many Celtic, jazz and folk festivals in the Northwest, and has numerous recordings to his credit, with his own bands and as a studio player. An experienced dance musician, Steve's playing is driving and rhythmic, and he continues to expand the cello's possibilities in traditional and folk music. Steve is highly regarded as a teacher, and has been named to several "Who's Who" lists in education. Steve also brings with him over 25 years of pro bass experience with various bands and symphony orchestras, and has something to offer everyone.
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 , Fiddle & Guitar - A native of Glasgow, Scotland, Arlene's creative approach to teaching is well known. A regular clinician for the Suzuki Association of America, she is also a national judge for Scottish fiddle competitions and performs for dancing and Scottish events with her husband, pianist Bruce Patterson. Her day job is general music teacher in an elementary school. Come to class prepared to have fun.
Bruce Patterson, Piano & Theory - A very popular teacher,
Bruce will be joining us again to teach his very effective piano and
theory classes.
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 , Beginning Fiddle - Jennifer was literally "raised in the music business" along with her 8 brothers and sisters in the family music store in the Midwest. These days you'll find her enthusiastically teaching fiddle and beginning violin at three rural charter schools in Southern Arizona. She especially loves teaching the Montessori preschoolers and their parents, in the arts community of Tubac, where she sponsors regular jam sessions as well as playing professionally with an "eclectic-traditional" string band at a local Bistro. |
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 , Fiddle & More - Loretta Thompson is a high-spirited musician and singer whose versatile performances captivate audiences everywhere. Dynamic fiddling and a radiant voice echo the fervor of her Scottish-Irish and American heritage. She possesses a passionate and spontaneous enthusiasm for traditional music and dance which shines in every aspect of her life. Combining fiddle, guitar, and whistles with moving vocals, Loretta entertains with repertoires in Celtic music, American Historic and Nostalgia, Old Time Country, and more. She literally fiddled her way across Scotland and Ireland and is embraced wherever she travels for her talented fiddling and enthusiastic charm. Loretta has been featured for many years at local, state, and national Scottish and Irish gatherings, Celtic Festivals, and in concerts with a long list of leading Celtic entertainers. Loretta majored in music education and conducting, has experience as a full-time public school orchestra director, clinician, and general music teacher, and is a member of the Evergreen (CO) Chamber Orchestra. Loretta is a full-time entertainer, composer, private teacher, and plays for all forms of Scottish and Irish dance. Visit Loretta's Website. |
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 , Dance Caller, Mandolin - Larry Edelman has traveled throughout the U.S. and Europe playing, teaching, and calling for traditional dancing. Larry’s colorful calling delights both novice and veteran dancers through his humor, enthusiasm, skillful teaching, and knowledge of dance history. He currently plays fiddle, mandolin, and guitar with The Percolators (click here to visit), Poultry in Motion, and the Soda Rock Ramblers. Larry has taught at dozens of music and dance camps and festivals including the Festival of American Fiddle Tunes, Ashokan, Augusta, Pinewoods, Lady of the Lake, and many more. Again this year, Larry will be conducting his very popular Southwest tunes workshop for all instruments. |
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 , Fiddle, Singing & Composition - Frank is the director of the orchestra at Denver School of the Arts and conductor of the Jefferson Young Artists Orchestra. He is a composer and song writer and has directed choirs, orchestras, and drum & bugle corps. He has his own recording studio and played fiddle professionally with a touring country band for ten years. After his stay at RMFC in 2001, he wrote "Escapes for Fiddlers," a collection of original solo fiddle tunes, which will be available at the camp store.
He will again be teaching his fascinating and popular course in
music history and composing. |
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 , Hammered Dulcimer - Tina first heard a hammered dulcimer in 1986 while living in Ketchikan, Alaska. It quickly became her passion and soon it seemed everyone on the island had heard Tina and her band,
BearFoot. Since moving to the Denver area in 1990, Tina has become a full time musician; performing solo and in small combos with fiddle, guitar or piano, and in several local contra dance bands. Along with her busy performance schedule, she teaches students on the dulcimer and bodhran. Tina has published a book of her arrangements, “Arrangements for the Hammered Dulcimer. She has taught at several festivals including Dulcimer Festival in Fort Collins, CO, Irish week at Augusta in Elkins, WV, the California Traditional Music Society Annual Summer Solstice Festival, Winterfest in Irving, TX, the Sawdust Festival in Bennington, OK, and was a jam session leader and teacher at the Southwest Dulcimer Festival in Dewey, AZ. Over the years, Tina has won many local and regional competitions, and in the year 2000 she won the U.S. National Hammered Dulcimer Championship. She appears on recordings by Denver's High Strung and the dance band
Contrafusion.
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From the archives:
Artists at Summer 2005
Artists at Summer 2004
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