Taylor Ashton is a Canadian singer-songwriter, banjo player, and guitarist. After the dissolution of his old band Fish & Bird, he moved to New York with no plan and supported himself for the first few years by busking in the subway. Since then he has released a few solo albums, toured all over the world with many of his heroes, played his songs on the Tonight Show and in a documentary for the New York Times, and almost got cast in a Broadway musical. Can’t win em all!
https://taylorashton.com

Akie Bermiss is affable, near-sighted, hirsute, and a nerd of the highest water. Nevertheless, he has also somehow managed to cultivate and live a double-life as cool and very hip musician. His favorite thing to do is write (and, subsequently, sing) songs about aliens and spaceships and falling in love. He tours with the band Lake Street Dive.

https://www.akiebermissmusic.com

Thomas Brown is a Brooklyn-based multimedia artist working in stone, wood, metal, clay, and ephemeral materials such as sand, snow, and ice. After twenty years in Louisville area, he moved to New York in 2008. His work explores the tension between permanence and impermanence, drawing inspiration from nature to highlight texture, gesture, and transformation. Balancing design with fleeting beauty, Brown creates works that invite reflection and wonder while celebrating the dialogue between form and process. Music frequently plays a role in the art making and presentation. Alongside his practice, he collaborates across disciplines and leads workshops, encouraging tactile exploration through material and process.

Besides being the off-season manager of Three Mile Island, Dinty Child is a longtime member of the Boston roots/folk scene. A fearless multi-instrumentalist he can most often be seen with the band Session Americana, as well as the Chandler Travis Philharmonic, the unapologetically loud and grimy Catbirds, as sensitive side man to any number of singer/songwriters, and even fronting the 20 piece party band, the Funky White Honkies. Dinty is also a well respected songwriter with two albums and several singles out under his own name, and plays in a duo with Mark Erelli performing songs they've co-written.

www.sessionamericana.com

As a founding member of Punch Brothers, guitarist Chris Eldridge has been at the vanguard of acoustic music for nearly two decades. Raised in a musical family—his father Ben was a founding member of The Seldom Scene—Eldridge studied at Oberlin Conservatory, graduating in 2004. During that time he also had the opportunity to study with legendary guitarist Tony Rice.

After graduating, Eldridge joined his father’s band, the Seldom Scene, earning a Grammy nomination in 2007. He founded The Infamous Stringdusters in 2005, winning IBMA’s Emerging Artist of the Year, Song of the Year, and Album of the Year at the 2007 awards. In 2005, Eldridge began collaborating with mandolinist Chris Thile; that partnership, along with a shared vision among a close group of musicians, evolved into Punch Brothers. With Punch Brothers, Eldridge has spent nearly two decades pushing the boundaries of what acoustic music can be. The influential band has released seven critically acclaimed albums and won a Grammy for Best Folk Album in 2018.

His duo with guitarist Julian Lage produced two albums and an EP, with Mount Royal earning a Grammy nomination in 2017. In 2023, he helped form Mighty Poplar, whose debut album received a Grammy nomination for Best Bluegrass Album. He also performs in a duo with singer-songwriter Kristin Andreassen.

Eldridge has collaborated with diverse artists including Paul Simon, Fiona Apple, T-Bone Burnett, Marcus Mumford, and Del McCoury. He was named Americana Music Association Instrumentalist of the Year in 2019, served as house guitarist on Live From Here with Chris Thile (2016–2020), and was Visiting Associate Professor at Oberlin in 2021.
www.chriseldridge.net

Double bassist, producer, impresario, general mischief maker - Zachariah Hickman wears a lot of hats. Many of them are pretty silly. Zachariah has been the Music Director for the Miles of Music Island Camp for the past handful of years. He considers it his full time job - everything else is just a side hustle.

For over 25 years, Zachariah has been a touring bassist and music director for many acoustic music luminaries, including Ray LaMontagne, Rodney Crowell and Josh Ritter (with whom he has recorded over 15 albums and toured the world many times over). He is an Americana Music Awards “Instrumentalist Of the Year” nominee; a GRAMMY nominee (Rodney Crowell’s “Chicago Sessions”); and a JUNO award winner (Rose Cousins’ “We Have Made A Spark”). As a session musician and string arranger, Zachariah has appeared on over 200 albums. He has produced dozens of releases, including recordings by Mark Erelli, Dinty Child, Dietrich Strause, and his own band of bluegrass hotshots Barnstar! His Covid-era solo sousaphone parades made national news in 2020 and beyond. He ran and ringmastered his own circus. He released a brand of mustache wax. And he once met Tom Waits in an elevator!

His secret to being a successful side person is simple - he makes everyone he plays with sound better. These days - deep in his second act - Zachariah is busier than ever. Still very busy on the road, Zachariah spends some time presenting his labor-intensive “Power Outage Party” performances, running his recording studio Greedy Beast Studios, and walking his cuddly but ill-behaved Basset Hound Jumbles.

Creighton Irons is a pianist, composer/lyricist and educator specializing in musical theater. His musicals have been staged at the American Conservatory Theater, Goodspeed Musicals, and in Tokyo & Osaka, Japan. As a teaching artist (with Lincoln Center, The Roundabout, and Tennessee Performing Arts Center), Irons has helped hundreds of students create original songs. He created choral programs focusing on empowerment through music in The Bronx, Nashville, and North Carolina, where he currently heads the music program at Woods Charter School and moonlights as the artistic director of Woodshed Arts. 

www.creightonirons.com

Shane Leonard is a producer, songwriter, and comedian who lives in Eau Claire, WI. He’s made records with many acclaimed artists (Josh Ritter, Anna Tivel, Mipso, Courtney Hartman, Humbird, Field Report), opened for legendary comedians Reggie Watts, Sean Patton, Shane Torres, Louis Katz and Mary Mack, and frequently performs with his improv comedy teams Analog Improv and Day Of Show. He also endured a brief stint as a high school English teacher, washed dishes at Perkins, got fired from a few coffee shops, was literally attacked by a horde of cockroaches in a Yale dormitory, and coached the Hingham HS freshmen soccer team to their losingest season.

http://www.shaneleonardmusic.com

Adam Moss is an LA based multi instrumentalist and songwriter whose deep roots in roots music, klezmer, old time and folk traditions have shaped a rich and varied musical life. He is a founding member of The Brother Brothers, the acclaimed Americana folk duo he formed with his twin brother David Moss, with whom he has toured internationally and shared stages with artists such as Keb Mo, Sarah Jarosz, Lake Street Dive and Big Thief. Known for striking close harmony and emotionally direct songwriting, The Brother Brothers have performed at festivals and venues across the United States and abroad. Adam’s instrumental range includes fiddle, mandolin, guitar, banjo and piano, allowing him to move fluidly between traditions while maintaining a deeply personal voice.

Beyond The Brother Brothers, Adam is an in demand collaborator and touring musician who has performed and toured with bands like Watkins Family Hour, Session Americana,  and Levi Turner, including opening dates for Zach Bryan. His musical life is grounded in community as much as performance, and he has attended and participated in Miles of Music Camp almost every year since its inception in 2011, contributing as a fiddle and harmony teacher, musician and all around jam initiator! Drawing equally from traditional forms and contemporary songwriting, Adam continues to build a career defined by curiosity, collaboration and a deep respect for the music that shaped him.

@moishecircus

Matt Smith is the Managing Director of Club Passim in Cambridge, MA. He's been working there for over 30 years and has brought generations of talent into the room. He also hosts The New England Sound on WMVY.

Dietrich Strause is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. For 15 years he worked extensively as a touring songwriter and performer in the Boston area. In 2023 he moved to London, where he works as a studio musician, engineer, and producer of documentary music. Dietrich writes and records under his own name and released his latest album You And I Must Be Out Of My Mind on Blueblade Records in 2022.

http://www.dietrichstrause.com

Chef Timothy Tucker was born in Springfield, IL, and graduated from Sullivan University in Louisville, KY with a degree in Culinary Arts.  He began his career working at restaurants such as The Mansion on Turtle Creek in Dallas and The Painted Table in Seattle. Since then he has established 4 culinary training programs for low-income populations in Louisville, Miami, Boston, and in San Francisco where he currently resides. Timothy has also been the chef for Three Mile Island (summer) and Miles of Music since 2011. The author of Food to Make Music To, a collection of recipes from Three Mile Island, was inspired by his time working with Miles of Music.  He also has a food radio blog WGGF radio (World Gathering Good Food) and they now have their own publishing company called Good Food Gathering. In 2020, they released a book called Destination Chef which is a textbook Timothy uses to teach people to cook!

www.goodfoodgatheringbooks.com

Hailing from the musically diverse and rich culture of South Louisiana, Nelson William’s bass playing takes inspiration from his home and beyond; blending bluegrass, jazz, classical and old-time influences into a style of playing that’s been called “Pleasing Virtuosity”. He is a founding member of the latest Black string-band, New Dangerfield, a member of Chris Jones and the Night-Drivers and has served as a core member of awarding-winning Black banjo and fiddler, Jake Blount, band for years. His expertise and steadfast bass playing has made him a sought after bass player in his home of New Orleans and around the country. He has performed at Newport Folk Festival, The Grand Ole Opry, Telluride Bluegrass Festival and many other illustrious festivals and halls across the world.

Vilray is a songwriter, singer and guitar player based in his native Brooklyn. He admires the humor and sophistication of the great Tin Pan Alley writers and his own songs evoke theirs. He and Rachael Price perform and record as a duo, Rachael & Vilray.

https://vilray.com

Jonathan Vocke is a passionate and adventure loving oldtime musician and multi-instrumentalist from Baltimore, Maryland. He loves traveling, building, dancing and finding music in the world around us. In recent years he has become increasingly enthralled with some of the older sounds of banjo and is in an unending pursuit of the infinity loop that the banjo can weave. He has released a solo record and two records as a part of the Baltimore based group, Geraldine. Jonathan came to the island for the first time back in 2018 and ever since has been in love with the island and the creativity it empowers.

https://www.vockemusic.com