https://www.milesofmusiccamp.com/2022-artistic-directors daily 0.75 2025-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841481886-4HORT71KD6X636RQ3A8L/image-asset.jpeg 2022 Artistic Directors - Kristin Andreassen Kristin Andreassen’s most recent release is an album of children’s music about emotions. The Bright Siders’ A Mind of Your Own (Smithsonian Folkways) was created with psychiatrist Dr. Kari Groff and features the voices of Ed Helms, The War & Treaty, Gaby Moreno, Punch Brothers, and many more. The album won a National Parenting Product Award and followed up on Kristin’s first kids’ radio hit, the song “Crayola Doesn’t Make a Color for Your Eyes.” Kristin has toured and recorded with the stringband Uncle Earl, the “folk noir” trio Sometymes Why, the percussive dance company Footworks, and NYC’s anti-folk superhero Jeffrey Lewis. She’s had the honor of recording with producers John Paul Jones, Dirk Powell, Mark Schatz, José Ayerve, Robin MacMillan, and Shane Leonard (coming soon!). One favorite MoM-inspired collaboration is this video for her song “How the Water Walks” — written on the island and filmed with shadow puppets by Anna Roberts-Gevalt. After graduating from McGill University, Kristin apprenticed with community economic development pioneer Father Greg MacLeod at Cape Breton University. Now based in Nashville, she survived the arts armageddon known as “The Pandemic” by managing a small construction company. www.kristinandreassen.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841481900-0MI714B4XMHOF9QFOXVX/static1.squarespace-1.jpg 2022 Artistic Directors - Kristin Andreassen Kristin Andreassen’s most recent release is an album of children’s music about emotions. The Bright Siders’ A Mind of Your Own (Smithsonian Folkways) was created with psychiatrist Dr. Kari Groff and features the voices of Ed Helms, The War & Treaty, Gaby Moreno, Punch Brothers, and many more. The album won a National Parenting Product Award and followed up on Kristin’s first kids’ radio hit, the song “Crayola Doesn’t Make a Color for Your Eyes.” Kristin has toured and recorded with the stringband Uncle Earl, the “folk noir” trio Sometymes Why, the percussive dance company Footworks, and NYC’s anti-folk superhero Jeffrey Lewis. She’s had the honor of recording with producers John Paul Jones, Dirk Powell, Mark Schatz, José Ayerve, Robin MacMillan, and Shane Leonard (coming soon!). One favorite MoM-inspired collaboration is this video for her song “How the Water Walks” — written on the island and filmed with shadow puppets by Anna Roberts-Gevalt. After graduating from McGill University, Kristin apprenticed with community economic development pioneer Father Greg MacLeod at Cape Breton University. Now based in Nashville, she survived the arts armageddon known as “The Pandemic” by managing a small construction company. www.kristinandreassen.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841481906-11YXJ1ZRNILLZ5K83IF8/static1.squarespace.jpg 2022 Artistic Directors - Laura Cortese Laura Cortese has built a distinguished career as an Americana fiddler, songwriter and vocalist. She is now one of the most in-demand musical collaborators on the folk circuit. She grew up in San Francisco, CA and moved to Boston, MA to study at Berklee College of Music, immersing herself in the city's vibrant indie music scene and enjoying a busy touring-and-studio career which included appearances with Band of Horses at Carnegie Hall and Pete Seeger at Newport Folk Festival. She tours internationally with her band, the Dance Cards. The group is bold and elegant, schooled in the lyrical rituals of folk music and backed by grooves that alternatively inspire Cajun two-stepping and rock ’n’ roll hip swagger. Laura Cortese & the Dance Cards have appeared at venues and festivals throughout the US, UK, Sweden, Canada, India, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Estonia, Montenegro, Greece and Bangladesh pairing sophisticated string arrangements (two fiddles, cello & bass) and rich vocal harmonies with poignant and powerful singing. www.thisislauracortese.com https://www.milesofmusiccamp.com/2020-island-camp-instructors daily 0.75 2025-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841484746-WXNAKJ3ZXA6TRY0J1I37/image-asset.jpeg 2020 Island Camp Instructors - Kristin Andreassen Kristin Andreassen is a singer, songwriter & percussive dancer whose music honors both the playful & the profound. She's toured with some of the most respected acoustic groups around: the stringband Uncle Earl, the "folk noir” singing trio Sometymes Why, the Appalachian clogging troupe Footworks, and NYC's "anti-folk" superhero Jeffrey Lewis. Her originals range from the infectious rhythms of her #1 kids' hit "Crayola Doesn't Make a Color for Your Eyes” to the emotive soundscape in this shadow art video made with beloved MoM instructor Anna Roberts-Gevalt. 2018 promises a new trio album with drummer Shane Leonard & Punch Brother Chris Eldridge as well as an album of children's songs about emotions, co-created with Brooklyn psychiatrist Dr. Kari Groff for the Smithsonian Folkways label. An experienced teacher & square dance caller, Kristin is a true believer in the transformative power of music camps for all ages. After studying creative writing, history and community development at Montreal’s McGill University, she is as surprised as her parents to have found a career where she employs all three of those skills in balance. www.kristinandreassen.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841484936-U3WZN6WQPDGLDS3POK2E/static1.squarespace-1.jpg 2020 Island Camp Instructors - Kristin Andreassen Kristin Andreassen is a singer, songwriter & percussive dancer whose music honors both the playful & the profound. She's toured with some of the most respected acoustic groups around: the stringband Uncle Earl, the "folk noir” singing trio Sometymes Why, the Appalachian clogging troupe Footworks, and NYC's "anti-folk" superhero Jeffrey Lewis. Her originals range from the infectious rhythms of her #1 kids' hit "Crayola Doesn't Make a Color for Your Eyes” to the emotive soundscape in this shadow art video made with beloved MoM instructor Anna Roberts-Gevalt. 2018 promises a new trio album with drummer Shane Leonard & Punch Brother Chris Eldridge as well as an album of children's songs about emotions, co-created with Brooklyn psychiatrist Dr. Kari Groff for the Smithsonian Folkways label. An experienced teacher & square dance caller, Kristin is a true believer in the transformative power of music camps for all ages. After studying creative writing, history and community development at Montreal’s McGill University, she is as surprised as her parents to have found a career where she employs all three of those skills in balance. www.kristinandreassen.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841484927-4BB0BI6DCDC01K2QBLTN/static1.squarespace.jpg 2020 Island Camp Instructors - Laura Cortese Laura Cortese has built a distinguished career as an Americana fiddler, songwriter and vocalist. She is now one of the most in-demand musical collaborators on the folk circuit. She grew up in San Francisco, CA and moved to Boston, MA to study at Berklee College of Music, immersing herself in the city's vibrant indie music scene and enjoying a busy touring-and-studio career which included appearances with Band of Horses at Carnegie Hall and Pete Seeger at Newport Folk Festival. She tours internationally with her band, the Dance Cards. The group is bold and elegant, schooled in the lyrical rituals of folk music and backed by grooves that alternatively inspire Cajun two-stepping and rock ’n’ roll hip swagger. Laura Cortese & the Dance Cards have appeared at venues and festivals throughout the US, UK, Sweden, Canada, India, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Estonia, Montenegro, Greece and Bangladesh pairing sophisticated string arrangements (two fiddles, cello & bass) and rich vocal harmonies with poignant and powerful singing. www.thisislauracortese.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841484763-V72STUSSFQ1SUEZFYJS2/image-asset.jpeg 2020 Island Camp Instructors - LADAMA LADAMA is an ensemble of women musicians from across the Americas who, as well as performing as a touring band, strive to engage youth in their respective communities in the process of music-making, composition and audio production through collaboration and performance workshops. They are Mafer Bandola (Venezuela), Lara Klaus (Brazil), Daniela Serna (Colombia) and Sara Lucas (U.S.). With rhythm and percussion driving their original compositions sung in Spanish, Portuguese and English they combine disparate, traditional roots music with pop. The result is a sonic experience through which we can view our future as a world that communicates across continents and cultures, with sound and story. LADAMA has performed at TED, the Skoll World Forum, on ESPN, and at dozens of prestigious venues and festivals around the world. In January 2018 they were featured on NPR's All Things Considered which praised their "irresistible spirit and universal appeal." Their self-titled debut album (released on Six Degrees Records, 2017,) reached #1 on both iTunes and Amazon's Latin Music Charts. http://www.ladamaproject.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841484852-4XO5RT7TUEB9KCT4R59A/Rachael+Price.JPG 2020 Island Camp Instructors - Rachael Price Vocal powerhouse Rachael Price is a legend in the making. The lead singer of Lake Street Dive started her journey at a young age in international traveling choirs and jazz ensembles. While studying at New England Conservatory, Price met her fellow Lake Street Dive members. In May 2018 Lake Street Dive released the self-produced Free Yourself Up and has been busy touring in support of the album. On their rise to success over the past few years, they have sold out many of America's legendary venues, toured Europe and Australia, and made multiple national television appearances. During the band's downtime, Price is involved in a project with Vilray Bolles. With simple arrangements and only a guitar for accompaniment, Rachael & Vilray perform original works and revive forgotten gems of the jazz big bands and western swing ensembles. Their eponymous debut album, Rachael & Vilray, is out now on Nonesuch Records. Equal parts sass, gritty soul, and unfettered grace, Price has been called a “cool cannon blast of a voice” by Rolling Stone and continues to make fans from the likes of Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt, Mavis Staples, and Stephen Colbert. https://rachaelandvilray.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841484866-FXCOU88EW9M4GC6PT2HW/Evie+Ladin.jpg 2020 Island Camp Instructors - Evie Ladin Evie Ladin is a banjo player, singer, songwriter, percussive-dancer, choreographer and square-dance caller. Evie grew up steeped in traditional folk music/dance, and brings a contemporary vision to her compositions and choreography. Evie’s performances, recordings and teaching reconnect Appalachian music/dance with other African-Diaspora traditions, and have been heard from A Prairie Home Companion to Lincoln Center, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass to Celtic Connections. Based in Oakland, CA, Evie tours with Keith Terry and the Evie Ladin Band; and has produced 8 CDs and two instructional DVDs. In the percussive dance world, she is Executive Director of the International Body Music Festival, directs the moving choir MoToR/dance, does educational outreach with Crosspulse, and is an ace freestyle flatfooter. In the trad world, Evie teaches clawhammer banjo and harmony singing at the infamous Freight & Salvage, online at Peghead Nation and numerous camps and events. She leads rowdy square dance parties, getting every body easily dancing. In the songwriter world, she just writes great songs, subtitling her own band “neo-trad kinetic folk." In 2019 she released two CDs, celebrating both of her musical sides: one totally trad fiddle/banjo duets with 17 different fiddlers, Riding the Rooster, and one adventurous originals, Caught On A Wire. A highly entertaining performer, Evie enjoys facilitating arts learning in diverse communities. “The best example I have seen of a Neo-Trad band's sound being authentically anchored in old time music but extending it into new and entertaining directions.” —Founder, Clifftop Appalachian Stringband Festival www.evieladin.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841484859-1YY8XC2YP304E3XSYU4Q/Keith+Terry.jpg 2020 Island Camp Instructors - Keith Terry Keith Terry is a percussionist/rhythm-dancer/educator whose artistic vision has straddled the line between music and dance for more than four decades. He is the Founding/Artistic Director of Crosspulse, an Oakland, CA –based, non-profit organization dedicated to the creation and performance of rhythm-based intercultural music and dance, and has produced more than a dozen CDs, DVDs and Books for Crosspulse Media. He has collaborated with many performing artists including Charles ‘’Honi’’ Coles, Turtle Island Quartet, Jazz Tap Ensemble, Gamelan Sekar Jaya, San Jose Taiko, and Bobby McFerrin. His groups - Slammin All-Body Band, Crosspulse Percussion Ensemble, Professor Terry’s Circus Band Extraordinaire, Body Tjak (with I Wayan Dibia) and other projects have appeared at Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors (NY), Grand Performances (LA), Bumbershoot (WA), NPR’s All Things Considered, PRI's The World, the Vienna International Dance Festival, Vancouver Island MusicFest, the Bali Arts Festival, and many more. As Artistic Director of the International Body Music Festival, Keith has solidified Body Music as a genre, galvanizing a global community. He tours extensively in the Americas, Asia and Europe, where his Body Music workshops, residencies and choreographic commissions are popular among professional performers and educators. He also tours on bass and percussion with the Evie Ladin Band. Keith has been on the faculty at UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures, where he designed and taught a dozen courses on the relationship of music and dance; deep listening; synchronicity, time, and timing; and intercultural communication. He is a Guggenheim and Asian Cultural Council Fellow. Mr. Terry and his colleagues in action is like visiting an anatomical carnival, where hands, feet, fingers, bellies, rumps and mouths engage in an endless musical ballet. — Wall Street Journal www.keithterry.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841484845-SWCH931HLXYKEPEXIRQ8/Matthew+Douglas.jpg 2020 Island Camp Instructors - Matthew Douglas Matt Douglas is a woodwinds player, singer, and multi-instrumentalist living in Raleigh, North Carolina. After graduating from NYU in 2002 with a music degree, Matt went off to Central Europe as a Fulbright Scholar studying the Hungarian folk tradition and contemporary improvised music. After two years living abroad, he settled in North Carolina where his musical life got even weirder. In addition to being a full-time member of the indie rock band the Mountain Goats, Matt has collaborated with Hiss Golden Messenger, Bon Iver, Sylvan Esso, Erin McKeown, Josh Ritter, Chris Stamey, Superchunk, and more, having recorded on over 100 albums in the last 10 years. When he's not on the road or in the backyard studio in Raleigh, he is spending time with his amazing wife and three awesome children. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841484839-7DGM7HKRMVG06365NX11/Zoe+Guigueno.jpg 2020 Island Camp Instructors - Zoe Guigueno Zoe Guigueno is a bassist, singer and songwriter headquartered in New York City. She tours and records with avant-pop string quartet Laura Cortese & the Dance Cards, Americana ensemble Della Mae, klezmer band Tsibele, and many other groups. She has taught at several music camps, busked in the NY subway, performed on CBS, the Grand Ole Opry, and A Prairie Home Companion, played upright bass on a moving white-water raft, and written and recorded two albums of her own material. A graduate of the jazz program at Humber College in Toronto, Zoe is originally from a tiny island in British Columbia (though not as tiny as Three Mile Island). www.zoeguigueno.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841484788-CWI6Y6OLT8A8CKOQQXOM/Mike.jpg 2020 Island Camp Instructors - Mike Merenda Mike Merenda is a songwriting force and clawhammer banjo explorer raised in NH and now dwelling in NY's Hudson Valley. Youthful musical forays into rock and punk later led to the more traditional folk realms and a productive creative partnership with his wife Ruth Ungar spanning 2 decades (so far.) They have toured extensively as both the duo Mike + Ruthy and the full band The Mammals. Mike curates the lineup of their community music festivals, the Winter Hoot and Summer Hoot at Ashokan. He is most fond of hoisting his antenna into the ether and seeing what emerges thru singing with a guitar or banjo in hand. In addition to his own original compositions he has recorded posthumous "co-writes" with Woody Guthrie & Allen Ginsberg. The Mammals' recent title track Sunshiner, which came to Mike in a dream, was nominated for Folk Alliance International's 2018 Song of the Year award. He attended Miles of Music's very first camp and is honored to be back. http://themammals.love https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841484782-OJSIKX64Y0JJ3Q0CY2KC/image.jpg 2020 Island Camp Instructors - Ruth Ungar Ruth Ungar is a multi-dimensional collaborator, touring and recording artist, and event organizer based in the Hudson Valley of NY. This year she and her husband Mike Merenda toured the US and UK with their band The Mammals, toured festivals for a month in Australia as Mike + Ruthy (duo) with their two kids, recorded a new full length studio album to be self-released in 2020, and organized their two annual community music festivals, the Winter Hoot & Summer Hoot at Ashokan. For 40 years Ruth's family has hosted summer traditional music and dance camps at Ashokan, the place that inspired her father, Jay Ungar, to compose his evocative fiddle melody Ashokan Farewell. Ruth is similarly known for eliciting an emotional response from an audience of any size. Her background in theater has also fueled a lifelong fascination with stagecraft, vulnerability, and the beauty of taking risks. http://themammals.love https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841484891-FHF3HBKDOJ2IR6MR8P9N/image+-+Chris+Eldridge.png 2020 Island Camp Instructors - Chris Eldridge As a member of Punch Brothers since the band's inception, guitarist Chris Eldridge has been at the vanguard of acoustic music for much of the past decade. Although initially drawn to the electric guitar, by his mid-teens Chris Eldridge had developed a deep love for acoustic music, thanks in part to his father, a banjo player and founding member of the seminal bluegrass group The Seldom Scene. Eldridge later gained in-depth exposure to a variety of different musical styles while studying at Oberlin Conservatory, where he earned a degree in music performance in 2004. During his time at Oberlin, Eldridge studied with legendary guitarist Tony Rice. After graduating he joined the Seldom Scene with whom he received a Grammy nomination in 2007. In 2005 he founded the critically acclaimed bluegrass band The Infamous Stringdusters. At the 2007 International Bluegrass Music Association awards Eldridge and his Stringdusters bandmates won Emerging artist of the Year, Song of the Year, and Album of the Year for their debut album, Fork in the Road. Meanwhile, in 2005 he had caught the attention of mandolinist Chris Thile, who enlisted him, along with banjoist Noam Pikelny, violinist Gabe Witcher, and bassist Greg Garrison to start working on an ambitious side project. Soon after they decided to focus all of their collective energies into band and Punch Brothers was born. The band has since released 6 critically acclaimed albums, received 6 Grammy nominations and toured around the world. www.chriseldridge.net https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841484776-PEBYMPP2H3WL4ZPE6TL0/Jennifer%2BKimball.jpg 2020 Island Camp Instructors - Jennifer Kimball Jennifer Kimball is a musician known for her unusual choice of notes, her passion for dissonance and her willingness to create harmony where none has been envisioned before. She began songwriting in earnest in 1995 after leaving her first band, the critically acclaimed duo, The Story. Her first solo record, Veering from the Wave, was released on Imaginary Road/PolyGram in 1998. Then in the early aughts she and her partner Ry Cavanaugh started a band called Maybe Baby; Duke Levine played electric guitar, Kimball ukelele and acoustic guitar, Cavanaugh baritone electric guitar and Billy Beard drums. The two shared songwriting duties and harmony singing and released one record What Matters (2003), recorded at Hi-n-Dry, Cambridge, MA. After the birth of their son (and deciding it was better to stay married than to have a band together), Cavanaugh started Session Americana; Kimball released Oh Hear Us (2006) and headed to Harvard’s Landscape Institute to pursue a degree in landscape design. https://www.jenniferkimball.com/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841484833-IHETAJX0CSFI272SLYGU/AllMyFriends.jpg 2020 Island Camp Instructors - All My Friends Are Stars All My Friends Are Stars is a multi-ethnic band from New York City. A collective and a movement, They believe that everyone is a star and everybody is good at something! Their uplifting music has messages like Detox from my Phone & Spread your light. They Founded their own music festival now in its 5th year! The 5th Annual All My Friends Are Stars Music Festival will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden August 1st 2020. All My Friends Are Stars has performed at American Folk Art Museum, MoMa, Lincoln Center, Lehman College, Nefertiti, Tjolöholms Slott and Bologna’s IL Cinema Ritrovato. http://allmyfriendsarestars.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841484941-UOY7SR3TDBU0B2NTPIGF/Jefferson+Hamer.jpg 2020 Island Camp Instructors - Jefferson Hamer Jefferson Hamer is a songwriter, guitarist, and traditional musician based in Brooklyn, NY. His new album Alameda features Jeff Picker, John Fatum, Alec Spiegelman, Hannah Read, Sarah Jarosz, and others. Writing for The New Yorker, Robert Sullivan said: “Alameda,” the title track on Hamer’s album, is a rock ballad with crispy guitar licks and geographic lyrics about a wandering worker, who is maybe the author, but maybe not. In the way that it talks about a long search for work, it reminds me of Woody Guthrie’s Columbia River song series…“Moving Day,” another song on the CD, is now up there with Guy Clark’s “L.A. Freeway” as one of my favorite songs about moving… Murphy Beds, his traditional acoustic album with Eamon O’Leary, features harmony vocals backed by intricate guitar and bouzouki accompaniment. The Huffington Post said it succinctly: “The [Murphy Beds] album bears repeated listening from start to finish, with ten beautiful, crystalline songs.” He also plays electric guitar (and moonlights as a Bostonian) with the six-piece roots rock ensemble Session Americana. In 2016 he recorded and co-produced their album Great Shakes. His 2013 Child Ballads album with Anais Mitchell earned a BBC2 Folk Award and was named one of NPR’s top-ten Folk releases of the year. www.jeffersonhamer.com/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841484918-LF542SSH7QPS6XIHEFD4/Val+new+photo.jpg 2020 Island Camp Instructors - Valerie Thompson Valerie Thompson is a native of Kansas City, MO. She began classical cello studies at the age of ten, and is a graduate of Berklee College of Music with a B.M. in music performance. She has performed in the Czech Republic as a participant of the Ameropa Chamber Music Festival, at the Banff International Youth Symphony Festival in Alberta, and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine with the Berklee String Orchestra. When not freelancing or teaching cello, Valerie can be heard in any of her fine musical projects FLUTTR EFFECT, the Yurodivy Quintet, and the Ephemeral Duet. www.valeriethompson.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841484900-THHBMB1J118PGXCWYQ1F/Zachariah+Hickman+-+Press+photo+-+Zachariah+Hickman.jpg 2020 Island Camp Instructors - Zachariah Hickman Zachariah Hickman is a double bassist, multi-instrumentalist and producer based out of Boston, MA. Originally from Lynchburg, VA, he received his formal training in jazz performance and composition from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. For most of his adult life he has toured with singer-songwriter Josh Ritter, traveling all over the world and recording 9 full-length albums. Currently, he is performing as bassist and musical director for Ray Lamontagne. He has performed at many notable venues and festivals, including Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, Red Rocks, Bonnaroo, Dublin Castle, The Fillmore, and the Royal Albert Hall. With Josh Ritter, he has also performed with the Boston Pops in Symphony Hall, the New York Pops in Central Park, and many other orchestras in Europe and the United States. Television appearances include five David Letterman appearances, Conan O’Brien, Ellen Degeneres, and Late Night with Jools Holland for the BBC. As a producer, Zachariah as made records with a number of talented singers, including Rose Cousins (for which he won a Canadian JUNO award), Mark Erelli, Laura Cortese, Miss Tess, and his own bluegrass band Barnstar! He has also produced and ring-mastered his own circus, released his own brand of mustache wax, and runs a vaudeville style variety show, Zack Hickman’s House of Ill Repute. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841484810-9H8QV05YP5DVXAP1F646/Lauren+Balthrop+HI-RES.jpg 2020 Island Camp Instructors - Lauren Balthrop Lauren Balthrop is a multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter born and raised in Alabama where her family gatherings always included sing-alongs of the Everly Brothers, the Andrew Sisters, the Louvin Brothers, and the Beatles. After 10 years making her way in NYC, she heard the siren call of Nashville where she now calls home. Lauren released her debut solo album in late 2018 and is primed to record her second. She partnered with NYC’s Blue Balloon Songwriting School to open her own music school in Nashville where she teaches the young ones to express themselves through songwriting. Her big folk-rock band and "small town" with her brother called Balthrop, Alabama toured all across the states to a cultish following. Her 60's inspired girl group, The Bandana Splits, has released two records with songs landing on shows such as HBO's 'Bored to Death'. She's also toured extensively as a multi-instrumentalist for Elizabeth & the Catapult, Kevin Morby, Michaela Anne and Ximena Sariñana. Lauren is a knitter and tap dancer too! www.laurenbalthrop.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841484882-6R48B44D9EVFZMEU6ZSW/28424879_10102688945349012_1716038642397621307_o+-+Chris+Miller.jpg 2020 Island Camp Instructors - Chris Miller “The Chris Miller” - as he is affectionately referred to - could not imagine his life without Miles of Music Camp. Chris plays a variety of instruments (banjo, clarinet, dobro, flute, t’fer), but it’s his captivating saxophone style that has brought him around the world and earned him a GRAMMY nomination with his band The Revelers (2016 Best Regional Roots Music). His versatility and sunny disposition have also earned him gigs with A.C Newman, Doug Wamble, John Mailander and many more. At time of print Chris defines 'home' as Lopez Island, Washington and splits his time between the Revelers and his recently named acoustic trio The Faux Paws. www.chrismillersax.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841484826-WQS07SE1IME0J9PNH5A1/unnamed.jpg 2020 Island Camp Instructors - Rennie Elliot Rennie Elliot is a singer, banjo player and drummer who spends her time between Brooklyn, Nashville & Austin. She loves to play everything from old time, country, cajun, mariachi, punk, & viper jazz in such bands as Woody Pines, Kings County Queens, Wild Angles & The Yeah Yeah Yeahs. She also works professionally in video production, tv commercials and film, as well as puts on camps and festivals. Rennie would love to help you get you started on drums, banjo, singing or video making. www.rennieelliot.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841484873-3NUS9LSD13B3DBH9G2DA/Dietrich+Strause.png 2020 Island Camp Instructors - Dietrich Strause Dietrich Strause is a multi-instrumentalist from Cambridge, Massachusetts. His songs are a mix of timeless melody, literate lyricism, and a "virtuosic command of imagery.” (The Artery, WBUR) In less than one year, Strause released two albums -- How Cruel That Hunger Binds and Dietrich Strause & The Blue Ribbons -- proving to be one of the most prolific and eclectic writers and performers coming out of New England. He has taught songwriting at the Passim School of Music, played piano for English balladeer Sam Lee, recorded and produced an album of Chinese children’s songs, all the while touring the US and UK supporting folk luminaries such as Anais Mitchell, Sarah Jarosz, and more. Dietrich is an apprentice guitar builder at Outlier Workshop in Cambridge. More information can be found at www.dietrichstrause.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841484770-SSI16SC3N51U5A4R4TKR/image-asset.jpeg 2020 Island Camp Instructors - Celia Woodsmith Celia Woodsmith is a GRAMMY Nominated performer, vocalist, and songwriter. The daughter of the Vermont based poet Sybil Smith she is influenced by artists such as John Prine, Janis Joplin and Mahalia Jackson. Over time, and without any formal training Celia molded her own vocal style and has been hailed by the Boston Globe as "Unvarnished and intimate (...) but then sounds like she's about to part the Dead Sea". Woodsmith's performances can be described as "one of a kind: gritty, muscular, folksy and intimate sometimes all at once" (Bluegrass Situation) Not confined by genre she is as comfortable playing Bill Monroe as she is singing an old jazz standard, or a Led Zeppelin rocker. In the last 14 years Celia has released nine albums of original music most recently with Nashville based bluegrass band Della Mae and her Boston based vintage rock project SAY Darling. In 2014 Della Mae was nominated for a Best Bluegrass Album GRAMMY for their record "This World Oft Can Be". The all-female Della Mae has performed in 19 countries with the US Department of State's cultural diplomacy program "American Music Abroad". Woodsmith recently spoke about her experiences with travel and music at TEDx Piscataqua River in Portsmouth, NH. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841484797-FMGKGN50N2XEXHCJ2SVQ/IMG_2278+-+song+everyweek.JPG 2020 Island Camp Instructors - Taylor Ashton Born in the last year of the 1980s, Taylor Ashton grew up surrounded by the Pacific Ocean and the old growth rainforests of Canada's west coast. His songs are inspired by the crooked primeval funk of traditional old-time music, the humor and heartbreak of Randy Newman, the cosmic emotionality of mid-career Joni Mitchell, and the sage vulnerability of Bill Withers. Somehow, he finds a way to make this all work on the clawhammer banjo. He spent most of late teens and early 20s as the frontman of Vancouver-based five-piece Fish & Bird, releasing four albums of heady progressive folk. In the past few years he has increasingly spent his days in New York City. His most recent release finds him swapping songs with Grammy-nominated songwriter and guitarist Courtney Hartman, on the pair's 2018 duo album "Been On Your Side". The album is an acoustic, stripped-down affair, which Rolling Stone had to admit, "packs a punch in today's mainstream". After well over a decade of varied and fruitful collaborations, Taylor released his debut solo recording in late 2019 on Signature Sound. To find out more: taylorashton.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841484816-AC3A4A2MCGKS7NK05YXV/Good%252BAdam.jpg 2020 Island Camp Instructors - Adam Moss Brooklyn based fiddler and songster Adam Moss’ musical career can most easily be characterized by the variance of his influence. Adam loves and plays in the Klezmer, Bluegrass, Old-time and swing traditions which lends itself to a very unique and innovative style in performance setting. He is actively touring with his brother duo The Brother Brothers, but you may have seen him playing in the past with some of his favorite artists, such as Boston’s Session Americana, Brooklyns The Defibulators, Ana Egge, and Anais Mitchell’s “Hadestown,” to name a few. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841484804-WPQE63QT92L6GAFAXT6M/47575492_10205648352124625_8223348481767505920_o+-+Luther+Child.jpg 2020 Island Camp Instructors - Dinty Child 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, including Rose Cousins and Kris Delmhorst, and even fronting the 15 piece party band, the Funky White Honkies. In 2020, he’ll release his first solo album! www.sessionamericana.com/ https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/6776d6ccacfbe502a4c3d5f0/6776d6ccacfbe502a4c3d623/1576604442203/ 2020 Island Camp Instructors https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841484908-E949HW390ESSA6M62CGT/Thoma+Brown-+ice+guitar.jpg 2020 Island Camp Instructors - Thomas Brown Thomas Brown is a mixed media artist and an occasional songbird. Originally from Muscle Shoals, Alabama and raised up in Louisville, Kentucky, he has now been based in New York City since 2008 working as an ice sculptor. In addition to ice sculptures, Thomas creates environmental art installations, and has collaborated on music videos with Anna and Elizabeth, Cuddle Magic, and Star Rover. Through his collaboration with his mentor, Takeo Okamoto, and Okamoto Studio, Thomas had had the opportunity to show his work in many of the great venues of NYC, including the MET, the MoMA, Guggenheim, Lincoln Center, MSG, Central Park, Columbus Circle, WTC, Rockefeller Center, NY Botanical Gardens, the House of Love, and many more. Sculpture has also given him the opportunity to travel to Japan, and the Middle East, and around the U.S.. He has been featured along with the studio on Iron Chef American three times. Thomas’ passion for working with ephemeral elements and for performing are exemplified during live carving exhibitions for the public to enjoy. These works invite the audience to embrace the experiential aspect of witnessing the creation of impermanent art objects and to be mindful of the moment as they change and disappear. https://www.milesofmusiccamp.com/2021-program-staff daily 0.75 2025-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841501739-85U37H75XWYAV1TXW4EY/image-asset.jpeg 2021 Program Staff - Dinty Child 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, including Rose Cousins and Kris Delmhorst, and even fronting the 15 piece party band, the Funky White Honkies. In 2020, he’ll release his first solo album! www.sessionamericana.com/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841501770-CO2UFITINIG93WWT0B3R/47575492_10205648352124625_8223348481767505920_o+-+Luther+Child.jpg 2021 Program Staff - Dinty Child 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, including Rose Cousins and Kris Delmhorst, and even fronting the 15 piece party band, the Funky White Honkies. In 2020, he released his first solo album! www.sessionamericana.com/ Photo credit: Laura Crosta https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841501790-3EC3MP0QFVUENKFP0X31/static1.squarespace-1.jpg 2021 Program Staff - Kristin Andreassen Kristin Andreassen is a singer, songwriter & percussive dancer whose music honors both the playful & the profound. She's toured with some of the most respected acoustic groups around: the stringband Uncle Earl, the "folk noir” singing trio Sometymes Why, the Appalachian clogging company Footworks, and NYC's "anti-folk" superhero Jeffrey Lewis. Her originals range from the infectious rhythms of her kids' music hit "Crayola Doesn't Make a Color for Your Eyes” to the emotive soundscape in this shadow art video made with beloved MoM instructor Anna Roberts-Gevalt. This year, Kristin released two albums. The Bright Siders’ A Mind of Your Own (Smithsonian Folkways) is a collection of children's songs about emotions, co-created with Brooklyn psychiatrist Dr. Kari Groff and a raft of guest stars. Her second pandemic-era release was the self-titled debut from JKLOL a project featuring three Miles of Music regulars — Kristin, Jefferson Hamer & Lauren Balthrop — along with their drummer pal Lawson White. An experienced teacher & square dance caller, Kristin is a true believer in the transformative power of music camps for all ages. After studying creative writing, history and community development at Montreal’s McGill University, she is stunned to have found herself in a career where she employs all three of those skills in balance. http://www.thebrightsiders.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841501776-5E0LNYPL5ICXHQ2HIM16/Lauren%2BBalthrop%2BHI-RES.jpg 2021 Program Staff - Lauren Balthrop Lauren Balthrop is a multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter born and raised in Alabama where her family gatherings always included sing-alongs of the Everly Brothers, the Andrew Sisters, the Louvin Brothers, and the Beatles. After 10 years making her way in NYC, she heard the siren call of Nashville where she now calls home. Lauren released her debut solo album in late 2018 and is currently finishing her second. She partnered with NYC’s Blue Balloon Songwriting School to open her own music school in Nashville where she teaches the young ones to express themselves through songwriting. Her big folk-rock band and "small town" with her brother called Balthrop, Alabama toured all across the states to a cultish following. Her 60's inspired girl group, The Bandana Splits, has released two records with songs landing on shows such as HBO's 'Bored to Death'. She's also toured extensively as a multi-instrumentalist for Elizabeth & the Catapult, Kevin Morby, Michaela Anne and Ximena Sariñana. Lauren is a knitter and tap dancer too! www.laurenbalthrop.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841501784-JSW2BIUFGNR72BY3RIR1/Zachariah+Hickman+-+Press+photo+-+Zachariah+Hickman.jpg 2021 Program Staff - Zachariah Hickman Zachariah Hickman is a double bassist, multi-instrumentalist and producer based out of Boston, MA. Originally from Lynchburg, VA, he received his formal training in jazz performance and composition from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. For most of his adult life he has toured with singer-songwriter Josh Ritter, traveling all over the world and recording 9 full-length albums. Currently, he is performing as bassist and musical director for Ray Lamontagne. He has performed at many notable venues and festivals, including Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, Red Rocks, Bonnaroo, Dublin Castle, The Fillmore, and the Royal Albert Hall. With Josh Ritter, he has also performed with the Boston Pops in Symphony Hall, the New York Pops in Central Park, and many other orchestras in Europe and the United States. Television appearances include five David Letterman appearances, Conan O’Brien, Ellen Degeneres, and Late Night with Jools Holland for the BBC. As a producer, Zachariah as made records with a number of talented singers, including Rose Cousins (for which he won a Canadian JUNO award), Mark Erelli, Laura Cortese, Miss Tess, and his own bluegrass band Barnstar! He has also produced and ring-mastered his own circus, released his own brand of mustache wax, and runs a vaudeville style variety show, Zack Hickman’s House of Ill Repute. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841501761-HHBFY08RHO21O0G8D9HP/Timothy+Tucker.jpg 2021 Program Staff - Timothy Tucker 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 three culinary training programs for low-income populations in Louisville, Miami, FL,and in Boston, MA, where he resides now. 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 a food radio blog WGGF radio (World Gathering Good Food). www.cheftimothytucker.com https://www.milesofmusiccamp.com/2019-island-camp-instructors daily 0.75 2025-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841511428-MSSG263V0ACPL4UV6E6U/image-asset.jpeg 2019 Island Camp Instructors - Kristin Andreassen Kristin Andreassen is a singer, songwriter & percussive dancer whose music honors both the playful & the profound. She's toured with some of the most respected acoustic groups around: the stringband Uncle Earl, the "folk noir” singing trio Sometymes Why, the Appalachian clogging troupe Footworks, and NYC's "anti-folk" superhero Jeffrey Lewis. Her originals range from the infectious rhythms of her #1 kids' hit "Crayola Doesn't Make a Color for Your Eyes” to the emotive soundscape in this shadow art video made with beloved MoM instructor Anna Roberts-Gevalt. 2018 promises a new trio album with drummer Shane Leonard & Punch Brother Chris Eldridge as well as an album of children's songs about emotions, co-created with Brooklyn psychiatrist Dr. Kari Groff for the Smithsonian Folkways label. An experienced teacher & square dance caller, Kristin is a true believer in the transformative power of music camps for all ages. After studying creative writing, history and community development at Montreal’s McGill University, she is as surprised as her parents to have found a career where she employs all three of those skills in balance. www.kristinandreassen.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841511609-OMPJGOXGVI9ACUU8V9UD/static1.squarespace-1.jpg 2019 Island Camp Instructors - Kristin Andreassen Kristin Andreassen is a singer, songwriter & percussive dancer whose music honors both the playful & the profound. She's toured with some of the most respected acoustic groups around: the stringband Uncle Earl, the "folk noir” singing trio Sometymes Why, the Appalachian clogging troupe Footworks, and NYC's "anti-folk" superhero Jeffrey Lewis. Her originals range from the infectious rhythms of her #1 kids' hit "Crayola Doesn't Make a Color for Your Eyes” to the emotive soundscape in this shadow art video made with beloved MoM instructor Anna Roberts-Gevalt. 2018 promises a new trio album with drummer Shane Leonard & Punch Brother Chris Eldridge as well as an album of children's songs about emotions, co-created with Brooklyn psychiatrist Dr. Kari Groff for the Smithsonian Folkways label. An experienced teacher & square dance caller, Kristin is a true believer in the transformative power of music camps for all ages. After studying creative writing, history and community development at Montreal’s McGill University, she is as surprised as her parents to have found a career where she employs all three of those skills in balance. www.kristinandreassen.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841511603-TJY220F22W2ZGR644281/static1.squarespace.jpg 2019 Island Camp Instructors - Laura Cortese Laura Cortese has built a distinguished career as an Americana fiddler, songwriter and vocalist. She is now one of the most in-demand musical collaborators on the folk circuit. She grew up in San Francisco, CA and moved to Boston, MA to study at Berklee College of Music, immersing herself in the city's vibrant indie music scene and enjoying a busy touring-and-studio career which included appearances with Band of Horses at Carnegie Hall and Pete Seeger at Newport Folk Festival. She tours internationally with her band, the Dance Cards. The group is bold and elegant, schooled in the lyrical rituals of folk music and backed by grooves that alternatively inspire Cajun two-stepping and rock ’n’ roll hip swagger. Laura Cortese & the Dance Cards have appeared at venues and festivals throughout the US, UK, Sweden, Canada, India, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Estonia, Montenegro, Greece and Bangladesh pairing sophisticated string arrangements (two fiddles, cello & bass) and rich vocal harmonies with poignant and powerful singing. www.thisislauracortese.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841511590-FKC11MFRU9PP36VWQ2OP/Zachariah+Hickman+-+Press+photo+-+Zachariah+Hickman.jpg 2019 Island Camp Instructors - Zachariah Hickman Zachariah Hickman is a double bassist, multi-instrumentalist and producer based out of Boston, MA. Originally from Lynchburg, VA, he received his formal training in jazz performance and composition from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. For most of his adult life he has toured with singer-songwriter Josh Ritter, traveling all over the world and recording 9 full-length albums. Currently, he is performing as bassist and musical director for Ray Lamontagne. He has performed at many notable venues and festivals, including Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, Red Rocks, Bonnaroo, Dublin Castle, The Fillmore, and the Royal Albert Hall. With Josh Ritter, he has also performed with the Boston Pops in Symphony Hall, the New York Pops in Central Park, and many other orchestras in Europe and the United States. Television appearances include five David Letterman appearances, Conan O’Brien, Ellen Degeneres, and Late Night with Jools Holland for the BBC. As a producer, Zachariah as made records with a number of talented singers, including Rose Cousins (for which he won a Canadian JUNO award), Mark Erelli, Laura Cortese, Miss Tess, and his own bluegrass band Barnstar! He has also produced and ring-mastered his own circus, released his own brand of mustache wax, and runs a vaudeville style variety show, Zack Hickman’s House of Ill Repute. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841511467-PBY3U1ZYEQJNNJ8MZGZV/Cedric+Watson.jpg 2019 Island Camp Instructors - Cedric Watson One of the brightest young talents to emerge in Cajun, Creole and Zydeco (Louisiana French) music over the last decade, Cedric Watson is a four-time Grammy-nominated fiddler, singer, accordionist & songwriter with seemingly unlimited potential. Cedric and his group Bijou Creole resurrect the ancient sounds of the French and Spanish contra dance and bourré alongside the spiritual rhythms of the Congo tribes of West Africa, who were sold as slaves in the Carribean and Louisiana by the French and Spanish. With an apparently bottomless repertoire of songs at his fingertips, Cedric plays everything from forgotten Creole melodies and obscure Dennis McGee reels to more modern Cajun and Zydeco songs, even occasionally throwing in a bluegrass fiddle tune or an old string band number. www.cedricwatson.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841511456-AVRT5UCWXOK961ODCLM2/Chas+Justus.jpg 2019 Island Camp Instructors - Chas Justus Chas Justus - aka the Mississippi Mystic - is a songwriter and guitar picker from the American south and has toured the world for over a decade as a founding member of the Red Stick Ramblers and The Revelers from Lafayette, Louisiana. https://chasjustus.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841511582-X6MZ87TL6ZMKAX8I61CP/2013-004-194++Wheatland+Sat+Sun+-+Sharon+Leahy.jpg 2019 Island Camp Instructors - Sharon Leahy & Rick Good Sharon Leahy has spent a lifetime creating dance and theater for the stage, working with traditional forms to express/impress contemporary themes. As a choreographer she has been commissioned to create work by Jacob's Pillow, the National Endowment for the Arts, New England Foundation for the Arts National Dance Project, and many others. She was an artist in residence at the University of Dayton and has taught master classes at colleges across the country. As Artistic Director of Rhythm in Shoes, she led an ensemble of dancers and musicians, touring nationally and internationally, presenting original performance art that was both surprising and familiar. Carry it on…Sharon's first dance for camera and has been seen at numerous dance film festivals including Dance on Camera at Lincoln Center, The International ScreenDance Festival at the American Dance Festival and the San Francisco Dance Film Festival. She has won the Blue Ribbon in the clogging contest at both the National Folk Festival at Wolftrap in Virginia and the Appalachian String Band Festival in West Virginia. Rick Good is a founding member of the Hotmud Family, a twenty-four year veteran of Rhythm in Shoes and an Ohio Heritage Fellow. Rick is recognized and respected for his driving banjo, swinging guitar, heartfelt singing and crafty songwriting. With his wife and long-time collaborator, Sharon Leahy, Rick has made a life of creating critically-acclaimed performance art, rooted in American traditions. He’s written original music for dance, film and theater productions and his discography currently includes fifteen recordings made from 1974 to 2012, (Hotmud Family, Rhythm in Shoes, Sharon Leahy, ShoeFly, Red Clay Ramblers, and two solo ventures). Rick currently plays regularly with two fine bands: Good & Young and the Elements. www.leahygood.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841511488-4G1B9MFRU7MJEW0R12Z4/IMGP967925+-+Christopher+Pappas.jpg 2019 Island Camp Instructors - Christopher Pappas Christopher Pappas is an award winning composer and multi-instrumentalist. Under the moniker Elle Belle, his latest release “No Signal” (2018) has been met with critical acclaim. Pappas grew up in rural New Hampshire where he started the band The Everyday Visuals. After relocating to Boston, the band began to amass a cult-like following of fellow musicians and fans who were attracted to Pappas’ penchant for vocal harmonies and catchy left-of-center songwriting. He moved to Los Angeles in 2010 where he met Pierre de Reeder, bassist for the venerable L.A. band Rilo Kiley, who signed Pappas to his newly formed label Little Record Company. Pappas has written music for NASA, Google, and Lexus, and his music has been heard on ABC, NBC, Showtime, FX, and more. He’s written a musical that is slated to go off-broadway, and assembled his own 27 piece orchestra to perform his original orchestral works. Twin-Tone luminary Peter Jesperson notes Pappas’ “talent is staggering” and his rich catalogue only further cements his title as one of America’s prolific and captivating under-the-radar artists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841511596-J7SFBIANKM6D78SRG7N6/KC+Groves.jpg 2019 Island Camp Instructors - K.C. Groves When K.C. Groves was a young musician she was mentored by bluegrass and acoustic music greats such as Sally Van Meter, Charles Sawtelle and Laurie Lewis. She has since become a driving force in her own right, passing on that spark and pure joy of playing music. A multi-faceted musician, spirited bandleader and inspiring mentor, K.C.’s energy, tenacity, and creativity seem to be boundless. But she’s simply, “paying it forward,” as she puts it, answering the call to keep the music she loves a living experience. An accomplished instrumentalist (mandolin, guitar, bass), vocalist and songwriter, K.C. Groves has been at the heart of many celebrated projects. As the creative center and bandleader of Uncle Earl for over a decade, K.C. helped bring old time music to a wider audience. The "g’Earls" played major festival stages in the United States and toured extensively abroad, gaining fans and musical cohorts such as Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones, who produced their 2007 album Waterloo, Tennessee. In addition to Uncle Earl, K.C. has released two solo albums of original material, and was a Telluride Troubadour contest finalist and a Detroit Music Award winner. She has teamed up with countless notable musicians, including old time musician and craftsman Riley Baugus and Leftover Salmon’s Vince Herman. K.C.’s home base in the sleepy town of Lyons in the foothills of the Colorado Rockies near Planet Bluegrass, the hallowed grounds that host RockyGrass and Folks Festival. Along with founding the successful High Street Concert series in Lyons, K.C. is a certified in the Wernick Method of Bluegrass Jamming. She also spearheaded the famous weekly bluegrass jam at Oskar Blues, the largest and longest running jam in Colorado. www.thebluegrassgirl.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841511574-2F500YL8LR93782MWFQQ/image+-+Chris+Eldridge.png 2019 Island Camp Instructors - Chris Eldridge As a member of Punch Brothers since the band's inception, guitarist Chris Eldridge has been at the vanguard of acoustic music for much of the past decade. Although initially drawn to the electric guitar, by his mid-teens Chris Eldridge had developed a deep love for acoustic music, thanks in part to his father, a banjo player and founding member of the seminal bluegrass group The Seldom Scene. Eldridge later gained in-depth exposure to a variety of different musical styles while studying at Oberlin Conservatory, where he earned a degree in music performance in 2004. During his time at Oberlin, Eldridge studied with legendary guitarist Tony Rice. After graduating he joined the Seldom Scene with whom he received a Grammy nomination in 2007. In 2005 he founded the critically acclaimed bluegrass band The Infamous Stringdusters. At the 2007 International Bluegrass Music Association awards Eldridge and his Stringdusters bandmates won Emerging artist of the Year, Song of the Year, and Album of the Year for their debut album, Fork in the Road. Meanwhile, in 2005 he had caught the attention of mandolinist Chris Thile, who enlisted him, along with banjoist Noam Pikelny, violinist Gabe Witcher, and bassist Greg Garrison to start working on an ambitious side project. Soon after they decided to focus all of their collective energies into band and Punch Brothers was born. The band has since released 6 critically acclaimed albums, received 6 Grammy nominations and toured around the world. www.chriseldridge.net https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841511568-WG1POEW04PVIT3WX0FIC/IMG_0038_editcrp+-+Joy+Askew.jpg 2019 Island Camp Instructors - Joy Askew Originally from the North of England, Joy Askew has made New York City her home for over 30 years. In the 80s and 90s Joy led her own band as lead vocalist/keyboardist developing her songwriting to become a writer for Quincy Jones Music Publishing. During this time she also played and toured in the bands of such luminary artists as Joe Jackson, Peter Gabriel, Laurie Anderson, Rodney Crowell and Jack Bruce and appeared in Laurie Anderson's quintessential movie “Home Of The Brave”. In the last few years Joy has focused on her own records and inspired by memories of growing up in Newcastle, Joy recorded her latest album, “Queen Victoria” in Yorkshire England with The Brighouse & Rastrick Band, the most famous traditional British Brass Band. It was released in 2017. Joy teaches voice at Stevens Institute of technology and has coached many artists in the recording studio and in preparation for tours & recording. www.joyaskew.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841511446-9YS0L81FCUPTE9Q9S523/Trey+Boudreaux.jpg 2019 Island Camp Instructors - Trey Boudreaux One of Louisiana’s premier upright bass players, Trey Boudreaux has written and performed with a long list of musical partners in a variety of styles, from classical to jazz to Americana, across South Louisiana. http://treyboudreaux.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841511494-84X6P95L597KWFCKU4N3/IMG_5741+-+thomasbrownaffair.JPG 2019 Island Camp Instructors - Thomas Brown Thomas Brown is a mixed media visual artist based in NYC. Early in his career, his work was concentrated around the formal aspects of illustration and sculpture but then shifted into found object and mixed media collage. Eventually, the discovery of ephemeral, nature- based artwork changed his perception of what artistic expression can look and feel like. Exploring the kinetic value of materials that melt, dissolve, degrade, or combust has become a central focus. The majority of his year is spent making ice sculptures for a variety of events and festivals. A few overlying themes of his work are: expression of creativity with whatever is available; drawing from environment and experiences,taking inspiration from even the most mundane; and embracing the moment fully when confronted with art that speaks to the individual. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841511530-261HO5K91ACTFWAOPYCU/LulaWiles-4499.jpg 2019 Island Camp Instructors - Lula Wiles Lula Wiles is a Boston-based roots trio and the first-ever Miles of Music Band-In-Residence. The band members (Isa Burke, Ellie Buckland, and Mali Obomsawin) met and started playing music together at a fiddle camp in their home state of Maine, and they honed their skills and their band's sound attending MoM as campers, so they're firm believers in the power of music camps. They count MoM as one of their most formative experiences as a band and as individual musicians. Their original songs blend country, old-time, and folk-rock sounds, all anchored by rich vocal harmonies and dynamic instrumental work on fiddle, guitar, and bass. They are deeply rooted in a variety of music traditions, but equally deep is their devotion to modern songcraft and lyrics that are fiercely honest, littered with reinvented folk tropes and evocative images. Comprised of three multi-instrumentalists, songwriters, and singers, Lula Wiles brings a diverse range of musical passions and skills to their work. All three are alumnae of Berklee College of Music, and they have taught (individually and together) at Maine Fiddle Camp, Ossipee Valley String Camp, Miles of Music House Camp, and the Passim School of Music. www.lulawiles.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841511555-GMGJT4VNAYO3T2ZEVT8S/ThomasBryanEatonPressPhoto2+-+Thomas+Bryan+Eaton.jpg 2019 Island Camp Instructors - Thomas Bryan Eaton Thomas Bryan Eaton has been honing his skills as a musician since he first fell in love with sound at the ripe old age of 3. That fateful Christmas, he got an old gray walkman with a record button on it that set his imagination running into a wild world of sonic explorations that continue to this day. Thomas can often be seen coaxing sweet sounds out of a telecaster or pedal steel; working his melodious magic while singing his own songs or chiming in on harmonies. Thomas is also an avid music educator, having taught private lessons for 15+ years and at various music camps around the country, notably as a staff member of Augusta Heritage Center’s “Classic Country Week” for 9 years and running. www.thomasbryaneaton.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841511562-PAW3CBT0Y13OJM50TVPB/MissTess10small+-+Miss+Tess.jpg 2019 Island Camp Instructors - Miss Tess Miss Tess has been leading her own band, performing, and touring professionally for the last decade. She currently lives in Nashville, making a living as a singer, songwriter, guitarist, and bassist. Tess specializes in writing and playing American roots music influenced by styles of country, blues, and swing. With a decade’s worth of US & European tours and multiple full length releases under her belt, Miss Tess has proven to be one of the more interesting acts on the blossoming Americana scene. Her eclectic taste steeped in her deep well of musical knowledge results in her own timeless sound that continues to fascinate music lovers. Over the years she has shared the stage with the likes of Lake Street Dive, NRBQ, The Holmes Brothers, Eilen Jewell, and Todd Snider. Her band has graced stages at Blissfest, Cayamo, Clearwater Jazz Holiday, Floydfest, Ossippee Valley Music Festival, Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion, Burlington Jazz Festival, Green River Festival, Red Wing Roots, Shakori Hills, and more. Miss Tess’s music has been heard from coast to coast on taste maker programs such as XM/Sirius’s The Loft, NPR’s Folk Alley, Santa Cruz’s KPIG and Boston’s WUMB. Her newest album "Baby, We All Know" lived in the top 20 on the Americana Charts for six weeks. www.misstessmusic.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841511548-USRSZUH0VY05B5YVPHEW/28424879_10102688945349012_1716038642397621307_o+-+Chris+Miller.jpg 2019 Island Camp Instructors - Chris Miller “The Chris Miller” - as he is affectionately referred to - could not imagine his life without Miles of Music Camp. Chris plays a variety of instruments (banjo, clarinet, dobro, flute, t’fer), but it’s his captivating saxophone style that has brought him around the world and earned him a GRAMMY nomination with his band The Revelers (2016 Best Regional Roots Music). His versatility and sunny disposition have also earned him gigs with A.C Newman, Doug Wamble, John Mailander and many more. At time of print Chris defines 'home' as Lopez Island, Washington and splits his time between the Revelers and his recently named acoustic trio The Faux Paws. www.chrismillersax.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841511513-DR7BT76ZKUAUERR1ZIG3/_M1A0232-hi-res+-+Elizabeth+Ziman.jpg 2019 Island Camp Instructors - Elizabeth Ziman Elizabeth Ziman, who performs as Elizabeth and the Catapult, is a critically acclaimed singer/songwriter from New York, living and working in Brooklyn. She's toured with the likes of Sara Bareilles , Kishi Bashi and Esperanza Spalding, recorded with Gillian Welch, Blake Mills and Ben Folds; scored, with Paul Brill, a variety of international award-winning documentaries including Trapped, a Peabody winner; and won the 2015 Independent Music Award for Songwriting, in the Folk category. Her songs have been featured in national television campaigns for Google, Amazon, Sky TV, and " So You Think You Can Dance" . Her latest record "Keepsake" was produced by Dan Molad (Lucius) and the late Richard Swift. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841511500-8443P3VS7DRFAPOSD7YH/IMG_2278+-+song+everyweek.JPG 2019 Island Camp Instructors - Taylor Ashton Born in the last year of the 1980s, Taylor Ashton grew up surrounded by the Pacific Ocean and the old growth rainforests of Canada's west coast. His songs are inspired by the crooked primeval funk of traditional old-time music, the humor and heartbreak of Randy Newman, the cosmic emotionality of mid-career Joni Mitchell, and the sage vulnerability of Bill Withers. Somehow, he finds a way to make this all work on the clawhammer banjo. He spent most of late teens and early 20s as the frontman of Vancouver-based five-piece Fish & Bird, releasing four albums of heady progressive folk. In the past few years he has increasingly spent his days in New York City. His most recent release finds him swapping songs with Grammy-nominated songwriter and guitarist Courtney Hartman, on the pair's 2018 duo album "Been On Your Side". The album is an acoustic, stripped-down affair, which Rolling Stone had to admit, "packs a punch in today's mainstream". After well over a decade of varied and fruitful collaborations, Taylor is excited to finally release his debut solo recording in 2019. Keep your ears peeled...taylorashton.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841511482-WCX14DDGTU10UBKH1E7Y/Hannah+Read+Promo+2.jpeg 2019 Island Camp Instructors - Hannah Read Hailing from Scotland and now based in Brooklyn, Hannah Read is a versatile multi-instrumentalist widely recognised on the International stage. She’s best known for her fiddle playing, songwriting and was recently described as one of “the finest singers of the day” in the UK’s MOJO Magazine. Hannah leads her own band and is an in-demand collaborator on both sides of the Atlantic, including one part of the critically acclaimed British folk super-group ‘Songs of Separation’, winners of ‘Album of the Year’ at the 2017 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. Her original songs are largely influenced by the people, places and landscapes she has encountered along the way, as well as musings of home, travel, love and loss - as can be heard on her critically acclaimed new album Way Out I’’ll Wander (Hudson Records) which is compiled of "nine gorgeous originals” (The Guardian). www.hannahread.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841511520-JBDL0IQYCMWEZYOEKBIL/C388B498-F6E4-4D94-9A4E-C5B87DC93A49+-+Valerie+Thompson.jpeg 2019 Island Camp Instructors - Valerie Thompson Originally from Kansas City, Valerie Thompson grew up as a classical cellist in a household filled with the music of Bach, The Beatles, The Chieftains and the blues. She holds a B.M. from the Berklee College of Music and M.M in Contemporary Improvisation from New England Conservatory. A cellist versatile in many genres, she performs nationally and internationally as a cultural ambassador for the U.S. State Department, in rock bands, string quartets, and chamber folk ensembles in venues ranging from concert halls, festivals, farmers' markets and music clubs. She currently tours with Laura Cortese & the Dance Cards and Goli, and can be seen in the 100th episode of Gossip Girl. www.valeriethompson.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841511542-HU8MOG9CAYZZUXX9N6Z2/DSC_5503+-+Charlie+Rose.jpg 2019 Island Camp Instructors - Charlie Rose Having played and studied many instruments with many people in many places for many years, Charlie Rose has accumulated a cache of musicianship to share with students of all levels. He keeps pretty busy touring, recording, writing, and producing. Primarily a pedal steel and banjo player, Charlie also plays guitar, bass, mandolin, cello, keys, and brass instruments. A long-standing regular in the Sub Rosa 3 Mile Island songwriting community and guest artist/sailing enthusiast at Miles of Music, Charlie is excited to be back at camp this year! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841511536-E7FBCBH6YIWRI57KIUC7/47575492_10205648352124625_8223348481767505920_o+-+Luther+Child.jpg 2019 Island Camp Instructors - Dinty Child 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, including Rose Cousins and Kris Delmhorst, and even fronting the 15 piece party band, the Funky White Honkies. www.sessionamericana.com/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841511507-SWL6FM22UI323E4F2BTU/RoseBoatPicture+-+Dietrich+Strause.jpg 2019 Island Camp Instructors - Dietrich Strause Dietrich Strause’s songs are a mix of timeless melody, literate lyricism, and a "virtuosic command of imagery.” (The Artery, WBUR) In less than one year, Strause released two albums -- How Cruel That Hunger Binds and Dietrich Strause & The Blue Ribbons -- proving himself to be one of the most prolific and eclectic writers and performers coming out of New England. His blend of mid-century modern pop and atomic-age folk has drawn comparisons to M. Ward and a young Paul Simon and has garnered him invitations to support folk luminaries such as Anais Mitchell and Sarah Jarosz, to indie pop acts like Great Lake Swimmers and Lake Street Dive. This fall he spent three months living in London and touring extensively throughout the UK & Ireland by train and foot, writing material for his next release. More information can be found at www.dietrichstrause.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841511475-WUPSUMCDH60IX5EGQH83/unnamed.jpg 2019 Island Camp Instructors - Rennie Elliot Rennie Elliot is a singer, banjo player and drummer who spends her time between Brooklyn, Nashville & Austin. She loves to play everything from old time, country, cajun, mariachi, punk, & viper jazz in such bands as Woody Pines, Kings County Queens, Wild Angles & The Yeah Yeah Yeahs. She also works professionally in video production, tv commercials and film, as well as puts on camps and festivals. Rennie would love to help you get you started on drums, banjo, singing or video making. www.rennieelliot.com https://www.milesofmusiccamp.com/2024-instructors-staff daily 0.75 2026-01-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841518649-4PYKWRQL7BPXVNIRR100/image-asset.jpeg 2024 Instructors + Staff - Kristin Andreassen Kristin Andreassen’s most recent release is an album of children’s music about emotions. The Bright Siders’ A Mind of Your Own (Smithsonian Folkways) was created with psychiatrist Dr. Kari Groff and features the voices of Ed Helms, The War & Treaty, Gaby Moreno, Punch Brothers, and many more. The album won a National Parenting Product Award and followed up on Kristin’s first kids’ radio hit, the song “Crayola Doesn’t Make a Color for Your Eyes.” Kristin has toured and recorded with the stringband Uncle Earl, the “folk noir” trio Sometymes Why, the percussive dance company Footworks, and NYC’s anti-folk superhero Jeffrey Lewis. She’s had the honor of recording with producers John Paul Jones, Dirk Powell, Mark Schatz, José Ayerve, Robin MacMillan, and Shane Leonard (coming soon!). One favorite MoM-inspired collaboration is this video for her song “How the Water Walks” — written on the island and filmed with shadow puppets by Anna Roberts-Gevalt. After graduating from McGill University, Kristin apprenticed with community economic development pioneer Father Greg MacLeod at Cape Breton University. Now based in Nashville, she survived the arts armageddon known as “The Pandemic” by managing a small construction company. www.kristinandreassen.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841518808-TZVUCH156N8O1EMW0F48/static1.squarespace-1.jpg 2024 Instructors + Staff - KRISTIN ANDREASSEN Kristin Andreassen has songwriting credits on two albums with 2024 GRAMMY nominations – Mighty Poplar’s self-titled debut (up for Best Bluegrass Album) and Andrew & Polly’s Ahhhh! (Kristin co-wrote the title track on this candidate for Best Children’s Album). Her own most recent release was The Bright Siders’ A Mind of Your Own (Smithsonian Folkways), which is for kids, about emotions, and was created and co-produced with psychiatrist Dr. Kari Groff and Chris Eldridge (Punch Brothers). Chosen as one of 2020’s top three children’s releases by the American Library Association, this album followed up on Kristin’s first #1 kids’ radio hit – a song called “Crayola Doesn’t Make a Color for Your Eyes.” In the world of “grown-up music”, Kristin has toured and recorded with the stringband Uncle Earl, the vocal trio Sometymes Why, the percussive dance company Footworks (as a clogger), and with NYC’s anti-folk superhero Jeffrey Lewis. She’s had the honor of recording with producers John Paul Jones, Dirk Powell, Mark Schatz, José Ayerve, Robin MacMillan, and Shane Leonard (coming soon, I promise!). One favorite MoM-inspired collaboration is this video — created by Anna Roberts-Gevalt — which uses shadow puppets and body percussion to illustrate “How the Water Walks.” Kristin studied community development at Montreal’s McGill University and in rural Canada, and she’s noticed herself thinking about that learning a lot in her current work at Miles of Music. She lives in Nashville. www.kristinandreassen.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841518773-2J51R076T1OAJ2C1NJH2/Clara+Baker.jpg 2024 Instructors + Staff - Clara Baker Clara Baker is an audio engineer/producer/musician from Portland, OR. She records, produces, and mixes music at several full-service recording studios in the Portland area as well as her home studio, The Bakery. Clara is passionate about helping songwriters and musicians record their music in a unique and authentic way that captures the emotional essence of each song. As both a singer-songwriter and an audio professional, Clara brings a unique perspective to the recording process. She is a member of The Recording Academy, SoundGirls, and Omni Sound Project. This will be her sixth year on the island! www.clarabakermusic.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841518792-LNKP0FYPQS73YZ2HSUR3/Lauren%2BBalthrop%2BHI-RES.jpg 2024 Instructors + Staff - Lauren Balthrop Lauren Balthrop is a multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter born and raised in Alabama where her family gatherings always included sing-alongs of the Everly Brothers, the Andrew Sisters, the Louvin Brothers, and the Beatles. After 10 years making her way in NYC, she heard the siren call of Nashville where she now calls home. Lauren released her 2nd album Things Will Be Different in August of 2022 on Olivia Records. She is also the director of the Nashville branch of Blue Balloon Songwriting School, the NYC originated music school that teaches kids and adults instrument instruction through songwriting. Her big folk-rock band and "small town" with her brother called Balthrop, Alabama toured all across the states to a cultish following. Her 60's inspired girl group, The Bandana Splits, has released two records with songs landing on shows such as HBO's 'Bored to Death' and the re-boot of ‘Magnum P.I.’ She's also toured extensively as a multi-instrumentalist for Elizabeth & the Catapult, Kevin Morby, Michaela Anne and Ximena Sariñana. Lauren is a knitter and tap dancer too. She’s currently working on songs for her 3rd album. www.laurenbalthrop.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841518712-H8PI8UHRM8IZKV4TRB9Q/Thoma+Brown-+ice+guitar.jpg 2024 Instructors + Staff - Thomas Brown Thomas Brown b.1976 Muscle Shoals, AL is a mixed-media artist from Louisville, KY. His stone and wood sculptures can be found in a number of private collections. After an experimental segue into ice sculpture he officially moved to New York in 2008 to work with Okamoto Studio where he was a principal sculptor. Brown has merged his interests in experimental music, performance and art in his works as an ice sculptor and ephemeral artist. Creating opportunity in the face of the pandemic, Brown founded a small business carving animal portraits and miniature sculptures from avocado seeds. In 2022, he competed in a televised sand sculpture contest airing on Canada's CBC Network this summer and has since participated in large scale sculpting projects across the US, the Netherlands, and the Ice Hotel in Quebec City. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841518762-X2OD2KD0H3USI4MEM9GM/Isa+Burke.jpg 2024 Instructors + Staff - Isa Burke Isa Burke is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and producer based in Portland, Maine. Whether singing harmony vocals, playing traditional fiddle tunes, or crafting spiky yet atmospheric electric guitar sounds, she brings a voracious musical appetite and a spirit of collaboration to a vast array of projects. Raised in a musical family in Maine, Isa soon found her way to Boston, where she studied fiddle and songwriting at Berklee College of Music and dove headfirst into the area's thriving music scene. In 2014 she co-founded the indie-folk band Lula Wiles, which released three albums on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and toured internationally until 2021. Isa has spent recent years building a reputation as a versatile and in-demand collaborator, a musical Swiss Army knife at home in many styles and contexts. She has been touring with Aoife O'Donovan since fall 2021 (earning a nomination for Instrumentalist of the Year at the 2023 Americana Music Awards), and recently became the newest touring member of cult-favorite indie band the Mountain Goats. She has toured and recorded with many other artists including Jake Blount, Darlingside, Mipso, Rosier, the Brother Brothers, Laura Cortese, Kris Delmhorst, Session Americana, Sam Moss, and Liv Greene (whose debut album Isa produced). Isa is also an experienced and devoted music educator, and a longtime member of the Miles of Music community. http://isaburke.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841518801-DJUUXR257I5IF88KZC3Z/47575492_10205648352124625_8223348481767505920_o+-+Luther+Child.jpg 2024 Instructors + Staff - Dinty Child 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, including Rose Cousins and Kris Delmhorst, and even fronting the 15 piece party band, the Funky White Honkies. In 2020, he released his first solo album! www.sessionamericana.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841518697-7M2TJNZKPR8DPDL04TJ7/AsteriskMusic-14.jpg 2024 Instructors + Staff - Allie Chip Allie Chip is a Brooklyn-based folk singer-songwriter, cofounder of the Imperfectionist Song Society (ISS), and a registered vinyasa yoga teacher. She loves oat milk matchas, comedy, wildflowers, and making up silly songs with her friends. Poses are cool, but Allie's real intention is to help you laugh, take deep breaths, and love on yourself during yoga class... no matter what your body's doing. Allie teaches from a warm, relatable place and welcomes folks of all levels. Yoga will be real, chill, explorative, and fun. Come hang! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841518666-6G6EHU9KKIII7OWYRTKY/image-asset.jpeg 2024 Instructors + Staff - Abigale Clapham Abigale "Abby" Clapham has been a part of the Miles of Music Croo since 2019, but is a life-long "islander". She has been coming to Three Mile Island during the regular summer season since her childhood, later working on the summer Croo from 2012-2015. Originally from West Virginia, she currently resides in the piedmont of South Carolina as a healthcare professional by day and artist by night. Abby is inspired by her time living in Appalachia and her summers on Lake Winnipesaukee. She works in several types of mediums , but fell in love with watercolors the summer of 2020. She is drawn to their vibrancy, immediacy, and ephemeral nature. Among other things, she is known for doodling on the dock and leading paper crafts during the Holiday Art Shares. This will be her first time teaching at Miles of Music Camp! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841518673-MCHTVBGXCP4TJSK69VWP/image-asset.jpeg 2024 Instructors + Staff - Neil Cleary These days Neil Cleary works primarily as a music supervisor, radio host and live DJ called Tad Cautious, but has a dark and confusing past as an internationally touring singer-songwriter / multi-instrumentalist sideman. He's done a handful of notable things just one time, like writing a song for Nickelodeon's "Blaze and the Monster Machines," playing Bonnaroo with Phish's Mike Gordon, and backing a drag queen at CBGB's. Recently he produced a string of singles for cartoonist and inveterate weirdo James Kochalka Superstar which have included contributions from Jello Biafra, Frankie Cosmos, and Moby. He lives in Burlington VT, is fond of the comedy "rule of three," and shows no signs of stopping. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841518680-II022KUYOSYJLHVPGF8T/image-asset.jpeg 2024 Instructors + Staff - Evan Diem Evan Diem is a mixed-race Syracuse-based multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter hyphen-fan with a double-barreled last name. He specializes in using creative, contemplative, characteristic and compelling writing to compose catchy songs as well as craft clever one-liners. He was half-jokingly named eventual successor to the throne of hosting Entertain Us! by previous host Nelson Williams and in just his second year on the island he has ascended to that rank. Last year he proved he can perform his jokes, now he must prove he can perform as host. He does not know how to end a bio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841518721-4NBYXBDNRIXKKRJGSPHD/image+-+Chris+Eldridge.png 2024 Instructors + Staff - Chris Eldridge As a member of Punch Brothers since the band's inception, guitarist Chris Eldridge has been at the vanguard of acoustic music for much of the past decade. Although initially drawn to the electric guitar, by his mid-teens Chris Eldridge had developed a deep love for acoustic music, thanks in part to his father, a banjo player and founding member of the seminal bluegrass group The Seldom Scene. Eldridge later gained in-depth exposure to a variety of different musical styles while studying at Oberlin Conservatory, where he earned a degree in music performance in 2004. During his time at Oberlin, Eldridge studied with legendary guitarist Tony Rice. After graduating he joined the Seldom Scene with whom he received a Grammy nomination in 2007. In 2005 he founded the critically acclaimed bluegrass band The Infamous Stringdusters. At the 2007 International Bluegrass Music Association awards Eldridge and his Stringdusters bandmates won Emerging artist of the Year, Song of the Year, and Album of the Year for their debut album, Fork in the Road. Meanwhile, in 2005 he had caught the attention of mandolinist Chris Thile, who enlisted him, along with banjoist Noam Pikelny, violinist Gabe Witcher, and bassist Greg Garrison to start working on an ambitious side project. Soon after they decided to focus all of their collective energies into band and Punch Brothers was born. The band has since released 6 critically acclaimed albums, received 6 Grammy nominations and toured around the world. www.chriseldridge.net https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841518752-ZKOGRG47T0PFSXYPVPED/image-asset.jpeg 2024 Instructors + Staff - Wila Frank Wila Frank makes music that’s searching, cinematic, and introspective with scalpel-like precision. Her songs can clear the air, putting to music emotions that are deeply felt but only rarely spoken. With her debut album Black Cloud, the Nashville-based songwriter immediately sets a mesmerizing mood that showcases her evocative lyricism as well as her tasteful ear as a multi-instrumentalist and producer. Frank was raised on a farm in a rural bohemian community near the Oregon coast, where she formed a passion for classical and folk music. She is a talented multi-instrumentalist trained on the violin, piano, mandolin, cello, and guitar. https://wilafrank.com/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841518703-IIZOV3CA0Y27S4MJWFU4/Jefferson%2BHamer.jpg 2024 Instructors + Staff - Jefferson Hamer Jefferson Hamer is a guitarist, singer, and songwriter from Brooklyn, New York. He has toured and recorded albums with Anais Mitchell (Child Ballads, winner of a BBC2 Folk Award), Sarah Jarosz (as guitarist and harmony singer on her Grammy-nominated Blue Heron Suite), and Session Americana. The Murphy Beds, his long-running traditional folk duo with Eamon O’Leary, has released two self-produced albums, about which the Huffington Post wrote, “[the album] bears repeated listening from start to finish, with ten beautiful, crystalline songs.” His original songs and lead guitar work are featured on Alameda, an acoustic and electric collaboration with bassist Jeff Picker and drummer John Fatum, featuring special guests from the NYC folk community and beyond. www.jeffersonhamer.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841518727-5A8D8JC2H3EI2IQ60PM9/image-asset.jpeg 2024 Instructors + Staff - Amy Helfand Amy Helfand is a visual artist and convener who grew up collecting beach glass on the shores of Lake Michigan. Her work has always been rooted in the study of landscape(s) and an effort to create a sense of place, whether through sculpture and installation, drawing, ceramics, or textiles. She is a collector at heart; of images, forms, and colors, as well as rocks, sticks, and other ephemera. Amy has her hands in many things other than clay and dirt, including the non-profit arts and food justice worlds. She lives at the House of Love, in Red Hook, Brooklyn, and has hosted concerts in the living room, often featuring MoM friends, since her first year at camp in 2012. @amyhelfandstudio amyhelfand.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841518782-L4JNI8PMENPQ3H84VNHT/Zachariah+Hickman+-+Press+photo+-+Zachariah+Hickman.jpg 2024 Instructors + Staff - Zachariah Hickman Zachariah Hickman is a double bassist, multi-instrumentalist and producer based out of Boston, MA. Originally from Lynchburg, VA, he received his formal training in jazz performance and composition from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. For most of his adult life he has toured with singer-songwriter Josh Ritter, traveling all over the world and recording 9 full-length albums. Currently, he is performing as bassist and musical director for Ray Lamontagne. He has performed at many notable venues and festivals, including Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, Red Rocks, Bonnaroo, Dublin Castle, The Fillmore, and the Royal Albert Hall. With Josh Ritter, he has also performed with the Boston Pops in Symphony Hall, the New York Pops in Central Park, and many other orchestras in Europe and the United States. Television appearances include five David Letterman appearances, Conan O’Brien, Ellen Degeneres, and Late Night with Jools Holland for the BBC. As a producer, Zachariah as made records with a number of talented singers, including Rose Cousins (for which he won a Canadian JUNO award), Mark Erelli, Laura Cortese, Miss Tess, and his own bluegrass band Barnstar! He has also produced and ring-mastered his own circus, released his own brand of mustache wax, and runs a vaudeville style variety show, Zack Hickman’s House of Ill Repute. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841518734-1QCPZIB3LH5PDTYYG8SM/image-asset.jpeg 2024 Instructors + Staff - Lauren Horbal Lauren Horbal is a singer/ songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in Nashville, TN. She is the drummer and music director for 6 piece queer indie pop band Fame & Fiction. She relocated to Nashville from Connecticut in 2012 and has since had the privilege of working with incredible artists such as Bakithi Kumalo (Paul Simon), Morgan Jahnig (Old Crow Medicine Show), Tania Elizabeth (The Avett Brothers), Jobi Riccio, Rachel Baiman, and Liv Greene. Lauren has been teaching private drum lessons since 2003. Because of her background as not only a drummer but a songwriter and guitar player as well, Horbal’s approach to teaching drums is from a songwriting and song building perspective. Lauren’s mission as a creator, performer, and teacher is to inspire women and girls to start drumming and to empower them to succeed in a male dominated industry. www.laurenhorbal.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841518685-4EQAIQC13S3B1N8F4I0Q/Brad+Kolodner+Promo+Photo+2024.jpeg 2024 Instructors + Staff - Brad Kolodner Brad Kolodner is a Baltimore-based clawhammer banjoist and community builder who wears many hats as a performer, teacher, broadcaster, festival producer and ambassador for Old-Time and Bluegrass music. Regarded for his delicate touch, expressive style, and original compositions, Kolodner has rapidly gained national attention for his unique approach to clawhammer banjo. He regularly performs across the country with his father Ken Kolodner, a renowned hammered dulcimer player, and with the acoustic roots quartet Charm City Junction which blends Bluegrass, Old Time and Irish music. Behind the mic, Brad is an award-winning radio broadcaster for Folk Alley and Bluegrass Country Radio. For over a decade, he been a driving force behind Baltimore’s bustling Old Time music scene. He runs a bi-weekly Old Time Jam, monthly square dance, house concert series and directs the annual Baltimore Old Time Music Festival. He serves on the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Board of Directors. When he’s not playing banjo, on the air or organizing community events, you can find Brad rock climbing, playing soccer, hiking or tending to his veggie garden in the backyard of his Baltimore rowhouse. bradkolodner.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841518692-IAQ44L470ZQ41E1U0RRH/image-asset.jpeg 2024 Instructors + Staff - Tom Krueger Tom Krueger is a dancer and Fiddler and lover of life. He first discovered partner dancing about 20 years ago on a trip to Buenos Aires. Tango, of course. And once he caught the dancing bug, there was no turning back. Tango lead to two-stepping, lead to swing dance, which led to cajun and salsa, and on and on… And now it’s just a mash up of all of it. While he is perfectly capable of teaching the specifics of each style, he prefers to focus on the whatever is the most fun and works with the music. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841518744-PU7FPGNVNP2L96ASNE8J/Shane+Leonard.jpeg 2024 Instructors + Staff - Shane Leonard Shane Leonard is a record producer, musician, mix engineer, and songwriter who lives in Eau Claire, WI. Equally at home in an indie rock band as he is in an old time stringband, those who work with Shane (Mipso, Field Report, Rose Cousins, Stray Birds, Larry Campbell) know him as a studio/live swiss army knife, helping their sound to evolve past previous benchmarks. NPR and Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) have praised his production with descriptors like "goosebumps inducing" (NPR Music), "a monster musician" (Justin Vernon) and "exquisite" (Paste Magazine). Anna Tivel, Humbird, J.E. Sunde and others have entrusted multiple albums to his care; they reside alongside multiple releases of his own music - the most recent being Strange Forms (2019). www.shaneleonardmusic.com https://www.milesofmusiccamp.com/2018-island-camp-instructors daily 0.75 2025-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841520990-QGE6LXO6FZMTW9L66EG0/image-asset.jpeg 2018 Island Camp Instructors - Kristin Andreassen Kristin Andreassen is a singer, songwriter & percussive dancer whose music honors both the playful & the profound. She's toured with some of the most respected acoustic groups around: the stringband Uncle Earl, the "folk noir” singing trio Sometymes Why, the Appalachian clogging troupe Footworks, and NYC's "anti-folk" superhero Jeffrey Lewis. Her originals range from the infectious rhythms of her #1 kids' hit "Crayola Doesn't Make a Color for Your Eyes” to the emotive soundscape in this shadow art video made with beloved MoM instructor Anna Roberts-Gevalt. 2018 promises a new trio album with drummer Shane Leonard & Punch Brother Chris Eldridge as well as an album of children's songs about emotions, co-created with Brooklyn psychiatrist Dr. Kari Groff for the Smithsonian Folkways label. An experienced teacher & square dance caller, Kristin is a true believer in the transformative power of music camps for all ages. After studying creative writing, history and community development at Montreal’s McGill University, she is as surprised as her parents to have found a career where she employs all three of those skills in balance. www.kristinandreassen.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841521019-L9SQ3FH9LJX5OO6URLYI/static1.squarespace-1.jpg 2018 Island Camp Instructors - Kristin Andreassen Kristin Andreassen is a singer, songwriter & percussive dancer whose music honors both the playful & the profound. She's toured with some of the most respected acoustic groups around: the stringband Uncle Earl, the "folk noir” singing trio Sometymes Why, the Appalachian clogging troupe Footworks, and NYC's "anti-folk" superhero Jeffrey Lewis. Her originals range from the infectious rhythms of her #1 kids' hit "Crayola Doesn't Make a Color for Your Eyes” to the emotive soundscape in this shadow art video made with beloved MoM instructor Anna Roberts-Gevalt. 2018 promises a new trio album with drummer Shane Leonard & Punch Brother Chris Eldridge as well as an album of children's songs about emotions, co-created with Brooklyn psychiatrist Dr. Kari Groff for the Smithsonian Folkways label. An experienced teacher & square dance caller, Kristin is a true believer in the transformative power of music camps for all ages. After studying creative writing, history and community development at Montreal’s McGill University, she is as surprised as her parents to have found a career where she employs all three of those skills in balance. www.kristinandreassen.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841521028-9YV15E6SB8FYNSIIYADA/static1.squarespace.jpg 2018 Island Camp Instructors - Laura Cortese Laura Cortese has built a distinguished career as an Americana fiddler, songwriter and vocalist. She is now one of the most in-demand musical collaborators on the folk circuit. She grew up in San Francisco, CA and moved to Boston, MA to study at Berklee College of Music, immersing herself in the city's vibrant indie music scene and enjoying a busy touring-and-studio career which included appearances with Band of Horses at Carnegie Hall and Pete Seeger at Newport Folk Festival. She tours internationally with her band, the Dance Cards. The group is bold and elegant, schooled in the lyrical rituals of folk music and backed by grooves that alternatively inspire Cajun two-stepping and rock ’n’ roll hip swagger. Laura Cortese & the Dance Cards have appeared at venues and festivals throughout the US, UK, Sweden, Canada, India, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Estonia, Montenegro, Greece and Bangladesh pairing sophisticated string arrangements (two fiddles, cello & bass) and rich vocal harmonies with poignant and powerful singing. www.thisislauracortese.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841521114-ZEY0OKHHHP4HIXJDVOYB/Lauren+Balthrop+HI-RES.jpg 2018 Island Camp Instructors - Lauren Balthrop Lauren Balthrop is a multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter born and raised in Alabama where her family gatherings always included sing-alongs of the Everly Brothers, the Andrew Sisters, the Louvin Brothers, and the Beatles. After 10 years making her way in NYC, she heard the siren call of Nashville where she now calls home. Lauren has one solo album released with another one due out this year. This year, she partnered with NYC’s Blue Balloon Songwriting School to open her own music school in Nashville where she teaches the young ones to express themselves through songwriting. Her big folk-rock band and "small town" with her brother called Balthrop, Alabama toured all across the states to a cultish following. Her 60's inspired girl group, The Bandana Splits, has released two records with songs landing on shows such as HBO's 'Bored to Death'. She's also toured extensively as a multi-instrumentalist for Elizabeth & the Catapult and Ximena Sariñana. Lauren is a knitter and tap dancer too! www.laurenbalthrop.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841521076-E3BH4CO4BY14QOQKRN80/Zack%2BStar.jpg 2018 Island Camp Instructors - Zachariah Hickman Zachariah Hickman is a double bassist, multi-instrumentalist and producer based out of Boston, MA. Originally from Lynchburg, VA, he received his formal training in jazz performance and composition from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. For most of his adult life he has toured with singer-songwriter Josh Ritter, traveling all over the world and recording 7 full-length albums. Currently, he is performing as bassist and musical director for Ray Lamontagne. He has performed at many notable venues and festivals, including Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, Red Rocks, Bonnaroo, Dublin Castle, The Fillmore, and the Royal Albert Hall. With Josh Ritter, he has also performed with the Boston Pops in Symphony Hall, the New York Pops in Central Park, and many other orchestras in Europe and the United States. Television appearances include five David Letterman appearances, Conan O’Brien, Ellen Degeneres, and Late Night with Jools Holland for the BBC. As a producer, Zachariah as made records with a number of talented singers, including Rose Cousins (for which he won a Canadian JUNO award), Mark Erelli, Laura Cortese, Miss Tess, and his own bluegrass band Barnstar! He has also produced and ring-mastered his own circus, released his own brand of mustache wax, and runs a vaudeville style variety show, Zack Hickman’s House of Ill Repute. www.wearebarnstar.com   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841521108-QOU1W7IA6HOVND73IBA8/_MG_2943.jpg 2018 Island Camp Instructors - Oh Pep! Olivia Hally + Pepita Emmerichs are Oh Pep!. They met at the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School as classical musicians when Liv moved from the island to the city as a 16yo kid. Since then they have studied at the University of Melbourne (Liv as a classical guitarist, Pep as a jazz violinist) and taken on the world as a pop duo. They have also spent time learning Appalachian Mountain Music from the greats in Tennessee, North Carolina and West Virginia and perform this music as Fat Cousin Skinny. They've joined a pop punk group with Angie McMahon called Good Option and performed their original music all over the world as Oh Pep!. They’ve been on tour with the Mountain Goats, Billy Bragg, Valerie June, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Nightsweats, Lord Huron, Martha Wainwright, Lake Street Dive + some more. They've written with Ron Sexsmith, Valerie June, Joel Quartermain + some more. Liv is currently writing music for a play in NYC and Pepi sessions for various groups. They’ve got a supportive team around them of booking agents, record labels, management and a worldwide publishing deal with Sony ATV. In 2016 they released their debut album, Stadium Cake, and highly regarded tastemakers like NPR, The New York Time and Rolling Stone, all said nice things about them. They have facilitated songwriting and music business workshops with Woodford Folk Festival, the National Folk Festival and state government initiative, FReeZA. Liv is currently secretary of Folk Alliance Australia and focuses her time on their national youth development program. They each teach individually and like learning new things themselves. www.ohpep.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841521082-FNCE9JU992229SEDD2BQ/seanukepassim.jpg 2018 Island Camp Instructors - Sean Staples Sean Staples has been a presence on the vibrant Cambridge/Somerville MA music scene for over 20 years. As a member of The Resophonics, Tim Gearan Band, Todd Thibaud Band, The Benders, and Session Americana, he's performed on every big stage and dimly-lit corner pub in town. He's won three Boston Music Awards as a member of the year's Outstanding Folk Act, Americana Act, and Ongoing Live Residency. He's produced and appeared on dozens of recordings, and maintains a busy schedule playing down the street and overseas. Sean is an original member of the long-running Sub Rosa Three Mile Island songwriting retreat and, as a result, is very familiar with the culture of collaboration and encouragement that embraces you when your bags land on the dock. He's good at music, less good at self promotion and finds writing about himself in the third person a little odd. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841521095-963F2MW0E20VGOIM4SV6/RoseBoatPicture.jpg 2018 Island Camp Instructors - Dietrich Strause Dietrich Strause’s songs are a mix of timeless melody, literate lyricism, and a "virtuosic command of imagery.” (The Artery, WBUR) In less than one year, Strause released two albums -- How Cruel That Hunger Binds and Dietrich Strause & The Blue Ribbons -- proving himself to be one of the most prolific and eclectic writers and performers coming out of New England. His blend of mid-century modern pop and atomic-age folk has drawn comparisons to M. Ward and a young Paul Simon and has garnered him invitations to support folk luminaries such as Anais Mitchell and Sarah Jarosz, to indie pop acts like Great Lake Swimmers and Lake Street Dive. This fall he spent three months living in London and touring extensively throughout the UK & Ireland by train and foot, writing material for his next release. More information can be found at www.dietrichstrause.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841521147-5PV3ZWGHBBO01D8KGFVF/Val+new+photo.jpg 2018 Island Camp Instructors - Valerie Thompson Valerie Thompson is a native of Kansas City, MO. She began classical cello studies at the age of ten, and is a graduate of Berklee College of Music with a B.M. in music performance. She has performed in the Czech Republic as a participant of the Ameropa Chamber Music Festival, at the Banff International Youth Symphony Festival in Alberta, and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine with the Berklee String Orchestra. When not freelancing or teaching cello, Valerie can be heard in any of her fine musical projects FLUTTR EFFECT, the Yurodivy Quintet, and the Ephemeral Duet. www.valeriethompson.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841521101-62T77ZW8RFTOTXCJIX78/Sean+Trischka+Photo.jpg 2018 Island Camp Instructors - Sean Trischka Sean Trischka is a drummer and singer/songwriter living in Boston, Massachusetts. Playing a wide range of styles, from folk to pop to heavy metal, Sean tours nationally and internationally with many groups, including The Stray Birds, Oh Pep!, The Stash Band, and Lula Wiles. His own project, Corporate Punk, combines pop music with jam band sensibilities and is releasing its debut album in early 2018. www.mycorporatepunk.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841521070-V73YTU7H0OQRGXMQLHR9/KelleyAnderson.jpg 2018 Island Camp Instructors - Kelley Anderson Kelley Anderson is a multi-instrumentalist and sound artist based in Memphis, Tennessee. She studied jazz guitar at the South Carolina Governor’s School for Arts & Humanities and earned a Bachelor’s in Recording Industry Management from Middle Tennessee State University. She uses her experience in sound engineering to create unique textures, incorporating those soundscapes into more traditional song structures of the American musical canon. Anderson founded and toured internationally with the band Those Darlins, releasing two full-length albums and several singles with the group. She later recorded and toured as the Grand Strand, releasing a 7" record on Riot House Records and securing an opening spot on a tour for Richard Lloyd of the band Television. She founded the Southern Girls Rock Camp in 2003 and Youth Empowerment through Arts & Humanities (YEAH!) in 2006 to empower more young people through music. She has shared a stage with a who-who’s of American rock, blues, country, folk and pop legends as wide ranging as John Fogerty, Jon Spencer, Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys and Wanda Jackson. She currently performs under the name Crystal Shrine, a project in which she uses various sounds to produce eerie, Southern gothic folk and pop songs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841521051-YB3UZBL3UIZ61IMUHDMA/SamGleaves2+-+credit+Susi+Lawson.jpg 2018 Island Camp Instructors - Sam Gleaves Born and raised in southwest Virginia, Sam Gleaves performs innovative mountain music with a sense of history. Sam carries on the ballads and dance music he learned from numerous mentors in the Appalachian tradition including multi-instrumentalist Jim Lloyd and ballad singer Sheila Kay Adams. In 2015, Sam collaborated with producer Cathy Fink and released a debut record of original songs, titled Ain’t We Brothers, which has been featured by The Old Time Herald, the Guardian, National Public Radio, No Depression, and The Bluegrass Situation. In 2016, Sam toured in the UK supporting Peggy Seeger and in the US opening for John McCutcheon. Sam tours extensively in the U.S. performing with fellow Southwest Virginia musician Tyler Hughes. The duo released a self-titled record in 2017 and their recording of Hughes' original song "When We Love" was featured by the Huffington Post. Cathy Fink, Marcy Marxer and Sam perform as Fink, Marxer and Gleaves and in 2017, the trio performed at the Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress. Appalachian novelist Lee Smith has heralded Sam as “the best young songwriter around . . courageous as hell and country to the bone.” Sam teaches individual lessons in clawhammer banjo, guitar, dulcimer and fiddle and he has taught at many music camps, including the Augusta Heritage Center Vocal Week in Elkins, WV, Common Ground on the Hill Tradition Week at McDaniel College in Westminster, MD and Mountain Music School at Mountain Empire Community College in Big Stone Gap, VA. In 2016, author Silas House and Sam collaborated in writing the folk opera IN THESE FIELDS, commissioned by the Southern Foodways Alliance. As a songwriter, Sam draws on his love of traditional music to tell stories from contemporary Appalachia and give voice to social issues through song. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841521034-D0AO0GPVBH3EXHQVELXP/IMG_0038_editcrp.jpeg 2018 Island Camp Instructors - Joy Askew Originally from the North of England, Joy Askew has made New York City her home for over 30 years. In the 80s and 90s Joy led her own band as lead vocalist/keyboardist developing her songwriting to become a writer for Quincy Jones Music Publishing. During this time she also played and toured in the bands of such luminary artists as Joe Jackson, Peter Gabriel, Laurie Anderson, Rodney Crowell and Jack Bruce and appeared in Laurie Anderson's quintessential movie “Home Of The Brave”. In the last few years Joy has focused on her own records and inspired by memories of growing up in Newcastle, Joy recorded her latest album, “Queen Victoria” in Yorkshire England with The Brighouse & Rastrick Band, the most famous traditional British Brass Band. It was released in 2017. Joy teaches voice at Stevens Institute of technology and has coached many artists in the recording studio and in preparation for tours & recording. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841521140-C3TZ7EM7T9FPH1T35959/Foghorn+Stringband+Ire_44.jpg 2018 Island Camp Instructors - The Foghorn Stringband The Foghorn Stringband is the present day gold standard for real-deal hard-hitting genuine old-time American stringband music, with eight albums, thousands of shows, over 15 years of touring under their belts, and an entirely new generation of roots musicians following their lead. American roots music is a diverse and never-ending well of inspiration, and Foghorn Stringband continually and obsessively draws from old-time, bluegrass, classic country, and Cajun music traditions in an ongoing quest to present a broad span of American music with an unparalleled youthful energy, joy, and virtuosity. The Foghorn Stringband is comprised four master performers: Caleb Klauder (vocals, mandolin, fiddle) from Orcas Island, Washington, Reeb Willms (vocals, guitar) from rural Farmer, Washington, Nadine Landry (vocals, upright bass) from the Gaspé Coast, Quebec and Stephen ‘Sammy’ Lind (vocals, fiddle, banjo) from Burnsville, Minnesota. In performance, Foghorn gather around one microphone, balancing their music on the fly, and playing with an intense, fiery abandon. To the band, this music is as relevant today as it was at it’s birth a century ago. They see themselves not only as cultural revivalists, but also as historians and fans of this music. Their performances and recordings are a joyful celebration of music from a bygone era that still holds the power to delight audiences worldwide. www.foghornstringband.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841521039-A110QCL8EF111S12LTNA/Where+There+is+Love.jpeg 2018 Island Camp Instructors - Sharon Leahy & Rick Good Sharon Leahy has spent a lifetime creating dance and theater for the stage, working with traditional forms to express/impress contemporary themes. As a choreographer she has been commissioned to create work by Jacob's Pillow, the National Endowment for the Arts, New England Foundation for the Arts National Dance Project, and many others. She was an artist in residence at the University of Dayton and has taught master classes at colleges across the country. As Artistic Director of Rhythm in Shoes, she led an ensemble of dancers and musicians, touring nationally and internationally, presenting original performance art that was both surprising and familiar. Carry it on…Sharon's first dance for camera and has been seen at numerous dance film festivals including Dance on Camera at Lincoln Center, The International ScreenDance Festival at the American Dance Festival and the San Francisco Dance Film Festival. She has won the Blue Ribbon in the clogging contest at both the National Folk Festival at Wolftrap in Virginia and the Appalachian String Band Festival in West Virginia. Rick Good is a founding member of the Hotmud Family, a twenty-four year veteran of Rhythm in Shoes and an Ohio Heritage Fellow. Rick is recognized and respected for his driving banjo, swinging guitar, heartfelt singing and crafty songwriting. With his wife and long-time collaborator, Sharon Leahy, Rick has made a life of creating critically-acclaimed performance art, rooted in American traditions. He’s written original music for dance, film and theater productions and his discography currently includes fifteen recordings made from 1974 to 2012, (Hotmud Family, Rhythm in Shoes, Sharon Leahy, ShoeFly, Red Clay Ramblers, and two solo ventures). Rick currently plays regularly with two fine bands: Good & Young and the Elements. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841521128-UY9Y6VYOXN3PLJHJ5EYT/Landscape+Kaia+on+couch+HI+RES._photocredit_Polina+Mourzinajpg.jpg 2018 Island Camp Instructors - Kaïa Kater Few are more conscious in their journey through Appalachian histories and the Canadian musical landscape than Kaïa Kater. Born in Montreal, Kaïa has lived Winnipeg, Wakefield and, most recently, West Virginia. She now resides in Toronto. Her old-time banjo-picking skills, deft arrangements, and songwriting abilities have landed her in the spotlight in North America and the UK, garnering critical acclaim from outlets such as Rolling Stone, CBC Music and The Roots Music Report. Often praised for her capacity to sound new and old at once, Kaïa anchors her music the space where tradition and innovation intersect. www.kaiakater.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841521011-KY5WFNZN7YC46E9YBUIG/MayadeVitry1.jpg 2018 Island Camp Instructors - Maya de Vitry Maya de Vitry is a Pennsylvania-raised, Nashville-based songwriter, singer, and multi-instrumentalist. She grew up calling many musical settings home, from old-time music festivals to symphony orchestras. She was formally educated by stints at UNC-Asheville and Berklee College of Music, and informally transformed by the months she spent busking around North America and Europe. She has spent the last six years touring the United States, Canada, and Europe with celebrated Americana band The Stray Birds. In 2017 she also spent a month in Cuba studying language and music, visited Morocco, and toured Jordan with Della Mae. In the midst of this motion, she adores the stillness, slowness, and deep presence and attention that is possible during this weeklong communion on Three Mile Island, and is thrilled to spend time with you this June! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841521088-1VV2G7WYIQP3HX6WE9ME/unnamed.jpg 2018 Island Camp Instructors - Rennie Elliot Rennie Elliot is a singer, banjo player and drummer who spends her time between Brooklyn, Nashville & Austin. She loves to play everything from old time, country, cajun, mariachi, punk, & viper jazz in such bands as Woody Pines, Kings County Queens, Wild Angles & The Yeah Yeah Yeahs. She also works professionally in video production, tv commercials and film, as well as puts on camps and festivals. Rennie would love to help you get you started on drums, banjo, singing or video making. www.rennieelliot.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841521063-GKAIAF3I277RJOT4RNPS/TCM%2BMOM%2B2017.jpg 2018 Island Camp Instructors - Chris Miller “The Chris Miller” - as he is affectionately referred to - could not imagine his life without Miles of Music Camp. Chris plays a variety of instruments (banjo, clarinet, dobro, flute, t’fer), but it’s his captivating saxophone style that has brought him around the world and recently earned him a GRAMMY nomination with his band The Revelers (2016 Best Regional Roots Music). His versatility and sunny disposition have also earned him gigs with A.C Newman, Doug Wamble, The Mike & Ruthy Band, and as a mainstay addition to the Great Bear Trio. He splits his time between Brooklyn, NY, Lafayette, LA and The Road. www.chrismillersax.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841521134-TJMXHTA4OITS34M8YPLT/charlie+smile+banjo+NPFF.JPG 2018 Island Camp Instructors - Charlie Rose Having played and studied many instruments with many people in many places for many years, Charlie Rose has accumulated a cache of musicianship to share with students of all levels. He keeps pretty busy touring with Elephant Revival and Barnstar! as well as recording, writing, and producing. A long-standing regular in the Sub Rosa 3 Mile Island songwriting community and guest artist/sailing enthusiast at Miles of Music, Charlie is excited to officially be teaching at camp this year! www.charlierosemusic.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841521122-YT0KVV0LGQS7O0V1F0M6/LulaWiles-4499.jpg 2018 Island Camp Instructors - Lula Wiles Lula Wiles is a Boston-based roots trio and the first-ever Miles of Music Band-In-Residence. The band members (Isa Burke, Ellie Buckland, and Mali Obomsawin) met and started playing music together at a fiddle camp in their home state of Maine, and they honed their skills and their band's sound attending MoM as campers, so they're firm believers in the power of music camps. They count MoM as one of their most formative experiences as a band and as individual musicians. Their original songs blend country, old-time, and folk-rock sounds, all anchored by rich vocal harmonies and dynamic instrumental work on fiddle, guitar, and bass. They are deeply rooted in a variety of music traditions, but equally deep is their devotion to modern songcraft and lyrics that are fiercely honest, littered with reinvented folk tropes and evocative images. Comprised of three multi-instrumentalists, songwriters, and singers, Lula Wiles brings a diverse range of musical passions and skills to their work. All three are alumnae of Berklee College of Music, and they have taught (individually and together) at Maine Fiddle Camp, Ossipee Valley String Camp, Miles of Music House Camp, and the Passim School of Music. www.lulawiles.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841521057-61J6B6SQ0E5GUX3I5MG5/Thoma+Brown-+ice+guitar.jpg 2018 Island Camp Instructors - Thomas Brown Thomas Brown is a mixed media artist and an occasional songbird. Originally from Muscle Shoals, Alabama and raised up in Louisville, Kentucky, he has now been based in New York City since 2008 working as an ice sculptor. In addition to ice sculptures, Thomas creates environmental art installations, and has collaborated on music videos with Anna and Elizabeth, Cuddle Magic, and Star Rover. Through his collaboration with his mentor, Takeo Okamoto, and Okamoto Studio, Thomas had had the opportunity to show his work in many of the great venues of NYC, including the MET, the MoMA, Guggenheim, Lincoln Center, MSG, Central Park, Columbus Circle, WTC, Rockefeller Center, NY Botanical Gardens, the House of Love, and many more. Sculpture has also given him the opportunity to travel to Japan, and the Middle East, and around the U.S.. He has been featured along with the studio on Iron Chef American three times. Thomas’ passion for working with ephemeral elements and for performing are exemplified during live carving exhibitions for the public to enjoy. These works invite the audience to embrace the experiential aspect of witnessing the creation of impermanent art objects and to be mindful of the moment as they change and disappear. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841521045-3Y0O5YSGBX4W1W9OX4OJ/Good%2BAdam.jpg 2018 Island Camp Instructors - Adam Moss Brooklyn based fiddler and songster Adam Moss’ musical career can most easily be characterized by the variance of his influence. Adam loves and plays in the Klezmer, Bluegrass, Old-time and swing traditions which lends itself to a very unique and innovative style in performance setting. He is actively touring with his brother duo The Brother Brothers, but you may have seen him playing in the past with some of his favorite artists, such as Boston’s Session Americana, Brooklyns The Defibulators, Ana Egge, and Anais Mitchell’s “Hadestown,” to name a few. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841521156-X1P43S804L4HN8OBDGM2/static1.squarespace-1.jpg 2018 Island Camp Instructors - Kristin Andreassen Kristin Andreassen is a singer, songwriter & percussive dancer whose music honors both the playful & the profound. She's toured with some of the most respected acoustic groups around: the stringband Uncle Earl, the "folk noir” singing trio Sometymes Why, the Appalachian clogging troupe Footworks, and NYC's "anti-folk" superhero Jeffrey Lewis. Her originals range from the infectious rhythms of her #1 kids' hit "Crayola Doesn't Make a Color for Your Eyes” to the emotive soundscape in this shadow art video made with beloved MoM instructor Anna Roberts-Gevalt. 2018 promises a new trio album with drummer Shane Leonard & Punch Brother Chris Eldridge as well as an album of children's songs about emotions, co-created with Brooklyn psychiatrist Dr. Kari Groff for the Smithsonian Folkways label. An experienced teacher & square dance caller, Kristin is a true believer in the transformative power of music camps for all ages. After studying creative writing, history and community development at Montreal’s McGill University, she is as surprised as her parents to have found a career where she employs all three of those skills in balance. www.kristinandreassen.com https://www.milesofmusiccamp.com/2022-guest-artists daily 0.75 2025-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841523988-NZIS21RD3HTG1CQKSA6V/image-asset.jpeg 2022 Guest Artists - Clara Baker Clara Baker is a musician/producer/audio engineer from Portland, OR. Her sophomore release, Things To Burn (2019), was recorded live to tape in a Wisconsin living room with Grammy-winning engineer Brian Joseph (Sufjan Stevens, Bon Iver) and produced by avant-folk experimentalist Shane Leonard (Miles of Music Alumn!). The album also featured Miles of Music all-stars Courtney Hartman and Zachariah Hickman. It was during this week of recording that she experienced the difference that each and every microphone can have on a song. This led her down a rabbit hole, where she learned that less than 5% of producers and engineers are women. Determined to change this, Clara enrolled in community college and took all the audio engineering and producing courses she could between tours. After completing several internships/apprenticeships and assisting engineers on recording sessions all over the Portland area, in 2020 she was hired as an audio engineer/producer at The Rye Room Recording Studio -- a boutique studio in SW Portland, where she still works today recording, editing, producing, mixing and mastering music. Clara is a member of SoundGirls, and is passionate about transforming the culture of recording studios, and supporting other women in audio. Randomly, mid-pandemic, she developed a love of painting & refinishing furniture, and started a successful furniture flipping YouTube channel (Know Can Do) where she documents her learning/creative process weekly. www.clarabakermusic.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841524026-KBNJDPARZJB5TUK3SPK6/Clara+Baker.jpg 2022 Guest Artists - Clara Baker Clara Baker is a musician/producer/audio engineer from Portland, OR. Her sophomore release, Things To Burn (2019), was recorded live to tape in a Wisconsin living room with Grammy-winning engineer Brian Joseph (Sufjan Stevens, Bon Iver) and produced by avant-folk experimentalist Shane Leonard (Miles of Music Alumn!). The album also featured Miles of Music all-stars Courtney Hartman and Zachariah Hickman. It was during this week of recording that she experienced the difference that each and every microphone can have on a song. This led her down a rabbit hole, where she learned that less than 5% of producers and engineers are women. Determined to change this, Clara enrolled in community college and took all the audio engineering and producing courses she could between tours. After completing several internships/apprenticeships and assisting engineers on recording sessions all over the Portland area, in 2020 she was hired as an audio engineer/producer at The Rye Room Recording Studio -- a boutique studio in SW Portland, where she still works today recording, editing, producing, mixing and mastering music. Clara is a member of SoundGirls, and is passionate about transforming the culture of recording studios, and supporting other women in audio. Randomly, mid-pandemic, she developed a love of painting & refinishing furniture, and started a successful furniture flipping YouTube channel (Know Can Do) where she documents her learning/creative process weekly. www.clarabakermusic.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841524035-VTKUV7JDDFQ7JYATPO27/AsteriskMusic-14.jpeg 2022 Guest Artists - ALLIE CHIPKIN Allie Chipkin is a Registered Vinyasa Yoga teacher with a diverse background in songwriting, dance, poetry, Spanish, and travel. Allie first dove into yoga for the physical benefits; however, she quickly realized how meditative movement could calm her mind and reveal the joy in each passing moment. Allie loves helping students access the power of presence during class. She infuses poetry, music, and play into each breath of her sequences. Allie intends for her students to leave feeling inspired, spacious, and, most importantly, grateful to call their bodies “home.” Namaste! www.alliechipkin.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841524053-OQWNCJ9V8FX3OF2S80KD/image-asset.jpeg 2022 Guest Artists - Rachel Garcia Rachel Garcia is a singer, poet, and songwriter, and performs as one half of the duo, The Singer and The Songwriter. An accomplished poet, her work has been published in anthologies from the Marin Poetry Center and Redwood Writers. As a singer, her evocative alto voice is rooted in ease and precision, with focus on vocal health and sustainability. She has toured and performed across the US and released 3 albums with The Singer and The Songwriter and will release a full-length LP in 2022. www.thesingerandthesongwriter.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841524015-IQHRFX7CSF5BKJO30YGN/Omar+Ruiz-Lopez.jpeg 2022 Guest Artists - Omar Ruiz-Lopez Omar Ruiz-Lopez is a bilingual songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and co-founder of the original Americana group Violet Bell. Omar was born in Panama and raised in Puerto Rico with Spanish as his first language. His love of music began at an early age thanks to his father's frequent renditions of traditional Caribbean folk songs. Omar is a composer at heart, and is experienced in music performance, production and engineering. The diversity of his own experience as a multi-genre musician and Latine immigrant helps him connect with diverse international audiences. When not playing the fiddle or swinging a guitar around, he enjoys cooking, dog-petting and reading fantasy and fiction when life gets too heavy. If you see him talking to himself, don’t worry; he’s just working it out! www.violetbell.net https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841524003-G0ZUUBM8NTUQXSX0JGYV/Good%2BAdam.jpg 2022 Guest Artists - Adam Moss Adam Moss is a LA based singer and fiddle player currently touring full time in his duo The Brother Brothers. Hailing from America’s midwest (Peoria, IL) he grew up studying classical strings leading all the way to a BA in Viola performance from the University of IL. Post college led to a deep dive into improvised music and folk fiddle styles, mainly bluegrass, klezmer, old time, and thus led him to a career playing with artists such as Anais Mitchell’s Hadestown, Session Americana, and countless bluegrass and klezmer bands before starting a duo with his identical twin brother. www.thebrotherbrothersmusic.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841524021-KD5OMXM36B0XQBS2VCA4/image-asset.jpeg 2022 Guest Artists - Ray Rizzo Ray Rizzo is a drummer, composer, vocalist and producer who has recorded and/or performed with Bob Weir, King Kong, Dawn Landes, Glen Hansard, Josh Ritter, Julia Stone, Danger Mouse, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Mark Erelli, Anais Mitchell, David Pajo, Bridget St. John, Doveman/Thomas Bartlett, Ben Folds, Sam Cohen, David Wax Museum, Trixie Whitley, Rhett Miller, Lady Rizo, Days Of The New, Chocolate Genius, James Rado, Mx. Justin Vivian Bond, Emmylou Harris, Daniel Lanois and Yo Yo Ma. He has collaborated with playwrights and developed works for theater, receiving a 2007 Drama Desk nomination for Best Music in A Play (Adam Rapp's Essential Self-Defense) and performing in the company for New York Shakespeare Festival's 2009 production of Twelfth Night in Central Park with Audra McDonald, Raul Esparsa and Anne Hathaway, featuring music by the band HEM. Ray has founded many bands and musical projects in which he does any combination of drumming, writing, and singing, including the Louisville KY-based instrumental trio Java Men which will celebrate 30 years of existence in 2022. Ray is the founder of Motherlodge, which presents live events and assists bands, artists, and organizations with booking, management, and organization of performances and community events. He is also the creator and producer of On What Grounds, a podcast based in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn NY that explores property rights and coexistence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841524072-B4UMLADFJIZYYGPGQ7JL/DSC_5503+-+Charlie+Rose.jpg 2022 Guest Artists - Charlie Rose Having played and studied many instruments with many people in many places for many years, Charlie Rose has accumulated a cache of musicianship to share with students of all levels. He keeps pretty busy touring, recording, writing, and producing. Primarily a pedal steel and banjo player, Charlie also plays guitar, bass, mandolin, cello, keys, and brass instruments. A long-standing regular in the Sub Rosa 3 Mile Island songwriting community and guest artist/sailing enthusiast at Miles of Music, Charlie is excited to be back at camp this year! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841524010-C1ALA1KAFJRXC8Z6EG19/Lizzy+Ross+vertical.jpeg 2022 Guest Artists - Lizzy Ross Lizzy Ross is a singer-songwriter, visual artist, and co-founder of the original Americana group Violet Bell. Lizzy spent her childhood painting and paddling through the marshes of the Chesapeake. School brought her south to NC, where she discovered mountain folk who gathered over Sunday potlucks to sing together. Her solitary musical experiments grew community roots, and she started performing her original music in a band under her own name. Eleven years and six albums later, Lizzy’s still humming and rhyming. She’s a dirt-loving lazy gardener who’s deeply curious about both literal and emotional composting - what gifts can spring from the garbage of life? Lizzy’s art and music explore human connections to the mystical and natural world, healing intergenerational trauma, and the myths and archetypes that frame our past and hold the vision for our collective future. www.violetbell.net https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841524059-V2OD2CE9G9IC00PF23LW/image-asset.jpeg 2022 Guest Artists - Gabriella Simpkins Gabriella Simpkins is an award-winning singer-songwriter, composer, and musician hailing from Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Originally a hobbyist classical autist and incidental songwriter and arranger, Simpkins began to focus more seriously on a career in music in her freshman year of college. She originally planned to study biology and go to medical school to avoid the economic instability of an arts career, but very quickly realized that a STEM career gave her no sense of fulllment of purpose. Instead of doing homework, she would spend many nights teaching herself to play the guitar and reading voraciously about songwriting and music theory. She would regularly practice in three-to-four-hour sessions and study the lyrics of indie rock and folk legends like Elliott Smith, Nick Drake, and Sufjan Stevens. She began to devote most of her free time to songwriting and composing arrangements for her songs, and began playing original songs as a solo artist at local open mics and events on Cape Cod with encouragement from friends. Gabriella’s undergraduate studies are now focused in music theory and composition, which has greatly enhanced the cerebral quality of her songwriting and brought to life the depth of her lyricism. An avid student of Impressionism, her songs, instrumentals, and art music are rife with complex harmonies, unshakable melodies, and clever metaphors, all rolled together with hints of very successfully integrated teenage vulnerability. Currently, Gabriella performs regularly in the Boston area and works as a freelance composer while nishing her undergraduate studies at Salem State University. She has won awards from the Cape-based Eventide Theater Company for her songwriting and received grants from the esteemed Club Passim to support her creative journey. Follow her on Facebook https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841524041-7A46YMWYJ4Q9QSO90C54/ValerieThompsonBlueHeadShot.jpg 2022 Guest Artists - Valerie Thompson Valerie Thompson is a Boston-based cellist/composer/songwriter/improviser who has performed nationally and internationally in rock bands, string quartets, chamber folk ensembles and as a cultural ambassador for the U.S. State Department. A cellist versed in many genres, Valerie currently tours with Laura Cortese & the Dance Cards and the MIDI-Marimba/cello duo, Goli. Valerie holds a Bachelors of Music in Music Performance from the Berklee College of Music and a Masters of Music in Contemporary Improvisation from the New England Conservatory. Composer credits include the Umbrella Stage Company’s 2020 production of Bent, and “Bonylil’s: Creation.” Fun Fact: You can catch Valerie in the 100th episode of WB’s Gossip Girl. www.valeriethompson.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841524048-5LS3OQD6SEAUK76B3PI8/Thu+Tran.jpg 2022 Guest Artists - THU TRAN Thu Tran is a guitarist and songwriter and one half of the duo The Singer and The Songwriter. He is a self-taught guitarist that blends fingerstyle, clawhammer guitar, and flatpicking for a hybrid style that is uniquely his own. His approach to guitar encourages curiosity over correctness, and keeps the love of music at the heart of his teaching. With The Singer and The Songwriter, he has toured and performed all across the US and released 3 albums of music, with a full-length LP due out later in 2022. www.thesingerandthesongwriter.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841524065-IT4BFMYKH5G4FBUUTWRI/_M1A0232-hi-res%2B-%2BElizabeth%2BZiman.jpg 2022 Guest Artists - Elizabeth Ziman Elizabeth Ziman, who performs as Elizabeth and the Catapult, is a singer-songwriter from Brooklyn. She's toured with the likes of Sara Bareilles and Kishi Bashi; collaborated with Esperanza Spalding, Gillian Welch, Blake Mills and Ben Folds; scored, with Paul Brill, a variety of international award-winning documentaries including "Trapped," a Peabody winner; and won an Independent Music Award for Songwriting. Her songs have been featured in national television campaigns for Google and Amazon. She recently composed for Sara Bareille’s new show, “Little Voice”. Always writing, Elizabeth has narrowed her vast collection of previously unrecorded material down to her fifth full-length studio album "Sincerely, e”, which she self-produced at home and released on Compass Records in March 2021. www.elizabethandthecatapult.com https://www.milesofmusiccamp.com/2022-featured-instructors daily 0.75 2025-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841532991-8N8J9MGYMEWDOQCYTE8I/image-asset.jpeg 2022 Featured Instructors - Tyrone Cotton Tyrone Cotton’s earliest musical revelation was listening to the raspy, inspirational voice of his grandfather, the Reverend Cleveland Roosevelt Williams, at his childhood home in Louisville, KY. At a young age, Cotton began playing guitar along to the sounds of popular rock and blues artists. Overtime, he was influenced by Jerry Garcia, Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Guy, and Mississippi John Hurt, who intrigued Tyrone with his “ finger pickin’ and soft, wispy voice.” Inspired by this wide variety of artists, Cotton developed a style of writing that blended soul, folk, blues, jazz, and rock n roll. He has become a staple in the Louisville music scene over the past 30 years, being well recognized for his stirring voice and lyrics. Cotton has toured throughout the United States and Japan, with plans to continue performing in the US this year. He is currently working on releasing a new album he did with longtime collaborator and producer Ray Rizzo and producer Josh Kaufman, best known for his work with The National, Bob Weir, Bonny Light Horseman and Josh Ritter. www.tyronecotton.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841533011-621XCP6RZ5MECSUM2CD5/image-asset.jpeg 2022 Featured Instructors - Tyrone Cotton Tyrone Cotton’s earliest musical revelation was listening to the raspy, inspirational voice of his grandfather, the Reverend Cleveland Roosevelt Williams, at his childhood home in Louisville, KY. At a young age, Cotton began playing guitar along to the sounds of popular rock and blues artists. Overtime, he was influenced by Jerry Garcia, Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Guy, and Mississippi John Hurt, who intrigued Tyrone with his “ finger pickin’ and soft, wispy voice.” Inspired by this wide variety of artists, Cotton developed a style of writing that blended soul, folk, blues, jazz, and rock n roll. He has become a staple in the Louisville music scene over the past 30 years, being well recognized for his stirring voice and lyrics. Cotton has toured throughout the United States and Japan, with plans to continue performing in the US this year. He is currently working on releasing a new album he did with longtime collaborator and producer Ray Rizzo and producer Josh Kaufman, best known for his work with The National, Bob Weir, Bonny Light Horseman and Josh Ritter. www.tyronecotton.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841533006-HOP0IQE5GH1ZOYO3VRUS/Jefferson%2BHamer.jpg 2022 Featured Instructors - JEFFERSON HAMER A musical journeyman and a recalcitrant troubadour, Jefferson Hamer has spent the greater part of three decades searching for a song to sing. His Rocky Mountain years (1995-2008) saw hard touring and a good bit of living on the jam and bluegrass circuits, playing acoustic guitar, tenor banjo, and Telecaster in Single Malt Band, The Wayfarers, and Great American Taxi. Resettled in New York City, he immersed in traditional Irish music, playing regular guitar accompaniment and singing at the downtown sessions, resulting in a lasting collaboration with Eamon O'Leary as The Murphy Beds. Jefferson's original songwriting and lead guitar work is featured on his self-produced Alameda, and continues in collaboration with Boston-area collective Session Americana. Other collaborators include Anais Mitchell, partner on the BBC2 Folk Award winning Child Ballads, Kristin Andreassen of Nashville based JKLOL, Hannah Read, and Laura Cortese. Most recently, Jefferson's electric guitar and harmony vocals support Sarah Jarosz on her Grammy-nominated Blue Heron Suite. Alongside his performance career, Jefferson works as a music educator, privately and at camps such as Miles of Music, Voiceworks, Sisters Song School, and Ashokan Center. A self-taught engineer and vintage microphone enthusiast, he recorded both Murphy Beds albums, The Brother Brothers' Some People I Know, and The Drunken Gaugers (feat. Kevin Crawford, Dylan Foley, and Patrick Doucey). In 2021 he mixed and mastered a compilation for the Orien Arts organization called "Real and Far Off Hymns, Vol. 1", as well as contributing his own arrangement of the folk classic "How Can I Keep From Singing." He is currently producing a new release for Ithaca-based songwriter Naomi Sommers. www.jeffersonhamer.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841533042-LSSYAF3VBN9C2EWDMDLU/image0.jpeg 2022 Featured Instructors - RUBY JOHN Ruby John is a Traditional Fiddler and a member of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa Chippewa Indians from Northern Michigan. Ruby learned to fiddle the traditional way by ear, listening to and learning from experienced fiddlers while attending OFMA Jamborees (Old-Time Michigan Fiddlers Association), TC Celtic Sessions, Algomatrad Traditional Music and Dance camp (St. Joseph Island ON), Elder Youth Legacy Métis Collective and Bluegrass Festivals. Ruby has performed her traditional fiddling throughout the US and Canada and looks forward to sharing this music she loves with others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841533049-CQ9AG0QWTQXV4O93ITY3/2-00012.jpg 2022 Featured Instructors - KYSHONA A music therapist gone rogue, Kyshona wrote her first songs with her patients as an exercise in self reflection. She is known as a strong voice for the underdog. NPR Music is quoted as saying “Wherever she plants her feet she does so with righteous conviction and a strong sense of her own voice.”. When she’s home, Kyshona devotes her time to helping others write their story through song; working with those experiencing incarceration, homelessness and struggling with mental health through her charitable organization, Your Song. Of her latest project, “Listen”, No Depression says,“This is protest music for a new generation, a musical treatment for social ills, a unique prescription that only works if you listen.” Some of Kyshona’s latest collaborations on stage and in the studio include; Adia Victoria, Margo Price, Jason Isbell & T-Bone Burnett (You Was Born to Die), Margo Price (Help!, Hey Child) and Allison Russell (Newport Folk Fest: Once & Future Sounds ft. Chaka Khan). www.kyshona.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841533024-NIZ05AWQZGD38TLYMALU/Amanda+Kowalski.JPG 2022 Featured Instructors - Amanda Kowalski Photographer and bass player, Amanda Kowalski, is a West Virginia native who grew up playing Appalachian roots music. During her career as a touring bassist, Amanda worked with bands including Uncle Earl, Abigail Washburn and Bela Fleck, and the Freight Hoppers. Additionally Amanda co-founded the Grammy-nominated band Della Mae with fiddler, Kimber Ludiker. These days Amanda spends most of her time taking pictures and working on documentary films. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, NPR.org, Discovery, National Geographic Online and others. In 2021 Amanda was a collaborator on the Emmy-winning short "Nightsongs." When Amanda’s not behind a camera or a bass you can find her on a bike, in the woods, or both. Photos: www.amandakowalskiphoto.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841533037-0HEK5TGFQRR5VFCMBQZR/Evie+Ladin.jpg 2022 Featured Instructors - Evie Ladin Banjo player, singer, songwriter, percussive-dancer, choreographer and square-dance caller, Evie Ladin grew up steeped in traditional folk music/dance, and brings a contemporary vision to her compositions and choreography. Evie’s performances, recordings and teaching reconnect Appalachian music/dance with other African-Diaspora traditions, and have been heard from A Prairie Home Companion to Lincoln Center, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass to Celtic Connections, Brazil to Bali. Based in Oakland, CA, Evie tours with Keith Terry and the Evie Ladin Band; and has produced 9 CDs and two instructional DVDs. In the percussive dance world, she is Executive Director of the International Body Music Festival, directs the moving choir MoToR/dance, does educational outreach with Crosspulse, and is an ace freestyle flatfooter. In the trad world, Evie teaches clawhammer banjo and harmony singing at the infamous Freight & Salvage, online at Peghead Nation and numerous camps and events. She leads rowdy square dance parties, getting every body easily dancing. In the songwriter world, she just writes great songs, subtitling her own band “neo-trad kinetic folk." In 2019 she released two CDs, celebrating both of her musical sides: one totally trad fiddle/banjo duets with 17 different fiddlers, Riding the Rooster, and her fourth of adventurous originals, Caught On A Wire; followed quickly by a 2020 cover songs EP. A highly entertaining performer, Evie enjoys facilitating arts learning in diverse communities. “The best example I have seen of a Neo-Trad band's sound being authentically anchored in old time music but extending it into new and entertaining directions.” —Founder, Clifftop Appalachian Stringband Festival www.evieladin.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841533018-WAVTUYB292QVLJXYO7TP/Shane+Leonard.jpeg 2022 Featured Instructors - Shane Leonard Shane Leonard is a record producer, musician, mix engineer, and songwriter who lives in Eau Claire, WI. Equally at home in an indie rock band as he is in an old time stringband, those who work with Shane (Mipso, Field Report, Rose Cousins, Stray Birds, Larry Campbell) know him as a studio/live swiss army knife, helping their sound to evolve past previous benchmarks. NPR and Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) have praised his production with descriptors like "goosebumps inducing" (NPR Music), "a monster musician" (Justin Vernon) and "exquisite" (Paste Magazine). Anna Tivel, Humbird, J.E. Sunde and others have entrusted multiple albums to his care; they reside alongside multiple releases of his own music - the most recent being Strange Forms (2019). www.shaneleonardmusic.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841533031-SDH2JGDH1Y7G2TUBFNDN/Joe+Troop.JPG 2022 Featured Instructors - Joe Troop Joe Troop is a multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. During his decade in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he formed the group Che Apalache with three of his students. The band’s second album, Rearrange My Heart, was produced by legendary genre-bender, banjoist Béla Fleck and received a GRAMMY nomination for Best Folk Album in 2020. Working in a style dubbed “latingrass,” Joe melds music from the Appalachian foothills with traditional soundscapes from across Latin American. He composes wry and well-traveled acoustic music, sung in English and Spanish. Wrenching old-time music into the world of contemporary global politics, Joe creates spaces for sympathy, solidarity, and a little humor. His debut solo album, Borrowed Time featuring Charlie Hunter, Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn, Tim O’Brien and many more superb musicians was released in 2021 to rave reviews. www.joetroop.com https://www.milesofmusiccamp.com/2021-featuredinstructors-gallery daily 0.75 2025-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841534084-F611LPUOFYDS1L7SCBBB/image-asset.jpeg 2021 Featured Instructors - Bridget Kearney Bridget Kearney is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer. A founding member of the band Lake Street Dive, she has performed at Radio City Music Hall, The Hollywood Bowl, Red Rocks Amphitheater, and The White House South Lawn, as well as appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report, Ellen, and Conan. Her solo debut, "Won't Let You Down," came out in 2017 on Signature Sounds and in 2020 she released a collaborative album written and recorded in Accra, Ghana, called "Still Flying" on Verve Forecast. Kearney has a BM from the New England Conservatory in Jazz Studies (bass) and BA from Tufts University in English. www.lakestreetdive.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841534118-7KAPOL91RGJARIIQUHJ9/Bridget-Kearney-headshot-by-Shervin-Lainez-scaled-600x0-c-default.jpg 2021 Featured Instructors - Bridget Kearney Bridget Kearney is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer. A founding member of the band Lake Street Dive, she has performed at Radio City Music Hall, The Hollywood Bowl, Red Rocks Amphitheater, and The White House South Lawn, as well as appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report, Ellen, and Conan. Her solo debut, "Won't Let You Down," came out in 2017 on Signature Sounds and in 2020 she released a collaborative album written and recorded in Accra, Ghana, called "Still Flying" on Verve Forecast. Kearney has a BM from the New England Conservatory in Jazz Studies (bass) and BA from Tufts University in English. www.lakestreetdive.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841534134-11E2XZT856Y4X8DPSZQK/Mike.jpg 2021 Featured Instructors - Mike Merenda Mike Merenda is a songwriting force and clawhammer banjo explorer raised in NH and now dwelling in NY's Hudson Valley. Youthful musical forays into rock and punk later led to the more traditional folk realms and a productive creative partnership with his wife Ruth Ungar spanning 2 decades (so far.) They have toured extensively as both the duo Mike + Ruthy and the full band The Mammals. Mike curates the lineup of their community music festivals, the Winter Hoot and Summer Hoot at Ashokan. He is most fond of hoisting his antenna into the ether and seeing what emerges thru singing with a guitar or banjo in hand. In addition to his own original compositions he has recorded posthumous "co-writes" with Woody Guthrie & Allen Ginsberg. The Mammals' recent title track Sunshiner, which came to Mike in a dream, was nominated for Folk Alliance International's 2018 Song of the Year award. He attended Miles of Music's very first camp and is honored to be back. http://themammals.love https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841534111-SK95E7GTR8YO2BH8MA7B/unnamed.jpg 2021 Featured Instructors - Naiika Sings After quitting her job in real estate five years ago, Naiika Sings bought a microphone and amplifier and took to performing on subway platforms and trains along the A, D and E lines. Her unplanned performances were based, she says, on the energy subway commuters were giving her that day. Two years ago, a video of her posted by a rider on social media went viral as millions watched a packed train of commuters lose their inhibitions in a spontaneous sing-along. In other videos people danced in the aisles. When Naiika sings, said one post, magic happens. In her forthcoming debut album, the Haitian-American singer-songwriter demonstrates to the world why her sultry mix of soul and style has already attracted the attention of millions, including 50 Cent, Ledisi, and many more. naiika-sings.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841534104-JVT69WMA2UG190CWAHGR/2-00012.jpg 2021 Featured Instructors - Kyshona Armstrong A music therapist gone rogue, Kyshona Armstrong wrote her first songs with her patients as an exercise in self reflection. She is known as a strong voice for the underdog. NPR Music is quoted as saying “Wherever she plants her feet she does so with righteous conviction and a strong sense of her own voice.”. When she’s home, Kyshona devotes her time to helping others write their story through song; working with those experiencing incarceration, homelessness and struggling with mental health. Of her latest project, “Listen”, No Depression says,“This is protest music for a new generation, a musical treatment for social ills, a unique prescription that only works if you listen.” www.kyshona.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841534126-9ELKBKMO2A1KIM5UL7CE/image.jpg 2021 Featured Instructors - Ruth Ungar Ruth Ungar is a multi-dimensional collaborator, touring and recording artist, and event organizer based in the Hudson Valley of NY. In 2019 she and her husband Mike Merenda toured the US and UK with their band The Mammals, toured festivals for a month in Australia as Mike + Ruthy (duo) with their two kids, recorded a new full length studio album ‘Nonet' and organized their two annual community music festivals, the Winter Hoot & Summer Hoot at Ashokan. For 40 years Ruth's family has hosted summer traditional music and dance camps at Ashokan, the place that inspired her father, Jay Ungar, to compose his evocative fiddle melody Ashokan Farewell. Ruth is similarly known for eliciting an emotional response from an audience of any size. Her background in theater has also fueled a lifelong fascination with stagecraft, vulnerability, and the beauty of taking risks. http://themammals.love https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841534097-EWCE64NIE9X1JDYE13LM/image0.jpeg 2021 Featured Instructors - Ruby John Ruby John is a Traditional Fiddler and a member of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa Chippewa Indians from Northern Michigan. Ruby learned to fiddle the traditional way by ear, listening to and learning from experienced fiddlers while attending OFMA Jamborees (Old-Time Michigan Fiddlers Association), TC Celtic Sessions, Algomatrad Traditional Music and Dance camp (St. Joseph Island ON), Elder Youth Legacy Métis Collective and Bluegrass Festivals. Ruby has performed her traditional fiddling throughout the US and Canada and looks forward to sharing this music she loves with others. Watch her play on Quarantine Happy Hour. https://www.milesofmusiccamp.com/2021-guestartists-gallery daily 0.75 2025-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841535023-CHE6NVC3S96WXCNWHOHS/image-asset.jpeg 2021 Guest Artists - Rachael Price Vocal powerhouse Rachael Price is a legend in the making. The lead singer of Lake Street Dive started her journey at a young age in international traveling choirs and jazz ensembles. While studying at New England Conservatory, Price met her fellow Lake Street Dive members. In May 2018 Lake Street Dive released the self-produced Free Yourself Up and has been busy touring in support of the album. On their rise to success over the past few years, they have sold out many of America's legendary venues, toured Europe and Australia, and made multiple national television appearances. During the band's downtime, Price is involved in a project with Vilray Bolles. With simple arrangements and only a guitar for accompaniment, Rachael & Vilray perform original works and revive forgotten gems of the jazz big bands and western swing ensembles. Their eponymous debut album, Rachael & Vilray, is out now on Nonesuch Records. Equal parts sass, gritty soul, and unfettered grace, Price has been called a “cool cannon blast of a voice” by Rolling Stone and continues to make fans from the likes of Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt, Mavis Staples, and Stephen Colbert. https://rachaelandvilray.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841535039-SPR9XCXOM2YX3ITXT4SU/Rachael+Price.JPG 2021 Guest Artists - Rachael Price Vocal powerhouse Rachael Price is a legend in the making. The lead singer of Lake Street Dive started her journey at a young age in international traveling choirs and jazz ensembles. While studying at New England Conservatory, Price met her fellow Lake Street Dive members. In May 2018 Lake Street Dive released the self-produced Free Yourself Up and has been busy touring in support of the album. On their rise to success over the past few years, they have sold out many of America's legendary venues, toured Europe and Australia, and made multiple national television appearances. During the band's downtime, Price is involved in a project with Vilray Bolles. With simple arrangements and only a guitar for accompaniment, Rachael & Vilray perform original works and revive forgotten gems of the jazz big bands and western swing ensembles. Their eponymous debut album, Rachael & Vilray, is out now on Nonesuch Records. Equal parts sass, gritty soul, and unfettered grace, Price has been called a “cool cannon blast of a voice” by Rolling Stone and continues to make fans from the likes of Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt, Mavis Staples, and Stephen Colbert. www.lakestreetdive.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841535090-5BYSU3U1ILKVVLCDN29D/IMG_0693.jpg 2021 Guest Artists - Chris Miller Since his dream career of full-time musician and multi-instrumentalist in the bands the Faux Paws and the Revelers was ripped away last year, The Chris Miller has been making lots of coffee for himself. Now he’s vaccinated and is excited to make coffee for you too! https://thefauxpaws.bandcamp.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841535061-3JN8TGMKKC4VMW8OEJB4/image-asset.jpeg 2021 Guest Artists - Celia Woodsmith Celia Woodsmith is a GRAMMY Nominated performer, vocalist, and songwriter. Influenced by artists such as John Prine, Janis Joplin, Patsy Cline, and Mahalia Jackson she has molded her own vocal style that can be described as "one of a kind: gritty, muscular, folksy and intimate sometimes all at once" (Bluegrass Situation). A fixture of the New England roots scene, she has been hailed by the Boston Globe as "Unvarnished and intimate (...) but then sounds like she's about to part the Dead Sea". In the last 10 years, Celia has released six albums with Nashville based string band Della Mae. In 2014 Della Mae was nominated for a Best Bluegrass Album GRAMMY for their record "This World Oft Can Be". Their most recent album "Headlight" has been described as "...powerful writing, soaring vocals, and moving musical unity — challenge us, energize us, and touch us as they light the way. This is an album on which you can feel the emotions of the group in each song as they evoke anger, sadness, hopelessness, and joy". (No Depression) The all-female Della Mae has performed in 19 countries with the US Department of State's cultural diplomacy program "American Music Abroad". Woodsmith spoke about her experiences with travel and music at TEDx Piscataqua River in Portsmouth, NH in a talk called "A Soft Drink and a Song in the Hills of Pakistan". In 2016 Woodsmith took a hiatus from touring to write, listen, and reflect about her years on the road. With her husband she road-biked 1.700 miles from Geneva, Switzerland to Vlorë, Albania. In that time off she was able to write and record for her debut solo record "Cast Iron Shoes". The all original album combines raw, roots-rock with heart-searing songs like "Sicily" which paint a solemn picture of the global refugee crisis. In March, 2020, Woodsmith found herself quarantined at her home in Kittery,ME. Off the road for the first time in 15 years, she has been focusing on writing, learning, teaching and rejuvenating her relationship with the outdoors. As a person who grew up coming to Three Mile Island with her family in the summer time, Celia is a genuine “double agent” — equally familiar with the rhythms of the island with and without the Miles of Music people present! www.dellamae.com Photo credit to Amanda Kowalski https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841535084-9WFONOX6LY0PFINKMO9F/Dietrich+Strause.png 2021 Guest Artists - Dietrich Strause Dietrich Strause is a multi-instrumentalist from Cambridge, Massachusetts. His songs are a mix of timeless melody, literate lyricism, and a "virtuosic command of imagery.” (The Artery, WBUR) In less than one year, Strause released two albums -- How Cruel That Hunger Binds and Dietrich Strause & The Blue Ribbons -- proving to be one of the most prolific and eclectic writers and performers coming out of New England. He has taught songwriting at the Passim School of Music, played piano for English balladeer Sam Lee, recorded and produced an album of Chinese children’s songs, all the while touring the US and UK supporting folk luminaries such as Anais Mitchell, Sarah Jarosz, and more. Dietrich is an apprentice guitar builder at Outlier Workshop in Cambridge. More information can be found at www.dietrichstrause.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841535068-0ULWV0MF1I1O17M0V185/_M1A0232-hi-res+-+Elizabeth+Ziman.jpg 2021 Guest Artists - Elizabeth Ziman Elizabeth Ziman, who performs as Elizabeth and the Catapult, is a singer-songwriter from Brooklyn. She's toured with the likes of Sara Bareilles and Kishi Bashi; collaborated with Esperanza Spalding, Gillian Welch, Blake Mills and Ben Folds; scored, with Paul Brill, a variety of international award-winning documentaries including "Trapped," a Peabody winner; and won an Independent Music Award for Songwriting. Her songs have been featured in national television campaigns for Google and Amazon. She recently composed for Sara Bareille’s new show, “Little Voice”. Always writing, Elizabeth has narrowed her vast collection of previously unrecorded material down to her fifth full-length studio album "Sincerely, e”, which she self-produced at home and released on Compass Records in March 2021. https://www.elizabethandthecatapult.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841535053-EQWBV2RN38VTUOB7KRN5/4B3C6F3B-FC65-4312-83CB-82A4264423BA_1_105_c.jpeg 2021 Guest Artists - Jesse Harper Jesse Harper is the founding member and lead singer of Acoustic Disc Recording Artists Old School Freight Train. He has toured and performed with many of his musical heroes including David Grisman, Madeleine Peyroux, Josh Ritter, Ricky Skaggs, Jason Mraz, kd lang, Bruce Hornsby, Warren Haynes, Keb Mo, Phil Wiggins, Michael McDonald, Sara Bareilles, Colbie Callait, Christina Perri, Josh Groban, Jerry Douglas and many others. Jesse has released 2 records of his original songs: JH and His Best Intentions and One True Thing. Jesse Studied classical guitar and music composition at Virginia Commonwealth University and the College of William and Mary in Virginia. Jesse currently and plays in Charlottesville’s bluegrass super-group "Love Canon” The band has released 4 albums to date. Their most recent release “Cover Story” debuted at no. 1 on billboard’s bluegrass charts. http://www.lovecanonmusic.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841535045-B7LKWTONE8M53DPHIXK1/AsteriskMusic-14.jpeg 2021 Guest Artists - ALLIE CHIPKIN Allie Chipkin is a Registered Vinyasa Yoga teacher with a variegated background in songwriting, dance, poetry, Spanish, and travel. Allie first delved into yoga for the physical benefits; however, she quickly realized how meditative movement and breathwork could calm the mind and reveal to her the joy in each passing moment. Allie loves helping students access the power of presence during her class. She infuses poetry, music, and play into each breath of her sequences. Allie intends for her students to leave feeling inspired, spacious, and, most importantly, grateful to call their bodies “home.” Namaste! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841535076-XAFCDMWN28WFZ11G7X5X/Thoma+Brown-+ice+guitar.jpg 2021 Guest Artists - Thomas Brown Thomas Brown is a mixed media artist and an occasional songbird. Originally from Muscle Shoals, Alabama and raised up in Louisville, Kentucky, he has now been based in New York City since 2008 working as an ice sculptor. In addition to ice sculptures, Thomas creates environmental art installations, and has collaborated on music videos with Anna and Elizabeth, Cuddle Magic, and Star Rover. Through his collaboration with his mentor, Takeo Okamoto, and Okamoto Studio, Thomas had had the opportunity to show his work in many of the great venues of NYC, including the MET, the MoMA, Guggenheim, Lincoln Center, MSG, Central Park, Columbus Circle, WTC, Rockefeller Center, NY Botanical Gardens, the House of Love, and many more. Sculpture has also given him the opportunity to travel to Japan, and the Middle East, and around the U.S.. He has been featured along with the studio on Iron Chef American three times. Thomas’ passion for working with ephemeral elements and for performing are exemplified during live carving exhibitions for the public to enjoy. These works invite the audience to embrace the experiential aspect of witnessing the creation of impermanent art objects and to be mindful of the moment as they change and disappear. www.instagram.com/thomasbrownaffair https://www.milesofmusiccamp.com/2024-instructors-staff-oz daily 0.75 2025-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841538669-QJMLQF3N8I64DCS8U5FH/image-asset.jpeg 2024 Instructors + Staff (M-Z) - Nick Maione Nick Maione is a writer and artist from Upstate NY. He was a finalist for the National Poetry Series and his debut collection of poems, Infinite Arrivals, is out now from Angelico Press. He is a professional iconographer and painter. Nick also directs Orein Arts, an arts residency in Upstate NY. And despite degrees in Poetry and Visual Art, he is most proud of his honorary degree in faking it on the fiddle from Miles of Music Campiversity. Instagram: @nmaione_ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841538702-VOYA85BWWULOITN5TNMG/IMG_2053.jpeg 2024 Instructors + Staff (M-Z) - Nick Maione Nick Maione is a writer and artist from Upstate NY. He was a finalist for the National Poetry Series and his debut collection of poems, Infinite Arrivals, is out now from Angelico Press. He is a professional iconographer and painter. Nick also directs Orein Arts, an arts residency in Upstate NY. And despite degrees in Poetry and Visual Art, he is most proud of his honorary degree in faking it on the fiddle from Miles of Music Campiversity. Instagram: @nmaione_ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841538729-JTEFXVTSWNVDY9LHXOKD/image-asset.jpeg 2024 Instructors + Staff (M-Z) - Emily Mann Formed in Big Sur, CA, Emily Mann now calls Nashville, TN, home. She specializes in Oldtime fiddle & banjo, songwriting, and genre-traversing on upright & electric bass. Emily was a key member of The Crooked Jades from 2015-2020, earning a 2019 Isadora Duncan Dance Award nomination for their collaboration with ODC Dance Company, 'World’s On Fire.' Emily co-founded Paper Wings with longtime friend Wila Frank, an indie/folk duo known for their oldtime-meets-heartfelt-originals album 'Clementine.' In 2020, they shared the stage with Avi Kaplan during his US tour and are set to release their third album Spring ‘24. With a deep love of creating in mediums beyond music - gardening, cooking, fiber arts, painting - Emily seamlessly weaves herself into a wide range of musical settings. As a foundationally supportive side musician, her steady flexibility and uncanny blending abilities add depth to every artist she supports. She plays/has played with: Jobi Riccio, the Onlies, Laurie Lewis, Darol Anger & the Furies, Sami Braman, Josie Toney, Liv Greene, Spencer & Rains, Violet Bell, and more. @em.fiddle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841538715-8666ROX8OK8WI73U9991/Mike.jpg 2024 Instructors + Staff (M-Z) - Mike Merenda Mike Merenda is a songwriting force and clawhammer banjo explorer raised in NH and now dwelling in NY's Hudson Valley. Youthful musical forays into rock and punk later led to the more traditional folk realms and a productive creative partnership with his wife Ruth Ungar spanning 2 decades (so far.) They have toured extensively as both the duo Mike + Ruthy and the full band The Mammals. Mike curates the lineup of their community music festivals, the Winter Hoot and Summer Hoot at Ashokan. He is most fond of hoisting his antenna into the ether and seeing what emerges thru singing with a guitar or banjo in hand. In addition to his own original compositions he has recorded posthumous "co-writes" with Woody Guthrie & Allen Ginsberg. The Mammals' recent title track Sunshiner, which came to Mike in a dream, was nominated for Folk Alliance International's 2018 Song of the Year award. He attended Miles of Music's very first camp and is honored to be back. http://themammals.love https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841538794-2T1NE992FQJKBCN78SN3/image-asset.jpeg 2024 Instructors + Staff (M-Z) - Chris Miller Multi-instrumentalist The Chris Miller measures his life in times spent on Three Mile Island and the friendships he’s made there. As your humble storekeep he will connect you with physical merchandise to help you through your time at camp along with tangible “memories" for years to come. His 2021 trio release “The Faux Paws” was named one of the 10 Best Trad Albums of the year by Folk Alley and his Grammy-nominated dance band The Revelers continues to be legendary for their annual throw-downs at Blackpot Camp, Festival, and Cook-off in Southwest Louisiana. thefauxpaws.bandcamp.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841538787-R9YEI475OVI3NZEXVTNZ/image-asset.jpeg 2024 Instructors + Staff (M-Z) - Don Mitchell Don Mitchell is a songwriter, singer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer based in Boston. Over the last decade and change, he's recorded and toured extensively with indie-folk band Darlingside and in the past few years has been focusing on producing/engineering records for others. Don grew up singing in children's choirs, started writing songs and forming bands in high school, studied music theory and creative writing (short stories) at Williams College, and other than a three-year sidequest as a field biologist/ornithologist in his early 20s, has been making music in one way or another ever since. He plays guitar and banjo, some bass and lap steel, and also enjoys writing songs on instruments he does not really understand. Don is thrilled to finally be joining the Miles of Music Camp community for the first time. https://www.darlingside.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841538756-2196YAJ0UNTVTNQMK0KK/image-asset.jpeg 2024 Instructors + Staff (M-Z) - James Paul Mitchell 10 years ago, James Paul Mitchell hopped off a tour van in Denver with nothing but a guitar, an amp, and a suitcase. It was here that he would gain expansive and diverse musical experience, eventually leading to his raw, atmospheric solo project. Carrying on the Grateful Dead legacy he performed with supergroup Imagine featuring Ray White (Frank Zappa) and Melvin Seals (Jerry Garcia Band), he studied North Indian classical music, produced a record for indie folk band called Cardinal and began dipping his toe into his own artistry. James eventually made Nashville his home base as a touring and recording musician, releasing Was Sad Before it Was Cool in August 2019. His next record album, Breakup Record, showcased a more personal, surrendered facet of his artistry. Varied and vulnerable, these songs - each made with a different producer - showcase James’ emotional specificity and descriptive storytelling that pulls the listener into their focal heartbeat. Against the backdrop of complementary, moody guitars, James pulls you into these places, circumstances and stories. https://www.jamespaulmitchell.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841538828-Z5C26PXB9C05DFHVPIYQ/image-asset.jpeg 2024 Instructors + Staff (M-Z) - Auyon Mukharji Auyon Mukharji is a singer, songwriter, and a member of the indie-folk group Darlingside, in which he plays mandolin, violin, and a bit of guitar. Auyon's other interests include cooking, reading, and physical activity. He is currently working on an illustrated Indian cookbook with his mother Jyoti. Auyon has been described as "naïve, without financial wherewithal, and most probably very anxious to return home" by American Airlines' head of global investigations. www.darlingside.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841538736-JI3LFPFOGUTEVO3PEK5Y/image-asset.png 2024 Instructors + Staff (M-Z) - Tony Montpeirous Known for his street performing and impromptu rap style, Tony Montpeirous first came to Miles of Music as a member of the Brooklyn-based band All My Friends Are Stars when they were artists-in-residence with us. He’s coming back on his own this year, helping individuals incorporate rap, rhythmic rhyme, and general lyric writing into their songwriting. In recent years Tony has been living in Mexico, learning various styles of dance and Latin rhythm. From these experiences he is back to share his Kumbia and partner dancing knowledge . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841538708-WSFHXMPWTE2IUNMSDR9I/image-asset.jpeg 2024 Instructors + Staff (M-Z) - Carrie Cahill Mulligan Carrie Cahill Mulligan has the distinct honor of having attended Miles of Music every year since its beginning in 2011. She’s worked a variety of Camp jobs: running the store, working in the kitchen (on salads, as Baker, as Kitchen Assistant), on Midnight Snack detail, as a porch captain, and as part of the check-in crew. This year, Carrie will rely on all her varied Three Mile experiences in her new role as Camp Hospitality Coordinator, here to assist with any questions or concerns while you’re on the island! Carrie is a Park Ranger-turned-fiber artist, who also loves clawhammer banjo, hula-hooping and playing ice hockey. She also happens to grow and harvest all the rhubarb we use in various ways during the camp week! http://ccmhats.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841538749-PTN8PNZTLQ2DHGAPKOZZ/Sheena.jpg 2024 Instructors + Staff (M-Z) - Sheena Ozaki Sheena Ozaki is the Welcome Team and Travel Coordinator at Miles of Music this year. She is a creative producer with a passion for sharing great ideas, having previously worked with TED, VICE News, Spotify, and iHeartRadio. But her first love is music - she studied piano performance in college and has been lucky to have been part of the Miles of Music community since 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841538780-6ER07UB21EQXYT40QIE7/image-asset.jpeg 2024 Instructors + Staff (M-Z) - Lizzy Ross Lizzy Ross is a singer-songwriter, visual artist, and co-founder of the original Americana group Violet Bell. Lizzy spent her childhood making art and exploring the marshes of the Chesapeake Bay. School brought her south to NC, where she came across mountain folk who gathered over Sunday potlucks to sing together. Her solitary musical experiments grew community roots, and she started performing her original music solo and in a band under her own name. Eleven years and seven albums later, Lizzy’s still humming and rhyming. She’s a dirt-loving lazy gardener who’s deeply curious about literal and emotional composting. Lizzy’s art and music explore human connections to the mystical and natural world, healing intergenerational trauma, and the myths and archetypes that frame our past and hold the vision for our collective future. www.lizzy.net https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841538762-LUC6A7UMD1JT6XV9KJRF/Omar+Ruiz-Lopez.jpeg 2024 Instructors + Staff (M-Z) - Omar Ruiz-Lopez Omar Ruiz-Lopez is a distinguished musician and educator with a remarkable command over multiple instruments, including violin, viola, guitar, and mandolin. His extensive teaching expertise extends to coaching chamber music ensembles and conducting. Born in Panama and raised in Puerto Rico, Omar's early exposure to traditional Caribbean folk songs, courtesy of his father, laid the foundation for his deep appreciation for music. Spanish was his first language, and it remains an integral part of his cultural identity. Together with Lizzy Ross, Omar co-founded the Americana group Violet Bell, where their collaboration seamlessly intertwines top-notch songwriting with a variety of musical landscapes. Omar, a bilingual songwriter and undercover composer, crafts music that beautifully reflects his cultural roots entwined with a rich tapestry of diverse musical influences. www.violetbell.net https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841538723-ZSHXLCGO6KX17QF4OI1U/unnamed.jpg 2024 Instructors + Staff (M-Z) - Naiika Sings After quitting her job in real estate five years ago, Naiika Sings bought a microphone and amplifier and took to performing on subway platforms and trains along the A, D and E lines. Her unplanned performances were based, she says, on the energy subway commuters were giving her that day. Two years ago, a video of her posted by a rider on social media went viral as millions watched a packed train of commuters lose their inhibitions in a spontaneous sing-along. In other videos people danced in the aisles. When Naiika sings, said one post, magic happens. In her debut album, the Haitian-American singer-songwriter demonstrates to the world why her sultry mix of soul and style has already attracted the attention of millions, including 50 Cent, Ledisi, and many more. naiika-sings.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841538813-7U1HH17PLP4JA68YJZ9N/image-asset.jpeg 2024 Instructors + Staff (M-Z) - MATT SMITH Since beginning his career in the music world, Matt Smith has been on panels and advisory committees at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, the International Folk Alliance, and the Northeast Regional Folk Alliance. He has worked as a tour manager and sound engineer for the singer-songwriter collaborative, Live From New York (Edie Carey, Teddy Goldstein, Anne Heaton, and Andrew Kerr) and the Celtic band Halali (Hanneke Cassel, Laura Cortese, Lissa Schneckenburger, and Flynn Cohen). Matt has also been a stage emcee at the Falcon Ridge and the Newport Folk Festivals, and he is the managing director of Club Passim and founder of Club Passim's Campfire Festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841538802-DWI1TRPKLFO06722BH5K/Dietrich+Strause.png 2024 Instructors + Staff (M-Z) - Dietrich Strause Dietrich Strause is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has worked extensively as a studio musician, engineer, and producer. 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. He lives part time in London, UK and works as an apprentice luthier at Outlier Workshop. www.dietrichstrause.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841538743-FUO0UVXM0TPXXT7SASSW/ValerieThompsonBlueHeadShot.jpg 2024 Instructors + Staff (M-Z) - Valerie Thompson Valerie Thompson is a Boston-based cellist/composer/songwriter/improviser who has performed nationally and internationally in rock bands, string quartets, pit orchestras, chamber folk ensembles and as a cultural ambassador for the U.S. State Department. A cellist versed in many genres, Valerie currently tours with Laura Cortese & the Dance Cards, the MIDI-Marimba/cello duo, Goli, and Know Orchestra. Valerie holds a Bachelors of Music in Music Performance from the Berklee College of Music and a Masters of Music in Contemporary Improvisation from the New England Conservatory. Film/play composer credits include the A. Jacks (Trusette Entertainment & 3 Legged Bird Productions-2022), Umbrella Stage Company’s Bent (2020), and Bony Lil’s Creation (Extravagant Bedhead Productions-2007.) Fun Fact: You can catch Valerie in the 100th episode of WB’s Gossip Girl. www.valeriethompson.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841538822-ZFURE86YZ5E4RXOREGWG/Timothy+Tucker.jpg 2024 Instructors + Staff (M-Z) - Timothy Tucker 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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841538837-666DHR3BJ2TOPF6RD2BU/image.jpg 2024 Instructors + Staff (M-Z) - Ruth Ungar Ruth Ungar is a multi-dimensional collaborator, touring and recording artist, and event organizer based in the Hudson Valley of NY. This year she and her husband Mike Merenda toured the US and UK with their band The Mammals, toured festivals for a month in Australia as Mike + Ruthy (duo) with their two kids, recorded a new full length studio album to be self-released in 2020, and organized their two annual community music festivals, the Winter Hoot & Summer Hoot at Ashokan. For 40 years Ruth's family has hosted summer traditional music and dance camps at Ashokan, the place that inspired her father, Jay Ungar, to compose his evocative fiddle melody Ashokan Farewell. Ruth is similarly known for eliciting an emotional response from an audience of any size. Her background in theater has also fueled a lifelong fascination with stagecraft, vulnerability, and the beauty of taking risks. http://themammals.love https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841538696-CKAKBB1K0R80UHREBHOB/Jonathan%2BVocke.jpg 2024 Instructors + Staff (M-Z) - Jonathan Vocke Jonathan 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://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841538769-H5F4BH4LRCBU7UXBC8UT/image-asset.jpeg 2024 Instructors + Staff (M-Z) - Naomi Westwater Naomi Westwater is a queer, Black-multiracial singer-songwriter from Massachusetts. Their work combines folk music, poetry, and spirituality. Their hope is that through ritual and storytelling they can aid nature in the end of capitalism and the return of community, creativity, and collective joy. Naomi holds a Master of Music in Contemporary Performance and Production from Berklee College of Music and she is a part of the Club Passim Folk Collective. She was nominated for a 2021 and 2022 Boston Music Award for best singer-songwriter, and has been featured in Under The Radar, WBUR, Vanyaland, WGBH, The Boston Globe, and The Bluegrass Situation. More info @naomiwestwater and www.naomiwestwater.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841538774-6LDBRNDB9IXQ9UB3DDHZ/image-asset.jpeg 2024 Instructors + Staff (M-Z) - Maddie Witler Maddie Witler is a musician currently living in Baltimore, MD. Known mostly for her mandolin playing with groups like Della Mae and the Lonely Heartstring band, she can make meaningful and impressive music on a variety of string instruments. While she has been celebrated as a “shredder” at times, it is her ability to find the gaps in music, and leave space when needed, that gives her a subtle yet deliberate presence in any musical situation. With a deep knowledge and respect for bluegrass, and an awareness of the world and music she grew up around, she synthesizes a sound true to herself, at once traditional and contemporary. Maddie's 2022 debut solo album "Astronaut" showcases her songwriting, singing, and individual style of instrumental arranging. Maddie also loves coffee and has worked as a barista, as well as competed in the 2023 and 2024 US Brewers Cup Competitions. In 2023, she was a member of the Glittercat Barista program where she received training and education from leaders in the coffee industry, focused on the brewer's cup (pour over) competition. https://maddiewitler.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841538690-QMMLLP8N29Q442XJUEMQ/_M1A0232-hi-res+-+Elizabeth+Ziman.jpg 2024 Instructors + Staff (M-Z) - Elizabeth Ziman Elizabeth Ziman, who performs as Elizabeth and the Catapult, is a singer-songwriter from Brooklyn. She's toured with the likes of Sara Bareilles and Kishi Bashi; collaborated with Esperanza Spalding, Gillian Welch, Blake Mills and Ben Folds; scored, with Paul Brill, a variety of international award-winning documentaries including "Trapped," a Peabody winner; and won an Independent Music Award for Songwriting. Her songs have been featured in national television campaigns for Google and Amazon. She recently composed for Sara Bareille’s new show, “Little Voice”. Always writing, Elizabeth has narrowed her vast collection of previously unrecorded material down to her fifth full-length studio album "Sincerely, e”, which she self-produced at home and released on Compass Records in March 2021. https://www.elizabethandthecatapult.com https://www.milesofmusiccamp.com/2023-program-staff daily 0.75 2025-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841541626-ZS13YXT6O43WE8V332HL/image-asset.jpeg 2023 Program Staff - Dinty Child 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, including Rose Cousins and Kris Delmhorst, and even fronting the 15 piece party band, the Funky White Honkies. In 2020, he released his first solo album! www.sessionamericana.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841541729-AJGK37N3HHQ32AC20TWO/47575492_10205648352124625_8223348481767505920_o+-+Luther+Child.jpg 2023 Program Staff - Dinty Child 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, including Rose Cousins and Kris Delmhorst, and even fronting the 15 piece party band, the Funky White Honkies. In 2020, he released his first solo album! www.sessionamericana.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841541718-F71DRVC1QZOD45AVM2MO/Lauren%2BBalthrop%2BHI-RES.jpg 2023 Program Staff - Lauren Balthrop Lauren Balthrop is a multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter born and raised in Alabama where her family gatherings always included sing-alongs of the Everly Brothers, the Andrew Sisters, the Louvin Brothers, and the Beatles. After 10 years making her way in NYC, she heard the siren call of Nashville where she now calls home. Lauren released her 2nd album Things Will Be Different in August of 2022 on Olivia Records. She is also the director of the Nashville branch of Blue Balloon Songwriting School, the NYC originated music school that teaches kids and adults instrument instruction through songwriting. Her big folk-rock band and "small town" with her brother called Balthrop, Alabama toured all across the states to a cultish following. Her 60's inspired girl group, The Bandana Splits, has released two records with songs landing on shows such as HBO's 'Bored to Death' and the re-boot of ‘Magnum P.I.’ She's also toured extensively as a multi-instrumentalist for Elizabeth & the Catapult, Kevin Morby, Michaela Anne and Ximena Sariñana. Lauren is a knitter and tap dancer too! www.laurenbalthrop.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841541710-IX1JAO13GHKWX74XWPE6/Zachariah+Hickman+-+Press+photo+-+Zachariah+Hickman.jpg 2023 Program Staff - Zachariah Hickman Zachariah Hickman is a double bassist, multi-instrumentalist and producer based out of Boston, MA. Originally from Lynchburg, VA, he received his formal training in jazz performance and composition from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. For most of his adult life he has toured with singer-songwriter Josh Ritter, traveling all over the world and recording 9 full-length albums. Currently, he is performing as bassist and musical director for Ray Lamontagne. He has performed at many notable venues and festivals, including Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, Red Rocks, Bonnaroo, Dublin Castle, The Fillmore, and the Royal Albert Hall. With Josh Ritter, he has also performed with the Boston Pops in Symphony Hall, the New York Pops in Central Park, and many other orchestras in Europe and the United States. Television appearances include five David Letterman appearances, Conan O’Brien, Ellen Degeneres, and Late Night with Jools Holland for the BBC. As a producer, Zachariah as made records with a number of talented singers, including Rose Cousins (for which he won a Canadian JUNO award), Mark Erelli, Laura Cortese, Miss Tess, and his own bluegrass band Barnstar! He has also produced and ring-mastered his own circus, released his own brand of mustache wax, and runs a vaudeville style variety show, Zack Hickman’s House of Ill Repute. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841541701-5W0GYLCTJDS8Y87OA768/Timothy+Tucker.jpg 2023 Program Staff - Timothy Tucker 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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841541694-BUDQHQKCN9PRS05TZUDM/image-asset.jpeg 2023 Program Staff - MATT SMITH Since beginning his career in the music world, Matt Smith has been on panels and advisory committees at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, the International Folk Alliance, and the Northeast Regional Folk Alliance. He has worked as a tour manager and sound engineer for the singer-songwriter collaborative, Live From New York (Edie Carey, Teddy Goldstein, Anne Heaton, and Andrew Kerr) and the Celtic band Halali (Hanneke Cassel, Laura Cortese, Lissa Schneckenburger, and Flynn Cohen). Matt has also been a stage emcee at the Falcon Ridge and the Newport Folk Festivals, and he is the managing director of Club Passim and founder of Club Passim's Campfire Festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841541645-WWI8CA2JGVUYTURNDJS3/Clara+Baker.jpg 2023 Program Staff - Clara Baker Clara Baker is an audio engineer/producer/musician from Portland, OR. She works at several full-service recording studios in the Portland area where she records, produces, and mixes music. Clara is passionate about helping songwriters and musicians record their music in a unique and authentic way that captures the emotional essence of each song. As both a singer-songwriter and an audio professional, Clara brings a unique perspective to the recording process. In her sessions, she strives to create a safe and welcoming space for artists to share their stories and create meaningful art. Clara is a member of SoundGirls, and is committed to transforming the culture of recording studios. This will be her 5th year at Miles of Music! www.clarabakermusic.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841541684-A4VVVY9XM9I0NGIJ4HJ1/Dietrich+Strause.png 2023 Program Staff - Dietrich Strause Dietrich Strause is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has worked extensively as a studio musician, engineer, and producer. 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. He lives part time in London, UK and works as an apprentice luthier at Outlier Workshop. www.dietrichstrause.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841541673-B1XM0RV7QXAXWBLNKB72/Thoma+Brown-+ice+guitar.jpg 2023 Program Staff - Thomas Brown Thomas Brown b.1976 Muscle Shoals, AL is a mixed-media artist from Louisville, KY. His stone and wood sculptures can be found in a number of private collections. After an experimental segue into ice sculpture he officially moved to New York in 2008 to work with Okamoto Studio where he was a principal sculptor. Brown has merged his interests in experimental music, performance and art in his works as an ice sculptor and ephemeral artist. Creating opportunity in the face of the pandemic, Brown founded a small business carving animal portraits and miniature sculptures from avocado seeds. In 2022, he competed in a televised sand sculpture contest airing on Canada's CBC Network this summer and has since participated in large scale sculpting projects across the US, the Netherlands, and the Ice Hotel in Quebec City. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841541665-FL667BTVWKRJRTJIFGFW/image-asset.jpeg 2023 Program Staff - Chris Miller Multi-instrumentalist The Chris Miller measures his life in times spent on Three Mile Island and the friendships he’s made there. As your humble storekeep he will connect you with physical merchandise to help you through your time at camp along with tangible “memories" for years to come. His 2021 trio release “The Faux Paws” was named one of the 10 Best Trad Albums of the year by Folk Alley and his Grammy-nominated dance band The Revelers continues to be legendary for their annual throw-downs at Blackpot Camp, Festival, and Cook-off in Southwest Louisiana. He’s also a new dad to a beautiful girl born in October! thefauxpaws.bandcamp.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841541655-DMTFQKFLQO0OF184YZLF/Nelson+Williams+coffee.jpeg 2023 Program Staff - Nelson Williams Nelson Williams is an upright bassist hailing from South Louisiana. Since moving to New Orleans in the summer fo 2020, Nelson is most commonly found in the streets of the city as a common “bassman for hire;” performing with various traditional jazz, roots music and other projects. Nelson is a regular member of award-winning banjoist/fiddlist, Jake Blount’s, touring band. While not on the road or playing in the streets (sometimes literally), Nelson works in the speciality coffee world as a top-notch barista at one of the most well regarded speciality coffee shops in the city, Mammoth Espresso. 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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, including Rose Cousins and Kris Delmhorst, and even fronting the 15 piece party band, the Funky White Honkies. In 2020, he released his first solo album! www.sessionamericana.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841547813-NGBKTBNA7XDRCOGW25PD/47575492_10205648352124625_8223348481767505920_o+-+Luther+Child.jpg 2022 Program Staff - Dinty Child 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, including Rose Cousins and Kris Delmhorst, and even fronting the 15 piece party band, the Funky White Honkies. In 2020, he released his first solo album! www.sessionamericana.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841547806-SFYAC2XPD4YLGAKDFFQ7/Lauren%2BBalthrop%2BHI-RES.jpg 2022 Program Staff - Lauren Balthrop Lauren Balthrop is a multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter born and raised in Alabama where her family gatherings always included sing-alongs of the Everly Brothers, the Andrew Sisters, the Louvin Brothers, and the Beatles. After 10 years making her way in NYC, she heard the siren call of Nashville where she now calls home. Lauren released her debut solo album in late 2018 and is currently preparing to release her 2nd album. She partnered with NYC’s Blue Balloon Songwriting School to open her own music school in Nashville where she teaches the young ones to express themselves through songwriting. Her big folk-rock band and "small town" with her brother called Balthrop, Alabama toured all across the states to a cultish following. Her 60's inspired girl group, The Bandana Splits, has released two records with songs landing on shows such as HBO's 'Bored to Death' and the re-boot of ‘Magnum P.I.’ She's also toured extensively as a multi-instrumentalist for Elizabeth & the Catapult, Kevin Morby, Michaela Anne and Ximena Sariñana. Lauren is a knitter and tap dancer too! www.laurenbalthrop.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841547785-G5QKBT00U6VAA1VCFMPM/Zachariah+Hickman+-+Press+photo+-+Zachariah+Hickman.jpg 2022 Program Staff - Zachariah Hickman Zachariah Hickman is a double bassist, multi-instrumentalist and producer based out of Boston, MA. Originally from Lynchburg, VA, he received his formal training in jazz performance and composition from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. For most of his adult life he has toured with singer-songwriter Josh Ritter, traveling all over the world and recording 9 full-length albums. Currently, he is performing as bassist and musical director for Ray Lamontagne. He has performed at many notable venues and festivals, including Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, Red Rocks, Bonnaroo, Dublin Castle, The Fillmore, and the Royal Albert Hall. With Josh Ritter, he has also performed with the Boston Pops in Symphony Hall, the New York Pops in Central Park, and many other orchestras in Europe and the United States. Television appearances include five David Letterman appearances, Conan O’Brien, Ellen Degeneres, and Late Night with Jools Holland for the BBC. As a producer, Zachariah as made records with a number of talented singers, including Rose Cousins (for which he won a Canadian JUNO award), Mark Erelli, Laura Cortese, Miss Tess, and his own bluegrass band Barnstar! He has also produced and ring-mastered his own circus, released his own brand of mustache wax, and runs a vaudeville style variety show, Zack Hickman’s House of Ill Repute. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841547794-JJY6F7MYTFDNWK1N4ELU/Timothy+Tucker.jpg 2022 Program Staff - Timothy Tucker 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 three culinary training programs for low-income populations in Louisville, Miami, FL,and in Boston, MA, where he resides now. 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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841547769-HQUWUPARGR7L2LLHQ34L/image-asset.jpeg 2022 Program Staff - MATT SMITH Since beginning his career in the music world, Matt Smith has been on panels and advisory committees at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, the International Folk Alliance, and the Northeast Regional Folk Alliance. He has worked as a tour manager and sound engineer for the singer-songwriter collaborative, Live From New York (Edie Carey, Teddy Goldstein, Anne Heaton, and Andrew Kerr) and the Celtic band Halali (Hanneke Cassel, Laura Cortese, Lissa Schneckenburger, and Flynn Cohen). Matt has also been a stage emcee at the Falcon Ridge and the Newport Folk Festivals, and he is the managing director of Club Passim and founder of Club Passim's Campfire Festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841547775-RUH7KGZBB927TWEOHBAS/Dietrich+Strause.png 2022 Program Staff - Dietrich Strause Dietrich Strause is a multi-instrumentalist from Cambridge, Massachusetts. His songs are a mix of timeless melody, literate lyricism, and a "virtuosic command of imagery.” (The Artery, WBUR) In less than one year, Strause released two albums -- How Cruel That Hunger Binds and Dietrich Strause & The Blue Ribbons -- proving to be one of the most prolific and eclectic writers and performers coming out of New England. He has taught songwriting at the Passim School of Music, played piano for English balladeer Sam Lee, recorded and produced an album of Chinese children’s songs, all the while touring the US and UK supporting folk luminaries such as Anais Mitchell, Sarah Jarosz, and more. Dietrich is an apprentice guitar builder at Outlier Workshop in Cambridge. www.dietrichstrause.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841547763-3Z6FIZ7GDKZ965O4OR7M/Thoma+Brown-+ice+guitar.jpg 2022 Program Staff - Thomas Brown Thomas Brown is a mixed media artist and an occasional songbird. Originally from Muscle Shoals, Alabama and raised up in Louisville, Kentucky, he has now been based in New York City since 2008 working as an ice sculptor. In addition to ice sculptures, Thomas creates environmental art installations, and has collaborated on music videos with Anna and Elizabeth, Cuddle Magic, and Star Rover. Through his collaboration with his mentor, Takeo Okamoto, and Okamoto Studio, Thomas had had the opportunity to show his work in many of the great venues of NYC, including the MET, the MoMA, Guggenheim, Lincoln Center, MSG, Central Park, Columbus Circle, WTC, Rockefeller Center, NY Botanical Gardens, the House of Love, and many more. Sculpture has also given him the opportunity to travel to Japan, and the Middle East, and around the U.S.. He has been featured along with the studio on Iron Chef American three times. Thomas’ passion for working with ephemeral elements and for performing are exemplified during live carving exhibitions for the public to enjoy. These works invite the audience to embrace the experiential aspect of witnessing the creation of impermanent art objects and to be mindful of the moment as they change and disappear. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841547820-OUGDQJW2MNA0IWBC8H9R/image-asset.jpeg 2022 Program Staff - Chris Miller Multi-instrumentalist The Chris Miller measures his life in times spent on Three Mile Island and the friendships he’s made there. He’s never missed a year of MoM and as your humble storekeep he will connect you with physical merchandise to help you through your time at camp along with tangible “memories" for years to come. His 2021 trio release “The Faux Paws” was named one of the 10 Best Trad Albums of the year by Folk Alley and his Grammy-nominated dance band The Revelers continues to be legendary for their annual throw-downs at Blackpot Camp, Festival, and Cook-off in Southwest Louisiana. The Paws will have a fresh EP by camp with the addition of Zoe Guigueno on bass. thefauxpawsmusic.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841547754-13LI9IA2RDFGTKF4EGSO/Nelson+Williams+coffee.jpeg 2022 Program Staff - Nelson Williams Nelson Williams is an upright bassist hailing from South Louisiana. Since moving to New Orleans in the summer fo 2020, Nelson is most commonly found in the streets of the city as a common “bassman for hire;” performing with various traditional jazz, roots music and other projects. Nelson is a regular member of award-winning banjoist/fiddlist, Jake Blount’s, touring band. While not on the road or playing in the streets (sometimes literally), Nelson works in the speciality coffee world as a top-notch barista at one of the most well regarded speciality coffee shops in the city, Mammoth Espresso. He is excited to return to the island and share in all things music and caffeine! https://www.milesofmusiccamp.com/2023-instructors daily 0.75 2025-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841550624-4R83J0X3392A02RGOOXZ/image-asset.jpeg 2023 Instructors - ALLIE CHIPKIN Allie Chipkin is a Registered Vinyasa Yoga teacher with a variegated background in songwriting, dance, poetry, Spanish, and travel. Allie first delved into yoga for the physical benefits; however, she quickly realized how meditative movement and breathwork could calm the mind and reveal to her the joy in each passing moment. Allie loves helping students access the power of presence during her class. She infuses poetry, music, and play into each breath of her sequences. Allie intends for her students to leave feeling inspired, spacious, and, most importantly, grateful to call their bodies “home.” Namaste! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841550678-LBC4JLGV3KBVQ855BAQ4/AsteriskMusic-14.jpeg 2023 Instructors - ALLIE CHIPKIN Allie Chipkin is a Registered Vinyasa Yoga teacher with a diverse background in songwriting, dance, poetry, comedy, and travel. Allie first dove into yoga for the physical benefits; however, she quickly realized how meditative movement could calm her mind and reveal the joy in each passing moment. Allie loves helping students access the power of presence during class. She infuses poetry, music, and play into each breath of her sequences. Allie intends for her students to leave feeling inspired, spacious, and, most importantly, grateful to call their bodies “home.” Namaste! www.alliechipkin.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841550777-1R9YEZ9T7BPH0Q89SD9Y/DSC_2511_websize.jpg 2023 Instructors - Becky Hill Becky Hill is a percussive dancer, Appalachian square dance caller, choreographer, and educator. She is a 2018 OneBeat alumna, a 2021 Strathmore Artist-in-Residence, and 2022 Artist-in-Residence at the John C. Campbell Folk School. Driven by curiosity, ongoingness and experimentation, Hill devises sonic landscapes that break the boundaries between music and dance. Bodies become instruments and intricate choreographies yield sound within her choreography. Becky believes there is always more to learn and is dedicated to creative innovative choreography tethered to traditional music and dance. www.rebeccahill.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841550661-RFGTX7EMKP8FP7DTAJFV/charlie+smile+banjo+NPFF.JPG 2023 Instructors - Charlie Rose Poly-Instrumentalist, songwriter, producer Charlie Rose (Elephant Revival, Barnstar!) has been part of the the Sub Rosa Songwriting retreat and Miles of Music camp for over a decade on Three Mile Island. Is it the sweet sound that calls the young sailor? The sirens of Winnepesaukee might be one and the same. You can join Charlie’s crew on the blue 'Bamjo' weather permitting. Pin him down for a music lesson on banjo, guitar, bass, or almost any other instrument and have him play pedal steel on your band in a box session. If you’re headed to Coffee & Tunes, make yourself a waffle and visit the camp espresso bar for a cup of the organic arabica coffee that he roasts for his start-up, Beanjo Coffee, in Lyons, CO. www.charlierosemusic.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841550702-GAJ0L0IO29MWMLEH06AU/image+-+Chris+Eldridge.png 2023 Instructors - Chris Eldridge As a member of Punch Brothers since the band's inception, guitarist Chris Eldridge has been at the vanguard of acoustic music for much of the past decade. Although initially drawn to the electric guitar, by his mid-teens Chris Eldridge had developed a deep love for acoustic music, thanks in part to his father, a banjo player and founding member of the seminal bluegrass group The Seldom Scene. Eldridge later gained in-depth exposure to a variety of different musical styles while studying at Oberlin Conservatory, where he earned a degree in music performance in 2004. During his time at Oberlin, Eldridge studied with legendary guitarist Tony Rice. After graduating he joined the Seldom Scene with whom he received a Grammy nomination in 2007. In 2005 he founded the critically acclaimed bluegrass band The Infamous Stringdusters. At the 2007 International Bluegrass Music Association awards Eldridge and his Stringdusters bandmates won Emerging artist of the Year, Song of the Year, and Album of the Year for their debut album, Fork in the Road. Meanwhile, in 2005 he had caught the attention of mandolinist Chris Thile, who enlisted him, along with banjoist Noam Pikelny, violinist Gabe Witcher, and bassist Greg Garrison to start working on an ambitious side project. Soon after they decided to focus all of their collective energies into band and Punch Brothers was born. The band has since released 6 critically acclaimed albums, received 6 Grammy nominations and toured around the world. www.chriseldridge.net https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841550770-SFBYIWMLEUJC4746048T/Crys+Matthews.jpg 2023 Instructors - Crys Matthews A troubadour of truth, Nashville resident Crys Matthews is among the brightest stars of the new generation of social justice music-makers. An award-winning, prolific lyricist and composer, Matthews blends Americana, folk, blues, and bluegrass into a bold, complex performance steeped in traditional melodies punctuated by honest, original lyrics. She is made for these times. Of Matthews, ASCAP VP & Creative Director Eric Philbrook says, “By wrapping honest emotions around her socially conscious messages and dynamically delivering them with a warm heart and a strong voice, she lifts our spirits just when we need it most in these troubled times.” Justin Hiltner of Bluegrass Situation adds, her gift is a "reminder of what beauty can occur when we bridge those divides." Her hope-fueled, love-filled, social-justice album called Changemakers was released March 26, 2021, and the title track was named the International Folk Music Association's "Song of the Year". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841550720-H79QNVDD1IY6TPQLQH25/image-asset.jpeg 2023 Instructors - Gabriella Simpkins Gabriella Simpkins is an award-winning singer-songwriter, composer, and musician hailing from Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Originally a hobbyist classical autist and incidental songwriter and arranger, Simpkins began to focus more seriously on a career in music in her freshman year of college. She originally planned to study biology and go to medical school to avoid the economic instability of an arts career, but very quickly realized that a STEM career gave her no sense of fulllment of purpose. Instead of doing homework, she would spend many nights teaching herself to play the guitar and reading voraciously about songwriting and music theory. She would regularly practice in three-to-four-hour sessions and study the lyrics of indie rock and folk legends like Elliott Smith, Nick Drake, and Sufjan Stevens. She began to devote most of her free time to songwriting and composing arrangements for her songs, and began playing original songs as a solo artist at local open mics and events on Cape Cod with encouragement from friends. Gabriella’s undergraduate studies are now focused in music theory and composition, which has greatly enhanced the cerebral quality of her songwriting and brought to life the depth of her lyricism. An avid student of Impressionism, her songs, instrumentals, and art music are rife with complex harmonies, unshakable melodies, and clever metaphors, all rolled together with hints of very successfully integrated teenage vulnerability. Currently, Gabriella performs regularly in the Boston area and works as a freelance composer while nishing her undergraduate studies at Salem State University. She has won awards from the Cape-based Eventide Theater Company for her songwriting and received grants from the esteemed Club Passim to support her creative journey. Follow her on Facebook https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841550648-4CSMATKPK3VEKCWNCEHD/Mure-0019.jpg 2023 Instructors - Emily Mure Emily Mure is a singer-songwriter, creative coach, and teacher, dedicated to making authentic work and inspiring others to do the same. Growing up on Roosevelt Island in New York City, Emily honed her songwriting skills while studying music at Ithaca College and busking on the streets of Galway, Ireland. Her passion for emotionally raw Irish songwriting and the electric anti-folk scene in New York City fueled her to create her own music. Over the past fifteen years, Emily has released three full-length albums and a covers EP, which have been recognized in numerous songwriting competitions and featured on major networks. Her music and writing have been an outlet for her own creativity and her commitment to helping others deepen their creativity has been a natural extension of her work. Emily has been coaching creative clients of all kinds for the past five years, drawing on her background in psychology, training in mindfulness meditation, and experience teaching private music and songwriting. She has been a proud member of Miles of Music Camp for the last ten years and feels grateful for the support of its wonderful community. http://www.emilymure.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841550693-VJDL18L0V2U0JVGJ5GKE/image-asset.jpeg 2023 Instructors - James Paul Mitchell 10 years ago, James Paul Mitchell hopped off a tour van in Denver with nothing but a guitar, an amp, and a suitcase. It was here that he would gain expansive and diverse musical experience, eventually leading to his raw, atmospheric solo project. Carrying on the Grateful Dead legacy he performed with supergroup Imagine featuring Ray White (Frank Zappa) and Melvin Seals (Jerry Garcia Band), he studied North Indian classical music, produced a record for indie folk band called Cardinal and began dipping his toe into his own artistry. James eventually made Nashville his home base as a touring and recording musician, releasing Was Sad Before it Was Cool in August 2019. His next record album, Breakup Record, showcased a more personal, surrendered facet of his artistry. Varied and vulnerable, these songs - each made with a different producer - showcase James’ emotional specificity and descriptive storytelling that pulls the listener into their focal heartbeat. Against the backdrop of complementary, moody guitars, James pulls you into these places, circumstances and stories. https://www.jamespaulmitchell.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841550655-YVOI480BPLL1XMSG1CFO/image-asset.jpeg 2023 Instructors - Lauren Horbal Lauren Horbal is a professional touring and studio drummer based in Nashville, TN. She started her musical journey in 1996 and began teaching in 2003. Although she has a heavily rock influenced background, Lauren is currently focused on Americana and folk styles of playing and hopes to one day be known as “The Quietest Drummer in Nashville”. Lauren is originally from Connecticut and relocated to Tennessee in 2012 to pursue a music career. While in town, she has had the privilege of working with Rachel Baiman, Bakithi Kumalo (Paul Simon), Morgan Jahnig (Old Crow Medicine Show), Liv Greene, and The Hardin Draw. She is the musical director for queer rock band Fame & Fiction. Her main missions as a performer as well as a teacher is to be an inspiration to girls who want to become drummers, and to anyone at any age to pick up sticks and start playing. www.laurenhorbal.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841550738-45HPW0WW9KKA6S4F77NN/Lizzy+Ross+vertical.jpeg 2023 Instructors - Lizzy Ross Lizzy Ross is a singer-songwriter, visual artist, and co-founder of the original Americana group Violet Bell. Lizzy spent her childhood drawing and paddling through the marshes of the Chesapeake. Life brought her south to NC, where she stumbled upon mountain folk who gathered over Sunday potlucks to sing together. Her solitary musical experiments grew community roots, and she started performing her original music in a band under her own name. Eleven years and seven albums later, Lizzy’s still humming and rhyming. She’s a dirt-loving lazy gardener who’s deeply curious about both literal and emotional composting. Lizzy’s art and music explore human connections to the mystical and natural world, healing intergenerational trauma, and the myths and archetypes that frame our past and hold the vision for our collective future. www.violetbell.net https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841550668-X29EOLUDN5U3LPXKPHDO/unnamed.jpg 2023 Instructors - Naiika Sings After quitting her job in real estate five years ago, Naiika Sings bought a microphone and amplifier and took to performing on subway platforms and trains along the A, D and E lines. Her unplanned performances were based, she says, on the energy subway commuters were giving her that day. Two years ago, a video of her posted by a rider on social media went viral as millions watched a packed train of commuters lose their inhibitions in a spontaneous sing-along. In other videos people danced in the aisles. When Naiika sings, said one post, magic happens. In her debut album, the Haitian-American singer-songwriter demonstrates to the world why her sultry mix of soul and style has already attracted the attention of millions, including 50 Cent, Ledisi, and many more. naiika-sings.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841550641-R86VBKOLS8MMXS5GC0R9/NaomiSommersPic.jpg 2023 Instructors - Naomi Sommers Naomi Sommers grew up in a musical family, performing and recording with her family band, playing classical flute, singing jazz and blues, along with the folk/bluegrass standards she learned from her parents. (The Sommers Rosenthal Family Band included bluegrass musician father Phil Rosenthal, bass-playing mom Beth Sommers, and jazz-bluegrass trumpeter-brother Daniel Rosenthal.) After starting her singer-songwriter career in Boston, Naomi recorded an ablum of original songs in Nashville with producer Jim Rooney (John Prine, Nanci Griffith). Then came that “lost decade” in her 30s when Naomi moved to Germany for 9 years, and came back with three kids, two cats and a deeper appreciation of gray skies. Since 2015, Naomi has lived in Ithaca, NY, taking care of kids and teaching music, songwriting, plant-based cooking and nutrition in Ithaca city schools. Her most recent musical project is an album co-produced and performed with Jefferson Hamer, recorded in Naomi’s family studio in Connecticut. Most relevant to the class she will be co-facilitating (with Emily Mure) at Miles of Music this year, Naomi is currently studying for a Masters of Social Work and has devoted the last several years to studying and developing somatic and creative healing practices – some of which we will explore in class. These include therapeutic journaling & expressive writing, breathwork and meditation, and simple movement routines that include physical therapy, core & strength training, yoga, lymphatic release techniques. http://www.naomisommers.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841550784-XM752FSDR0693MLZAG2U/Nokosee+Fields.jpeg 2023 Instructors - Nokosee Fields Over the last few years, musician, artist, and collaborator Nokosee Fields has proven himself to be one of the most provocative, significant, and capable voices in the North American traditional music scene. A quest for balance shapes his work, whether he’s reconciling the weight of tradition with his creative impulses; challenging the demands and vacuity of colonialist, capitalist structures and systems with the richness of his experience and upbringing as a member of the Osage, Creek and Cherokee Nations; or simply anchoring the beat in the rhythmic push and pull of the multiple bands in which he works. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841550745-G3GDXWL77SNYR1LPGP3E/Omar+Ruiz-Lopez.jpeg 2023 Instructors - Omar Ruiz-Lopez Omar Ruiz-Lopez is a bilingual songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and co-founder of the original Americana group Violet Bell. Omar was born in Panama and raised in Puerto Rico with Spanish as his first language. His love of music began at an early age thanks to his father's frequent renditions of traditional Caribbean folk songs. Omar is a composer at heart, and is experienced in music performance, production and engineering. The diversity of his own experience as a multi-genre musician and Latine immigrant helps him connect with diverse international audiences. When not playing the fiddle or swinging a guitar around, he enjoys cooking, dog-petting and reading fantasy and fiction when life gets too heavy. If you see him talking to himself, don’t worry; he’s just working it out! www.violetbell.net https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841550818-5QP6HL76FM9MEHZOZGRQ/image-asset.jpeg 2023 Instructors - Rachel Garcia Rachel Garcia is a singer, poet, and songwriter, and performs as one half of the duo, The Singer and The Songwriter. An accomplished poet, her work has been published in anthologies from the Marin Poetry Center and Redwood Writers. As a singer, her evocative alto voice is rooted in ease and precision, with focus on vocal health and sustainability. She has toured and performed across the US and released 3 albums with The Singer and The Songwriter and will release a full-length LP in 2023. www.thesingerandthesongwriter.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841550687-0JL1B59RCX83C3W4UFLD/image-asset.jpeg 2023 Instructors - Ray Rizzo Ray Rizzo is a drummer, composer, vocalist and producer who has recorded and/or performed with Bob Weir, King Kong, Dawn Landes, Glen Hansard, Josh Ritter, Julia Stone, Danger Mouse, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Mark Erelli, Anais Mitchell, David Pajo, Bridget St. John, Doveman/Thomas Bartlett, Ben Folds, Sam Cohen, David Wax Museum, Trixie Whitley, Rhett Miller, Lady Rizo, Days Of The New, Chocolate Genius, James Rado, Mx. Justin Vivian Bond, Emmylou Harris, Daniel Lanois and Yo Yo Ma. He has collaborated with playwrights and developed works for theater, receiving a 2007 Drama Desk nomination for Best Music in A Play (Adam Rapp's Essential Self-Defense) and performing in the company for New York Shakespeare Festival's 2009 production of Twelfth Night in Central Park with Audra McDonald, Raul Esparsa and Anne Hathaway, featuring music by the band HEM. Ray has founded many bands and musical projects in which he does any combination of drumming, writing, and singing, including the Louisville KY-based instrumental trio Java Men which will celebrate 30 years of existence in 2022. Ray is the founder of Motherlodge, which presents live events and assists bands, artists, and organizations with booking, management, and organization of performances and community events. He is also the creator and producer of On What Grounds, a podcast based in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn NY that explores property rights and coexistence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841550806-A7FEKR7QJS23IKIZGCFD/image-asset.png 2023 Instructors - Riley Calcagno Riley Calcagno is a fiddle, banjo, and guitar player, originally from Seattle, Washington. He grew up going to fiddle festivals and camps on the west coast, where he soaked up old-time music as he ran amongst jams and learned from older masters of the style. At age 7, he co-founded The Onlies, a stringband that is somehow still playing and performing together. In 2018, the band released a collaborative record with mentors and friends John Herrmann and Meredith McIntosh as the band The Ruglifters. Riley also plays in a duo with guitar player and singer, Vivian Leva. They released a critically acclaimed album of original songs on Free Dirt Records in 2021 and were named one of NPR Slingshot's Artists to Watch in 2022. Riley is an experienced teacher and has a passion and patience for passing along tradition and technique. He currently resides in Durham, North Carolina. www.theonlies.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841550729-ECA4236FMJVL3UJLZ9PA/image0.jpeg 2023 Instructors - RUBY JOHN Ruby John is a Traditional Fiddler and a member of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa Chippewa Indians from Northern Michigan. Ruby learned to fiddle the traditional way by ear, listening to and learning from experienced fiddlers while attending OFMA Jamborees (Old-Time Michigan Fiddlers Association), TC Celtic Sessions, Algomatrad Traditional Music and Dance camp (St. Joseph Island ON), Elder Youth Legacy Métis Collective and Bluegrass Festivals. Ruby has performed her traditional fiddling throughout the US and Canada and looks forward to sharing this music she loves with others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841550793-RAE72X6TLMZJ16V121GT/Sami+Braman.jpg 2023 Instructors - Sami Braman Sami Braman has been playing the fiddle since she was 6 years old, coming up amid the music festivals and jamming communities of the Pacific Northwest’s vibrant traditional old-time music scene. At 8 she and her long-time musical buddies Leo Shannon and Riley Calcagno formed The Onlies, which plays at festivals and gigs around the country and whose traditional old-time sound they further refined in 2016 with the addition of acclaimed folk musician Vivian Leva. The won the Clifftop Traditional Stringband Contest in 2017, and again in 2019 as "The Ruglifters." Sami is a buoyant, intuitive, and versatile fiddler who values deep understanding of the stories behind the tunes and seeks inspiration from historically marginalized artists. Sami now teaches and performs across the U.S., primarily with The Onlies and Willie Watson. She has appeared on stage alongside Watchhouse, Laurie Lewis, Bruce Molsky, Elvis Costello, Darol Anger, and Pharis & Jason Romero. In her tune-writing, Sami melds creativity with tradition, producing a number of tunes which have made their way into festival sessions across the country. In her teaching, she brings positive engagement and a high standard that encourages and challenges students. Sami recently moved to Nashville, TN, to pursue music full-time, and is working on an album of original tunes. To all her projects Sami brings joyful energy, a driving bow, and an abiding love for the traditional music community which formed her. www.theonlies.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841550711-BOQNMPJ40DUBT8PFZ9NW/Shane+Leonard.jpeg 2023 Instructors - Shane Leonard Shane Leonard is a record producer, musician, mix engineer, and songwriter who lives in Eau Claire, WI. Equally at home in an indie rock band as he is in an old time stringband, those who work with Shane (Mipso, Field Report, Rose Cousins, Stray Birds, Larry Campbell) know him as a studio/live swiss army knife, helping their sound to evolve past previous benchmarks. NPR and Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) have praised his production with descriptors like "goosebumps inducing" (NPR Music), "a monster musician" (Justin Vernon) and "exquisite" (Paste Magazine). Anna Tivel, Humbird, J.E. Sunde and others have entrusted multiple albums to his care; they reside alongside multiple releases of his own music - the most recent being Strange Forms (2019). www.shaneleonardmusic.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841550830-PVULTMJ2QPMKKQOWQHK3/Thu+Tran.jpg 2023 Instructors - THU TRAN Thu Tran is a guitarist and songwriter and one half of the duo The Singer and The Songwriter. He is a self-taught guitarist that blends fingerstyle, clawhammer guitar, and flatpicking for a hybrid style that is uniquely his own. His approach to guitar encourages curiosity over correctness, and keeps the love of music at the heart of his teaching. As part of The Singer and The Songwriter, he has toured and performed all across the US and released 3 albums of music, with a full-length LP due out later in 2023. www.thesingerandthesongwriter.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841550755-GK3H2Z2BKQVVJJY4Z1M4/ValerieThompsonBlueHeadShot.jpg 2023 Instructors - Valerie Thompson Valerie Thompson is a Boston-based cellist/composer/songwriter/improviser who has performed nationally and internationally in rock bands, string quartets, pit orchestras, chamber folk ensembles and as a cultural ambassador for the U.S. State Department. A cellist versed in many genres, Valerie currently tours with Laura Cortese & the Dance Cards, the MIDI-Marimba/cello duo, Goli, and Know Orchestra. Valerie holds a Bachelors of Music in Music Performance from the Berklee College of Music and a Masters of Music in Contemporary Improvisation from the New England Conservatory. Film/play composer credits include the A. Jacks (Trusette Entertainment & 3 Legged Bird Productions-2022), Umbrella Stage Company’s Bent (2020), and Bony Lil’s Creation (Extravagant Bedhead Productions-2007.) Fun Fact: You can catch Valerie in the 100th episode of WB’s Gossip Girl. www.valeriethompson.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841550799-6A7FWRNHJR9X0RKGE7KB/Vivian+Leva-+Passim.jpg 2023 Instructors - Vivian Leva Vivian Leva was born and raised in Lexington, Virginia by respected old-time musicians James Leva and Carol Elizabeth Jones. She spent all of her summers at regional fiddlers conventions and camps developing her singing, songwriting, and guitar playing from a young age. Since 2016, she has toured across the U.S. with her old time stringband, The Onlies, and has performed across the U.S., Canada, and U.K. with her duo Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno. She has also released two albums of original music to critical acclaim. Along the way, Vivian has taught at camps across North America including Nimblefingers, Fiddle Tunes, and Big Sur Fiddle Camp. She currently resides in Durham, NC. www.theonlies.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841550762-6CHCNQNC8BG6IAT1HT69/Zoe+Guigueno.JPG 2023 Instructors - Zoe Guigueno Zoe Guigueno (GIG-an-oh) is a bassist & songwriter living in New York City and on Vancouver Island. She is an alumnus of Della Mae, Joy Kills Sorrow, and Fish & Bird, and a current touring member of Laura Cortese & the Dance Cards, Michael Winograd & the Honorable Mentshn, and the Faux Paws. 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The Bright Siders’ A Mind of Your Own (Smithsonian Folkways) was created with psychiatrist Dr. Kari Groff and features the voices of Ed Helms, The War & Treaty, Gaby Moreno, Punch Brothers, and many more. The album won a National Parenting Product Award and followed up on Kristin’s first kids’ radio hit, the song “Crayola Doesn’t Make a Color for Your Eyes.” Kristin has toured and recorded with the stringband Uncle Earl, the “folk noir” trio Sometymes Why, the percussive dance company Footworks, and NYC’s anti-folk superhero Jeffrey Lewis. She’s had the honor of recording with producers John Paul Jones, Dirk Powell, Mark Schatz, José Ayerve, Robin MacMillan, and Shane Leonard (coming soon!). One favorite MoM-inspired collaboration is this video for her song “How the Water Walks” — written on the island and filmed with shadow puppets by Anna Roberts-Gevalt. After graduating from McGill University, Kristin apprenticed with community economic development pioneer Father Greg MacLeod at Cape Breton University. Now based in Nashville, she survived the arts armageddon known as “The Pandemic” by managing a small construction company. www.kristinandreassen.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841574480-B8IAIE81H00YX2HR3O2P/static1.squarespace-1.jpg Program Staff - Kristin Andreassen Kristin Andreassen’s most recent release is an album of children’s music about emotions. The Bright Siders’ A Mind of Your Own (Smithsonian Folkways) was created with psychiatrist Dr. Kari Groff and features the voices of Ed Helms, The War & Treaty, Gaby Moreno, Punch Brothers, Kaîa Kater, and many more. Chosen as one of 2020’s top three children’s releases by the American Library Association, the album followed up on Kristin’s first kids’ radio hit – a song called “Crayola Doesn’t Make a Color for Your Eyes.” Kristin has toured and recorded with the stringband Uncle Earl, the “folk noir” trio Sometymes Why, the percussive dance company Footworks, and NYC’s anti-folk superhero Jeffrey Lewis. She’s had the honor of recording with producers John Paul Jones, Dirk Powell, Mark Schatz, José Ayerve, Robin MacMillan, and Shane Leonard (coming soon!). One favorite MoM-inspired collaboration is this video — created by Anna Roberts-Gevalt — which uses shadow puppets and body percussion to show “How the Water Walks.” Kristin studied community development at McGill University and in rural Canada, and she finds that experience relevant to her work building an empowering musical community here. She now lives in Nashville. www.kristinandreassen.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841574471-APE090GD2I3NWOCOS0ZB/static1.squarespace.jpg Program Staff - Laura Cortese Laura Cortese has built a distinguished career as an Americana fiddler, songwriter and vocalist. She is now one of the most in-demand musical collaborators on the folk circuit. She grew up in San Francisco, CA and moved to Boston, MA to study at Berklee College of Music, immersing herself in the city's vibrant indie music scene and enjoying a busy touring-and-studio career which included appearances with Band of Horses at Carnegie Hall and Pete Seeger at Newport Folk Festival. She tours internationally with her band, the Dance Cards. The group is bold and elegant, schooled in the lyrical rituals of folk music and backed by grooves that alternatively inspire Cajun two-stepping and rock ’n’ roll hip swagger. Laura Cortese & the Dance Cards have appeared at venues and festivals throughout the US, UK, Sweden, Canada, India, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Estonia, Montenegro, Greece and Bangladesh pairing sophisticated string arrangements (two fiddles, cello & bass) and rich vocal harmonies with poignant and powerful singing. www.thisislauracortese.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841574505-1Z61RQ6PAFLMR7GA3ESZ/Lauren%2BBalthrop%2BHI-RES.jpg Program Staff - Lauren Balthrop Lauren Balthrop is a multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter born and raised in Alabama where her family gatherings always included sing-alongs of the Everly Brothers, the Andrew Sisters, the Louvin Brothers, and the Beatles. After 10 years making her way in NYC, she heard the siren call of Nashville where she now calls home. Lauren released her 2nd album Things Will Be Different in August of 2022 on Olivia Records. She is also the director of the Nashville branch of Blue Balloon Songwriting School, the NYC originated music school that teaches kids and adults instrument instruction through songwriting. Her big folk-rock band and "small town" with her brother called Balthrop, Alabama toured all across the states to a cultish following. Her 60's inspired girl group, The Bandana Splits, has released two records with songs landing on shows such as HBO's 'Bored to Death' and the re-boot of ‘Magnum P.I.’ She's also toured extensively as a multi-instrumentalist for Elizabeth & the Catapult, Kevin Morby, Michaela Anne and Ximena Sariñana. Lauren is a knitter and tap dancer too! www.laurenbalthrop.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841574487-031L5UY2M8MH2IFIBRLR/Clara+Baker.jpg Program Staff - Clara Baker Clara Baker is an audio engineer/producer/musician from Portland, OR. She works at several full-service recording studios in the Portland area where she records, produces, and mixes music. Clara is passionate about helping songwriters and musicians record their music in a unique and authentic way that captures the emotional essence of each song. As both a singer-songwriter and an audio professional, Clara brings a unique perspective to the recording process. In her sessions, she strives to create a safe and welcoming space for artists to share their stories and create meaningful art. Clara is a member of SoundGirls, and is committed to transforming the culture of recording studios. This will be her 5th year at Miles of Music! www.clarabakermusic.com https://www.milesofmusiccamp.com/bandinabox2015 daily 0.75 2025-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841575577-KL21LUPHJ0EXT2NZE8LS/060813_MoM_027.jpg Band in a Box 2015 https://www.milesofmusiccamp.com/2025programstaff daily 0.75 2026-01-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841581452-1FTQ1E5U38Q6SMMR8H1N/image-asset.jpeg 2025 Program Staff - Kristin Andreassen Kristin Andreassen’s most recent release is an album of children’s music about emotions. The Bright Siders’ A Mind of Your Own (Smithsonian Folkways) was created with psychiatrist Dr. Kari Groff and features the voices of Ed Helms, The War & Treaty, Gaby Moreno, Punch Brothers, and many more. The album won a National Parenting Product Award and followed up on Kristin’s first kids’ radio hit, the song “Crayola Doesn’t Make a Color for Your Eyes.” Kristin has toured and recorded with the stringband Uncle Earl, the “folk noir” trio Sometymes Why, the percussive dance company Footworks, and NYC’s anti-folk superhero Jeffrey Lewis. She’s had the honor of recording with producers John Paul Jones, Dirk Powell, Mark Schatz, José Ayerve, Robin MacMillan, and Shane Leonard (coming soon!). One favorite MoM-inspired collaboration is this video for her song “How the Water Walks” — written on the island and filmed with shadow puppets by Anna Roberts-Gevalt. After graduating from McGill University, Kristin apprenticed with community economic development pioneer Father Greg MacLeod at Cape Breton University. Now based in Nashville, she survived the arts armageddon known as “The Pandemic” by managing a small construction company. www.kristinandreassen.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841581475-P06RI34MABMRSAU0SZ9E/static1.squarespace-1.jpg 2025 Program Staff - Kristin Andreassen Kristin Andreassen has songwriting credits on two albums with 2024 GRAMMY nominations – Mighty Poplar’s self-titled debut (up for Best Bluegrass Album) and Andrew & Polly’s Ahhhh! (Kristin co-wrote the title track on this candidate for Best Children’s Album). Her own most recent release was The Bright Siders’ A Mind of Your Own (Smithsonian Folkways), which is for kids, about emotions, and was created and co-produced with psychiatrist Dr. Kari Groff and Chris Eldridge (Punch Brothers). Chosen as one of 2020’s top three children’s releases by the American Library Association, this album followed up on Kristin’s first #1 kids’ radio hit – a song called “Crayola Doesn’t Make a Color for Your Eyes.” In the world of “grown-up music”, Kristin has toured and recorded with the stringband Uncle Earl, the vocal trio Sometymes Why, the percussive dance company Footworks (as a clogger), and with NYC’s anti-folk superhero Jeffrey Lewis. She’s had the honor of recording with producers John Paul Jones, Dirk Powell, Mark Schatz, José Ayerve, Robin MacMillan, and Shane Leonard (coming soon, I promise!). One favorite MoM-inspired collaboration is this video — created by Anna Roberts-Gevalt — which uses shadow puppets and body percussion to illustrate “How the Water Walks.” Kristin studied community development at Montreal’s McGill University and in rural Canada, and she uses those skills and then some as she attempts — every day -– to develop a more inclusive and empowering musical community here. She lives in Nashville. www.kristinandreassen.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735938482385-XSAW5PWZQ5G2SXC49F35/Lauren%2BBalthrop%2BHI-RES.jpg 2025 Program Staff - Lauren Balthrop Lauren Balthrop is a multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter born and raised in Alabama where her family gatherings always included sing-alongs of the Everly Brothers, the Andrew Sisters, the Louvin Brothers, and the Beatles. After 10 years making her way in NYC, she heard the siren call of Nashville where she now calls home. Lauren has released 2 albums under own name and is working on her 3rd full length. She is also the director of the Nashville branch of Blue Balloon Songwriting School, the NYC originated music school that teaches kids and adults instrument instruction through songwriting. Her big folk-rock band and "small town" with her brother called Balthrop, Alabama toured all across the states to a cultish following. Her 60's inspired girl group, The Bandana Splits, released two records with songs landing on shows such as HBO's 'Bored to Death' and the re-boot of ‘Magnum P.I.’ She's also toured extensively as a multi-instrumentalist for Elizabeth & the Catapult, Kevin Morby, Michaela Anne and Ximena Sariñana. Lauren is a knitter, crocheter and tap dancer too. www.laurenbalthrop.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841574513-PBW74UU7X7U3GGCGSKYZ/47575492_10205648352124625_8223348481767505920_o+-+Luther+Child.jpg 2025 Program Staff - Dinty Child 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, including Rose Cousins and Kris Delmhorst, and even fronting the 15 piece party band, the Funky White Honkies. In 2020, he released his first solo album! www.sessionamericana.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841574496-6FD0R05HQG55YX966KUX/image-asset.jpeg 2025 Program Staff - Zachariah Hickman Zachariah Hickman is a double bassist, multi-instrumentalist and producer based out of Boston, MA. Originally from Lynchburg, VA, he received his formal training in jazz performance and composition from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. For most of his adult life he has toured with singer-songwriter Josh Ritter, traveling all over the world and recording 9 full-length albums. Currently, he is performing as bassist and musical director for Ray Lamontagne. He has performed at many notable venues and festivals, including Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, Red Rocks, Bonnaroo, Dublin Castle, The Fillmore, and the Royal Albert Hall. With Josh Ritter, he has also performed with the Boston Pops in Symphony Hall, the New York Pops in Central Park, and many other orchestras in Europe and the United States. Television appearances include five David Letterman appearances, Conan O’Brien, Ellen Degeneres, and Late Night with Jools Holland for the BBC. As a producer, Zachariah as made records with a number of talented singers, including Rose Cousins (for which he won a Canadian JUNO award), Mark Erelli, Laura Cortese, Miss Tess, and his own bluegrass band Barnstar! He has also produced and ring-mastered his own circus, released his own brand of mustache wax, and runs a vaudeville style variety show, Zack Hickman’s House of Ill Repute. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735938952338-RGSZ21KBBQMUZWA581QB/DSC03553.jpg 2025 Program Staff - Nelson Williams Hailing from the musically diverse and rich culture of South Louisiana, Nelson’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, Kennedy Center and many other illustrious festivals and halls across the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1737238223399-7LFXGGEPDJ6KUFAL9K78/ccm-200x200-2.jpg 2025 Program Staff - Caroline Campbell McCormick https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841518762-X2OD2KD0H3USI4MEM9GM/Isa+Burke.jpg 2025 Program Staff - Isa Burke Isa Burke is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and producer based between Durham, North Carolina and Portland, Maine. Whether singing harmony vocals, playing traditional fiddle tunes, or crafting spiky yet atmospheric electric guitar sounds, she brings a voracious musical appetite and a spirit of collaboration to a vast array of projects. Raised in a musical family in Maine, Isa soon found her way to Boston, where she studied fiddle and songwriting at Berklee College of Music and dove headfirst into the area's thriving music scene. In 2014 she co-founded the indie-folk band Lula Wiles, which released three albums on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and toured internationally until 2021. Isa has spent recent years building a reputation as a versatile and in-demand collaborator, a musical Swiss Army knife at home in many styles and contexts. She has been touring with Aoife O'Donovan since fall 2021 (earning a nomination for Instrumentalist of the Year at the 2023 Americana Music Awards), and recently became the newest touring member of cult-favorite indie band the Mountain Goats. She has toured and recorded with many other artists including Jake Blount, Darlingside, Mipso, Rosier, the Brother Brothers, Laura Cortese, Kris Delmhorst, Session Americana, Sam Moss, and Liv Greene (whose debut album Isa produced). Isa is also an experienced and devoted music educator, and a longtime member of the Miles of Music community. http://isaburke.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841538756-2196YAJ0UNTVTNQMK0KK/image-asset.jpeg 2025 Program Staff - James Paul Mitchell 15 years ago, James Paul Mitchell hopped off a tour van in Denver with nothing but a guitar, an amp, and a suitcase. It was here that he would gain expansive and diverse musical experience, eventually leading to his raw, atmospheric solo project. Carrying on the Grateful Dead legacy he performed with supergroup Imagine featuring Ray White (Frank Zappa) and Melvin Seals (Jerry Garcia Band), he studied North Indian classical music, produced a record for indie folk band called Cardinal and began dipping his toe into his own artistry. James eventually made Nashville his home base as a touring and recording musician, releasing Was Sad Before it Was Cool in August 2019. His next record album, Breakup Record, showcased a more personal, surrendered facet of his artistry. Varied and vulnerable, these songs - each made with a different producer - showcase James’ emotional specificity and descriptive storytelling that pulls the listener into their focal heartbeat. Against the backdrop of complementary, moody guitars, James pulls you into these places, circumstances and stories. https://www.jamespaulmitchell.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841583916-19FLMCAY2LM4666JFTL3/AsteriskMusic-14.jpg 2025 Program Staff - Allie Chipkin Allie Chipkin is a Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter and aspiring stand up comedian. She runs a business writing custom wedding songs called Give Love Originals and loves to travel, teach/practice yoga, explore various creative mediums, and surf. Allie’s all-time favorite thing to do is laugh. Insta: @alliechip / @giveloveoriginals On the web: www.alliechipkin.com / www.giveloveoriginals.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841583910-1XZA3HSZ7YOLAKFTL29O/Louis%2BApollon%2B10-2.jpg 2025 Program Staff - Louis Apollon Louis Apollon is a Brooklyn-based jazz-folk singer-songwriter whose songs combine an uplifting musicality with a soothing, yet energizing vibe. He is also a multi-instrumentalist and has performed with his trio throughout the New England and NYC areas. He is a proud introvert who enjoys stories, culture, and community. You can find him on Instagram (@louisapollon) and on the web at www.louisapollon.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841583898-KVPVENMZ11DIVPHEDV24/Thu+Tran.jpg 2025 Program Staff - Thu Tran Thu Tran is a guitarist and songwriter and one half of the duo The Singer and The Songwriter. He is a self-taught guitarist that blends fingerstyle, clawhammer guitar, and flatpicking for a hybrid style that is uniquely his own. His approach to guitar encourages curiosity over correctness, and keeps the love of music at the heart of his teaching. As part of The Singer and The Songwriter, he has toured and performed all across the US and released 3 albums of music, with a full-length LP due out later in 2023. www.thesingerandthesongwriter.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841583904-H04AHKYFCZDS48ZL5LS7/Mikeshapirofacebook.jpg 2025 Program Staff - Mike Shapiro Mike Shapiro is an actor and songwriter who co-founded an artistic collective in Seattle, Annex Theatre, recognized for award-winning new work and original live music. He performs with 9 Pound Hammer, a tight-harmony acoustic trio (… if the Andrew Sisters had met Bertolt Brecht backstage at a Louvin Bros. show, and then they all canoed the Gowanus Canal together). www.mikeshapiro.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841538749-PTN8PNZTLQ2DHGAPKOZZ/Sheena.jpg 2025 Program Staff - Sheena Ozaki Sheena Ozaki is the Welcome Team and Travel Coordinator at Miles of Music this year. She is a creative producer with a passion for sharing great ideas, having previously worked with TED, VICE News, Spotify, and iHeartRadio. But her first love is music - she studied piano performance in college and has been lucky to have been part of the Miles of Music community since 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735940212864-5RTK98VN74ZP4U3S8HXV/Clara+Baker.jpg 2025 Program Staff - Clara Baker Clara Baker is a songwriter & producer from Portland, OR. She records, produces, and mixes music at several full-service recording studios in the Portland area as well as her home studio, The Bakery. As both a singer-songwriter and an audio professional, Clara brings a unique perspective to the recording process. In addition to her work with artists, Clara also composes music for film and TV, and tours occasionally as a side player on fiddle and guitar. She is a member of SoundGirls and a voting member of The Recording Academy. https://www.clarabakermusic.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841538802-DWI1TRPKLFO06722BH5K/Dietrich+Strause.png 2025 Program Staff - Dietrich Strause Dietrich Strause is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has worked extensively as a studio musician, engineer, and producer. 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. He lives part time in London, UK and works as an apprentice luthier at Outlier Workshop. www.dietrichstrause.com https://www.milesofmusiccamp.com/imperfectionist-song-society-hosts daily 0.75 2025-07-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841583885-HSMPHSGW0SMOTLB90GFD/image-asset.octet-stream Imperfectionist Song Society Hosts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841583916-19FLMCAY2LM4666JFTL3/AsteriskMusic-14.jpg Imperfectionist Song Society Hosts - Allie Chipkin Allie Chipkin is a Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter and aspiring stand up comedian. She runs a business writing custom wedding songs called Give Love Originals and loves to travel, teach/practice yoga, explore various creative mediums, and surf. Allie’s all-time favorite thing to do is laugh. Insta: @alliechip / @giveloveoriginals On the web: www.alliechipkin.com / www.giveloveoriginals.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841583910-1XZA3HSZ7YOLAKFTL29O/Louis%2BApollon%2B10-2.jpg Imperfectionist Song Society Hosts - Louis Apollon Louis Apollon is a Brooklyn-based jazz-folk singer-songwriter whose songs combine an uplifting musicality with a soothing, yet energizing vibe. He is also a multi-instrumentalist and has performed with his trio throughout the New England and NYC areas. He is a proud introvert who enjoys stories, culture, and community. You can find him on Instagram (@louisapollon) and on the web at www.louisapollon.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841583898-KVPVENMZ11DIVPHEDV24/Thu+Tran.jpg Imperfectionist Song Society Hosts - Thu Tran Thu Tran is a guitarist and songwriter and one half of the duo The Singer and The Songwriter. He is a self-taught guitarist that blends fingerstyle, clawhammer guitar, and flatpicking for a hybrid style that is uniquely his own. His approach to guitar encourages curiosity over correctness, and keeps the love of music at the heart of his teaching. As part of The Singer and The Songwriter, he has toured and performed all across the US and released 3 albums of music, with a full-length LP due out later in 2023. www.thesingerandthesongwriter.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841583904-H04AHKYFCZDS48ZL5LS7/Mikeshapirofacebook.jpg Imperfectionist Song Society Hosts - Mike Shapiro Mike Shapiro is an actor and songwriter who co-founded an artistic collective in Seattle, Annex Theatre, recognized for award-winning new work and original live music. He performs with 9 Pound Hammer, a tight-harmony acoustic trio (… if the Andrew Sisters had met Bertolt Brecht backstage at a Louvin Bros. show, and then they all canoed the Gowanus Canal together). www.mikeshapiro.com https://www.milesofmusiccamp.com/2025-instructors-staff daily 0.75 2026-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841518808-TZVUCH156N8O1EMW0F48/static1.squarespace-1.jpg 2025 Instructors + Staff - KRISTIN ANDREASSEN Kristin Andreassen has songwriting credits on two albums with 2024 GRAMMY nominations – Mighty Poplar’s self-titled debut (up for Best Bluegrass Album) and Andrew & Polly’s Ahhhh! (Kristin co-wrote the title track on this candidate for Best Children’s Album). Her own most recent release was The Bright Siders’ A Mind of Your Own (Smithsonian Folkways), which is for kids, about emotions, and was created and co-produced with psychiatrist Dr. Kari Groff and Chris Eldridge (Punch Brothers). Chosen as one of 2020’s top three children’s releases by the American Library Association, this album followed up on Kristin’s first #1 kids’ radio hit – a song called “Crayola Doesn’t Make a Color for Your Eyes.” In the world of “grown-up music”, Kristin has toured and recorded with the stringband Uncle Earl, the vocal trio Sometymes Why, the percussive dance company Footworks (as a clogger), and with NYC’s anti-folk superhero Jeffrey Lewis. She’s had the honor of recording with producers John Paul Jones, Dirk Powell, Mark Schatz, José Ayerve, Robin MacMillan, and Shane Leonard (coming soon, I promise!). One favorite MoM-inspired collaboration is this video — created by Anna Roberts-Gevalt — which uses shadow puppets and body percussion to illustrate “How the Water Walks.” Kristin studied community development at Montreal’s McGill University and in rural Canada, and she’s noticed herself thinking about that learning a lot in her current work at Miles of Music. She lives in Nashville. www.kristinandreassen.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841518808-TZVUCH156N8O1EMW0F48/static1.squarespace-1.jpg 2025 Instructors + Staff - KRISTIN ANDREASSEN Kristin Andreassen is a songwriter, a dancer, a vessel for musical tradition, and a believer in the power of all of the above to bind and build community. Her work has been featured on three GRAMMY-nominated albums (two for songwriting, and one for clogging feet!). Her own most recent release was The Bright Siders’ A Mind of Your Own (Smithsonian Folkways), a collection of original children's songs and skits about emotions that she co-created with child psychiatrist Dr. Kari Groff and Chris Eldridge (Punch Brothers). Chosen by the American Library Association as one of the year's three best releases for kids, The Bright Siders’ album follows up on Kristin’s first #1 kids’ radio hit – a song called “Crayola Doesn’t Make a Color for Your Eyes.” In the world of “grown-up music”, Kristin has toured and recorded with the pioneering stringband Uncle Earl, the vocal trio Sometymes Why, the percussive dance company Footworks, and with NYC’s anti-folk superhero Jeffrey Lewis. She’s had the honor of recording with producers John Paul Jones, Dirk Powell, Mark Schatz, José Ayerve, Robin MacMillan, and Shane Leonard. One favorite MoM-inspired collaboration is this video for a song written on the island – in which shadow puppets and body percussion are employed to illustrate “How the Water Walks.” Kristin studied history and community development at Montreal’s McGill University and in rural Canada, and she’s noticed herself thinking about that learning a lot in her current work at Miles of Music. She lives in Nashville. www.kristinandreassen.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735940212864-5RTK98VN74ZP4U3S8HXV/Clara+Baker.jpg 2025 Instructors + Staff - Clara Baker Clara Baker is a songwriter & producer from Portland, OR. She records, produces, and mixes music at several full-service recording studios in the Portland area as well as her home studio, The Bakery. As both a singer-songwriter and an audio professional, Clara brings a unique perspective to the recording process. In addition to her work with artists, Clara also composes music for film and TV, and tours occasionally as a side player on fiddle and guitar. She is a member of SoundGirls and a voting member of The Recording Academy. This will be her seventh year on the island! https://www.clarabakermusic.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735938482385-XSAW5PWZQ5G2SXC49F35/Lauren%2BBalthrop%2BHI-RES.jpg 2025 Instructors + Staff - Lauren Balthrop Lauren Balthrop is a multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter born and raised in Alabama where her family gatherings always included sing-alongs of the Everly Brothers, the Andrew Sisters, the Louvin Brothers, and the Beatles. After 10 years making her way in NYC, she heard the siren call of Nashville where she now calls home. Lauren has released 2 albums under own name and is working on her 3rd full length. She is also the director of the Nashville branch of Blue Balloon Songwriting School, the NYC originated music school that teaches kids and adults instrument instruction through songwriting. Her big folk-rock band and "small town" with her brother called Balthrop, Alabama toured all across the states to a cultish following. Her 60's inspired girl group, The Bandana Splits, released two records with songs landing on shows such as HBO's 'Bored to Death' and the re-boot of ‘Magnum P.I.’ She's also toured extensively as a multi-instrumentalist for Elizabeth & the Catapult, Kevin Morby, Michaela Anne and Ximena Sariñana. Lauren is a knitter, crocheter and tap dancer too. www.laurenbalthrop.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1736009623752-OU16348NG5DMC8WVVG8N/20180704-Tracy-Rich_0102_V2_WEB.jpg 2025 Instructors + Staff - Richie Barshay Richie Barshay began drumming inside kitchen cabinets at an early age, and continues banging on things worldwide to this day. From his multi-percussion work with Herbie Hancock in the 2000s, to tours and recordings with Chick Corea, Esperanza Spalding, The Klezmatics, Fred Hersch, and Kenny Werner, he's been dubbed "a major rhythm voice on the rise" by Downbeat magazine, and “a major innovator who also knows how to have fun” by The Guardian (UK). He’s also performed with Natalie Merchant, Bobby McFerrin, Joe Lovano, Lee Konitz, Donald Harrison, Lionel Loueke, Julian Lage, the Curtis Brothers, Joey Weisenberg, Gabriel Kahane, Pete Seeger, and the Tony Award winning musical The Band’s Visit on Broadway and national tour. Since 2004 he’s traveled across 5 continents teaching and performing as an American Musical Envoy with the U.S. State Department, and can be heard on over 100 recordings including two self-produced albums: Sanctuary featuring Chick Corea (2014), and Homework featuring Herbie Hancock (2004). Based in Northampton, Massachusetts and New York City, he is an AmSAT certified Alexander Technique teacher helping performing artists and others regain more body-mind coordination and ease of movement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1736009023683-FA2VUFWYWBYMQKBH2KMS/Thoma+Brown-+ice+guitar.jpg 2025 Instructors + Staff - Thomas Brown Thomas Brown is a mixed-media artist based in Brooklyn, New York, since 2008. He is known for his ice, sand, stone, clay, earthen, and wood sculptures, which have been featured in private collections, television, movies, festivals, and public events internationally.. His work combines music, performance, and visual art, reflecting his passion for creating ephemeral and experiential art. He’s not a pyromaniac, but he does enjoy a properly flamboyant campfire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841518762-X2OD2KD0H3USI4MEM9GM/Isa+Burke.jpg 2025 Instructors + Staff - Isa Burke Isa Burke is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and producer based between Durham, North Carolina and Portland, Maine. Whether singing harmony vocals, playing traditional fiddle tunes, or crafting spiky yet atmospheric electric guitar sounds, she brings a voracious musical appetite and a spirit of collaboration to a vast array of projects. Raised in a musical family in Maine, Isa soon found her way to Boston, where she studied fiddle and songwriting at Berklee College of Music and dove headfirst into the area's thriving music scene. In 2014 she co-founded the indie-folk band Lula Wiles, which released three albums on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and toured internationally until 2021. Isa has spent recent years building a reputation as a versatile and in-demand collaborator, a musical Swiss Army knife at home in many styles and contexts. She has been touring with Aoife O'Donovan since fall 2021 (earning a nomination for Instrumentalist of the Year at the 2023 Americana Music Awards), and recently became the newest touring member of cult-favorite indie band the Mountain Goats. She has toured and recorded with many other artists including Jake Blount, Darlingside, Mipso, Rosier, the Brother Brothers, Laura Cortese, Kris Delmhorst, Session Americana, Sam Moss, and Liv Greene (whose debut album Isa produced). Isa is also an experienced and devoted music educator, and a longtime member of the Miles of Music community. http://isaburke.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841518801-DJUUXR257I5IF88KZC3Z/47575492_10205648352124625_8223348481767505920_o+-+Luther+Child.jpg 2025 Instructors + Staff - Dinty Child 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, including Rose Cousins and Kris Delmhorst, and even fronting the 15 piece party band, the Funky White Honkies. Dinty is also a well respected songwriter and has two albums and several singles out under his own name www.sessionamericana.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841518697-7M2TJNZKPR8DPDL04TJ7/AsteriskMusic-14.jpg 2025 Instructors + Staff - Allie Chip Allie Chip is a Hudson Valley-based folk singer-songwriter, cofounder of the Imperfectionist Song Society (ISS), and a registered vinyasa yoga teacher. She loves oat milk matchas, comedy, wildflowers, and making up silly songs with her friends. Poses are cool, but Allie's real intention is to help you laugh, take deep breaths, and love on yourself during yoga class... no matter what your body's doing. Allie teaches from a warm, relatable place and welcomes folks of all levels. Yoga will be real, chill, explorative, and fun. Come hang! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1736795815811-T2WTZY8U4C45HPXQ9JN2/image-asset.jpeg 2025 Instructors + Staff - Evan Diem Evan Diem is a mixed-race Syracuse-based multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter hyphen-fan with a double-barreled last name. He specializes in using creative, contemplative, characteristic and compelling writing to compose catchy songs as well as craft clever one-liners. Last year, he served as chart manager for Live Band Karaoke and host of Entertain Us! This year he reprises both of those performances with child-like joy and robot-like focus (not necessarily in that order). He does not know how to end a bio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1736267479745-JFC3C4RAVFP5UPPXNTBT/image-asset.jpeg 2025 Instructors + Staff - Tracy Einstein Tracy Einstein wants you to feel better in your body so you can do what you love. She’s a 1600-hour certified Alexander Technique teacher, Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, and lifelong performing artist dedicated to fostering embodied resilience and creative expression. Since 2017, Tracy has been Associate Faculty at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in NYC, where she teaches the Alexander Technique and Movement for the Actor. She also teaches at institutions such as UMass, Fairfield University, and Barnard College, blending a trauma-informed approach with a focus on community, creativity, and craft. In addition to her teaching, Tracy maintains a private practice as a Somatic Practitioner in Northampton, MA, and online. Her work empowers individuals to cultivate greater self-awareness, empowerment, self-expression, and embodied resilience—both in their art and in their lives. Learn more at www.tracyeinstein.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1738612104066-XKO9AMDWGEGJK1KFDRLD/Mark+Erelli.jpeg 2025 Instructors + Staff - Mark Erelli New England-based multi-instrumentalist Mark Erelli wears many hats--singer, songwriter, sideman, producer--approaching each of his varied roles with a belief in the transformative power of paying attention. Bearing witness to small details and fleeting moments dignifies our everyday stories, alchemizing the mundane into something profound. Erelli has embodied this principle time and again over the course of his 25 year career. Highlights include 13 solo albums, three records with his bluegrass band Barnstar!, sideman stints accompanying Marc Cohn, Paula Cole, and Josh Ritter, and a pair of records he produced for GRAMMY-winning songwriter Lori McKenna. In 2019, Erelli’s song “By Degrees,” featuring contributions from Rosanne Cash and Sheryl Crow, was nominated for Song of the Year at the Americana Honors and Awards. Ever since Billboard magazine heralded the “simple, atmospheric grace” of his Signature Sounds debut, Erelli’s belief in the sacredness of an examined life has propelled him to the hallowed stages of the Newport Folk Festival, Grand Ole Opry, and Royal Albert Hall, and beckoned him back home, to better nurture his 22-year marriage and be a father to his two boys. In the wake of his 2022 diagnosis with a degenerative retinal disease, Erelli has stepped up to advocate for disabled artists and work with venues to make their spaces more accessible. https://www.markerelli.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1737238736329-D0CU4CGH6RGFC8YGJNRP/image-asset.jpeg 2025 Instructors + Staff - Liv Greene Liv Greene is an Americana singer/songwriter, producer, and guitarist based in Nashville, TN, whose music “envelops a forlorn loneliness that’s at once poignant and crushing.” - American Songwriter. Deep Feeler, her sophomore album, is a reckoning with reality, a vulnerable snapshot of hard-won self-acceptance. It’s feminine, queer, and defiant. It also heralds the arrival of Greene as a powerful new voice who joins the songwriting tradition of Emmylou, Patty, Gillian, and Lucinda – in her own way. Greene self-produced and recorded Deep Feeler primarily live to tape in Nashville’s Woodland Sound Studios, with collaborator Matt Andrews (Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings, O Brother Where Art Thou) and a dreamy band of friends including Jack Schneider, Sarah Jarosz, Dom Billett, Elise Leavy, Jordan Tice, and Christian Sedelmeyer. The resulting collection of lilting melodies and poignant storytelling is a bold achievement: a piece of art that matters culturally, musically, and personally. Greene is also a passionate educator, with experience teaching songwriting and guitar in private lesson settings, online classes, and group instruction through the Passim School of Music in Cambridge, MA, and at Interlochen Arts Camp in Northern Michigan. Find out more at livgreenemusic.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1736009936442-AU9XWNMI257MG4X1XETK/Zachariah+Hickman+-+Press+photo+-+Zachariah+Hickman.jpg 2025 Instructors + Staff - Zachariah Hickman Zachariah Hickman is a double bassist, multi-instrumentalist and producer based out of Boston, MA. Originally from Lynchburg, VA, he received his formal training in jazz performance and composition from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. For most of his adult life he has toured with singer-songwriter Josh Ritter, traveling all over the world and recording 9 full-length albums. Currently, he is performing as bassist and musical director for Ray Lamontagne. He has performed at many notable venues and festivals, including Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, Red Rocks, Bonnaroo, Dublin Castle, The Fillmore, and the Royal Albert Hall. With Josh Ritter, he has also performed with the Boston Pops in Symphony Hall, the New York Pops in Central Park, and many other orchestras in Europe and the United States. Television appearances include five David Letterman appearances, Conan O’Brien, Ellen Degeneres, and Late Night with Jools Holland for the BBC. As a producer, Zachariah as made records with a number of talented singers, including Rose Cousins (for which he won a Canadian JUNO award), Mark Erelli, Laura Cortese, Miss Tess, and his own bluegrass band Barnstar! He has also produced and ring-mastered his own circus, released his own brand of mustache wax, and runs a vaudeville style variety show, Zack Hickman’s House of Ill Repute. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1742051262820-8SKPO8TLMZAJUWNDOWL0/image-asset.jpeg 2025 Instructors + Staff - Charissa Hoffman A 6th-generation musician raised in Nashville, TN, Charissa Hoffman’s path to music seemed inevitable, but her choice of instrument- the ukulele- came out of nowhere. A celebrated instrumentalist and songwriter, her musical journeys have carried her everywhere from festivals and rock halls to recording a children’s album with Kenny Werner and Béla Fleck. In her solo and original work, Charissa is influenced by artists ranging from Joni Mitchell to Duke Ellington; she draws on singer-songwriter roots and jazz training in her music, creating dreamy, ethereal worlds for her listeners.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735940297271-A5W4J1RKZQA0V3LNP6VH/IMG_2214_Original.jpeg 2025 Instructors + Staff - Kelli Jones Kelli Jones moves so effortlessly between genres, traditions, and musical concepts that it’s clear she was born with an insatiable artistic curiosity. From her deeply musical Appalachian and old-time roots, she grew into a prominent figure of the vibrant Lafayette, Louisiana music scene while studying dance at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and simultaneously learning Cajun French and writing and singing songs in dual languages with progressive Cajun bands like GRAMMY-nominated Feufollet and T’Monde along the way. Queen of the In Between, her debut solo record, knits together everything from classic country to psychedelic rock to contemporary indie roots singer-songwriters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1736009478102-UN2GHHOXLO8DFFQZ8TRI/new%2Bkyshona.jpeg 2025 Instructors + Staff - Kyshona Kyshona is an artist ignited by untold stories, and the capacity of those stories to thread connection in every community. With the background of a licensed music therapist, the curiosity of a writer, the patience of a friend, the vision of a social entrepreneur, the resolve of an activist, and the voice of a singer - Kyshona is unrelenting in her pursuit for the healing power of song. She lends her voice and music to those that feel they have been lost, silenced, forgotten or alone. Through her organization Your Song, she facilitates therapeutic songwriting sessions with groups and individuals in hopes of reconnecting those who are divided. Of her past releases, one fan reviewer wrote: “Amidst these hard, divisive times this set of songs is a salve for the grief many of us are feeling about the resulting loss of family, friends, and community.” http://www.kyshona.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735938843540-BDV9S3NFVR9YPC77HN2X/Brad+Kolodner+Promo+Photo+2024.jpeg 2025 Instructors + Staff - Brad Kolodner Brad Kolodner is a Baltimore-based clawhammer banjoist and community builder who wears many hats as a performer, teacher, broadcaster, festival producer and ambassador for Old-Time and Bluegrass music. Regarded for his delicate touch, expressive style, and original compositions, Kolodner has rapidly gained national attention for his unique approach to clawhammer banjo. He regularly performs across the country with his father Ken Kolodner, a renowned hammered dulcimer player, and with the acoustic roots quartet Charm City Junction which blends Bluegrass, Old Time and Irish music. Behind the mic, Brad is an award-winning radio broadcaster for Folk Alley and Bluegrass Country Radio. For over a decade, he been a driving force behind Baltimore’s bustling Old Time music scene. He runs a bi-weekly Old Time Jam, monthly square dance, house concert series and directs the annual Baltimore Old Time Music Festival. He serves on the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Board of Directors. When he’s not playing banjo, on the air or organizing community events, you can find Brad rock climbing, playing soccer, hiking or tending to his veggie garden in the backyard of his Baltimore rowhouse. bradkolodner.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1738679515148-XNPYGMRZTYZ6B6IMKY22/Shane+Leonard.jpeg 2025 Instructors + Staff - Shane Leonard Shane Leonard is a record producer/musician who lives in Eau Claire, WI. Known as a studio/live swiss army knife, Shane has helped artists such as Mipso, Foy Vance, Field Report, Anna Tivel, Humbird, and Josh Ritter defy expectations and evolve past previous benchmarks. NPR and Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) have praised his work as "goosebumps inducing" and "a monster musician". Shane also writes and performs stand-up comedy, endured a brief stint as a high school English teacher, and hasn't seen the movie Footloose. www.shaneleonardmusic.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1738766278600-DTI5WGEHFXP4MWZ1DVI6/ccm-200x200-2.jpg 2025 Instructors + Staff - Caroline Campbell McCormick Caroline is a Community & Equity Advisor at Miles of Music and has been part of the vibrant and creative camp community since 2014. Her passion for fostering joyful and inclusive environments where creativity, belonging and connection flourish is put to use at camp and in her full-time role as a non-profit management leader for Farm Aid, a national organization whose work intersects music, culture and celebrating the importance of family farmers. She also serves as a board member for Club Passim in Cambridge, MA, and lives in the Boston area. Caroline is influenced by her lifelong experience and love of choral singing—church, gospel, chamber, a cappella; and is a founding member, singer, and songwriter for the Americana band The Pennies. She is always looking for the chance to create music collaboratively and credits Miles of Music with helping her grow in her personal storytelling through song. Outside of camp, Caroline enjoys quilting, exploring the outdoors with her family, and cultivating joy through music and craft. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841538794-2T1NE992FQJKBCN78SN3/image-asset.jpeg 2025 Instructors + Staff - Chris Miller Multi-instrumentalist The Chris Miller measures his life in times spent on Three Mile Island and the friendships he’s made there. As your humble storekeep he will connect you with physical merchandise to help you through your time at camp along with tangible “memories" for years to come. His 2021 trio release “The Faux Paws” was named one of the 10 Best Trad Albums of the year by Folk Alley and his Grammy-nominated dance band The Revelers continues to be legendary for their annual throw-downs at Blackpot Camp, Festival, and Cook-off in Southwest Louisiana. thefauxpaws.bandcamp.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841538756-2196YAJ0UNTVTNQMK0KK/image-asset.jpeg 2025 Instructors + Staff - James Paul Mitchell 15 years ago, James Paul Mitchell hopped off a tour van in Denver with nothing but a guitar, an amp, and a suitcase. It was here that he would gain expansive and diverse musical experience, eventually leading to his raw, atmospheric solo project. Carrying on the Grateful Dead legacy he performed with supergroup Imagine featuring Ray White (Frank Zappa) and Melvin Seals (Jerry Garcia Band), he studied North Indian classical music, produced a record for indie folk band called Cardinal and began dipping his toe into his own artistry. James eventually made Nashville his home base as a touring and recording musician, releasing Was Sad Before it Was Cool in August 2019. His next record album, Breakup Record, showcased a more personal, surrendered facet of his artistry. Varied and vulnerable, these songs - each made with a different producer - showcase James’ emotional specificity and descriptive storytelling that pulls the listener into their focal heartbeat. Against the backdrop of complementary, moody guitars, James pulls you into these places, circumstances and stories. https://www.jamespaulmitchell.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841538708-WSFHXMPWTE2IUNMSDR9I/image-asset.jpeg 2025 Instructors + Staff - Carrie Cahill Mulligan Carrie Cahill Mulligan has the distinct honor of having attended Miles of Music every year since its beginning in 2011. She’s worked a variety of Camp jobs: running the store, working in the kitchen (on salads, as Baker, as Kitchen Assistant), on Midnight Snack detail, as a porch captain, and as part of the check-in crew. This year, Carrie will continue to rely on her varied Three Mile experiences as she returns as Camp Hospitality Coordinator, here to assist with any questions or concerns while you’re on the island! Carrie is a Park Ranger-turned-fiber artist, who also loves clawhammer banjo, hula-hooping and playing ice hockey. She also happens to grow and harvest all the rhubarb we use in various ways during the camp week! http://ccmhats.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735940487089-7C88HTODJ88229KV0SUJ/Mure-0019+%281%29.jpg 2025 Instructors + Staff - Emily Mure Emily Mure is a singer-songwriter, creative coach, and teacher dedicated to making authentic art and helping others do the same. Originally a classical musician, Emily studied oboe performance and psychology at Ithaca College before shifting to folk music and songwriting. After graduating, she lived in Galway, Ireland for a time where she spent her days writing songs and busking on the streets. Emily has released three full-length albums and a covers EP, toured nationally and in Ireland, and has earned recognition in songwriting competitions and features on major networks. Her music is an essential outlet for her, and her commitment to helping others deepen their creativity has been a natural extension of her work. Certified in creativity coaching, Emily supports creatives of all kinds, drawing on her background in psychology, mindfulness, and Zen meditation, and teaching private music and songwriting. Emily is a proud member of the Miles of Music community! http://www.emilymure.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1736796415609-UTFCF837P4W6L0QW4RIW/IMG_7406.jpg 2025 Instructors + Staff - Kevin O'Connell Kevin O’Connell is a musician, audio engineer, producer, and educator with a focus in creative development, mentorship, and media production. He was born and raised in Upstate NY, studied music at a small liberal arts college upstate, then moved to Boston. He has spent his early career in music, audio engineering, and podcasting. Kevin currently leads the Audio & Video Post Production Team at The Mel Robbins Podcast– the #6 podcast worldwide, and most-shared podcast of 2024 on Apple Podcasts. Shortly after moving to Boston, Kevin an educator and arts advocate, he founded the West Suburban YMCA Center for the Creative Arts (YCCA) – a community-based music and media program serving youth and teens in the MetroWest suburbs of Boston through studio recording, songwriting, ensembles, performances, and more. In the studio, Kevin has worked with a number of artists including Grammy Recording Artist Alex Torres y Sú Orquestra and Josh Ritter. Additionally, as a post production expert and podcast consultant, Kevin has worked with a number of indie, aspiring, and professional audio creators as a producer, engineer, and sound designer. See his Podcast Production page to listen! And as a musician, Kevin has shared the studio and stage with artists including The Ballroom Thieves, Josh Ritter, Susan O’Neill, and Kaiti Jones. Kevin spent several years as the Studio + Operations Manager at the PRX Podcast Garage, supporting indie podcast creators in the Greater Boston area. In 2020, he jumped further into the podcast industry working as Product Education Manager at Descript. At Descript, he worked with and trained pro podcast teams around the world including Serial, Vox, Wondery, Gimlet, Campside, and many others. And before joining the Mel Robbins team, Kevin also spent time on the team at Ten Percent Happier, leading all-things podcast post production. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841538749-PTN8PNZTLQ2DHGAPKOZZ/Sheena.jpg 2025 Instructors + Staff - Sheena Ozaki Sheena Ozaki is the Welcome Team and Travel Coordinator at Miles of Music this year. She is a creative producer with a passion for sharing great ideas, having previously worked with TED, VICE News, Spotify, and iHeartRadio. But her first love is music - she studied piano performance in college and has been lucky to have been part of the Miles of Music community since 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841538762-LUC6A7UMD1JT6XV9KJRF/Omar+Ruiz-Lopez.jpeg 2025 Instructors + Staff - Omar Ruiz-Lopez Omar Ruiz-Lopez is a distinguished musician and educator currently based in Durham, NC, with a remarkable command over multiple instruments, including violin, viola, guitar, and mandolin. His roots lie in North Carolina, having been a part of the burgeoning Triangle music scene for 13 years until his move to Nashville in 2023 and back in 2025. Since his time in Nashville, Omar has played and record with artists such as the GRAMMY-nominated band War and Treaty, Lizzie No and Langhorne Slim, and cowritten with songwriters such as Rachel Baiman and GRAMMY-nominated Melody Walker (Sierra Ferrell, American Dreaming). He is currently working on an EP with Willa Frank (Paper Wings) and a full-length album with Rachel Baiman producing. Born in Panama and raised in Puerto Rico, Omar's early exposure to traditional Caribbean folk songs, courtesy of his father, laid the foundation for his deep appreciation for music. Spanish is his first language, and it remains an integral part of his cultural identity. Together with Lizzy Ross, Omar co-founded the Americana group Violet Bell, where their collaboration seamlessly intertwines top-notch songwriting with a variety of musical landscapes. Omar, a bilingual songwriter and undercover composer, crafts music that beautifully reflects his cultural roots entwined with a rich tapestry of diverse musical influences. As a Latiné immigrant and a versatile musician spanning multiple genres, Omar has a unique ability to connect with diverse international audiences. His music serves as a bridge, fostering understanding and appreciation across cultural boundaries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841538813-7U1HH17PLP4JA68YJZ9N/image-asset.jpeg 2025 Instructors + Staff - MATT SMITH Since beginning his career in the music world, Matt Smith has been on panels and advisory committees at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, the International Folk Alliance, and the Northeast Regional Folk Alliance. He has worked as a tour manager and sound engineer for the singer-songwriter collaborative, Live From New York (Edie Carey, Teddy Goldstein, Anne Heaton, and Andrew Kerr) and the Celtic band Halali (Hanneke Cassel, Laura Cortese, Lissa Schneckenburger, and Flynn Cohen). Matt has also been a stage emcee at the Falcon Ridge and the Newport Folk Festivals, and he is the managing director of Club Passim and founder of Club Passim's Campfire Festival. https://www.milesofmusiccamp.com/2025-instructors-staff-2 daily 0.75 2025-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841538802-DWI1TRPKLFO06722BH5K/Dietrich+Strause.png 2025 Instructors + Staff (2) - Dietrich Strause Dietrich Strause is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has worked extensively as a studio musician, engineer, and producer. 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. He lives part time in London, UK and works as an apprentice luthier at Outlier Workshop. www.dietrichstrause.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841538802-DWI1TRPKLFO06722BH5K/Dietrich+Strause.png 2025 Instructors + Staff (2) - Dietrich Strause Dietrich Strause is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has worked extensively as a studio musician, engineer, and producer. 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. He lives part time in London, UK and works as an apprentice luthier at Outlier Workshop. www.dietrichstrause.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1737306735763-LDD858L8MEYZDZIN8CQE/image-asset.jpeg 2025 Instructors + Staff (2) - Joey Thieman Joey Thieman is a pianist, multi-instrumentalist, teacher, singer and songwriter who moved to the Boston area in 2022 after living and performing in Kentucky for nearly 20 years. After earning both undergraduate and masters degrees in music, with a specialty in jazz, he has played in a wide variety of settings and styles. When not performing or teaching he spends his time learning from histories masters; Chopin and Oscar Peterson on the piano, Django Reinhardt on guitar, Charles Mingus on the bass, Miles Davis on the trumpet, Jimmy Smith on Hammond Organ, Tom Waits when it comes to songwriting, and Weird AL on the accordion. He has played with many well regarded musicians including Mark Charles, Houndmouth, Relaay, Wax Fang, Ben Sollee, Bonnie Prince Billy, Carly Johnson, Drew Miller, and Dawn Landes, and since moving to Boston has enjoyed meeting and playing with many great folk and jazz musicians. He has two studio alternative albums and one jazz album to his credit, the most recently “Letters, Words, Sentences, Songs”. https://joeythieman.com https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/679a6f88a4f5f97b584a2b57/679a6fa10e78e8496dea1bee/1766164547426/ 2025 Instructors + Staff (2) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841538822-ZFURE86YZ5E4RXOREGWG/Timothy+Tucker.jpg 2025 Instructors + Staff (2) - Timothy Tucker 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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1736281619848-5WQDE57DJYG6BX7Y8X99/image-asset.jpeg 2025 Instructors + Staff (2) - Abigail Washburn Abigail Washburn is a singing, songwriting, Illinois-born, Nashville-based clawhammer banjo player. She is every bit as interested in the present and the future as she is in the past, and every bit as attuned to the global as she is to the local. Abigail pairs venerable folk elements with far-flung sounds, and the results feel both strangely familiar and unlike anything anybody’s ever heard before. She performs and records as a soloist, as well as with the old-time bands Uncle Earl and Sparrow Quartet, experimental group The Wu Force, and as a duo with her husband Béla Fleck. Having toured the world, Washburn is also armed with Chinese language ability and profound connections to culture and people on the other side of the Pacific. Washburn is one of the few foreign artists currently touring China independently and regularly. https://abigailwashburn.com/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1736281307258-10J9W57BRAUVT1MJ9TN6/image-asset.jpeg 2025 Instructors + Staff (2) - Tray Wellington 2024 Steve Martin Banjo Prize Winner Tray Wellington’s approach to the quintessential American instrument is all about looking forward. An International Bluegrass Music Association Award winner, Wellington is critically acclaimed not only for his technical prowess, but also for leveraging his unique point of view to craft a one-of-a-kind voice on the instrument. It’s a feat that’s all too rare in these roots genres that seem to value emulation and regurgitation over all else. Instead, Wellington has time and time again reasserted that his playing style, and all of the many varied and disparate parts that combine within it, is wholly his own – and it’s unconcerned with tradition. https://traywellington.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735938952338-RGSZ21KBBQMUZWA581QB/DSC03553.jpg 2025 Instructors + Staff (2) - Nelson Williams Hailing from the musically diverse and rich culture of South Louisiana, Nelson’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, Kennedy Center and many other illustrious festivals and halls across the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841538774-6LDBRNDB9IXQ9UB3DDHZ/image-asset.jpeg 2025 Instructors + Staff (2) - Maddie Witler Maddie Witler is a musician currently living in Baltimore, MD. Known mostly for her mandolin playing with groups like Della Mae and the Lonely Heartstring band, she can make meaningful and impressive music on a variety of string instruments. While she has been celebrated as a “shredder” at times, it is her ability to find the gaps in music, and leave space when needed, that gives her a subtle yet deliberate presence in any musical situation. With a deep knowledge and respect for bluegrass, and an awareness of the world and music she grew up around, she synthesizes a sound true to herself, at once traditional and contemporary. Maddie's 2022 debut solo album "Astronaut" showcases her songwriting, singing, and individual style of instrumental arranging. Maddie also loves coffee and has worked as a barista, as well as competed in the 2023 and 2024 US Brewers Cup Competitions. In 2023, she was a member of the Glittercat Barista program where she received training and education from leaders in the coffee industry, focused on the brewer's cup (pour over) competition. https://maddiewitler.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735940870886-FKG3FA9WDJ63WOQTLJ1Q/P1040784.jpg 2025 Instructors + Staff (2) - Paola Vera Paola Vera is a singer songwriter from London, based in France. Paola’s music blends her passion for jazz with a modern edge; a fresh take, which she infuses into her own song writing and a new slant on old songs. She first started singing and playing the piano at the age of 13, later going on to continue her musical education at Trinity Laban Conservatoire and The Royal Academy of Music after receiving the Elton John Scholarship in London. In 2007 Paola was awarded a Yamaha Jazz Award for outstanding young Jazz musicians. She has since gone on to receive several awards as a singer and pianist, including recieving an ARAM for her contributions to music from the Royal Academy of Music, London. She has performed with many greats of the jazz scene all over the world. Paola is also a highly sought after educator and vocal coach, currently working with several higher-education institutions across Europe and the UK. She is a vocal and songwriting tutor for Trinity Laban Conservatoire in London on the BAMPI degree program and Assistant professor of Jazz Voice at the Royal Conservatoire of Brussels. Paola is a certified Estill Master Trainer (EMT) and is among few bilingual French speaking coaches delivering Estill courses in French and English across Europe. She is also a vocal coach for Disney in Paris, France. https://www.paolavera.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735939849758-KHS7W4Y563WRMNXBSLHI/DSC07130.jpg 2025 Instructors + Staff (2) - JONATHAN VOCKE Jonathan Vocke is a passionate and adventure loving oldtime musician, educator, and multi-instrumentalist from Baltimore, Maryland. He loves traveling, building, dancing, riding his bike 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, as well as performing regularly in the Johns Hopkins Hospital system as a part of the Peabody Sound Rounds program. 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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735940610207-9C6A2X1850DSE126DZYD/EZ+promo+eye+touch+up.jpg 2025 Instructors + Staff (2) - Elizabeth Ziman Elizabeth Ziman, who performs as Elizabeth and the Catapult, is a singer-songwriter from Brooklyn. She's toured with the likes of Sara Bareilles and Kishi Bashi; collaborated with Esperanza Spalding, Gillian Welch, Blake Mills and Ben Folds; scored, with Paul Brill, a variety of international award-winning documentaries including "Trapped," a Peabody winner; and won an Independent Music Award for Songwriting. Her songs have been featured in national television campaigns for Google and Amazon. She composed music for Sara Bareille’s new apple tv show, “Little Voice”. Always writing, Elizabeth narrowed her vast collection of previously unrecorded material down to her fifth full-length studio album "Sincerely, e”, which she self-produced at home and released on Compass Records in March 2021. One of the singles off that album, "Together Alone", made it onto NPR's All Songs Considered 10 best songs of 2021 list. https://www.milesofmusiccamp.com/news-bedford daily 0.75 2025-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52a74d9ae4b0253945d2aee9/1400275370693-L0ZTMZY7L6SCYQG6GO85/xzuvhgdQGul0amA3Qc7a_373A9681.jpg News https://www.milesofmusiccamp.com/news-bedford/2014/1/23/get-out-there-zsxep monthly 0.5 2014-04-13 https://www.milesofmusiccamp.com/news-bedford/2014/1/23/why-deserts-matter-too-z86az monthly 0.5 2014-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52a74d9ae4b0253945d2aee9/1390513173585-DWV4B9Z0B3GY1421D88O/tumblr_mjdttrQLOJ1rkz363o1_1280.jpg News - Why Deserts Matter Too https://www.milesofmusiccamp.com/news-bedford/2014/1/23/appalachia-jkt2s monthly 0.5 2014-09-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52a74d9ae4b0253945d2aee9/1390512900953-CBP39T42JYJB4AT50XTE/tumblr_mjs7w6zIHV1rkz363o3_1280.jpg News - Success Story – New Hope in Old Appalachia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52a74d9ae4b0253945d2aee9/1390512900611-EF33OSHTK3F9FL7P3XQO/tumblr_mjs7w6zIHV1rkz363o5_1280.jpg News - Success Story – New Hope in Old Appalachia https://www.milesofmusiccamp.com/2026-instructors-staff daily 0.75 2026-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841518808-TZVUCH156N8O1EMW0F48/static1.squarespace-1.jpg 2026 Instructors + Staff - KRISTIN ANDREASSEN Kristin Andreassen has songwriting credits on two albums with 2024 GRAMMY nominations – Mighty Poplar’s self-titled debut (up for Best Bluegrass Album) and Andrew & Polly’s Ahhhh! (Kristin co-wrote the title track on this candidate for Best Children’s Album). Her own most recent release was The Bright Siders’ A Mind of Your Own (Smithsonian Folkways), which is for kids, about emotions, and was created and co-produced with psychiatrist Dr. Kari Groff and Chris Eldridge (Punch Brothers). Chosen as one of 2020’s top three children’s releases by the American Library Association, this album followed up on Kristin’s first #1 kids’ radio hit – a song called “Crayola Doesn’t Make a Color for Your Eyes.” In the world of “grown-up music”, Kristin has toured and recorded with the stringband Uncle Earl, the vocal trio Sometymes Why, the percussive dance company Footworks (as a clogger), and with NYC’s anti-folk superhero Jeffrey Lewis. She’s had the honor of recording with producers John Paul Jones, Dirk Powell, Mark Schatz, José Ayerve, Robin MacMillan, and Shane Leonard (coming soon, I promise!). One favorite MoM-inspired collaboration is this video — created by Anna Roberts-Gevalt — which uses shadow puppets and body percussion to illustrate “How the Water Walks.” Kristin studied community development at Montreal’s McGill University and in rural Canada, and she’s noticed herself thinking about that learning a lot in her current work at Miles of Music. She lives in Nashville. www.kristinandreassen.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841518808-TZVUCH156N8O1EMW0F48/static1.squarespace-1.jpg 2026 Instructors + Staff - KRISTIN ANDREASSEN Kristin Andreassen is a songwriter, a percussive dancer, a vessel carrying pieces of several ancient musical traditions, and a believer in the power of all of the above to build and bind community. She's currently most excited about the songs she's been creating with guitarist Chris Eldridge. Together, they're headed to Cape Breton Island this spring for the Beinn Mhàbu Artist-in-Residence Program — so hopefully they'll have something to show for themselves soon. Other things Kristin might be known to brag about: her old time band Uncle Earl (two albums on Rounder Records), her children's mental health-focused collaboration The Bright Siders (Smithsonian Folkways), her three appearances on GRAMMY-nominated records (two for songwriting, one for clogging), her precocious toddler, and having been partially responsible for dreaming up Miles of Music. She still loves to share this camp collaboration — a music video in which shadow puppets & body percussion illustrate “How the Water Walks”. www.kristinandreassen.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1767474461920-NX8EYL9GH9RNF90UM33F/Taylor+Ashton.jpeg 2026 Instructors + Staff - Taylor Ashton 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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1767385979059-FRTWAMGRTFV6F0798ZA9/Clara+Baker.jpg 2026 Instructors + Staff - Clara Baker Clara Baker is a songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist from Portland, OR. She has released multiple albums of original music and toured extensively throughout the U.S. and abroad. In addition to her work as an artist, Clara records, produces, and mixes music for songwriters and bands, and composes music for film and television. Her songs have been featured on Netflix, ABC, The CW, and more. Clara is also Adjunct Faculty in Songwriting at Lewis & Clark College, where she supports students in developing their unique voices as writers. This will be her 8th year on the island! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735938482385-XSAW5PWZQ5G2SXC49F35/Lauren%2BBalthrop%2BHI-RES.jpg 2026 Instructors + Staff - Lauren Balthrop Lauren Balthrop is a multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter born and raised in Alabama where her family gatherings always included sing-alongs of the Everly Brothers, the Andrew Sisters, the Louvin Brothers, and the Beatles. After 10 years making her way in NYC, she heard the siren call of Nashville where she now calls home. Lauren has released 2 albums under own name and is working on her 3rd full length. She is also the director of the Nashville branch of Blue Balloon Songwriting School, the NYC originated music school that teaches kids and adults instrument instruction through songwriting. Her big folk-rock band and "small town" with her brother called Balthrop, Alabama toured all across the states to a cultish following. Her 60's inspired girl group, The Bandana Splits, released two records with songs landing on shows such as HBO's 'Bored to Death' and the re-boot of ‘Magnum P.I.’ She's also toured extensively as a multi-instrumentalist for Elizabeth & the Catapult, Kevin Morby, Michaela Anne and Ximena Sariñana. Lauren is a knitter, crocheter and tap dancer too. www.laurenbalthrop.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1767385737533-LFPRIM1ATSHFWESCJJ4M/image-asset.jpeg 2026 Instructors + Staff - Akie Bermiss 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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1768497401610-QJAOZGBTKY385UIGPW16/Thoma+Brown-+ice+guitar.jpg 2026 Instructors + Staff - Thomas Brown 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841518762-X2OD2KD0H3USI4MEM9GM/Isa+Burke.jpg 2026 Instructors + Staff - Isa Burke Isa Burke is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and producer based between Durham, North Carolina and Portland, Maine. Whether singing harmony vocals, playing traditional fiddle tunes, or crafting spiky yet atmospheric electric guitar sounds, she brings a voracious musical appetite and a spirit of collaboration to a vast array of projects. Raised in a musical family in Maine, Isa soon found her way to Boston, where she studied fiddle and songwriting at Berklee College of Music and dove headfirst into the area's thriving music scene. In 2014 she co-founded the indie-folk band Lula Wiles, which released three albums on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and toured internationally until 2021. Isa has spent recent years building a reputation as a versatile and in-demand collaborator, a musical Swiss Army knife at home in many styles and contexts. She has been touring with Aoife O'Donovan since fall 2021 (earning a nomination for Instrumentalist of the Year at the 2023 Americana Music Awards), and recently became the newest touring member of cult-favorite indie band the Mountain Goats. She has toured and recorded with many other artists including Jake Blount, Darlingside, Mipso, Rosier, the Brother Brothers, Laura Cortese, Kris Delmhorst, Session Americana, Sam Moss, and Liv Greene (whose debut album Isa produced). Isa is also an experienced and devoted music educator, and a longtime member of the Miles of Music community. http://isaburke.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841518801-DJUUXR257I5IF88KZC3Z/47575492_10205648352124625_8223348481767505920_o+-+Luther+Child.jpg 2026 Instructors + Staff - Dinty Child 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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841518697-7M2TJNZKPR8DPDL04TJ7/AsteriskMusic-14.jpg 2026 Instructors + Staff - Allie Chip Allie Chip is a Hudson Valley-based folk singer-songwriter, cofounder of the Imperfectionist Song Society (ISS), and a registered vinyasa yoga teacher. She loves oat milk matchas, comedy, wildflowers, and making up silly songs with her friends. Poses are cool, but Allie's real intention is to help you laugh, take deep breaths, and love on yourself during yoga class... no matter what your body's doing. Allie teaches from a warm, relatable place and welcomes folks of all levels. Yoga will be real, chill, explorative, and fun. Come hang! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1768325433272-0D81YQU59LWSF50TJALA/image+-+Chris+Eldridge.png 2026 Instructors + Staff - Chris Eldridge 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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1768842443012-NR5Y3KC05AZFTIH8SMT5/image-asset.jpeg 2026 Instructors + Staff - Emily Haviland Emily Haviland’s debut album, "Not Who You Think," released in February 2024, epitomizes her unyielding commitment to pushing artistic boundaries. In both her performing style and songwriting, Emily weaves together threads of authenticity and innovation, creating an auditory experience that captivates and resonates deeply with her audience. Renowned fiddler Darol Anger aptly describes her as the "Realest Deal in a long time," praising her genuine voice, profound reflections, and songs that boldly articulate the unspoken truths we all harbor. “Real voice, real thoughts, real songs that say - with pungent power - what everyone’s really thinking. Glad to welcome her work into the world.” Emily Haviland has shared the stage alongside illustrious contemporaries such as Aoife O’Donovan, Margo Price, Twisted Pine, Darol Anger, the late Emy Phelps, Bruce Molsky, Abigail Lapell, and Rachel Sumner. Her collaborative spirit shines through in her contributions to records by Alisa Amador, Kaiti Jones, and others, cementing her status as a versatile and sought-after artist whose influence reverberates across genres. @emilyhavi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1767385589706-NTJBB33K2ASQYJ72M9HQ/Zachariah+Hickman+-+Press+photo+-+Zachariah+Hickman.jpg 2026 Instructors + Staff - Zachariah Hickman 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1769624046582-05LJYD0W2QC9WYJCS5O9/image-asset.jpeg 2026 Instructors + Staff - Creigton Irons 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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1769623931390-4733RGH9O7L50M0P4WF3/image-asset.jpeg 2026 Instructors + Staff - Dawn Landes Dawn Landes is a singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer who's penned original songs for TV, film, and musical theater (ROW on Audible). Landes has toured internationally and supported Nick Lowe, Mary Chapin Carpenter and many more. Her newest album The Liberated Woman's Songbook was produced by her longtime collaborator Josh Kaufman (Bonny Light Horseman) and highlights women's activism throughout history. www.dawnlandes.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1768842895279-6W62N7WVKUKEPFC41OC2/image-asset.jpeg 2026 Instructors + Staff - Shane Leonard 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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1769181950654-JGTV0WYKS8E12HSGAYOC/image-asset.jpeg 2026 Instructors + Staff - Adam Moss 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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1738766278600-DTI5WGEHFXP4MWZ1DVI6/ccm-200x200-2.jpg 2026 Instructors + Staff - Caroline Campbell McCormick Caroline is a Community & Equity Advisor at Miles of Music and has been part of the vibrant and creative camp community since 2014. Her passion for fostering joyful and inclusive environments where creativity, belonging and connection flourish is put to use at camp and in her full-time role as a non-profit management leader for Farm Aid, a national organization whose work intersects music, culture and celebrating the importance of family farmers. She also serves as a board member for Club Passim in Cambridge, MA, and lives in the Boston area. Caroline is influenced by her lifelong experience and love of choral singing—church, gospel, chamber, a cappella; and is a founding member, singer, and songwriter for the Americana band The Pennies. She is always looking for the chance to create music collaboratively and credits Miles of Music with helping her grow in her personal storytelling through song. Outside of camp, Caroline enjoys quilting, exploring the outdoors with her family, and cultivating joy through music and craft. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841538708-WSFHXMPWTE2IUNMSDR9I/image-asset.jpeg 2026 Instructors + Staff - Carrie Cahill Mulligan Carrie Cahill Mulligan has the distinct honor of having attended Miles of Music every year since its beginning in 2011. She’s worked a variety of Camp jobs: running the store, working in the kitchen (on salads, as Baker, as Kitchen Assistant), on Midnight Snack detail, as a porch captain, and as part of the check-in crew. This year, Carrie will continue to rely on her varied Three Mile experiences as she returns as Camp Hospitality Coordinator, here to assist with any questions or concerns while you’re on the island! Carrie is a Park Ranger-turned-fiber artist, who also loves clawhammer banjo, hula-hooping and playing ice hockey. She also happens to grow and harvest all the rhubarb we use in various ways during the camp week! http://ccmhats.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1735841538749-PTN8PNZTLQ2DHGAPKOZZ/Sheena.jpg 2026 Instructors + Staff - Sheena Ozaki Sheena Ozaki is the Welcome Team and Travel Coordinator at Miles of Music this year. She is a creative producer with a passion for sharing great ideas, having previously worked with TED, VICE News, Spotify, and iHeartRadio. But her first love is music - she studied piano performance in college and has been lucky to have been part of the Miles of Music community since 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1767116880244-BY8PT2Y1XJAW920NNXMH/rachael+price.jpeg 2026 Instructors + Staff - Rachael Price Rachael Price is an acclaimed American jazz/pop vocalist, best known as the dynamic lead singer for the band Lake Street Dive (LSD), celebrated for her powerful, versatile voice, and also performs jazz standards as half of the duo Rachael & Vilray with guitarist Vilray. Born in Australia and raised in Tennessee, she studied at the New England Conservatory of Music (NEC) in Boston, where she met her bandmates, and has since become a prominent voice in modern American music, known for blending vintage jazz with contemporary sounds and performing with immense stage presence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1767386030762-QAF00RVTF3BP28D52P61/image-asset.jpeg 2026 Instructors + Staff - Shanice Richards Shanice Richards is a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and Music Therapist currently based in New Orleans, LA. Her work integrates performance, education, and therapeutic practice. Drawing upon her Caribbean heritage alongside influences in jazz, gospel, and soul, she brings a distinctive musical voice to traditional old-time fiddling with rhythmic vitality and cultural depth. Her approach to her fiddling reflects an ongoing exploration of how diasporic traditions inform and enrich contemporary musical expression. Rooted in the principles of community music therapy, Shanice's practice centers on inclusion, accessibility, and empowerment through shared music-making. She is particularly committed to serving individuals and communities who experience limited access to creative resources or who have been impacted by social and economic marginalization. Guided by the belief that music functions as both a cultural and therapeutic force, she facilitates participatory experiences that foster self-expression, connection, and resilience. As a member of the collaborative string band The Little Mercies, she has shared stages with Kyshona, Sami Braman, and Amelia Powell. As a solo artist, she has collaborated with Brandi Waller-Pace, Isaiah Sibi, and Howard Rains. She recently recorded an EP with The Little Mercies which will be released in 2026. Her music reflects her belief that community-based music-making nurtures confidence, creativity, and belonging among participants of all ages. @shayfiddles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1767385914176-EPK9OIIVPQWJD51M7BM4/image-asset.jpeg 2026 Instructors + Staff - Matt Smith 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1738254405040-GSYCS5ZSM505R1UET4VJ/Richa%2BSahay.jpg 2026 Instructors + Staff - Richa Sahay Richa Sahay (pronunciation: rich-ah sah-hi) is a singer-songwriter from Brooklyn by way of India and the Philippines. Her foundation in Hindustani music influences her writing and performance, where she blends Indian classical raaga vocals with western themes. Richa began her musical training in Delhi at the age of 8. She studied North Indian classical vocals with a blind guru who taught her how to learn singing by ear and rhythm by feel, and to sing improvisationally within the melodic framework of each raaga. After moving to the Philippines, Richa began to mix traditional classical music with western styles such as Blues, Jazz, Rock, and pop acapella music. She now leads a Brooklyn-based world music blues band, Richa and The Blue Skies, with a few other Miles of Music campers. Richa is delighted to bring Hindustani vocals for the first time to Miles of Music. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1767455831956-FNGK02SO4AJLA4G033QS/Dietrich+Strause.png 2026 Instructors + Staff - Dietrich Strause 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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1770140029246-PES80MVW82PBYVJCTIR3/image-asset.jpeg 2026 Instructors + Staff - Emma Turoff Originally from Brooklyn, NY, Emma Turoff has been playing the mandolin since she was 11 years old. She grew up steeped in the traditions of bluegrass and old time music, playing often around New York and other parts of the Northeast. When she was 17, she enrolled at Berklee College of Music, and spent four years studying mandolin performance there under teachers such as Joe K. Walsh, Jenna Moynihan, Bruce Molsky, and Greg Liszt. 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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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6776d6c9acfbe502a4c3d59e/1766165254214-XYC3X1HW9O1UHUQXKJN5/Hoot23-3931.jpg 2026 Instructors + Staff - Vilray 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. 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