Carol Ormand

http://www.canispublishing.com/

Staff

Peter Barnes

Peter Barnes has been playing more instruments, in more genres, in more interesting locations, for longer than most of us can remember. Averaging over 250 gigs per year, he currently plays in the Latter Day Lizards, Bare Necessities, Big Bandemonium, Dark Carnival and Yankee Ingenuity. Peter also keeps himself busy with teaching, recording, publishing music books, composing and crafting wooden whistles.

Early Music Week at Pinewoods

English Dance Musicians Course at Early Music Week

Harmony of Song & Dance at Pinewoods

English Dance Week at Pinewoods

Sue Dupré

Sue Dupré, based in central New Jersey, has been calling contra, square and English country dances for over 30 years. Sue has been a featured performer at various festivals, many dance weekends and summer dance camps. Sue is known for enthusiasm and good humor, for an extensive repertoire representing the best of the old and the new, for clear and efficient teaching, for a rhythmic calling style and for her work with novice dancers. She is also passionately devoted to the promotion and performance of historic English ritual and ceremonial dances in American communities. She is the founder and foreman of the first American molly dance team, Handsome Molly and, for many years, has directed the mumming troupe, General Mercer's Mummers.

http://sue.handsomemolly.com/

http://www.scotthiggs.com

Scott Higgs

Scott Higgs has been calling and composing English and contra dances for over 25 years -- delighting novices and experts alike. From Seattle to Antwerp, dancers praise Scott's engaging programs, dynamic presentation, and emphasis on fun. His business card says it all: Playful, spirited, elegant, zesty, joyful contra, English, morris, and couple dancing.

Dave Langford

Fiddler and guitarist Dave Langford, a founding member of The Latter Day Lizards, also performs with Big Bandemonium, Les Z Boys and others. A veteran of 25 plus years of playing for public dances, concerts, weddings, late night sessions and anyplace there is fun to be had, Dave combines multiple styles of fiddling with fierce energy and drive. He has been a staff member for numerous music and dance weeks and weekends all across the U.S. and beyond.

http://www.notoriousfolk.com

Eden MacAdam-Somer

Eden MacAdam-Somer is one of the most exciting and versatile young musicians performing and teaching today. Her music transcends genre. She has been a featured soloist with symphony and chamber orchestras, jazz and swing bands, and Eastern European and American folk ensembles. She has been an artist at the Aspen and Beijing International Music Festivals, and, with her contemporary folk duo, NotoriousFolk, has traveled across the continental U.S., and visited Alaska, Hawaii, India, Iceland, the U.K., and Afghanistan. In 2009, Eden was accepted as the first doctoral student of the groundbreaking Contemporary Improvisation department of the New England Conservatory of Music. There, she has pursued explorations of composition and improvisation across genres, including works for solo performer on violin, voice, and dance. In between studies, performances and teaching, Eden maintains an active recording career and continues to tour, beguiling audiences with a style that is truly her own.

Family Week at Pinewoods , CDSS at Timber Ridge

American Dance Musicians Course , English Dance Week at Pinewoods

Suzannah Park

Suzannah Park comes from a family of three generations of ballad singers and storytellers and has been performing Appalachian folk music for most of her life. Her interest in the performance and study of traditional music of many kinds has taken her from music-filled kitchens to concert halls across the U.S. and Europe. She is currently singing in the group The Starry Mountain Trio, teaching harmony singing around the country and is in her eleventh year as a guest director for the VT singing organization, Village Harmony. Suzannah is known for her powerful voice and striking harmonies and her ability to inspire others with her love of music. She lives in Asheville, NC with her husband Nathan and their amazing dog Beamer.

http://www.suzannahpark.com/

Harmony of Song & Dance at Pinewoods

American Dance & Music Week at Pinewoods

Joanna Reiner

Joanna Reiner has taught English dance, Scottish dance and longsword for over a decade. Her calling has taken her from Amherst to Ann Arbor, from NEFFA to Hey Days, including several sessions at Pinewoods Camp. Joanna led the Philadelphia-based Germantown Country Dancers English dance demonstration team for many years, is an avid dance gypsy, and in her spare time, works to support her dance habit.

English Dance Week at Pinewoods

Gillian Stewart

Most recently found behind the counter in the Pinewoods kitchen, Gillian Stewart is thrilled to be trading her kitchen whites for morris whites, and her work clogs for rapper shoes! Since somewhat accidentally taking over teaching her first morris team - Banbury Cross - at age 13, Gillian has enjoyed teaching and choreographing ritual dance throughout New England. She currently dances with Muddy River Morris, Maple Morris, and Orion Longsword.

Harmony of Song & Dance at Pinewoods

Bill Tomczak

Bill Tomczak started playing clarinet at the age of 9. After a typical round of high school bands and concerts, he entered Northwestern University as a music major and studied under several teachers from the Chicago Symphony. In 1979, he discovered the world of International Folk Dancing and has been playing for folk dance of one kind or another ever since. The International repertoire provided a solid ground for all his subsequent work with Balkan, Klezmer, Greek, contra dance and jazz. He developed a reputation as a tasteful and innovative improviser who learned to blend seamlessly into a wide variety of fiddle styles, practically defining a whole new tradition for contra dance clarinet and saxophone playing. Bill now plays for contra dancing and English Country Dancing with The Latter Day Lizards and occasionally appears as a guest with Notorious. He has recorded with The Latter Day Lizards, BLT, Wild Asparagus and Yankee Ingenuity and appears on the recordings “Cascade of Tears” and “Gypsy Wine” with Mary Lea and friends.

http://billtomczak.com/

American Dance & Music Week at Pinewoods

http://www.notoriousfolk.com

Larry Unger

Larry Unger has been a prolific tunesmith and full time musician for over 20 years, and probably logs more road miles each year than any other contra dance musician, playing guitar, banjo, piano and bass with numerous bands. Larry's broad musical interests include old-time, blues and swing AND he's a great teacher too.

CDSS at Timber Ridge

American Dance Musicians Course

Bob Walser

Lookin' for the buzz! Bob Walser's search for musical connections spans decades and continents. In the early 1980s he made his living as a shantyman (!) at Mystic Seaport, one of the largest maritime museums in the U.S.. Since then he has presented Folklore In Action folk music and dance programs as an artist-in-residence in schools across the U.S., and performed as a singer, dance leader and dance musician from Maine to California and overseas. As a scholar, Bob earned his Ph.D. in ethnomusicology at the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies. His folk music and education research has been published in the Folk Song Journal (UK) and publications by World Music Press. In addition, he has three cds for The Old and New Tradition label to his credit as well as guest appearances on another dozen recordings in the U.S., France and England. You can often find Bob playing piano or guitar and/or calling at Tapestry Folk Dance Center and the Monday Night Square Dance in Minneapolis, or playing button box and dancing with Ramsey's Braggarts Morris Men. Bob passionately seeks the elusive and playful connections among dancers and musicians - and he'll continue that search at Pinewoods this summer.

http://www.bobandjulie.net/

http://www.bobandjulie.net/

Julie Young

Julie Young loves, teaches and performs Appalachian clogging. She is equally inspired by the inclusive nature and the technical challenges inherent to clogging - a truly American dance form. Julie learned from source dancers in West Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina. Her professional experiences include teaching public elementary school in St. Paul, MN. She lived in London for four years, teaching and performing with husband Bob Walser in folk clubs and festivals throughout the country. Julie is an old-time square dance caller and holds down the rhythm section in various bands on bass and guitar. She has performed with The DitchLilies honky-tonk band, and was a longtime member and artistic director of the Wild Goose Chase Cloggers and GIRLGERMS. She currently works as artist-in-residence with her music and dance company, Shake These Bones.

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Debbie Jackson

Debbie Jackson is a versatile pianist, singer and event organizer who has been playing regularly for contra and English country dancing for over 20 years. As a happy music collaborator, she enjoys composing new tunes, improvising with chording and interpreting music to connect with dancers. She also plays in various swing, folk and couple dance ensembles throughout the Midwest. Debbie has performed in Denmark, Austria, Turkey, France, Ukraine and the Slovak Republic. Along with playing regularly with the band Childgrove, she is working on a solo piano project due for release in 2011.

Anne Ogren

Anne Ogren got hooked on playing music in a group when she joined her first orchestra, the Des Moines Symphony, at the age of 13. Since that time she has played in many orchestras in the U.S., Norway, France and Scotland. Over the years, she has performed with innumerable soloists, from Van Cliburn to Tony Bennett and PDQ Bach. Now retired from teaching orchestra in the public schools, Anne enjoys a more flexible schedule and keeps busy giving private lessons, playing chamber music, performing with Childgrove and traveling. In February 2011, she is part of a team starting the first primary school violin program in Kenya.

Martha Stokely

Martha Stokely is a reformed classical musician who now has much more fun. Her past musical experiences include playing oboe with Ars Musica, the Sarasota Opera Festival, the Bolshoi Ballet, the Sao Paulo State Symphony and the Mantovani Orchestra. After dancing for many years, she finally decided to give playing with a band a try. It is really fun to play for people who are not just sitting around!