Schedule

DAILY SCHEDULE

 1:35-2:30 All non-program activities for campers under 13 must have adult supervision

Staff

PROGRAM DIRECTORS

Sam Bartlett

Sam Bartlett is an irrepressible mandolin, banjo and guitar player, known to dancers across the country for his fine musicianship and philosophy of stuntology. His original music has been profiled by NPR's All Things Considered and Sing Out! magazine declared him a member of “the rhythm players hall of fame.” The inventor and most distinguished practitioner of stuntology, Sam will amaze and delight us with his latest discoveries. Sam's community art projects bring the whole camp into the creative process. Mr. Bartlett has made large scale paper sculptures and puppets for more than 30 years, from the hills of West Virginia to the public school in Gustavus, Alaska.
www.sambartlett.com

Abby Ladin

Abby Ladin grew up immersed in the traditional folk music revival of the ‘70s on the East coast. She was clogging by the age of six, performing with her sister Evie by age 10 and touring nationally at 18 with the renowned dance and music company Rhythm in Shoes. 20 years later she continues to teach the fundamentals and possibilities of clogging to all who crave rhythm in their feet.

STAFF

Mary Alice Amidon

Mary Alice Amidon is a warm and engaging music educator who is passionate and dedicated to song, dance and storytelling with young children. She is a multi-instrumentalist, an accomplished singer of traditional song, and a composer of new songs. As a performer she is gifted in forging a bridge between story, music and listener. As a song leader she inspires open-hearted, full throttle participation.
www.amidonmusic.com

Peter Amidon

Peter Amidon fell into the world of traditional music in 1975 and has never turned back. He is thrilled to now be able to make a living as a freelance musician/educator/publisher: telling stories to all age groups, leading harmony singing with adults and teaching and leading dance with children, teachers and families. Peter Amidon, a founding member of New England Dancing Masters, publishers of books, CDs and DVDs of traditional dance for children and community dancing, leads workshops on leading dance with children and communities throughout the United States, often headlining (with Mary Alice Amidon) at state and national music teacher conferences. His choral arrangements are being sung by community, church and hospice choirs throughout the U.S. and the UK. He has led dancing and singing with children and adults at CDSS Camps for thirty-five years.
www.amidonmusic.com

Claudio Buchwald

Claudio Buchwald was born into a musical family and raised in Peru until age ten, and delighted in and adopted some of the new music forms he met here in the U.S. He has toured in Africa and South America with the David Holt Trio and plays old-time music with The Monks. Claudio plays also for contras and squares, English country dancing, morris and salsa. Claudio currently plays piano with dance bands The Cocks of the North and Evening Star. During the school year, he teaches first and second grade at the Harmony School in Bloomington, Indiana.

Andrea Cooper

Andrea Cooper’s first time at Pinewoods was at Family Week when she was 13, an experience that has remained a highlight of her life. Since then, her music has taken her to places as far as Eek, Alaska and as close as New Bedford, Massachusetts. She has had the pleasure of teaching banjo, tin whistle, art and children’s classes at various music and dance camps including the Friday Harbor Irish Music Week on San Juan Island, Maine Fiddle Camp, Algoma Trad in Ontario and Family Week at Pinewoods.

Katy German

Katy German grew up in Berea, Kentucky - a community full of song and dance traditions from Appalachia, England, and Denmark. She was a member of the traveling youth performance team The Berea Festival Dancers, with whom she traveled to Denmark, England, Scotland, and Ireland. Katy's passion is working with youth, inter-generational, and beginning-level dancers. She's been on staff at many family dance weeks, including Pinewoods, Buffalo Gap, Cumberland Dance Week, and Lady of the Lake. During her six years in the Chapel Hill area, she helped coordinate monthly family dances. She now lives in Asheville, NC, singing, dancing, and calling family dances. She remains very involved with Christmas Country Dance School in Berea, as a program adviser, youth program coordinator, and class instructor. Since September, she is the Executive Director of CDSS.

Catherine Miller

Catherine Miller started out as a classically-trained violinist, playing for Iowa barn dances on the side. After moving to Boston, she became active in the folk music scene and can now be found playing for Scottish and English country dance, contra, and international dances in the New England area and across the country.

* Keith Murphy

Keith Murphy has been immersed in music and dance since his childhood days in Newfoundland. His distinctive rhythmic sound on guitar, mandolin, piano and foot percussion has helped drive several great contra dance bands including Nightingale, Wild Asparagus and Assembly. Having performed at many dance events throughout the U.S. and Canada as well as overseas, he brings a wealth of experience and sophistication to his playing.
www.blackislemusic.com

Susie Petrov

By day, Susie Petrov teaches young people to sing, dance and be nice to each other as an elementary school music teacher in the Boston area. Her teaching tradition emphasizes using the student’s native folk music to learn their musical “mother tongue” to better prepare them to explore the wider music world. Her oldest students have performed the Longsword dance every year since 1990. On weekends and during school vacations, Susie plays for, teaches and calls for Scottish dancing. Her appearances in 2015-16 will take her from Boston to Minneapolis, to New York (Pipes of Christmas), to a ski and dance weekend in Oslo, and the New Harmony Music Festival and School in Indiana. In July, she directs and teaches music teachers how to share dancing with their students at the Kodály Music Institute.

Mark Roberts

Mark Roberts’ long and varied musical career has included extensive touring and recording, playing more instruments than you can imagine with The Clayfoot Strutters, The Sevens, The Red Clay Ramblers, Childsplay and Touchstone. He’s played for Broadway shows and movie soundtracks and we think he is one of the finest dance musicians in the country.

Bruce Rosen

Bruce has been part of Boston's contra and English country dance community since the mid-70s as a dancer and musician. His rock solid piano and guitar accompaniment is sought after by many of New England's best contra dance musicians. Bruce also plays piano for English country dancing, appearing frequently in Jamaica Plain (MA), as well as other New England venues. As part of Boston's traditional music scene, he plays guitar at Irish sessions and in performance with the West Newton Ceili Band, and drives the rhythm at Old Time music jams on the banjo ukelele. In the early 90s, Bruce took up the button accordion, and has played for the Pinewoods Morris Men, Ha'Penny Morris, and the Commonwealth Morris Men. Bruce has collaborated on four recordings of New England contra dance music.
www.rosenatthewheel.com

Sue Rosen

Sue Rosen has been dancing all of her life and attended her first callers workshop at Campers’ Week at Pinewoods in 1989. Since then she's become one of New England's favorite callers and has written contras that have become part of the standard repertoire of dance callers across the country and overseas.
www.suerosencaller.com

* Becky Tracy

Becky Tracy grew up dancing to her father's calling and scratchy 78s of Don Messer's fiddle playing. She has fiddled with the bands Nightingale and Wild Asparagus for the last 15 years and has played in many, many lovely places including Hawaii and France. Becky has a distinctive clarity of tone, a rhythmic attack owing much to French-Canadian playing and the melodic quality of Irish music. Her unmistakable sound has made her a defining presence among dance musicians.
www.blackislemusic.com

Tod Whittemore

Tod Whittemore

* ADVISORS, PLUS

Steve Howe