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Ann Savoy
Faculty
Ann Savoy is a musician, an author, a record producer, and a photographer. Her most recent endeavor is the acclaimed newly released “Adieu False Heart”, a CD of duets with the legendary Linda Ronstadt. As a musician she, has played guitar, fiddle, and accordion and traveled throughout the world with her husband accordionist Marc Savoy and fiddler Michael Doucet in the Savoy Doucet Cajun Band, with her all-woman band The Magnolia Sisters. and with Marc and their talented sons in the Savoy Family Band.
Wilson Savoy
Faculty
Wilson was born into a musical family in Eunice, Louisiana, and grew up surrounded by Cajun music among other styles. As a teenager, under the spell of Jerry Lee Lewis and Ray Charles, Wilson fell in love with rock n’ roll and blues piano, and taught himself to play. A little later, he picked up one of his dad’s accordions, and later still, Cajun fiddle.
Geoff Seitz
Faculty
Geoff Seitz has been playing music since age eight and has been playing fiddle for over 45 years. Throughout his years of fiddling, Geoff sought out traditional master fiddlers and learned tunes in the old time style. Although Geoff has spent many hours with the Missouri Valley and Ozark fiddlers, he also learned from Appalachian fiddlers as well as fiddlers
Jake Shulman-Ment & Friends
Jake Shulman-Ment, violin
Alicia Svigals, violin
Pete Rushefsky, tsimbl
Jake Shulman-Ment is a leading voice in contemporary klezmer – a violinist and composer who bridges centuries of tradition with bold, boundary-pushing performance. Known for his fierce improvisations, rich tone, and unflinching virtuosity, Jake’s performances move effortlessly from haunting laments to foot-stomping celebrations.…
Fru Skagerrak
Fru Skagerrak
Elise Wessel Hildrum, fiddle
Maja Kjær Jacobsen, fiddle
Anna Lindblad, fiddle
The music of Fru Skagerrak takes you on a journey through Scandinavian traditions, languages and musical expressions. Fru Skagerrak – ”Lady Skagerrak” – are three master musicians, one from each Scandinavian country: Maja Kjær Jacobsen from Denmark, Elise Wessel Hildrum from Norway and Anna Lindblad from Sweden.…
Daniel Steinberg
Faculty
Daniel has been a musical performer and teacher for over 45 years, with a particular fascination with the traditional music and dance from diverse cultures around the world. He plays piano and flute with the contra dance band Hillbillies from Mars and with New England fiddler Rodney Miller, and has performed with many luminaries of the fiddle music scene, as well as several Latin American and African ensembles.
Alicia Svigals & Friends
Jake Shulman-Ment, violin
Alicia Svigals, violin
Pete Rushefsky, tsimbl
Jake Shulman-Ment is a leading voice in contemporary klezmer – a violinist and composer who bridges centuries of tradition with bold, boundary-pushing performance. Known for his fierce improvisations, rich tone, and unflinching virtuosity, Jake’s performances move effortlessly from haunting laments to foot-stomping celebrations.…
Biba Tera
Faculty
Caitlin Romtvedt, violin
David Romtvedt, accordion
Caitlin Belem Romtvedt grew up in a house full of music in Northern Wyoming. She fell in love with the fiddle at a young age and started playing, both through private lessons and with her parents. Later, through school, friends and family, she began to play alto saxophone and guitar.…
Suzy, Eric & Allegra Thompson
Eric & Suzy have devoted their lives to the pursuit of weird and obscure old-time American music – warped fiddle tunes in odd tunings, cinematic ballads, country blues songs that contain mysterious metaphors, early Cajun music with incomprehensible French lyrics and backwards chords. Using fiddle, mandolin, guitars, Cajun accordion, banjo (and the occasional odd instrument such as the ten-stringed cuatro) they bring these early 20th century sounds right into the present day.…