Nathan Bishop is a fiddler, improviser, and teacher based in Philadelphia. An eclectic performer, he plays violin and viola in his genre-hopping string trio, Midnight on the Water, his experimental rish folk trio, Faoileán, and as a baroque violinist in La Fiocco. He is a past artist-in-residence at the Mignolo Arts Center and with JoAnna Mendl Shaw’s the Equus Project, where he paired live fiddle with self-composed soundscapes to accompany dance and theater works. He founded the bi-weekly Irish seisiún at Flounder Brewing Co. in Hillsborough, NJ, and co-founded When Waves Collide, a new music and dance festival. His first album with Faoileán, Far Hills, has received over 300,000 listens across streaming platforms. He has presented workshops on playing and teaching the fiddle at the University of New Hampshire and NJASTA and regularly teaches at Folk College and the Ashokan Center. A Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts graduate, he studied fiddle with Cleek Schrey and plays on the 46th Håkedal hardanger d’amore.

Mikail Tobias, a native of Scotland currently lives in Morristown NJ and performs regularly in Northern NJ.  As the founder of the Celtic Group "The Pishy Cloots", he brings rare drive, energy. virtuosity, humor, power and fun  to Irish and Scottish music as well as Bluegrass numbers. His instruments include guitar, mandolin, and his featured powerful vocals. 

Pishy Cloots performs regularly at venues such as the Cloverleaf, the Dublin Pub, the Bull & Bear Brewery, Vreeland Store and other establishments where fine brew is served. Prepare for a memorable time of fiddle tunes, traditional songs and  audience participation. You can follow Pishy Cloots on Facebook.  If you're wondering a Pishy Cloot  is, there's  no guarantee you'll get a straight answer. You'll have to experience it for yourself.