Articles & Interviews

  Cranston is a multi instrumentalist and songwriter and music documentarian who plays with the Old Time Band "Jackson Pines", "Patty C and the Pints, The Cranston Dean Band and solo projects. 

 Musician & Film maker-founder of Piggysnout Productions who has produced both short-form and feature-length documentaries , including   "Dance All Night – The Highwoods Stringband Story” and “The Canote Twins.” All of Larry’s films are available for free home streaming at: https://piggysnoutproductions.com

 Paul teaches fiddle, leads an old-time music program at The Music Settlement in Cleveland, Ohio, is an author, and, since 2018, has been documenting rare and obscure tunes and underrepresented source fiddlers through his Old-Time Tune of the Week series on YouTube.  

 Nathan Bishop is a fiddler, improviser, and teacher based in Philadelphia. An eclectic performer, he play with numeroud ensembles including 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. 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. 

 Mikail Tobias, a Scottish native, currently lives in Morristown NJ and performs regularly in Northern NJ and beyond.  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.. His instruments include guitar, mandolin, and his featured powerful vocals. 

 Steve is an Old Time musician and creative maker of cigar box musical instruments. He attends numerous Old Time gatherings to show off and allow musicians to play his instruments We first met in Tennessee at the Breaking Up Winter Old Time Gathering, and also hung out at the Clifftop Old Time Gathering. He recently  made the top ten and took second place in the video playoffs  of the New Orleans Cigar Box Guitar Festival.  where he played with Thomas Maupin and Daniel Rothwell, Collette Chris Rainwater, Jacob Fennell, Hillary Klug, Evan Winsor, and Casey Meikle! 

  NJ native Ed Jankiewicz has been playing the guitar and singing for audiences for over 40 years. He plays bass in the Hunterdon Symphony Orchestra, in bluegrass and old time bands and for services at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Whitehouse Station where he is also a cantor. He is half of the musical duo “Coo Coo Cachoo” performing a variety of acoustic rock, plus a Simon and Garfunkel tribute show. He occasionally plays in pit orchestra for community

theater musicals.