Artists & Interviews

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A fascinating interview with Violin Luthier Joe Thile - a must watch for fiddlers! Joe is a Bluegrass fiddler and Vice President of  New Jersey BOTMA (Bluegrass and Old Time Music Association)  

https://www.njbluegrass.org/index1.htm

• Filius Fiddles
  Brick, New Jersey 8724
• +732-330--7482
•  oldharmony@yahoo.com 
• Loui Setzer and the Appalachian Mountain Boys:

https://www.louiesetzer.com/home.html

• Last Whippoorwill Bluegrass Band

https://www.highlonesomebluegrass.com/

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Singer, Accordianist & Guitarist

 at Zydeco Revelators, Viva Vallenato, & Rosa Tatuata  at Amazing Ceremonies - Rev. Phil Passantino 

https://www.youtube.com/ZydecoRevelators

https://philsings.com/

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Redbird is an established South Jersey  musician and songwriter  with a powerful soulful voice who plays guitar, piano and bass, and is President of the Pinelands Preservation Alliance's great venue Albert Music Hall. 

Video - "Wood and Wire" https://youtu.be/51QgQ2gUrG4?si=W0e0-K96jpU2DVde

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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.  

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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! 

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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

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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. 

   A multi-instrumentalist/composer/artist/teacher.

Steve has worked for 20 years as a dance accompanist at TRINITY LABAN Conservatoire Of Music and Contemporary dance, and he accompanies classes for MAGPIE DANCE.

He is Musical Director for Director/Choreographer LEA ANDERSON (Cholmondeleys & Featherstonehaughs).

He plays percussion, 5-String Banjo, and fiddle, performs regularly for social dances with ceilidh / barn dance / square dance bands, and has Patreon and YouTube Channels

 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. 

  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. 

Singer-songwriter Maura Glynn  is an accomplished vocalist and guitar player based in northwestern New Jersey, has earned acclaim starting a few years ago with the release of her debut album "Maura Glynn: At The River's Edge."

Glynn's songwriting style draws on influences from blues, folk, Americana, and jazz. She has been writing and performing in the area for many years. Maura has performed solo and with several different collaborative projects  and is a regular at local venues and festivals. Rich, warm and seductive, her style makes you feel good about life and love.