Instructors

From Warren, Rhode Island, award-winning multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, writer, public radio commentator, and dancer, Aubrey Atwater presents unique programs of folk music, dance, and spoken word. Aubrey has performed throughout the United States and beyond for decades, singing and playing the mountain dulcimer, banjo, guitar, mandolin, ukulele, and Irish whistle and thrilling audiences with her highly…

Rolly Brown is a lifelong student of the guitar. He has been a National Fingerpicking Champion (1980), a Philadelphia Music Award nominee, a solo performer, sideman, and teacher. Folk, blues, ragtime, bluegrass, country, & jazz have each, over the past 57 years, been his passions. Acoustic Guitar Magazine calls Rolly’s guitar sound “an exceptionally melodic,…

Susie Burke has been performing since the 1980’s in numerous settings, solo, band and duo. No matter the setting, Susie is known for the soulful way she delivers a song. Of her singing, Scott Alarik of the Boston Globe said, “her phrasing is unerringly devoted to the lyric.” The diversity of those lyrics is also…

Something of a late-bloomer, singer/songwriter Kate Campbell didn’t begin her professional career until the age of 30. But in short order she managed to include the likes of Guy Clark, Emmylou Harris, as Buddy Miller as both admirers and collaborators in her distinctly literate musical vision. Since making her recording debut in 1995 with Songs…

When Lui Collins emerged on the folk scene in 1975, her impressive presence and ability to warmly engage with the audience was remarkable for a young performer, and it had a significant impact on her listeners. And as New Hampshire writer and musician Gordon Peery notes, “now, fifty years later, I saw how her gift…

John Doerschuk has been in the sound business for over 25 years. He was attracted to waves and electrons while playing in bands in the seventies, and somehow continues to make a living as an “audio guy.” He lives with his artist wife Bessie and daughter Sophie in Cambridge, Massachusetts. John plays piano and guitar…

“It’s not often you hear a voice this powerful debut in the world of Celtic song,” – Hearth Music review: This Distant Shore After growing up surrounded by folk music, Molly Hebert-Wilson earned a BFA in Musical Theater from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Since then, she has worked as an actress, musician, singer,…

WC Handy Award-winner, musician, composer, actor and director Guy Davis says “Christopher James is amongst the best pure musicians that there are. There’s nothing he can’t do!” Christopher’s love of music is expressed in his songwriting, singing, and playing on the mandolin, acoustic and electric guitar, harmonica and ukulele. He has written over a hundred…

Over the course of three decades, Maura and Pete Kennedy have traversed the US, Canada, Ireland and the UK as a songwriting duo and as longtime members of the late Nanci Griffith’s Blue Moon Orchestra. They’ve released two dozen CDs, produced Ms. Griffith’s CD Intersections, hosted a radio show on Sirius/XM, and most recently have…

Over the course of three decades, Maura and Pete Kennedy have traversed the US, Canada, Ireland and the UK as a songwriting duo and as longtime members of the late Nanci Griffith’s Blue Moon Orchestra. They’ve released two dozen CDs, produced Ms. Griffith’s CD Intersections, hosted a radio show on Sirius/XM, and most recently have…

Cosy Sheridan first caught the attention of national folk audiences in 1992 when she won the New Folk songwriting contests at The Kerrville Folk Festival and The Telluride Bluegrass Festival; The Boston Globe wrote “She is now being called one of the best new singer/songwriters.” She has been on the road ever since, playing clubs,…

Erica Weiss has been teaching music workshops and playing for dances up and down the East Coast and in the American South for more than fifteen years. Proficient on guitar, fiddle, and vocals, Erica currently plays and sings with Appalachian old-time, Cajun and country bands including Square Peg Rounders, Lightning in the East, Jesse Lege…