STAFF

Here is the 2008 staff lineup.

JUNE CAMP

Fiddlers:
Greg Boardman, Éric Favreau, Frank Ferrel, George Fowler, Ellen Gawler, Jessie Gagne Hall, Ed Howe, Dudley and Jackie Laufman, Elaine Malkin, Steve Muise, Carter and Kaity Newell, John Pranio, Don Roy, Lissa Schneckenberger, Hank Washburn, Pam Weeks
PLUS
John Cote, guitar,
Ariel Friedman, cello,
John Gawler, banjo,
Glen Loper, mandolin,
Jeff Mckeen, guitar,
Bob McQuillen, piano,
Doug Protsik, various instruments,
Sharon Pyne, whistle,
Cindy Roy, piano,
Fred White, guitar
plus surprise guests.

AUGUST CAMP - BOTH WEEKS
(see below for staff who will be at one week only):

Greg Boardman, Frank Ferrel, Jessie Gagne Hall, Ed Howe, Dudley and Jacqueline Laufman, Elaine Malkin, Steve Muise, Kaity Newell, Lissa Schneckenberger,
PLUS
John Cote, guitar
Corey Dimario, bass,
Ariel Friedman, cello,
Glen Loper, mandolin,
Jeff Mckeen, guitar,
Doug Protsik, piano,
Sharon Pyne, whistle & flute,
and others, including surprise guests

STAFF for AUGUST CAMP - 1st week only
(see above for both weeks staff):

Fiddlers:
Guy Bouchard,
George Fowler,
Ellen Gawler,
PLUS
Rushad Eggleston, cello,
John Gawler, banjo
Fred White, guitar.

STAFF for AUGUST CAMP - 2nd week only

Fiddlers:
Jennifer Armstrong,
Éric Favreau,
Ed Pearlman,
PLUS
David Surette, mandolin,
Susie Burke, vocals & guitar,
Carter Logan, banjo,
Bob McQuillen, piano,
Sylvia Miskoe, accordion.
and more!

Past staff includes:
Laura Bouchard
Erica Brown
Tim Farrel
Lucien Mathieu
Julia Plumb
Nancy Roderick
Nathan Slobodkin

STAFF INFO

Jennifer Armstrong
Visit Jennifer's website.
233 Poors Mill Road Belfast ME O4915 207-338-6616

Greg Boardman
Greg is the founder of Maine Fiddle Camp and has been a major inspiration for many fiddlers over the last three decades throughout all of Maine. He has steered a career in folk music by playing for concerts and dances, especially by learning the regional "DownEast" fiddling style from the likes of Otto Soper and Simon St. Pierre, and by teaching music and fiddling in the Auburn area. His current band is Boardman and Sons,
playing alongside Isaac, Ethan, and Aidan.
65 Summit St. Auburn ME O4543 207-777-5320.
Visit Greg's website www.bowandstring.com
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Guy Bouchard
Guy Bouchard 1108 Rue Dollard Val-Belair, Quebec Canada G3K1W6 418-847-9815

Susie Burke
Vocals and Guitar
www.burkesurette.com

John Cote
Guitar
John plays with Wake the Neighbors and various duos.
8 Ledgemere Ln Lewiston ME O4240 207-232-8656

Corey Dimario
Base
446 St John Place, Apt.1c Brooklyn NY 11238 617-290-1195

Rushad Eggleston
rushad eggleston, the wild snee goblin, is a cellist of sudden wizardry! he is highly sought after for his slimily flexible cello abilities and his fur. he plays in almost 8 bands and is also busy being the ambassador of snee and writing and recording lots of music. he is a master of thurrowogoufnees!
For more about Rushad, visit his website at www.rushadeggleston.com
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Éric Favreau
Éric Favreau comes from a family of traditional musicians and has spent a great deal of time playing with other fiddlers, learning their repertoire and studying their varied styles. Éric has explored and exploited various sources including archives and personally made field recordings and has accumulated a rich and fascinating repertoire. Over the years, he has garnered a profound understanding and vast knowledge of Québécois traditional music.

As an individual, and in various groups including Entourloupe, Éric has vast experience in the Canadian, United State and European music scenes. Éric has recorded two solo albums, two with his current group Entourloupe, and has appeared on at least a dozen others. He is a consumate entertainer/educator in Introduction to traditional music workshop in the public school system in program under the auspices of the Minister of Education. He also teaches traditional fiddle, and the history of traditional music at the Cégèp(Junior college music) in Joliette, Québec.

Éric's playing is marked by delicacy, nuance and liveliness that will leave no foot untapped!

Frank Ferrel
Frank began his fiddling at age 8, influenced first by his grandfather, a traditional musician and native of Ohio and West Virginia with roots in Ireland and Maritime Canada. Over the years, Frank has appeared on the nationally broadcast popular American radio series, A Prairie Home Companion, and is included on their anthology recording, "PHC Tourists." He has performed on numerous occasions with the legendary Celtic group, The Boys of the Lough, and one of his recordings was selected by the Library of Congress for their Select List of 25 Recordings of American Folk Music.
www.frankferrel.com
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Ariel Friedman
Ariel Friedman is in her third year at Northwestern University studying cello performance, but she is mostly, and not at all secretly, a folk musician. She plays in a folk/celtic/old-timey band with her fiddling sister, Mia and in December, 2006 they released their first album, entitled Lady and
the Pants. Ari also tours, performs and records with Hanneke Cassel. She teaches both classical and folk cello privately and at various fiddle camps, and she also plays clawhammer banjo.
www.ladyandthepants.com or www.myspace.com/ladyandthepants

George Fowler
George studied classical violin as a youngster, but started on his fiddling voyage in the late 1970s by learning tunes from lobsterman & fiddler Albert Collins of South Blue Hill. He is a founding member of Oakum Bay String Band (est. 1981), the host band for the monthly Blue Hill dance, which started in 1976 and is now the longest-running contradance in Maine. George has a strong interest in Irish traditional music and in 1988 started "New Potatoes", the weekly Celtic show on WERU-FM, where he can still be heard on Sundays from 4-6pm.
612 Reach Rd., Brooklin, ME 04616 207-359-2070
email:gfowler@hypernet.com

Ellen Gawler
Ellen Gawler began her study of traditional fiddling in Scotland, where she learned from the old masters. She teaches Suzuki violin and performs with her family band . Also a seasoned singer, Ellen’s early inspiration came from her own parents and their Vermont neighbors, the renowned Macarthur family. Her Maine-based trio, Trillium, has released two CDs of lovely singing and fiddling.
Ellen Gawler 457 West Rd. Belgrade ME O4917 495-2928
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John Gawler
John plays 5-string banjo, guitar, and piano and is the best bottom feeder in the business! When he isn’t smiling and putting on a roof, he is smiling and singing a Woody Guthrie song, accompanied by his wife, Ellen Gawler, or one of his daughters in the Gawler Family Band. Besides doing workshops, John helps host the camper concerts.
282 Guptill Rd. Belgrade ME O4917 207-495-2267
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Jessie Gagne Hall
Jessie plays with Wake the Neighbors.

Ed Howe
Ed plays sizzling fiddle in various bands and duos for dancing and performance, among them the Dave Rowe Trio. Lately Ed has been exploring the electric fiddle. Ed has been the sound tech for Maine Fiddlecamp, and one year even had us running on solar power!
Visit Ed's MySpace page

Dudley and Jackie Laufman
Since 1986, Jacqueline and Dudley Laufman have been playing for dances as Two Fiddles. Prior to that, Dudley, who has been playing and calling dances for over fifty years, has been the leader of the Canterbury Country Dance Orchestra. In 1971 the Orchestra became the first dance band to make an LP recording, which was re-released in the summer of 2001.
PO Box 61 Canterbury NH. O3224 603-654-6347
For more info, visit their website at www.laufman.org
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Carter Logan
Carter plays banjo with his band "Jerks of Grass" and also plays for dances. He has a unique repertoire and we are pleased to have him on staff at camp
www.jerksofgrass.com

Glen Loper
Glen has way too much fun playing mandolin and tenor banjo for contradances with a number of different groups including Frigate, Calliope, and Rumblestrip.
www.glenloper.com

Elaine Malkin
603 Battle Ridge Rd. Canaan ME O4924 207-426-9623
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Sylvia Miskoe
Sylvia has been playing her accordion since college where she began playing for square and contra dancing. Today she still plays for dancing, including Scottish and English Country Dance. In addition she is the music director for the Strathspey & Reel Society, leading their monthly sessions and concerts. She says the one thing better than sitting on stage and playing for dancing is helping others learn how to play for dancing.

Jeff Mckeen
Jeff plays button accordion, guitar, banjo, and the hammiest of bones. Jeff has played with The Old Grey Goose for over twenty years, doing innumerable workshops in schools all over the state, and keeping the old-time music in Maine alive. A resident of Montville, he gets the fire permit every year and helps host the camper concerts, and providing the best of accompaniment for fiddlers.
RFD 1 Box 2155 Freedom ME O4941 207-342-5253
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Bob McQuillen
Bob McQuillen is a legendary piano player from New Hampshire, the composer of more than a thousand wonderful tunes including Dancing Bear, Amelia's Waltz, and so many others. Bob has summed up his love of playing piano for dancing in one simple sentence, "It's like getting paid to eat ice cream!"

Steve Muise
Steve Muise has been fiddling his family's Downeast Style for many years. (His parents are 1st and 2nd generation Nova Scotians) He founded the Franklin County Fiddlers, a group of student musicians from the Farmington area that tours around Maine displaying and promoting fiddle styles. Steve is a graduate of Berklee College of Music, and is a stringed instrument teacher in the MSAD #9 schools. Steve enjoys playing all styles, ranging from Downeast (maritime), Québécois, Celtic, and jazz.
128 Belcher Rd. Farmington ME. O4938 207-778-5072

Kaity Newell
Kaity teaches fiddle in Damariscotta and has played for dances for many years with The Maine Country Dance Orchestra, and with the band The Lady Bugs. A native of Great Britain, Kaity has brought many a fine tune from the British Isles to our local dances. Kaity also plays viola in the local community orchestra and has four children, all of whom play music and come to camp every year.
7 Creek Lane Damariscotta ME O44543 207-563-8440

Carter Newell
When Carter isn’t working on aquaculture projects he loves to play his fiddle with The Old Grey Goose, and with his wife Kaity and The Newell Family Band. He has collected tunes from old Maine fiddlers like Arnold Kennedy from Aroostook County, and has traveled extensively with his fiddle throughout the British Isles and the Maritime Provinces.
7 Creek Lane Damariscotta ME O44543 207-563-8440
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Ed Pearlman
Visit Ed's website at www.highlandsoles.com.

John Pranio
John first started as a teenage fiddler playing Appalachian style from recordings, but soon found out it was more fun to play tunes for contra dances, and has been doing just that for 20 years. Since moving to Maine in 1989, he is best known for his rhythmic dance fiddling at contra dances with his current band The Usual Suspects. John has a real musical family, with his wife Toki accompanying him on bass and guitar.
Tel. (207) 549-3820

Doug Protsik
Doug likes to play the "old-time piano" for dances, melodramas, honky tonk saloons, and silent movies. He learned his style from Otto Soper, Geneva Walton, and Danny Patt among many others. He plays with Old Grey Goose and produced all three of their recordings, including the group’s first recording in 1978 for Folkways, "Old Time Country Dance Tunes and Songs from Maine", now available again on CD. Doug also plays piano, accordion, and fiddle. He is the Camp Director again this year.
116 Pleasant Cove Dr. Woolwich ME O4579 207-443-5411
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Sharon Pyne
Sharon Pyne began playing tin whistle while living in Ireland in 1977, where she studied with master players in County Cork, the same county where her great grandparents immigrated from. Returning to Boston, she became involved in Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann, a world-wide organization whose mission is to preserve traditional Irish music and dance. Led by Seamus Connelly, this group recorded and album of Boston Irish musicians on which Sharon played. She came to Maine with her family, where she helped form the Portland Ceili Band to perform for dances at the Portland Irish- American Club and the Irish Heritage Center. She has performed and recorded with Julia Lane of Castlebay. She teaches Music Together near her hometown of Woolwich, Maine where she lives with her husband Doug Protsik. www.ladiesofthelakemusic.com
116 Pleasant Cove Dr. Woolwich ME O4579 207-443-5411
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Don & Cindy Roy
Don learned how to play the fiddle from his Uncle, Lucien Mathieu when he was 15 years old, and soon after became influenced by his fiddling friends Ben Guillemette, Joe and Gerry Robichaud, and Graham Townsend. His personal style would show strong influence from the Canadian provinces and Northern Ireland. Don started and managed The Maine French Fiddlers with his wife Cindy, an accomplished piano accompanist and stepdancer, for 11 years during which he played such venues as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Barns at Wolf Trap, Prairie Home Companion. His latest recording, "Thanks for the Lift", is a collection of rare tunes learned from his mentors and has been nominated for a National Heritage Award.
114 Plummer Rd. Gorham ME. O4038 892-3512
droy@maineturnpike.com and cynthiaroy1@aol.com.
You can also find out a lot more about Don at his websites:
www.donroyonline.com, www.fiddleicious.com, and coming later this year, www.donroyviolins.com
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Lissa Schneckenburger
A new England fiddler and folk singer, Lissa grew up in Maine as an active member of the folk music and dance community, where she cut her teeth as a musician at a very young age. She has continued to explore music throughout her life, leading to her graduation from The New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts (2001). Her list of mentors includes Greg Boardman, Alasdair Fraser, David Kaynor, and Hankus Netsky. While embracing a diverse pallet of musical influences, she still stays true to her New England roots.
For more info on Lissa, check out her website at www.lissafiddle.com

David Surette
Mandolin
www.burkesurette.com

Hank Washburn
Hank is well known for his fiddle playing at dances around the midcoast and foothills areas of Maine, often with the band the "Usual Suspects" or "The Racket Factory". Hank plays and teaches entirely by ear, and in addition to fiddle he plays mandolin and guitar.
38 Intervale Rd. New Sharon ME O4955 778-2268
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Pam Weeks
Pam sings and plays several instruments in the folk trio, Ti' Acadie,
is fiddler and singer for the Maine-based Cajun dance band, Jimmyjo &
the Jumbol'Ayuhs, plays fiddle and mountain dulcimer in the contradance band, Scrod Pudding, and performs solo or with guitar player and caller Bill Olson. She is an accomplished tunesmith and has composed scores of tunes, from lively jigs and reels, to entrancing airs and beautiful waltzes.

Pam has toured throughout the U.S. with her bands, playing for
contradances, concerts, and teaching at festivals and workshops. She has
three recordings of her own, one with Scrod Pudding and is featured on
several others. Pam teaches mountain dulcimer, bowed strings, guitar, woodwinds, piano, celtic harp, and voice in her studio at her home in Bowdoin, Maine.
43 Starbird Corner Road, Bowdoin, ME. 04287 phone: 207-666-3709
For more info on Pam, check out her website at Pam Weeks Homepage

Fred White
Fred 's (guitar, percussion, vocals) musical debut occurred on the floor of his parents' kitchen, surrounded by pots and pans, long before he ever heard of Ginger Baker or Gene Krupa. For the most recent 30 years he has been performing and recording oldtime, string band, hillbilly, rockabilly, blues, bluegrass, jazz, swing, minstrels, ragtime and Americana music. His trio, Waxlips, made award winning waves in North Carolina in the mid-80's and he was a founding member the popular Pennsylvania-based contradance band, Dr. Twamley's Audio Snakes, and the Celtic band Culture Clash. He presently works with Maine conflagrations Frigate, Catharsis, Hay 44, Bondeaux Redux, Improvox, and The Montville Project.
PO Box 2167, Augusta, ME; phone: 207-622-6201
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