Alan Jabbour a renowned fiddler and folklorist, with special expertise in Appalachian style fiddling. Alan will perform with Ken Perlman, "the Heifetz of the Banjo," who is both a pioneer of the 5-string banjo style known as "melodic clawhammer," and a master of fingerstyle guitar. He is considered one of the top clawhammer players in the world, known in particular for his skillful adaptations of Celtic tunes to the style. On guitar, Ken's sparkling finger-picked renditions of traditional Celtic and Southern fiddle tunes are simply not to be missed;

The Great Bear Trio is an exciting and energetic family band from Fulton, NY. Since the spring of 2000 these three talented musicians have been performing their unique blend of Celtic, French-Canadian, Scandinavian and Appalachian music at concerts, festivals, schools and dance halls across the Northeast. Brothers Andrew and Noah VanNorstrand are already well-known and respected musicians at the impressive ages of seventeen and sixteen respectively. Andrew often takes the lead on fiddle or nyckelharpa (Swedish keyed-fiddle) as well as playing accompaniment on guitar, bouzouki and banjo. Noah is also a gifted fiddler and mandolin player but he adds a powerful groove to Great Bear on an assortment of world-beat percussion instruments including the African djembe and the Australian didgeridoo. The boys are joined by their mother Kim, playing a solid and inventive style of piano all her own.

Donna Hebert - with George Wilson, Liza Carpenter, and Selma Kaplan

"Her fiddle soars!" said British magazine Folk Roots of Donna Herbert's performance on Chanterelle's debut CD "French in America." The National Association of Independent Record Distributors gave her an INDIE Award for Best String Band for Rude Awakening: Rude Girls on Flying Fish, and her songs will either fill you with memories you thought you'd forgotten, or you'll just have to jump up and DANCE to her fiddle, as a recent concertgoer did!

Donna styles an Irish jig with the best and is fluent in a many dialects, but her fiddling home is the music of the French people who came south from Québec and Acadia to New England, bringing their music with its ecstatic syncopation and beaucoup de swing! A third-generation Franco-American, daughter and granddaughter of millworkers, Donna is a valuable interpreter and source of this style, and a gifted tunesmith and songwriter as well.

"A talented, multi-instrumental virtuoso and singer, George Wilson's repertoire samples a wide variety of traditional and folk styles. As a fiddler, he has nearly 400 tunes for dancing and listening — tunes from New England, Quebec, Cape Breton, Scotland, Ireland and Shetland. His dynamic fiddling, strongly influenced by Cape Breton and French Canadian styles, has been popular with contra cancers and concert-goers since the late 1970s.

Liza Carpenter is a master of understatedly intense vocal styling, and the quality of her voice will transport you, it is the thread that weaves through her performances and recordings. Liza's voice has caught the attention of people from festival-goers to NPR host Noah Adams, who found it compelling enough to devote most of a 22-minute segment about "The Sevens" recent CD release to Liza's songs and an interview with her.

Selma Kaplan is an accomplished pianist, composer and arranger, and plays the ultimate sensitive and inventive piano accompaniment with rock solid rhythm and swing. She is one of the East Coast's foremost requested dance musicians, and has recorded and performed with versatile fiddler George Wilson, Rude Girls and others.

The first tune fourteen-year-old Don Woodcock played on the fiddle was his father Howard's version of "Road to Boston." More than thirty years later, Don now holds the title of Grand Champion Fiddler of New York State, having won the state championship contest three times. By 1987 he was inducted into the New York State Fiddlers Hall of Fame in Osceola. His peers say Don Woodcock's playing is technically superb and he is widely recognized for having one of the greatest repertoires of traditional fiddle tunes anywhere around. Don has played at many shows and exhibitions in Northern New York, Vermont, and eastern Ontario. Don and pianist Myriam Gagner are long-time favorites of Fiddlers!

Fiddlin' Around has been performing traditional music in Northeast Pa and the Catskill region for 14 years. The group features Steve Jacobi on fiddle, Craig Gehrig on guitar and Jay Brooks on upright bass. They play a mix of Canadian, Celtic, Texas swing and old-time fiddle tunes. Steve has won numerous fiddling competitions in the area and is the 3-time defending champion in his division at the prestigious Pembroke, Ontario, Canada fiddling contest. They have also just released their second CD, "Elizabeth Creek".

When Hilton Kelly was 5 1/2 years old, his parents purchased a tin fiddle for him for Christmas. He'd been wanting to play the fiddle, but his father's instrument was too big for him to handle. He quickly began playing tunes on that tin fiddle ( which he still owns). His father, Carson Kelly was a fiddler and square dance caller, as well as his grandfather, Ward Kelly. From the age of 12, Hilt began playing for school dances and house parties. In 1978, the State Council of the Aarts decided that old-time fiddling and square dancing should be brought back. Hilt and quite a few other fiddlers were invited to Cooperstown and asked to bring it back and promote it in the areas where they lived. Now, his four piece band that includes his wife ,Stella, on piano, Don Strausser, lead guitar, and Don Irwin, guitarist, vocalist and caller, has become a fixture in the cultural and social life of the Catskills. In October 1994, The Roxbury Arts Group dedicated the Hall in the newly renovated building to Hilt and In July of 1997, he was inducted into the North American Fiddlers Hall of Fame in Oceola, New York.