August Week I Mandolin
Baron Collins-Hill
Instrument: MandolinSession(s): August Week I, August Week II
Instrument by Session(s): August Week I Mandolin, August Week II Mandolin
Baron grew up playing the mandolin in Maine and graduated from Hampshire College with a degree in music performance and ethnomusicology. Versed in traditional music, bluegrass, and jazz, he is known for his rhythmic experimentation and unique harmonic sense on both the mandolin and the tenor guitar. Baron plays with fiddler Julia Plumb in their duo Velocipede and runs MandoLessons, a website offering free online mandolin lessons.
www.velocipedemusic.com
www.mandolessons.com
www.mandobaron.com
Benjamin Foss
Instrument: Guitar, MandolinSession(s): August Week I, August Week II, June Week, June Weekend I
Instrument by Session(s): August Week I Mandolin, August Week II Mandolin, June Week Guitar, June Weekend I Mandolin
Mary Fraser
Instrument: Banjo, FiddleInstrument by Session(s): August Week I Mandolin
Mary Fraser began her musical life by training in classical violin for thirteen years, concluding with a Suzuki method violin teacher certification. She then left the classical music world and traveled extensively throughout the UK, immersing in the traditional music of her heritage. Carrying right on into the southern US states to study the old time fiddle styles of eastern Kentucky, West Virginia and North Carolina. (more…)
Glen Loper
Instrument: MandolinSession(s): August Week I, August Week II, June Week, June Weekend I
Instrument by Session(s): August Week I Mandolin, August Week II Mandolin, June Week Mandolin, June Weekend I Mandolin
Glen gives private lessons for mandolin and tenor banjo from his home in Portland, ME, and plays for contradances throughout the Northeast, and at festivals across the country with bands such as Frigate, Steampacket, Riptide, and Stomp Rocket. Visit Glen at www.glenloper.com.
49 Brackett St, Portland ME, 04102
Phone: 207-837-8249