Maine Fiddle Camp

Martins

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The Martins will meet in two separate Zoom rooms: one for regular tuning and the other for DADGAD tuning. All levels will meet together. Aidan and Fred will be doing regular tuning and Eric and Benjamin will be doing DADGAD

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  • Aidan Boardman

    Aidan Boardman is a musician and teacher, providing general music education at Greene Hill School in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, and a pursuer of songwriting and recording under the pseudonyms, anguid and Dreamt. At the first (and best) ever Maine Fiddle Camp winter edition, Aidan’s teaching focuses on right-hand technique for guitar and ear-training.
     

  • Benjamin Foss

    Benjamin Foss is a musician and luthier based in Brooks, Maine. Benjamin grew up in southern New England attending and playing for contra dances and building fiddles and banjos out of everything he could find. He first came to Maine Fiddle Camp in 2012 and hasn’t missed a session since!
    Benjamin plays in several contra dance combinations on fiddle, guitar, tenor banjo, and occasionally other stringed instruments and on rare occasions can be found calling dances. When he’s not playing, he’s building and restoring guitars, banjos and mandolins in Brooks. Some of Benjamin’s other pursuits include restoring player pianos and reed organs, stacking firewood, and finding forgotten fiddle tunes and dances to bring back into circulation.
     

  • Eric McDonald

    Eric McDonald has been instructing and performing on the mandolin for a number of years. In addition to his experience in the world of traditional music, Eric spent two and a half years studying at Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he learned from some of the best including mandolinist John McGann and cellist Eugiene Friesen. Exposure to jazz and other styles come through in his playing. Eric has spent the last three years touring with bands such as The Dave Rowe Trio, Matching Orange, Jaded Mandolin and others. You can hear him on many independent recordings by Boston based artists, and you can catch him teaching at the Passim School of Music in Cambridge.

  • 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 45 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 (more…)