June Week Guitar
Ethan Tischler
Instrument: VoiceSession(s): August Week II, June Week, June Weekend I
Instrument by Session(s): August Week II, August Week II Voice, June Week Guitar, June Week Voice, June Weekend I, June Weekend I Voice, Warblers

Ethan Tischler is a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist from just outside of Burlington, Vermont. High school friends brought him along to MFC in 2016, and he’s been hooked ever since! Though his principal focus in music has been singing and songwriting, Ethan loves playing for concerts and dances on guitar (standard / DADGAD), fiddle, mandolin, and banjo. His present projects include leading the Youth Choir at the Belfast UU Church, teaching guitar and sound recording at Bagaduce Music Library in Blue Hill, teaching participatory song and dance school residencies with Belfast Flying Shoes, and playing shows and dances with the Gawler Family Band, the trio Springtide, Owen Kennedy, and his partner Elsie Gawler.
Aidan Boardman
Instrument: GuitarSession(s): August Week I, August Week II, June Week
Instrument by Session(s): August Week I Guitar, August Week II Guitar, June Week, June Week Guitar, June Weekend I, Martins

Aidan Boardman is a vocalist/multi-instrumentalist and teacher, teaching primarily at Greene Hill School in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. He is also pursuing songwriting and recording under the pseudonyms, anguid and Dreamt. Aidan’s teaching focuses on developing guitar technique, posture, creative harmonies, and ear-training.
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

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.
Bethany Waickman
Instrument: GuitarSession(s): August Week I, August Week II, June Week, June Weekend I
Instrument by Session(s): August Week I Guitar, August Week II Guitar, June Week Guitar, June Weekend I Guitar

Bethany Waickman is a guitarist based out of Portland, Maine. She grew up in a musical family in the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York state. After college she spent some time traveling, hiking, and playing music in Ireland. Upon returning, she moved to Boston to focus on music. She co-founded the contra dance trio, Anadama, and is the guitarist for VT-based fiddler/singer Lissa Schneckenburger. (more…)