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June Week Guitar

Ando Anderson

Instrument: Guitar, Ukulele
Session(s): August Week II, June Week
Instrument by Session(s): August Week II Ukulele, June Week Guitar

My mother brought a ukulele on a family trip to Atlanta. The 7 hour drive was pretty stressful as three unruly bored brothers turned the backseat into a war zone. In addition to our battles this trip we each learned to play 5’2″ on the uke. My first experience with a stringed instrument. Of course we performed for Grandma, Aunts, Uncles, and cousins. That was over 50 years ago.

Since then I’ve played guitar, upright bass, and uke in assorted bands and groups mostly in Mississippi and Maine. (more…)

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Benjamin Foss

Instrument: Guitar, Mandolin
Session(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.
https://benjamin-foss.bandcamp.com/

David Stimson

Instrument: Concertina, Guitar, Piano
Session(s): June Week, June Weekend I
Instrument by Session(s): June Week Guitar, June Weekend I Guitar

David Stimson began backing up country dance music on the guitar in 1965 at the age of eleven. During several summers the 1960s he attended Pinewoods cape with his family while his stepfather, Bob Guillard, taught Morris Dancing and English Country Dance. David’s was first exposed to Contra Dance during the evening dances at Pinewoods; however, the disease remained latent until he learned English Concertina and joined the Woods Hole Folk Orchestra in1979. (more…)

Bethany Waickman

Instrument: Guitar
Session(s): August Week I, August Week II, June Week
Instrument by Session(s): August Week I Guitar, August Week II Guitar, June Week 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…)

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