June Weekend I Banjo
John Gawler
Instrument: BanjoSession(s): June Weekend I
Instrument by Session(s): June Weekend I Banjo

John plays 5-string banjo, guitar, and piano and is the best bottom feeder in the business! When he isn’t smiling and putting on a roof, he is smiling and singing a Woody Guthrie song, accompanied by his wife, Ellen Gawler, or one of his daughters in the Gawler Family Band. Besides doing workshops, John helps host the camper concerts.
282 Guptill Rd. Belgrade ME O4917 207-495-2267
Stuart Kenney
Instrument: Banjo, BassSession(s): August Week I, August Week II, June Week, June Weekend I
Instrument by Session(s): August Week I Banjo, August Week II Bass, June Week Bass, June Weekend I Banjo

One of the most in demand upright bass, and five-string banjo players on the US contradance circuit, Stuart Kenney’s regional musical interests sweep from Southwest Louisiana to Acadia. He has a long career in many traditional music genres. His interest in Quebecois music formed through the fiddling of Lisa Ornstein, and performances by La Bottine Souriante. The inclusion of French Canadian music into the living tradition of New England contradance music caught his attention early on. (more…)