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June Weekend I Guitar

Owen Marshall

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

Vogue magazine calls musician Owen Marshall “A guitar/mandolin/banjo player rivaled in character only by the occasional three-pronged carrot” (Vogue 2009). Owen has accompanied and collaborated with many of traditional music’s top performers including Aoife Clancy, Liz Carroll, Darol Anger, John Doyle, Andrea Beaton, Jerry Holland, Ari & Mia Friedman and his own traditional Irish trio “The Press Gang”. (more…)

Eric McDonald

Instrument: Guitar, Mandolin
Session(s): August Week II, June Week, June Weekend I, June Weekend II, VMFC - Feb 2021
Instrument by Session(s): August Week II Guitar, June Week Guitar, June Weekend I Guitar, June Weekend II Guitar, Martins

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.

Bethany Waickman

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

Fred White

Instrument: Guitar
Session(s): August Week I, June Weekend I, VMFC - Feb 2021
Instrument by Session(s): August Week I Guitar, June Weekend I Guitar, Martins

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…)

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