Lineup 2025
Golden Shoals
Golden Shoals is a fiddle and guitar duo with a "rousing old-time-style music that’s fueled by acerbic modern-day wit” (—No Depression Magazine). They are no strangers to traditional music, having placed in contests including Clifftop (3rd place 2023, 4th place 2022), Mount Airy, The Grand Masters Fiddlers Championship and Galax. Often switching instruments between fiddle, two guitars, and banjo, their original songs have been compared to Gillian Welch, with the added edge of instrumental prowess informed by energetic old-time and bluegrass recordings.
Initially brought together by a mutual love of American folk music, Golden Shoals' sound has expanded to include country, Americana, Indie and Experimental influences, allowing them to move more freely beyond genre boundaries with their songwriting while still emanating a deep understanding of old-time and bluegrass music. Ever inspired by the enduring spirit of traditional Appalachian mountain music, their songwriting comes across as simple, honest, and fresh to the ears. The listener can expect the polished technique of conservatory training, in tandem with the grit, drive, and soul of musicians like Roscoe Holcomb and Ola Belle Reed.
Kit Stovepipe with Dumpster Joe & the Boys
Do you like crusty old string-band music? Random facts about obscure prewar musicians and vernacular music history?? Singers who sound like they have smoked 100,000,000,000,000,00 cigarettes??? If you answered "yes!" to any of these questions, Dumpster Joe & the Boys (featuring Kit Stymee Stovepipe) might have just the STUFF for you!
Portland, OR based Dumpster Joe & the Boys play 1920s and 30s jazz, jugband, hillbilly, and country blues tunes on Reso-Phonic guitar and cello. They seamlessly mix genres, and present everything in a down-home string-band style that is sure to delight young and old.
On occasion, the duo is joined by pals on fiddle, clarinet, washtub, washboard, musical saw and all other manner of instruments and household appliances. Their extensive repertoire of prewar tunes was learned by fanatically collecting and listening to 78 RPM records. Once they get to serenadin' and syncopatin', a good time is guaranteed to be had by all!
Ryan McNally
While he’s best known for his interpretative playing of traditional acoustic blues, jazz and old-time music, audiences can’t help but notice the influence that Northern living has had on his music. For the past 13 years McNally has called Whitehorse, YK his home. Originally from rural southern Quebec, Ryan first discovered jazz and blues by uncovering a huge collection of ‘78 records that belonged to his grandfather. Then, as a teen, his curiosity for the sound and history anchored his love for the genres and it’s only grown stronger since.
His first album Down Home (2012), was recorded live by CBC North and received a feature on the popular radio show “Saturday Night Blues,” hosted by Holgar Peterson.
In 2017, his second album, Steppin’ Down South, was nominated for Blues Artist Of The Year at the Western Canadian Music Awards. That year Ryan and his band also had the privilege to perform for Prince William and Princess Kate during their visit to the Yukon.
McNally has become known for his diversity as a multi-instrumentalist. He plays guitar, harmonica, mandolin, violin and banjo, all in many different styles. Whether performing solo or with his band, his music is grounded in the legacy of the generations of players that came before him. All the while he continues to push the boundaries of his own signature sound.
Buddy Mac
Brady McAtee, AKA Buddy Mac, was born and raised in Montana. He was born in Kalispell, but moved all over the state until landing in Bellingham, WA with his family in 2012.
He has been a performer since he was 9 years old, doing ventriloquism for his church, school and various other events/venues.
It wasn't until the Covid-19 shutdown that he began to discover "Western" music. He instantly fell in love with the Sons of the Pioneers, Roy Rogers, Gene Autry and others that defined the genre.
He learned to yodel with all the free time he gained by being laid off from work during that time and began to steep himself in the Western genre.
He has recently picked back up his passion for throwing his voice and does various vaudeville style ventriloquist routines where he can, while also yodeling and crooning old cowboy standards.
Tradwife Stringband
Tradwife is an old-time quintet made of Doreen Ditties on banjo, Muffins Debrief on fiddle, Mrs. Mandy Lynn on mandolin, Madge [Last name redacted] on bass fiddle, and Moose [just Moose] on guitar. Get ready to dance, sing, recite bible verses, and pray along with the best stringband choice feminism has to offer!
Cameron DeWhitt
Cameron DeWhitt is a clawhammer banjoist and old-time musician living in Portland, Oregon. They are the host of Get Up in the Cool, a weekly old-time music and interview podcast, featuring conversations and musical collaborations with today’s most influential traditional musicians, such as Jake Blount, Laurel Premo, Tatiana Hargreaves, Bruce Molsky, Adam Hurt, and Dirk Powell.
As an interviewer, Cameron acts as audience surrogate, asking illuminating questions to old-time's tradition bearers while telling the larger story of its modern era. With over 8 years and 400 episodes, Get Up in the Cool is one of the largest and fastest growing archives of new traditional music recordings.
Sherry Nevins
Sherry's had great fun calling traditional square dances since 1977 and contra dances since 1980, also occasionally teaching couple dance workshops (waltz, polka, schottische, and beginning East Coast swing). She began coordinating community dances in Seattle in 1979. She especially enjoys calling at Family Dance events where adults and children of all ages participate together. She has taught at several dance camps, including Camp Wannadance, Pinewoods, Chehalis, Bear Hug, Suttle Lake, Let's Dance, and the BACDS and Lady of the Lake Family Weeks. She is particularly adept at calling for weddings and birthday celebrations; school, church, and club parties; festivals, fairs and all kinds of events where dancers with varied levels of experience and inexperience come together. Her informal style and boundless enthusiasm, combined with clear teaching and a varied, lively repertoire ensure a satisfying dance experience for all!
Larry Edelman
Hailing from Denver, Colorado, Larry has called dances and played music for about 50 years. He is a square dance caller who delights both novice and veteran dancers with his humor, enthusiasm, skillful teaching, knowledge of dance history, and colorful calling. During the 1980s while collecting traditional square dances in southwestern Pennsylvania, he was awarded a Fellowship in Folk Arts from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts to study with elder square dance caller Jerry Goodwin. Larry is also known for his workshop presentations on the fast moving square dances from the early 1950’s, a.k.a., The Golden Age of Square Dancing. Larry has traveled widely, calling and playing for dances throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe. He has taught hundreds of workshops at camps and festivals, including the Festival of American Fiddle Tunes, Ashokan, Augusta, Pinewoods, Lady of the Lake, Rocky Mountain Fiddle Camp, and the Berkeley Old-Time Music Convention, among many others. He has served as the coordinator of the Augusta Heritage Arts Workshop’s Dance Week and the Country Dance and Song Society’s American Dance Week at Pinewoods, and is a Consultant to the Square Dance History Project. As a musician, Larry plays old-time music on the fiddle, mandolin, and guitar and has performed and recorded with a number of bands, including the Soda Rock Ramblers, The Percolators, the Fiddle Dogs, the Prairie Chickens, and Devilish Merry. Larry is also a filmmaker and as a founder of Piggysnout Productions has produced a number of acclaimed documentaries about traditional music and dance, including Dance to the Music and Listen to the Calls; Yee Haw: A Curious Stroll Down Square Dancing’s Memory Lane; Eva Nuanez: Memories of My Musical Life; Dance All Night – The Highwoods Stringband Story; and The Canote Twins.
For more information on Larry’s films visit: https://piggysnoutproductions.com