Liz Carroll

Since she was 18, when she astounded the Celtic music world by winning the Senior All-Ireland Championship, Liz and her fiddle have been amazing audiences around the globe… read more »

Brittany Haas

Brittany Haas is a 5-string fiddle player from the Bay Area, currently residing in Nashville. She grew up honing her craft in fiddle camps nationwide, and came to her unique sound through the old time fiddling of Bruce Molsky & and the innovative stylings of Darol Anger… read more »

Rafe & Clelia Stefanini

Rafe Stefanini has been at the forefront of the revival of traditional music from the rural south for over thirty years. His work on fiddle, banjo, guitar and song is represented in over 20 CDs… read more »

Laurie Lewis

Legend is not always loud. Particularly in the beneath-the-radar substreams of American folk music and bluegrass, it is bestowed more by whispered word-of-mouth, over years and decades, than by the hurried hype and ballyhoo of the pop mainstream. You can’t measure Laurie Lewis’s 30-year career with the usual commercial yardsticks… read more »

Alice Gerrard

Gerrard, a pioneer for women in bluegrass and old-time music, firmly establishes her place within ghe glorious country music tradition of sad love ballads, a living link between today’s music and its roots… read more »

Natalie Haas

Vibrant young musician Natalie Haas is one of the most sought after cellists in traditional music today. She and master Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser have toured together as a duo for over ten years, creating a buzz at festivals and concerts throughout Europe and North America. Natalie has also toured extensively with Mark O’Connor as a member of his… read more »

Rushad Eggleston

Rushad Eggleston (born September 1979) is a contemporary improvisational cellist. Agraduate of Carmel High School, played the cello as a member of the Youth Music Monterey orchestra in Monterey Bay… read more »

Tristan Clarridge

A native of northern CA, Tristan Clarridge began playing fiddle at the age of two, going on to win 5 Grand National Fiddle Championships. Now residing in Boston, Tristan is one of a handful of cellists exploring new groove-based cello territory… read more »

Dominick Leslie

Colorado native Dominick Leslie is a fourth semester student at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He has been around live music all his life and thanks to his dad, he has been playing since he was old enough to hold an instrument… read more »

Kai Welch, Guest Instructor

I was born into a tribe of semi-nomadic back-to-the-land hippies in Eastern Oregon in 1980. My parents made money for a small part of the year, planting trees for the US Forest Service… read more »

Simon Chrisman, Guest Instructor

Hammer dulcimer virtuoso Simon Chrisman brings an unusual style to an instrument that has previously been thought to have limited range and technique…. read more »

Peter Hamre, Guest Instructor

Peter is a wonderful up-and-coming bluegrass guitarist and singer, and will be contributing to the guitar faculty this week…. read more »

Artistic director: Tashina Clarridge

Raised in the mountains of northern California, Tashina began Suzuki violin lessons when she was 2 years old, at Humboldt State University & the University of Montana. She continued studies in Baroque classical violin with Rob Diggins, and in Texas-Style/Contest fiddling with Megan Lynch. Drawn into the creative world of acoustic music camps…. read more »

Host & Assistant director: Grace Forrest

Third generation Big Sur community member Grace Forrest began studying violin on her own initiative at 6 years old. A poster child for home-schooling, Grace heard the famous Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser on the radio when she was little…. read more »

Additional organization & general enthusiasm: Kimber Ludiker

Kimber Ludiker is a 4th generation fiddler who first put bow to string at the age of 3. Now 25, she is the current National Old Time Fiddle champion…. read more »