Darol Anger

Violinist, fiddler, composer, producer and educator, Darol Anger is at home in a number of musical genres, some of which he helped to invent. With the jazz-oriented Turtle Island String Quartet, Anger developed and popularized new techniques for playing contemporary music styles on string instruments…. read more »

Christina Wheeler

Christina started playing the violin at the age of three and learned her first fiddle tune at the age ten. At 16, she quit school, joined the Chicago Civic Orchestra and started staying up late to learn Old Time tunes… 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 »

Mike Block

Hailed by Yo-Yo Ma as the “ideal musician of the 21st Century”, Mike Block is a pioneering multi-genre cello player living in New York City. While studying at the Juilliard School, Mike joined The Silk Road Ensemble as its youngest member, and upon graduation in 2006, also joined Grammy Award winner Mark O’Connor in his Appalachia Waltz Trio…. read more »

Matt Hartz

Renowned Idaho musician Matthew Hartz is an artist shaped by many different musical influences. As a champion fiddler, he established himself as a force in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s …. read more »

Special Guest musician Tristan Clarridge

Tristan is not an official instructor, but will make a sneak appearances here or there in class, notably providing rhythm for Matt’s Texas Style classes, and will be happy to answer any burning questions, like “what should I do to my Sister when she annoys me?” and “what kind of alcohol should I use on my bow?”…. read more »

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 »

Organizing team: 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 »

Organizing team: 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 »

Organizing team: Simon Chrisman

Of the many things in life that Simon Chrisman likes to do, music is the one that he spends the most time doing. Through a stroke of horrifically bad luck, he started playing the Hammer Dulcimer at age ten…. read more »