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Mike Agranoff
is equally at home in the contemporary and traditional camps. He is a fine musician and storyteller. His prime instrument is the guitar and he also plays concertina, piano, banjo, or sings acapella.
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Ralph Bodington
is a superb performer of banjo tunes and ballads from the old-time Southern mountain tradition. He has a laid-back, easy style that comes right out of the old tradition.
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Claire is a native of Sarzeau, on the Presqu'Ile de Rhuys in southern Brittany, the Celtic region of France. She sings traditional songs in French and Breton, a Gaelic language similar to Welsh. Now living in Montréal, Claire teaches traditional dances from her region and performs occasionally with the group Pevar. She will be accompanied at the Eisteddfod by her partner Brad Hurley on wooden flute and voice.
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Andy Cohen
is a blues guitarist and historian, especially involved with the work of Rev. Gary Davis. Andy also plays such unusual instruments as the dulceola.
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John Cohen
plays guitar, banjo, and mandolin. He is a founder member of the New Lost City Ramblers. His campaign for the recognition of traditional roots/folk music has led to the production of fifteen films, hundreds of photographs and sound recordings.
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Jeff Davis
is a great singer of material from the mountains (north and south), the coast, from Canada, very much in the old styles, and a master instrumentalist on everything that has strings.
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Elias Ladino Ensemble (Joe and Danny Elias and Richard Khuzami)
performs and preserves the music of the Spanish and Middle Eastern Jewish community.
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Jerry Epstein
is a singer of (mostly) unaccompanied traditional song of the Eastern US and Canada, and a pretty fair concertina player.
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Toby Fagenson
is a singer,songwriter, parodist and instrumentalist (on six and twelve-string guitar and five-string banjo). His songs range from the screamingly funny to the sharply satirical.
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Alan Friend
plays old time music on a variety of instruments (banjo, guitar, concertina) and is also a singer of ballads. He is a founding member of the Chelsea String Band.
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Julia Friend
sings ballads with a directness and ease born of long, close contact. Although a young singer she is mindful of the lasting traditions from which the old songs come. Her repertoire includes English and American ballads, chorus songs, chanties, and pub songs. She plays clawhammer banjo.
 Julia has performed at NEFFA and NOMAD, Richmond Town Restoration, Oberlin College, and at the last Eisteddfod. She has recorded a ballad as part of the Heritage Muse Digital Child ballad project.
"Julia is an impressive performer. She has a great sense of style, and attacks a song with self-confidence and a sureness of how she wants to express its meaning"
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Howard Glasser
is the founding father of the Eisteddfod and Festival Director Emeritus. He has also collected folksongs in Scotland and other places. A noted calligrapher, Howard designed the Eisteddfod-NY logo.
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The Johnson Girls
(Joy Bennett, Maggie Bye, Alison Kelley, Bonnie Milner, and Deirdre Murtha) perform folk music with an emphasis on songs of the sea and shore. Each member of the group brings a specialty and style to the ensemble.
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David Jones
is a master of English traditional song, everything from the ballad tradition to the Music Halls, and an always welcome regular at the festival.
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Norman Kennedy
is as good as it gets in the unaccompanied Scottish tradition in both English and Gaelic.
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Enoch Kent
is the gravelly voiced veteran of 50 years of Scottish, and some English, song, covering from the old ballads to the street songs to the songs of struggle for justice.
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Chris Koldewey
has been singing folk music and sea music in particular since his early teens. He comes from a family rich in maritime traditions, and his lullabies as a child were traditional songs of the sea. Chris has played many concerts and festivals in states along the eastern seaboard, and internationally, and has led workshops dealing with a variety of traditional music forms. He accompanies himself on guitar, banjo, fiddle, and concertina.
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The Manhattan Sacred Harp Group
-- a fine group of enthusiastic singers who have been singing this powerful repertoire of Southern Shape Note hymns for some years.
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Evy Mayer
sings and plays ukulele, guitar, dumbek and a host of other percussion instruments. She collects popular songs of the early 1900s, as well as humorous songs, children's music, plus Balkan and other international music. She loves to sing harmony and funny songs, and to folk dance.
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Mick Moloney
is a folklorist and a celebrated performer of Irish traditional music. He sings and plays mandolin and tenor banjo. In 1999 he was awarded the National Heritage Award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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NexTradition
offer idiosyncratic renditions of sea songs and chanteys, gospel and blues, worksongs of the railroads, mines, prisons, factories, and fields. TNT performs traditional music of America, Great Britain, and around the world.
Alison Kelley and Ken Schatz both grew up chantey brats - Alison in New York City, Ken in Washington, D.C.. She teaches at The Cobble Hill High School of American Studies, and also performs with Ida Red , The Johnson Girls and The New York Packet. He acts, directs, teaches, and coaches acting for theatre, television, and film.
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NYU Ballad Singers
are a group of students at New York University who have been working on discovering, learning, and singing the traditional ballads of America, Britain, and Ireland, under the guidance of faculty member Evelyn Vitz
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Barry O'Neill
is the most laid-back, unassuming singer ever to fascinate an audience with his very unusual repertiore of songs from the streets of New York, to Eastern Canada, to the Victorian parlor.
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Anne Price
is a versatile and gifted singer born and raised in New York City. She sings a wide variety of traditional folk songs and many songs from contemporary songwriters, as well as songs she has written.
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Serre l'Écoute
is a trio: Gabrielle Bouthillier (voice, piano, triangle), Liette Remon (voice, pieds, fiddle), and Robert Bouthillier (voice, guimbardes, cuillers, and is the father of Gabrielle) that specializes in French and French-Canadian maritime music. Their music traces the link between the maritime traditions of France and the Great Lakes region. They were a great hit at Mystic in 2005.
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Shepheard, Spiers, and Watson
Pete Shepheard, Tom Spiers, and Arthur Watson will be coming to us direct from Scotland with a terrific set of Scottish traditional songs and tunes, either unaccompanied or with fiddle, melodeon, and whistle.
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Louise Sherman
delights audiences of all ages with her inspired storytelling. Drawing on the traditional heritage of many cultures, and on the best of today's story-spinners, she weaves enthralling word-pictures, encouraging her hearers to give free rein to their imaginations. Her obvious love and respect for her stories is infectious.
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Eli Smith
will be remembered by Eisteddfod-NY 2004 attendees as part of the infections Jug Free America. Eli sings and plays harmonica, guitar, banjo, and kazoo.
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Steve Suffet
is best described as an old-fashioned folksinger. His repertoire is a mixture of railroad songs, trucker songs, cowboy songs, union songs, old time ballads, blues, ragtime, Gospel, bluegrass, topical-political songs, and whatever else tickles his fancy.
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Dick Swain
has a very unusual repertoire, largely from the Eastern US and Atlantic Canada, ranging from songs of inland waterways, lakes, and sea, to parlor ballads, to life on the farm and in the woods, and including broadsides, ballads, and lots of great chorus songs. His settings of poems have been recorded by Gordon Bok and Dave Webber & Anni Fentiman among others.
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Triboro
hails from the boroughs of New York, but looks beyond the Hudson, to other places and other times, for songs and inspiration. They are an acoustic vocal trio that applies fine three-part harmony to an eclectic mix of musical genres - great old-time, new-time, Carter Family, country, Western, bluegrass and beyond.
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Heather Wood
is a veteran singer from the English revival for some 40 years, dating from her days with The Young Tradition. In addition to the old songs, she has written some dynamite new ones.
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Zie Mwea
(Natural Conditions), is Valerie Naranjo, Barry Olsen, and Bernard Woma. One of the most innovative percussion trios in music today, they bring us the extraordinary tradition of northern Ghana and Cote D'Ivoire, featuring a remarkable marimba-like instrument known as the Gyil. The vocals are in a West-African call and response style, and the impact of what they produce is tremendous.
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