Kristin Andreassen is a singer, songwriter & percussive dancer whose music honors both the playful & the profound. She's toured with some of the most respected acoustic groups around: the stringband Uncle Earl, the "folk noir” singing trio Sometymes Why,  the Appalachian clogging troupe Footworks, and NYC's "anti-folk" superhero Jeffrey Lewis. Her originals range from the infectious rhythms of her #1 kids' hit "Crayola Doesn't Make a Color for Your Eyes” to the emotive soundscape in this shadow art video made with beloved MoM instructor Anna Roberts-Gevalt. 2018 promises a new trio album with drummer Shane Leonard & Punch Brother Chris Eldridge as well as an album of children's songs about emotions, co-created with Brooklyn psychiatrist Dr. Kari Groff for the Smithsonian Folkways label.  An experienced teacher & square dance caller, Kristin is a true believer in the transformative power of music camps for all ages. After studying creative writing, history and community development at Montreal’s McGill University, she is as surprised as her parents to have found a career where she employs all three of those skills in balance. www.kristinandreassen.com

Laura Cortese has built a distinguished career as an Americana fiddler, songwriter and vocalist. She is now one of the most in-demand musical collaborators on the folk circuit. She grew up in San Francisco, CA and moved to Boston, MA to study at Berklee College of Music, immersing herself in the city's vibrant indie music scene and enjoying a busy touring-and-studio career which included appearances with Band of Horses at Carnegie Hall and Pete Seeger at Newport Folk Festival. She tours internationally with her band, the Dance Cards. The group is bold and elegant, schooled in the lyrical rituals of folk music and backed by grooves that alternatively inspire Cajun two-stepping and rock ’n’ roll hip swagger. Laura Cortese & the Dance Cards have appeared at venues and festivals throughout the US, UK, Sweden, Canada, India, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Estonia, Montenegro, Greece and Bangladesh pairing sophisticated string arrangements (two fiddles, cello & bass) and rich vocal harmonies with poignant and powerful singing. www.thisislauracortese.com

LADAMA is an ensemble of women musicians from across the Americas who, as well as performing as a touring band, strive to engage youth in their respective communities in the process of music-making, composition and audio production through collaboration and performance workshops. They are Mafer Bandola (Venezuela), Lara Klaus (Brazil), Daniela Serna (Colombia) and Sara Lucas (U.S.). With rhythm and percussion driving their original compositions sung in Spanish, Portuguese and English they combine disparate, traditional roots music with pop. The result is a sonic experience through which we can view our future as a world that communicates across continents and cultures, with sound and story. LADAMA has performed at TED, the Skoll World Forum, on ESPN, and at dozens of prestigious venues and festivals around the world. In January 2018 they were featured on NPR's All Things Considered which praised their "irresistible spirit and universal appeal." Their self-titled debut album (released on Six Degrees Records, 2017,) reached #1 on both iTunes and Amazon's Latin Music Charts. http://www.ladamaproject.org

Vocal powerhouse Rachael Price is a legend in the making. The lead singer of Lake Street Dive started her journey at a young age in international traveling choirs and jazz ensembles. While studying at New England Conservatory, Price met her fellow Lake Street Dive members. In May 2018 Lake Street Dive released the self-produced Free Yourself Up and has been busy touring in support of the album. On their rise to success over the past few years, they have sold out many of America's legendary venues, toured Europe and Australia, and made multiple national television appearances. During the band's downtime, Price is involved in a project with Vilray Bolles. With simple arrangements and only a guitar for accompaniment, Rachael & Vilray perform original works and revive forgotten gems of the jazz big bands and western swing ensembles. Their eponymous debut album, Rachael & Vilray, is out now on Nonesuch Records. Equal parts sass, gritty soul, and unfettered grace, Price has been called a “cool cannon blast of a voice” by Rolling Stone and continues to make fans from the likes of Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt, Mavis Staples, and Stephen Colbert. https://rachaelandvilray.com

Evie Ladin is a banjo player, singer, songwriter, percussive-dancer, choreographer and square-dance caller. Evie grew up steeped in traditional folk music/dance, and brings a contemporary vision to her compositions and choreography. Evie’s performances, recordings and teaching reconnect Appalachian music/dance with other African-Diaspora traditions, and have been heard from A Prairie Home Companion to Lincoln Center, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass to Celtic Connections. Based in Oakland, CA, Evie tours with Keith Terry and the Evie Ladin Band; and has produced 8 CDs and two instructional DVDs. In the percussive dance world, she is Executive Director of the International Body Music Festival, directs the moving choir MoToR/dance, does educational outreach with Crosspulse, and is an ace freestyle flatfooter. In the trad world, Evie teaches clawhammer banjo and harmony singing at the infamous Freight & Salvage, online at Peghead Nation and numerous camps and events. She leads rowdy square dance parties, getting every body easily dancing. In the songwriter world, she just writes great songs, subtitling her own band “neo-trad kinetic folk." In 2019 she released two CDs, celebrating both of her musical sides: one totally trad fiddle/banjo duets with 17 different fiddlers, Riding the Rooster, and one adventurous originals, Caught On A Wire. A highly entertaining performer, Evie enjoys facilitating arts learning in diverse communities. “The best example I have seen of a Neo-Trad band's sound being authentically anchored in old time music but extending it into new and entertaining directions.” —Founder, Clifftop Appalachian Stringband Festival www.evieladin.com

Keith Terry is a percussionist/rhythm-dancer/educator whose artistic vision has straddled the line between music and dance for more than four decades. He is the Founding/Artistic Director of Crosspulse, an Oakland, CA –based, non-profit organization dedicated to the creation and performance of rhythm-based intercultural music and dance, and has produced more than a dozen CDs, DVDs and Books for Crosspulse Media. He has collaborated with many performing artists including Charles ‘’Honi’’ Coles, Turtle Island Quartet, Jazz Tap Ensemble, Gamelan Sekar Jaya, San Jose Taiko, and Bobby McFerrin. His groups - Slammin All-Body Band, Crosspulse Percussion Ensemble, Professor Terry’s Circus Band Extraordinaire, Body Tjak (with I Wayan Dibia) and other projects have appeared at Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors (NY), Grand Performances (LA), Bumbershoot (WA), NPR’s All Things Considered, PRI's The World, the Vienna International Dance Festival, Vancouver Island MusicFest, the Bali Arts Festival, and many more. As Artistic Director of the International Body Music Festival, Keith has solidified Body Music as a genre, galvanizing a global community. He tours extensively in the Americas, Asia and Europe, where his Body Music workshops, residencies and choreographic commissions are popular among professional performers and educators. He also tours on bass and percussion with the Evie Ladin Band. Keith has been on the faculty at UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures, where he designed and taught a dozen courses on the relationship of music and dance; deep listening; synchronicity, time, and timing; and intercultural communication. He is a Guggenheim and Asian Cultural Council Fellow. Mr. Terry and his colleagues in action is like visiting an anatomical carnival, where hands, feet, fingers, bellies, rumps and mouths engage in an endless musical ballet. — Wall Street Journal www.keithterry.com

Matt Douglas is a woodwinds player, singer, and multi-instrumentalist living in Raleigh, North Carolina. After graduating from NYU in 2002 with a music degree, Matt went off to Central Europe as a Fulbright Scholar studying the Hungarian folk tradition and contemporary improvised music. After two years living abroad, he settled in North Carolina where his musical life got even weirder. In addition to being a full-time member of the indie rock band the Mountain Goats, Matt has collaborated with Hiss Golden Messenger, Bon Iver, Sylvan Esso, Erin McKeown, Josh Ritter, Chris Stamey, Superchunk, and more, having recorded on over 100 albums in the last 10 years. When he's not on the road or in the backyard studio in Raleigh, he is spending time with his amazing wife and three awesome children.

Zoe Guigueno is a bassist, singer and songwriter headquartered in New York City. She tours and records with avant-pop string quartet Laura Cortese & the Dance Cards, Americana ensemble Della Mae, klezmer band Tsibele, and many other groups. She has taught at several music camps, busked in the NY subway, performed on CBS, the Grand Ole Opry, and A Prairie Home Companion, played upright bass on a moving white-water raft, and written and recorded two albums of her own material. A graduate of the jazz program at Humber College in Toronto, Zoe is originally from a tiny island in British Columbia (though not as tiny as Three Mile Island). www.zoeguigueno.com

Mike Merenda is a songwriting force and clawhammer banjo explorer raised in NH and now dwelling in NY's Hudson Valley. Youthful musical forays into rock and punk later led to the more traditional folk realms and a productive creative partnership with his wife Ruth Ungar spanning 2 decades (so far.) They have toured extensively as both the duo Mike + Ruthy and the full band The Mammals. Mike curates the lineup of their community music festivals, the Winter Hoot and Summer Hoot at Ashokan. He is most fond of hoisting his antenna into the ether and seeing what emerges thru singing with a guitar or banjo in hand. In addition to his own original compositions he has recorded posthumous "co-writes" with Woody Guthrie & Allen Ginsberg. The Mammals' recent title track Sunshiner, which came to Mike in a dream, was nominated for Folk Alliance International's 2018 Song of the Year award. He attended Miles of Music's very first camp and is honored to be back.

http://themammals.love

Ruth Ungar is a multi-dimensional collaborator, touring and recording artist, and event organizer based in the Hudson Valley of NY. This year she and her husband Mike Merenda toured the US and UK with their band The Mammals, toured festivals for a month in Australia as Mike + Ruthy (duo) with their two kids, recorded a new full length studio album to be self-released in 2020, and organized their two annual community music festivals, the Winter Hoot & Summer Hoot at Ashokan. For 40 years Ruth's family has hosted summer traditional music and dance camps at Ashokan, the place that inspired her father, Jay Ungar, to compose his evocative fiddle melody Ashokan Farewell. Ruth is similarly known for eliciting an emotional response from an audience of any size. Her background in theater has also fueled a lifelong fascination with stagecraft, vulnerability, and the beauty of taking risks.

http://themammals.love

As a member of Punch Brothers since the band's inception, guitarist Chris Eldridge has been at the vanguard of acoustic music for much of the past decade. Although initially drawn to the electric guitar, by his mid-teens Chris Eldridge had developed a deep love for acoustic music, thanks in part to his father, a banjo player and founding member of the seminal bluegrass group The Seldom Scene. Eldridge later gained in-depth exposure to a variety of different musical styles while studying at Oberlin Conservatory, where he earned a degree in music performance in 2004. During his time at Oberlin, Eldridge studied with legendary guitarist Tony Rice. After graduating he joined the Seldom Scene with whom he received a Grammy nomination in 2007. In 2005 he founded the critically acclaimed bluegrass band The Infamous Stringdusters. At the 2007 International Bluegrass Music Association awards Eldridge and his Stringdusters bandmates won Emerging artist of the Year, Song of the Year, and Album of the Year for their debut album, Fork in the Road. Meanwhile, in 2005 he had caught the attention of mandolinist Chris Thile, who enlisted him, along with banjoist Noam Pikelny, violinist Gabe Witcher, and bassist Greg Garrison to start working on an ambitious side project. Soon after they decided to focus all of their collective energies into band and Punch Brothers was born. The band has since released 6 critically acclaimed albums, received 6 Grammy nominations and toured around the world. www.chriseldridge.net

Jennifer Kimball is a musician known for her unusual choice of notes, her passion for dissonance and her willingness to create harmony where none has been envisioned before. She began songwriting in earnest in 1995 after leaving her first band, the critically acclaimed duo, The Story. Her first solo record, Veering from the Wave, was released on Imaginary Road/PolyGram in 1998. Then in the early aughts she and her partner Ry Cavanaugh started a band called Maybe Baby; Duke Levine played electric guitar, Kimball ukelele and acoustic guitar, Cavanaugh baritone electric guitar and Billy Beard drums. The two shared songwriting duties and harmony singing and released one record What Matters (2003), recorded at Hi-n-Dry, Cambridge, MA. After the birth of their son (and deciding it was better to stay married than to have a band together), Cavanaugh started Session Americana; Kimball released Oh Hear Us (2006) and headed to Harvard’s Landscape Institute to pursue a degree in landscape design. https://www.jenniferkimball.com/

All My Friends Are Stars is a multi-ethnic band from New York City. A collective and a movement, They believe that everyone is a star and everybody is good at something! Their uplifting music has messages like Detox from my Phone & Spread your light. They Founded their own music festival now in its 5th year!
The 5th Annual All My Friends Are Stars Music Festival will be held in Gothenburg,
Sweden August 1st 2020.
All My Friends Are Stars has performed at American Folk Art Museum, MoMa, Lincoln Center, Lehman College, Nefertiti, Tjolöholms Slott and Bologna’s IL Cinema Ritrovato. http://allmyfriendsarestars.com

Jefferson Hamer is a songwriter, guitarist, and traditional musician based in Brooklyn, NY. His new album Alameda features Jeff Picker, John Fatum, Alec Spiegelman, Hannah Read, Sarah Jarosz, and others. Writing for The New Yorker, Robert Sullivan said: “Alameda,” the title track on Hamer’s album, is a rock ballad with crispy guitar licks and geographic lyrics about a wandering worker, who is maybe the author, but maybe not. In the way that it talks about a long search for work, it reminds me of Woody Guthrie’s Columbia River song series…“Moving Day,” another song on the CD, is now up there with Guy Clark’s “L.A. Freeway” as one of my favorite songs about moving…
Murphy Beds, his traditional acoustic album with Eamon O’Leary, features harmony vocals backed by intricate guitar and bouzouki accompaniment. The Huffington Post said it succinctly: “The [Murphy Beds] album bears repeated listening from start to finish, with ten beautiful, crystalline songs.”
He also plays electric guitar (and moonlights as a Bostonian) with the six-piece roots rock ensemble Session Americana. In 2016 he recorded and co-produced their album Great Shakes.
His 2013 Child Ballads album with Anais Mitchell earned a BBC2 Folk Award and was named one of NPR’s top-ten Folk releases of the year. www.jeffersonhamer.com/

Valerie Thompson is a native of Kansas City, MO. She began classical cello studies at the age of ten, and is a graduate of Berklee College of Music with a B.M. in music performance. She has performed in the Czech Republic as a participant of the Ameropa Chamber Music Festival, at the Banff International Youth Symphony Festival in Alberta, and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine with the Berklee String Orchestra. When not freelancing or teaching cello, Valerie can be heard in any of her fine musical projects FLUTTR EFFECT, the Yurodivy Quintet, and the Ephemeral Duet. www.valeriethompson.com

Zachariah Hickman is a double bassist, multi-instrumentalist and producer based out of Boston, MA. Originally from Lynchburg, VA, he received his formal training in jazz performance and composition from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. For most of his adult life he has toured with singer-songwriter Josh Ritter, traveling all over the world and recording 9 full-length albums. Currently, he is performing as bassist and musical director for Ray Lamontagne. He has performed at many notable venues and festivals, including Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, Red Rocks, Bonnaroo, Dublin Castle, The Fillmore, and the Royal Albert Hall. With Josh Ritter, he has also performed with the Boston Pops in Symphony Hall, the New York Pops in Central Park, and many other orchestras in Europe and the United States. Television appearances include five David Letterman appearances, Conan O’Brien, Ellen Degeneres, and Late Night with Jools Holland for the BBC. As a producer, Zachariah as made records with a number of talented singers, including Rose Cousins (for which he won a Canadian JUNO award), Mark Erelli, Laura Cortese, Miss Tess, and his own bluegrass band Barnstar! He has also produced and ring-mastered his own circus, released his own brand of mustache wax, and runs a vaudeville style variety show, Zack Hickman’s House of Ill Repute.

Lauren Balthrop is a multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter born and raised in Alabama where her family gatherings always included sing-alongs of the Everly Brothers, the Andrew Sisters, the Louvin Brothers, and the Beatles. After 10 years making her way in NYC, she heard the siren call of Nashville where she now calls home. Lauren released her debut solo album in late 2018 and is primed to record her second. She partnered with NYC’s Blue Balloon Songwriting School to open her own music school in Nashville where she teaches the young ones to express themselves through songwriting. Her big folk-rock band and "small town" with her brother called Balthrop, Alabama toured all across the states to a cultish following. Her 60's inspired girl group, The Bandana Splits, has released two records with songs landing on shows such as HBO's 'Bored to Death'. She's also toured extensively as a multi-instrumentalist for Elizabeth & the Catapult, Kevin Morby, Michaela Anne and Ximena Sariñana. Lauren is a knitter and tap dancer too! www.laurenbalthrop.com

“The Chris Miller” - as he is affectionately referred to - could not imagine his life without Miles of Music Camp. Chris plays a variety of instruments (banjo, clarinet, dobro, flute, t’fer), but it’s his captivating saxophone style that has brought him around the world and earned him a GRAMMY nomination with his band The Revelers (2016 Best Regional Roots Music). His versatility and sunny disposition have also earned him gigs with A.C Newman, Doug Wamble, John Mailander and many more. At time of print Chris defines 'home' as Lopez Island, Washington and splits his time between the Revelers and his recently named acoustic trio The Faux Paws. www.chrismillersax.com

Rennie Elliot is a singer, banjo player and drummer who spends her time between Brooklyn, Nashville & Austin.  She loves to play everything from old time, country, cajun, mariachi, punk, & viper jazz in such bands as Woody Pines, Kings County Queens, Wild Angles &  The Yeah Yeah Yeahs. She also works professionally in video production, tv commercials and film, as well as puts on camps and festivals. Rennie would love to help you get you started on drums, banjo, singing or video making. www.rennieelliot.com

Dietrich Strause is a multi-instrumentalist from Cambridge, Massachusetts. His songs are a mix of timeless melody, literate lyricism, and a "virtuosic command of imagery.” (The Artery, WBUR)  In less than one year, Strause released  two albums -- How Cruel That Hunger Binds and Dietrich Strause & The Blue Ribbons -- proving to be one of the most prolific and eclectic writers and performers coming out of New England. He has taught songwriting at the Passim School of Music, played piano for English balladeer Sam Lee, recorded and produced an album of Chinese children’s songs, all the while touring the US and UK supporting folk luminaries such as Anais Mitchell, Sarah Jarosz, and more. Dietrich is an apprentice guitar builder at Outlier Workshop in Cambridge. More information can be found at www.dietrichstrause.com.

Celia Woodsmith is a GRAMMY Nominated performer, vocalist, and songwriter. The daughter of the Vermont based poet Sybil Smith she is influenced by artists such as John Prine, Janis Joplin and Mahalia Jackson. Over time, and without any formal training Celia molded her own vocal style and has been hailed by the Boston Globe as "Unvarnished and intimate (...) but then sounds like she's about to part the Dead Sea".

Woodsmith's performances can be described as "one of a kind: gritty, muscular, folksy and intimate sometimes all at once" (Bluegrass Situation) Not confined by genre she is as comfortable playing Bill Monroe as she is singing an old jazz standard, or a Led Zeppelin rocker.

In the last 14 years Celia has released nine albums of original music most recently with Nashville based bluegrass band Della Mae and her Boston based vintage rock project SAY Darling. In 2014 Della Mae was nominated for a Best Bluegrass Album GRAMMY for their record "This World Oft Can Be".

The all-female Della Mae has performed in 19 countries with the US Department of State's cultural diplomacy program "American Music Abroad". Woodsmith recently spoke about her experiences with travel and music at TEDx Piscataqua River in Portsmouth, NH.

Born in the last year of the 1980s, Taylor Ashton grew up surrounded by the Pacific Ocean and the old growth rainforests of Canada's west coast. His songs are inspired by the crooked primeval funk of traditional old-time music, the humor and heartbreak of Randy Newman, the cosmic emotionality of mid-career Joni Mitchell, and the sage vulnerability of Bill Withers. Somehow, he finds a way to make this all work on the clawhammer banjo.

He spent most of late teens and early 20s as the frontman of Vancouver-based five-piece Fish & Bird, releasing four albums of heady progressive folk. In the past few years he has increasingly spent his days in New York City. His most recent release finds him swapping songs with Grammy-nominated songwriter and guitarist Courtney Hartman, on the pair's 2018 duo album "Been On Your Side". The album is an acoustic, stripped-down affair, which Rolling Stone had to admit, "packs a punch in today's mainstream".

After well over a decade of varied and fruitful collaborations, Taylor released his debut solo recording in late 2019 on Signature Sound. To find out more: taylorashton.com

Brooklyn based fiddler and songster Adam Moss’ musical career can most easily be characterized by the variance of his influence. Adam loves and plays in the Klezmer, Bluegrass, Old-time and swing traditions which lends itself to a very unique and innovative style in performance setting. He is actively touring with his brother duo The Brother Brothers, but you may have seen him playing in the past with some of his favorite artists, such as Boston’s Session Americana, Brooklyns The Defibulators, Ana Egge, and Anais Mitchell’s “Hadestown,” to name a few.

Besides being the off-season manager of Three Mile Island, Dinty Child is a longtime member of the Boston roots/folk scene. A fearless multi-instrumentalist he can most often be seen with the band Session Americana, as well as the Chandler Travis Philharmonic, the unapologetically loud and grimy Catbirds, as sensitive side man to any number of singer/songwriters, including Rose Cousins and Kris Delmhorst, and even fronting the 15 piece party band, the Funky White Honkies. In 2020, he’ll release his first solo album! www.sessionamericana.com/

Thomas Brown is a mixed media artist and an occasional songbird. Originally from Muscle Shoals, Alabama and raised up in Louisville, Kentucky, he has now been based in New York City since 2008 working as an ice sculptor. In addition to ice sculptures, Thomas creates environmental art installations, and has collaborated on music videos with Anna and Elizabeth, Cuddle Magic, and Star Rover.  Through his collaboration with his mentor, Takeo Okamoto, and Okamoto Studio, Thomas had had the opportunity to show his work in many of the great venues of NYC, including the MET, the MoMA, Guggenheim, Lincoln Center,  MSG, Central Park, Columbus Circle, WTC, Rockefeller Center, NY Botanical Gardens, the House of Love, and many more. Sculpture has also given him the opportunity to travel to Japan, and the Middle East, and around the U.S.. He has been featured along with the studio on Iron Chef American three times. Thomas’ passion for working with ephemeral elements and for performing are exemplified during live carving exhibitions for the public to enjoy. These works invite the audience to embrace the experiential aspect of witnessing the creation of impermanent art objects and to be mindful of the moment as they change and disappear.