Donna Hébert

    Fiddle Rhythms
    Improvising
    Arranging
    Composing
    Theory

Donna Hébert is adjunct fiddle instructor at Amherst College and has taught at Wesleyan University, The Hartt School, Central CT State University, ASTA and Suzuki camps, and Mark O’Connor’s 2006 San Diego Strings Conference. The author of the pioneering “Fiddling Demystified for String Players” and a concert and dance fiddler, Donna also directs The Great Groove Band of young musicians every summer at both the Old Songs Festival in Altamont NY, where the program is in it’s 8th year, and since 2006 at the Philadelphia Folk Festival. She performs with Old-Time string band Groovemama, Franco-American heritage group Chanterelle, and co-directs The Beaudoin Project, documenting, preserving and presenting the Franco-American music of Vermont’s Louis Beaudoin and his family.

   Jane Rothfield

    Fiddle
    Banjo
    Rhythms
    Composing
    Harmonies

Jane Rothfield is an award winning fiddler, performer and tune composer. She has taught traditional style music privately and at music festivals and camps to both children and adults for over 25 years. Jane joins Donna as a lead instructor for the Great Groove Band at Old Songs and Philadelphia Folk Festival, with appearances at fiddling workshops at Black Creek Fiddlers Gathering, Groove Camp, Banjo Camp North, Welsh Fiddlers Association, Scottish Fiddlers School and more. Jane uses an easy going approach that allows the novice player to quickly learn and play tunes, on their own and with a group. Jane currently performs with Groovemama and leads her own band, Jane's Gang. She is based in Schenectady, NY.

   George Wilson

    Fiddle
    Banjo
    Bass

George Wilson is a talented, multi-instrumental virtuoso with a repertoire that samples a wide variety of traditional and folk styles. As a fiddler, he has nearly 500 tunes for dancing and listening. His dynamic fiddling is strongly influenced by Cape Breton and French Canadian styles. George has taught fiddle in classes and in private lessons since 1993. He has performed and recorded with the popular Fennig’s All-Star String Band and with the Whippersnappers since the mid ’70s. His trio with Peter Davis and Paul Rosenberg—Peter, Paul & George—is popular with school programs and assemblies. Other musical partners include Selma Kaplan, Becky Ashenden and David Kaynor. He is co-director, with Donna Hébert, of the Beaudoin Project.

   Max Cohen

    Guitar
    Arranging
    Songwriting
    Rhythm

An accomplished veteran of the New England folk scene, Max Cohen was a finalist in the 2001 Kerrville Folk Festival New Folk Competition and contributed guitar accompaniment to Dar Williams’ CD, The Honesty Room. Guitar Player Magazine raves “His relaxed but spirited execution holds true, even at virtuoso speed.” With the Great Groove Band at camp, Max teaches participants how to “get up offa that thing,” helping them to find and play the rhythms in each tune. Teaching lead and backup guitar styles, flatpick and fingerstyle, DADGAD and other tunings as well as standard concert tuning, Max also coaches each performing ensemble in arranging skills.

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