Contra Dance Musicians in Connecticut

Contra dance musicians by name:: June Bisantz-Evans (Thread City String Band): fiddle; Mark Bobman (Heart's Ease): fiddle, banjo; Larry Boisvert (Thread City String Band): harmonica; Howie Bursen (Get Reel): banjo; Bill Campbell (The Reel Thing): banjo, guitar, harmonica; Shaila Chowdhury (Still the Homegrown Band): bodhran; Ellen Cohn (The Swivets): piano; Baba David Coleman (The Swivets): conga; Jennifer Cooke (The Cicadas): flute; Ed Dale (The Cicadas): bass guitar; Craig Edwards (Wild Goose Nation): accordion, banjo, fiddle, guitar; Cynthia Eller (Celtic Knots): violin, viola; Mike Fischman (Wild Goose Nation): banjo, bass, guitar, mandolin; Deborah Forest Hart: recorder; Jeffrey Friedman (Celtic Knots): banjo, guitar; Rachael Gall (Still the Homegrown Band): fiddle; Gwen Glasser (The Reel Thing): fiddle; Keith Harvey: fiddle; Colin Healey (Fiddleheads): fiddle, mandolin; Fran Hendrickson (The Reel Thing): accordion, piano; Dave Howard (Please & Thank-You Stringband): guitar; John Kalinowski: accordion, concertina, fife; Nancy Murphy Kalinowski (Heart's Ease): fiddle; Chris Keenan (Heart's Ease): fiddle; Mickey Koth (Wry Bred): fiddle, viola, whistle, flute, recorder; Linne Landgraf (Heart's Ease): flute, recorder, whistle, concertina; Howie Levine (The Cicadas): bouzouki, dobro, guitar, mandolin; Kathy Lyon (Still the Homegrown Band): guitar; Laura Mazza-Dixon (Heart's Ease): guitar, viola da gamba; Robert Messore (Wry Bred): guitar; Becky Miller (Dogtown): fiddle, piano; Chuck Morgan (Thread City String Band): fiddle; Noreen Morgan (Thread City String Band): guitar; Rachel Panitch (The Cicadas): fiddle; Stacy Phillips (The Swivets): fiddle; Dana Placzek (Celtic Knots): flute, octave mandolin, whistle; Norm Plankey (Fiddleheads): guitar; Jane Prentice (Still the Homegrown Band): fiddle, washtub bass; Jim Prentice (Still the Homegrown Band): concertina; Mike Prentice (Still the Homegrown Band): bass; Tom Randall (Dogtown): banjo, guitar, mandolin, piano; Beth Reichert: piano; Robert Reichert: fiddle, octave violin; Casie Runkle (Celtic Knots): violin, viola; Jim Rusling: banjo, button accordion, harmonica; Bill Shevin (The Cicadas): guitar; Jim Sirch (Fiddleheads): banjo, bodhran, flute, whistle; Willow Sirch (Fiddleheads): fiddle; John Soltys (Thread City String Band): bass; Julie Sorcek (The Reel Thing, Wry Bred): flute, piccolo, bodhran; Norb Spencer (Dogtown): accordion; Tim St Jean (The Cicadas): concertina, fiddle, mandolin; Ken Sweeney: banjo, concertina, harmonica (860.395.7505); Dan Tressler (Jackson Pike Skifflers): fiddle, guitar, mandolin; Debra Tyler (Still the Homegrown Band): piano; Bill Wallach (Please & Thank-You Stringband): mandolin; Andy Weiner (Woodkerne): bodhran; Dirck Westervelt (Wild Goose Nation): banjo, bass, guitar; Gary Wickfors (Fiddleheads): mandolin; Nat Woodruff (Heart's Ease): flute, recorder, whistle

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Last modified: November 2, 2011.