Raised in Ohio, Becca is a poet. singer-songwriter, activist, and writing instructor. Her children's choral music can be found through Heritage Press (Dayton). Rossiter's songs have been called "... the rarest treat in [a] collection...at the crossroads of pop song styling, classical training, perfect vocal phrasing, and poetic imagery" (Manaseh Records). Besides doing Mennonite Voluntary Service in Seattle, her passion for peace and justice has also taken her to England, Northern Ireland, Honduras, and Liberia.

Music was an important facet of Ben Brown's childhood on a rural Midwestern farm. It had always been a vital part of his Cherokee, Irish and African American heritage; his mother commonly expressed her thoughts and feelings through song. His parents' appreciation for the music of the big bands, jazz, country-western and the music of so many other cultures exposed him to a great variety of musical styles and interpretations. His first exposure to the harp was Harpo Marx playing boogie-woogie and jazz.

Years later, in a harp world dominated by orchestral pedal harps and classical music, Ben singlehandedly reintroduced and helped repopularize a singular variety of folk harp which had been obsolete for close to 100 years with only three or four original European examples still in existence. He has proven this harp to be uniquely suited to the jazz, blues and improvisational music of his youth.

Twenty years after Ben Brown's reintroduction of the cross strung into the American folk harp world, the instrument boasts several hundred players and growing.

The Burnt Possum Poets is a trio of wordsmiths based in Harrisonburg, Virginia. They explore the minute differences between romance, nature, the divine and taxicabs. A musician first and foremost, Dan Easley composes and records songs and sound-scapes. In love with the world and everything in it, Jeremy Frey generates poems and creative nonfiction. Chad Gusler delivers short stories and sermons, often mixing both genres to expose and surpass the embedded boundaries of prose and the pulpit. Their work can be found at Burnt Possum and at Towndowner Records.

Dave Landes plays music. Whether with his hammered dulcimer, guitar, banjo, or even his gourd banjo, there is nothing he loves more than singing a good song, old or new. Old time music, celtic, folk, or blues, as long as the song tells a good story, makes you cry or just makes you smile, he's on it.

Someone recently said Dave's music is "a good antidote to Rush Limbaugh!"

Dave plays solo gigs, as a duo with Russ Stallings (a fine old time and Irish fiddler), and in Nonesuch (an ensemble which perform old English ballads and dance music.) He is currently in charge of developing the music program at the Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia in Staunton.

Jan Garrett is a jazz singer, recording artist, songwriter, meditation student and wild-ass visionary who teaches piano-by-ear and leads retreats on Authentic Voice. She has toured with John Denver, Steve Martin, and The Dirt Band, and has appeared on the Tonight Show. Wow. She is a blithe spirit who feels most at home in the natural world and believes that "The chance of a lifetime is to be yourself."

She tries to write songs that are as satisfying to the soul as they are to the ear, and perhaps someday soon in a perfect world she will have a Big Hit.

Solo artist Phil Ruth charms audiences with a blend of timeless ballads (freshly arranged), contemporary songs, traditional American and Celtic tunes, and original compositions that resist categorization. He wields acoustic guitar, mountain dulcimer, and bouzouki with equal flair, and alternates easily between flat-picking and finger-style performance. Growing up with one foot in the folk music revival and the other in four-part a cappella church music, Phil leans toward haunting melodies, delicious harmonies, and songs that knead the heart. He has released one compact disk, it

Doug and Jude Krehbiel are the husband and wife duet, Road Less Travelled. This lively pair plays an assortment of instruments in concert including guitar, banjo, bass, mountain dulcimer, mandolin, dobro, tin whistle, Irish drum, and jaw harp. With powerful vocals and exciting instrumentals, RLT performs a variety of musical styles combining elements of folk, country, Irish, bluegrass, and rhythm and blues.

Doug and Jude's performances consist mostly of original songs that cover a wide range of topics. Each program contains generous sprinklings of humor. Their material is geared for and enjoyed by people of all ages, including kids.

In 1999 RLT’s CD, Joyful Ditty, was the number two folk album of the year on NPR station WVPE in Elkhart, Indiana. In 2001, RLT enjoyed their fifth win in Winfield National Songwriting Contest. Doug and Jude have toured across the U.S. and Canada, appeared on radio and TV, and recorded nine albums of their original music.

fairly minimal and sometimes ethereal soul indebted rock (or was that folk) music that floats between personal rumination and political critique