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this blues, r&b, soul band includes 4 well-seasoned musicians from england, kitchener-waterloo, and punkydoodles corners, which lies between tavistock & new hamburg, Ontario.
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Marlyce (Martens) Gundy and Sharon (Sawatsky) Schermbrucker began singing classical and folk duets in their teens. After a long hiatus, they reunited to form the chamber group Beauty in the Blends, which has performed across the U.S. and Canada. Meanwhile, Marlyce married Jeff Gundy, and they played and sang folk music as a duo.
As the folk trio Rendezvous, Marlyce, Sharon, and Jeff now bring their close harmonies to tunes by Kate Wolf, the Wailin Jennys, Dave Carter, Old Crow Medicine Show, and others, with all three on vocals and Jeff on 6- and 12-string guitar.
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All American roots
IMPORTANT: Performers listed here may appear at various Mennofolk festivals across the country. Please check the individual festival pages for listings of who will be performing at each location.
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Chuck Neufeld |
Chuck Neufeld is a folk singer, song writer, story teller, speaker, and co-pastor of Community Mennonite Church in Markham, Illinois (Chicago). Chuck's preoccupations have always included music and story-telling. His songs, stories, and talks reflect a deep commitment to community, peace, justice, and service. He believes that a dedicated response to Christ's call requires compassionate action and redemptive living, and that this results in radically altered lives and communities. |
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Cottonwood Jam String Band |
| http://cottonwood.jam.string.band.googlepages.com/ | |
Playing American Roots, Appalachian, Folk, Contra / Square Dance, Old Time Music. Fiddle, Banjo, Guitar, Mandolin, Harmonica. |
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Dave Landes |
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. |
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Dave Nealon |
| http://www.nealonsongs.com/ | |
An eclectic mix of folk, blues, old-time mountain music and singer-songwriter influences converge in Nealon's music. He plays guitar, harmonica, banjo, mandolin, and fiddle, and he balances good times, laughs, and restless questions in every set. Dave's first CD of original songs is called Cleaning Up My Act, and he's working on another project with longtime band mate, Mark Rallings of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Together, they form Case Studies--music to make you feel good and think hard. Dave lives near Harrisonburg, VA. |
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Duane Horst and Bill Kaffenberger |
Duane Horst, a Mennonite from eastern Ohio, and Bill Kaffenberger, a nondenominational Christian from a Lutheran background, sing, play acoustic guitars and perform their own original tunes as well as covers of others in a laid back folk style. |
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Ed Benner, fiddler (previously part of "Tiskilwa String Band") |
Ed is a dyed-in-the-wool Mennonite fiddler. He plays mandolin, mouth harp, alto recorder, electric bass, acoustic guitar in sacred settings (church) and secular settings (old-time dance venues) as well. |
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Emily Rodgers |
Emily Rodgers is a singer-songwriter who performs ethereal alt-country similar to Cat Power or Beth Orton. |
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Finely Tuned |
| Singing an eclectic mix of music, this women's a cappella quartet hails from Harrisonburg, Virginia. Known as Finely Tuned, the women represent a diversity of occupations--chocolatier, music teacher, family therapist and development officer. They like to knit, play soccer, read, travel and work with stained glass. Their musical styles include the secular and the sacred, ranging from barbershop and doo-wop to choral and gospel. The quartet began ten years ago, with the current foursome singing together since January, 2004. They are Judy Bomberger, Elaine Dunaway, Karen Moshier-Shenk and Elaine Warfel Stauffer. They have common roots which go back more than 30 years and share the love of music, their families, and the desire to grow into finely tuned women as well as musicians! | |
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Gina Holsopple |
| http://www.ginaholsopple.com/ | |
Gina Holsopple entertains using both her down-home style and her |
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GOLDMINE PICKERS |
| http://www.goldminepickers.com/ | |
| Goldmine Pickers is a young, passionate, four-piece band weaving together roots and inspiration in bluegrass, jazz, folk and Irish traditions to create an energetic new space in Americana music. With memorable acoustic performances, the group has magnetized audiences in intimate to expansive concert halls, at festivals and on live radio shows with inspiring interplay between guitar, mandolin, upright bass and a fiery fiddler and soaring, soulful three-part harmony. |
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