After seven years of touring internationally with indie string-band The Mammals, Michael Merenda and Ruth Ungar Merenda have struck out on their own. They'll perform music from their new recording, "Honeymoon Agenda," about which Chronogram wrote, "This simply beautiful, organically crafted... session references the Mammals’ neo-string band tack and folk roots... and a trough of more contemporary influences (brilliant covers of Tom Waits, Etta James, Bob Dylan, even Hella’s Aaron Ross)."

A talented, multi-instrumental virtuoso and singer, George Wilson's repertoire samples a wide variety of traditional and folk styles. As a fiddler, he has nearly 400 tunes for dancing and listening — tunes from New England, Quebec, Cape Breton, Scotland, Ireland and Shetland. His dynamic fiddling, strongly influenced by Cape Breton and French Canadian styles, has been popular with contra dancers and concert-goers since the late 1970s.

Penny Nichols is an award winning singer, a songwriter, a singing teacher and director of the non-profit organization for songwriters, SummerSongs, which produces a number of retreats and camps for songwriters.