2026 Featured Musicians (more updates coming)
Alden Robinson
Alden has played the fiddle most of his life. He plays mostly Irish tunes and traditional New England dance music. Alden plays for concerts, dances (contra and square dances), weddings and other events.
In 2017 he went to Lithuania with the band Riptide on a State Department cultural exchange.
He played with The Press Gang, an Irish trio/quartet (now inactive) that toured in the U.S. and Canada in the 2010s.
Currently Alden enjoys putting together groups for various performances around New England. "I am always grateful for my many musical friends and adventures."
Owen Marshall
Owen Marshall is a prominent New England-based multi-instrumentalist specializing in traditional Celtic, Irish, and Old Time music.
Known for his fluid bouzouki and guitar accompaniment, he performs with groups like The Press Gang and has taught at the Maine Fiddle Camp. He released his debut solo album, "Throughline," in 2022.
Elsie Gawler
Elsie is a multi-instrumentalist and songster rooted in Maine's traditional folk music and culture. With her family, the Gawler Family Band, she has played throughout the state and beyond, sharing traditional fiddle tunes, songs, and original works since she was 6 years old.
From this foundation she has branched out and launched her debut solo album, Sweet As Honey. The album is a collection of 9 original songs inspired by sacred connection to earth and community.
While continuing to play regularly with The Gawler Family Band, her other projects include duo Elsie & Ethan, and trio The Gawler Sisters. She has also been a long-time member of the group Childsplay.
Skip Gorman
For over half a century, Skip Gorman has enjoyed singing, 
playing and performing an impressive and varied palette of traditional American and Celtic folk music. As an accomplished singer, guitarist, fiddler and mandolinist, Gorman has completed over 18 recordings of old-time cowboy songs, fiddle, mandolin, bluegrass; has been featured on many others; and established his own record label, Old West Recordings.
Discovering the beauties of old-timey and bluegrass music in his early teens, Skip then turned to the music of Bill Monroe, The New Lost City Ramblers, Carter Family, Stanley Brothers, Ledbelly, and a host of musical icons to drink from a deep musical well.
— Hal Cannon
The Montville Project (better known as the Old Geaser NE Dance Band)
The Montville Project will be kicking off the weekend with a friday afternoon welcome, Old Time Jam. It's members joining us this year are Art Bryan, George Fowler and Fred White who are well known for this repertory ensemble which has released two recordings of classic New England tunes, performed by four quintessential New England musicians.
The project grew out of a workshop which the musicians presented at the 2007 Maine Fiddle Camp in Montville, Maine, called The Essential Dance Tune Repertoire.
The Newell Family Band
The Newell family band or also known as the Twitchell Hill fiddleheads play for contra dances and specialize in down east style fiddling as well as old timey and gypsy music.
Carter Newell (grampa) has been fiddling in Maine for over 5 decades playing with the Old gray goose, the Oystermen, and the Maine country dance orchestra for contra and barn dances, concerts and festivals.
Maisie Newell and Eric Dayan and their kids play 4 fiddles and guitar and also include some great old timey tunes from North Carolina and gypsy tunes Maisie has learned in eastern Europe in her travels with her fiddle. Three generations of fiddle tunes and alot of fun is store when they show up!
Dan Simons
Dan makes his home in Vienna, Maine. A talented, “Super Picker”, Dan sings lead and harmony as well as playing Mandolin, Guitar, and Fiddle! Dan draws from a deep well of experience having played with several roots music and bluegrass ensembles performing original and cover tunes. The Katahdin Valley Boys welcomed Dan aboard n 2016.
Dan and Stan, Dan Simons Mandolin
Banjo Engineer
Tom Gocze has been trying to play the banjo for 59 years and has a large collection of different types of five string banjos. His company, Stockton Strings, will be at Strung Together to offer instruments for sale at a range of prices, some parts, as well as bluegrass and Old Time open back style banjos. He will be showing open back top tension Corian tone ring banjos, which are completely different from anything made before. Tom also has one which will do double duty as a charcuterie board for you cheese lovers.
Thank you to the Strung Together Community
The success of Strung Together has been due to the generous contributions of so many wonderful humans (and some animals) who have donated their time, talents, jokes, stories, tunes, stage-pizza-making skills, and energies.
Sarah & Bill Smith, Erica Brown, Matt Shipman, Baron Collins-Hill, The Fowler Family- George, Annadeene, Tom and Chrissy, Mike Fleck, Nate Payne, Emily Jeffries, Emma Swartz, Skip Gorman, Emily Jeffries, Art Bryan, Steve Roy, Eli Gilbert, Toki Oshima, John Pranio, Ando Anderson, Max Wareham, Sara Grey, Benjamin Foss, The Sandy Boys, Alden Robinson, Owen Marshall, Linden Frederick, Eli Gilbert, Bob Hammond, Fred White, Elsie Gawler, Carter Logan, Dan Simons, The Pinwheel Brothers, Will Brown, Mike & Susie Fay, The Newell Family Band, Fred Coon, Pat Danscen, Resa Randolph, Jon Kerr, Edward Howe, Gus La Casse, Willy Clemetson, Grey Larsen, Cindy Kallet, Jim Burke, Kris Day, Miss Stella Mae & Miss China Pettway from Gees Bend, Emily Troll, Lincoln Meyers , Jacob Henning, Stan D’Aubin, Nadine Landry and Stephen "Sammy" Lind, John Gawler, Dan Sowder, Elizabeth Bridges, Amy Smith, Terri Lukacko, Scott Odell, Sonya Eldridge, Jeff Titon & The Bound to Have a Little Fun Band, Steve Barrett, Stuart Moore, Amy Deas and so many more. Thank you!
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