Jeremiah McLane (accordion and piano) has a diverse musical training including blues, jazz, Celtic, Québécois, French and other roots influenced music. He has performed throughout the United States, Canada and Europe, in bands such as The Clayfoot Strutters, Nightingale, Le Bon Vent, Kalos and Triton to name a few. He holds a master’s degree in contemporary improvisation from the New England Conservatory in Boston, and in 2005 he founded the Floating Bridge School of Music, which is devoted to teaching traditional music from the British Isles, Quebec and Northern Europe, and North America, all genres that have influenced the music of his native New England. The Montpelier Times-Argus music critic Art Edelstein named Jeremiah musician of the year for 2016, citing his contributions in teaching, recording and performing in his various configurations. Since 1990 Jeremiah has released over thirty recordings, including The Wind Among the Reeds with bagpiper Timothy Cummings, which won the Montpelier’s Times-Argus Vermont album of the year award for 2018. His second solo recording Smile When You’re Ready, was nominated by National Public Radio in their “favorite picks”, and his fifth release Hummingbird, with Ruthie Dornfeld, received the French music magazine “Trad Mag” Bravo award, as did Goodnight Marc Chagall with Le Bon Vent. He has composed music for theatre and film, including Sam Shepard’s A Lie Of The Mind, and been awarded the Ontario Center For The Performing Arts “Meet The Composer” Award, and the Vermont Council On The Arts “Creation Of New Work” grant. He has served on the faculty of the State University of New York in Plattsburgh, New York, and at the Summit School for Traditional Music in Montpelier, Vermont. He currently teaches at the Upper valley Music Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, and his appearances include: the Acadia Trad School, the Bellingham Celtic Festival, the Saratoga Dance Flurry, Cafe Lena, Club Passim, Festival Chants de Vielles, le Grand Bal du Québec, the New World Festival, the Rockport Celtic Festival, Ashokan, Centrum’s American Festival of Fiddle Tunes, Swananoah, Maine Fiddle Camp, Lark in the Morning, John C. Campbell Folk School, Pinewoods, Bay Area CDSS Camps, and many others.

Timothy Cummings is a Vermont-based composer and multi-instrumentalist (pipes and whistles) whose music spans contemporary and sacred genres to the traditional melodies of the British Isles, Appalachia, Cape Breton, Brittany, and beyond.  He holds degrees in Music Education and Ethnomusicology from The College of Wooster, Ohio and the New Zealand School of Music, and also studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and National Piping Centre in Glasgow. Tim is a former member of the City of Dunedin (Florida) and Manawatu Scottish Pipe Bands, and served as the Artist in Residence at the College of Piping in Summerside, PEI. Today he runs Birchen Music & Publishing and performs both as a soloist, with Triton (including Jeremiah McLane and Alex Kehler), as well as with McKinley James.  He has appeared at the Acadia Trad School, the Bellingham Celtic Festival, Boston States Fiddle Camp, Boxwood Festival Australia, Càirdeas, the Celtic Arts Foundation, the Celtic Harmonies International Festival, Colaisde na Gàidhlig/The Gaelic College, the Dance Flurry Festival, Festival Chants de Vielles, le Grand Bal du Québec, the New World Festival, the Ohio Scottish Arts School, the Pipers’ Gathering, the Rockport Celtic Festival, Spanish Peaks International Celtic Music Festival and Piping Retreat, and Swing Into Summer at Pinewoods.

McKinley James is a cellist living in Montreal, Canada. She soloed with the Filarmónica del Café in Colombia in 2022 and the Champlain Philharmonic Orchestra in 2017. She has played with the Portsmouth Symphony Orchestra, Middlebury College Orchestra, McGill Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, and the New England Conservatory Symphony. Mckinley also toured in China with her piano trio in 2018. She is a founding member of the band Night Tree, which was named the New England Conservatory’s Honors Ensemble for 2016-2017. Awards for this title included a sponsorship from NEC, a headlining performance at the historic Jordan Hall, and a year of working with Winifred Horan, fiddler and co-founder of Irish super-band, SOLAS. Together they toured throughout the US, opened for Solas in Portsmouth Music Hall, and played in Jordan Hall, Caramoor Festival, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Public Library, and Rockwood Music Hall. They released their debut album in 2017 and toured in Europe in 2018. She studied with Yeesun Kim at the New England Conservatory for her Bachelor’s Degree and with Brian Manker for her Master’s Degree at McGill University’s Schulich School of Music. McKinley is a member of the 2021-2022 Global Leaders Program cohort, receiving an Executive Graduate Certificate in Social Entrepreneurship, Cultural Agency, Teaching Artistry, and Civic Leadership.