Hailed as one of the most prodigious guitarists of his generation and “highest category of improvising musicians” (New Yorker), Julian Lage has spent more than a decade searching through the myriad strains of American musical history via impeccable technique, free association and a spirit of infinite possibility.

A member of Punch Brothers since the band's inception, guitarist Chris Eldridge has been at the vanguard of acoustic music for over a decade. In 2019, he was named Instrumentalist of the Year by the Americana Music Association in addition to winning a Grammy for Punch Brothers' album, All Ashore. Chris Eldridge has worked with a diverse cast of musical luminaries including Paul Simon, Renée Fleming, John Paul Jones, Marcus Mumford, Justin Timberlake, T-Bone Burnett, Jon Brion, Fiona Apple, Elvis Costello, Jerry Douglas, Sara Watkins, and Del McCoury.

Brooklyn-based, North-Carolina-bred Becca Stevens has formed a truly outstanding career, blending her effortless vocal talents with exquisite compositions, drawing inspiration from pop, jazz, indie-rock, and traditional Appalachian folk music. Her most recent album, WONDERBLOOM, which she co-produced and co-engineered, sees Becca’s skill of laying profound and discerning lyrics over funky and dance-ready beats truly established, in an outstanding record that Jazz Magazine described as ‘sophisticated and sensual pop’ and the Mail on Sunday, ‘Glamourous…semi-electric pop Prince might approve of’.

Tim Lerch

Tim Lerch is a world renowned guitarist and passionate educator. A Solo Guitar master who paints with lush harmonic colors and joyous polyphony, Tim is also a member of the legendary Gypsy Jazz group Pearl Django.

Jerald Harscher

Jerald Harscher is a performing guitarist, somatics educator, and author who teaches Body Mapping to musicians who want to be free from injury, pain, and limitation. Jerald has taught Body Mapping courses at top music programs including Yale University School of Music, New England Conservatory, and Berklee College of Music.

Jerald holds an MM in Guitar Performance from Yale University School of Music and is a Licensed Body Mapping Educator. For more information please visit: thepoisedguitarist.com

Peter Lalish

Peter Lalish has been a student of the guitar for 25 years.  Since 2012, he has been the lead guitarist for Lucius, and also served as soundscape artist for Ximena Sariñana & Elizabeth and the Catapult.  He has composed & recorded scores for the films "My Beautiful Stutter”, "Palace of Gold” & created music for the New York Times podcast “The Daily”.

Sulynn Hago

A guitarist whose playing spans from punk and metal bands to classical and jazz, Sulynn Hago has spent the last two decades performing and studying the instrument and has been a member of punk/metal band Propagandhi (Epitaph Records) since 2015. An eclectic and technical guitarist, Hago plays and writes in as many styles and musical atmospheres as possible, preferably on a classical guitar or an electric guitar rigged through a chain of pedals.  

Courtney Hartman

Courtney Hartman is an acclaimed guitarist, singer and writer from the foothills of Colorado. Acoustic Guitar Magazine recognizes her as a “distinctive guitar stylist... and a songwriter that delights and disturbs” while PopMatters hailed her most recent release as “a delicate light glistening softly in the darkness.” In 2014 she received a GRAMMY nomination for her work with folk quintet, Della Mae, and in 2017 Americana Music Association nominated her for Instrumentalist of the Year. Bill Frisell, Mike Campbell and Buffy St. Marie are a few of the artists Courtney has created with as she continues to collaborate across cultures and disciplines, always seeking to bring voice to the hushed and inexpressible.

Paul Asbell

In his 50 year professional career, Paul Asbell has played and recorded with Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Howlin’ Wolf, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Paul Butterfield, Magic Sam, Earl Hooker, David Bromberg, Paul Siebel, Mary McCaslin, Sonny Stitt, Jon Hendricks, Bobby McFerrin, and many others. Paul has taught guitar for over 50 years, including workshops at the Healdsburg, Woodstock (NY) and Newport Guitar Festivals, and positions at Dartmouth, Skidmore, and other colleges. He presently teaches at Middlebury College and the University of Vermont.