Arthur Terembula is a passionate student of the country blues and ragtime guitar. A time traveler that transports you into the sounds of juke joints and city streets in the 1920’s and 1930’s. He reimagines songs from those times, rewriting and interpreting the sounds of Charley Patton, Skip James, Robert Johnson, Blind Blake, Son House, and other various country blues figures. You can find Arthur with his ear close to a speaker and guitar in hand, humming and whittling away at the fretboard.
Artist Category: Guitar
Christine Tassan & Les Imposteures
For more than 20 years, guitarist Christine Tassan has been leading her boat with brilliance, aplomb and an absolutely contagious dynamism. One of the few female jazz and gypsy jazz guitar soloists, she stands out for her sensitive playing, quiet strength and irresistible audacity. Also a singer, composer, author, director and producer, she participates in numerous musical projects in Quebec and on the international scene, both as a leader and as a guest musician (notably with the Lost Fingers, Paul Kunigis, Le trio Martin Bellemare and Canto Tango).
Trained in classical guitar, she is interested in many styles, studying folk, pop, jazz and developing her talent as a singer-songwriter at a very young age. Her interest in gypsy jazz, jazz and improvisation really began with her discovery of the music of Django Reinhardt in 1998, a style she learned by participating in master classes, such as Angelo Debarre, Emmanuel Kassimo or Yorgui Loeffler.
In 2003, she founded her gypsy jazz and swing song group, Christine Tassan et les Imposteures, which was immediately a great success and became a staple of the gypsy scene. Unique in its kind, this female ensemble performs in more than 600 festivals and venues in Quebec, Canada, Europe, the United States and China, each time receiving an enthusiastic reception from the public and the media. He can be found at the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, the prestigious Django Reinhardt Festival in Samois-sur-Seine (France) and the DjangoFest NorthWest (USA). The quartet has seven albums to its credit, including “Entre Félix et Django” which won the Opus Prize for “Jazz Album of the Year” in 2017 and a nomination for “Show of the Year” in 2018. The latest “Django Belles”, released in 2018, integrates two new brass musicians, for an original ode to the Quebec winter.
Always in search of new horizons, Christine studied jazz composition and arrangement at Berklee College of Music (2014). In 2020, in parallel with Les Imposteures, she arrived with this new quintet project, “Voyage intérieur”, which brings together ten instrumental compositions, the result of introspective musical research. We discover a new facet of the guitarist, with electric and bebop sounds. This album is nominated in 2021-2022 in the Jazz Album of the Year category at the Juno Awards, the ADISQ, the Opus Awards and the GAMIQ!
Peppino D’Agostino
A native of Italy, D’Agostino has made his considerable international mark as a musical artist on the guitar since he arrived in America 40 years ago. In 2017 Guitar Player listed him as one of the 50 transcendent guitar superheroes of all times. The CD “Every Step of The Way” was awarded by Acoustic Guitar’s People’s Choice Awards with a Bronze medal for Best Acoustic Album of All Time. His signature Seagull acoustic guitar has been voted among the ten best signature guitars by Guitar Player magazine.
Peppino gives guitar workshops, master classes and seminars worldwide. Top leading publishers such as Truefire, Alfred Publishing, Hal Leonard and Acoustic Guitar Magazine Books have published his compositions and instructional methods.
To date Peppino has recorded 19 CD’s, performed in over thirty-five countries at international festivals and concert halls. He has shared the stage with such greats as Larry Carlton, Eric Johnson, Tommy Emmanuel, Leo Kottke, Martin Taylor, Roland Dyens, David Tanenbaum and many more. D’Agostino’s latest solo CD ‘Connexion’ was released by A-Train Entertainment.
“Peppino writes wonderful guitar pieces. He’s one of my favorite composers for this cranky instrument. Plus, he’s a tone player. I love his sound… gets the resin and the wood.”–Leo Kottke
Stash Wyslouch
Stash Wyslouch has been teaching, recording and performing music for the past 20 years. Stash works primarily as a Bluegrass and Americana guitarist and has a Bachelor’s in Music Performance from Berklee College of Music.
Stash’s teaching style focuses on learning the building blocks of music and developing practical skills to problem solve your own musical riddles. Stash toured for many years in Bluegrass groups The Deadly Gentlemen, Bruce Molsky’s Mountain Drifters and The Jacob Jolliff Band. He has shared the stage with Billy Strings, David Grisman and the Yonder Mountain String Band.
Sonny Landreth & Cindy Cashdollar
Sonny Landreth and Cindy Cashdollar are making some rare duo appearances in 2022 and 2023. The Louisiana slide guitar wizard’s trademark bottle-neck chops and Cashdollar’s dobro and steel string talents culminate in world renowned showcases of guitar virtuosity.
Revered for his unique slide guitar technique, Sonny Landreth has collaborated with many legendary performers including John Hiatt, Jimmy Buffett, Mark Knopfler and Eric Clapton. Summer of 2013, Sonny was part of the Peter Frampton led Guitar Circus tour, often closing the night playing with Frampton on an extended “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.”
Cindy Cashdollar’s expertise is in great demand on both steel guitar and dobro. She has worked with many leading artists in various genres including Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Rod Stewart and Ryan Adams. With the iconic western swing group Asleep at the Wheel, she garnered 5 Grammy awards and was the first woman to be inducted into the Texas Steel Guitar Hall of Fame in 2011.
Performing a mix of original songs with contemporary and traditional blues and roots music, the show is electric, virtuosic, and tastefully delivered by these two great instrumental masters.
Olivia Soler Espinosa
Olivia Soler Espinosa, from Havana, Cuba, is Berklee’s first woman tres player. She arrived at the college in September of 2022, and in 2023, her skill with the traditional Cuban instrument, a relative of the guitar, earned her a Gifted Tuition Scholarship from the Latin Grammy Cultural Foundation. Soler began playing guitar nearly a decade ago and picked up the tres a few years later. Now, at only 21 years old, she has been able to defy the odds and prove herself amongst the music and tres community.
Adam Hendey
Adam Hendey is a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and composer living in Boston, Massachusetts. Known for his sense and skill as a sought-after accompanist in the city’s vibrant traditional music communities, Adam is also a prolific teacher, performer, and producer. Adam is a graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, where he studied Traditional Music as a Master’s student, and the Robert D. Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon, where he finished with Bachelor’s degrees in Music and Philosophy.
Aiden Schnell
Aiden Schnell is a bluegrass guitarist from southwest Michigan who grew up playing both old time and bluegrass music on mandolin, banjo, and guitar. Aiden’s goal in teaching is to aid his students in understanding their fretboard in a simple and approachable way so that the task of playing in jams and with friends doesn’t feel as stressful or daunting. If you are looking for help in understanding the fretboard and upping your solo and/or backup game, then Aiden is the teacher for you!
Jack Soref
Born and raised in Madison, WI, Jack Soref has spent the last 15 years
living in Boston, where he has been one of the pillars upon which the
city’s fairly substantial Jazz Manouche music scene rests.
As a teenager, Jack began studying the guitar with Madison-based Jazz
Mandolinist and guitarist Sims Delaney-Pothoff. Jack became captivated
by the music of Django Reinhardt after attending the International
Django Reinhardt festival in Samois-sur-Seine France in 2002. After high
school, he attended the Berklee College of Music, where Jack received
his Bachelor’s degree in 2007. In 2011 Jack spent half of the year
living in Paris France, where he could study the music of Django
Reinhardt at its source. In 2013 Jack joined the group Ameranouche whom
he toured and recorded with for the next five years. In 2018 Jack
recorded an album of original music ‘Rain on the Terrace’. He can
currently be heard performing with many wonderful musicians from all
over the Massachusetts music scene.
Jack has performed at jazz clubs, restaurants, concert halls, and
festival stages all over the USA as well as internationally on stages in
France, Canada, and Scotland. His guitar playing has been heard on radio
shows such as NPR’s ‘Here and Now’, NPR’s ‘Says You’, Lost Highway on
WMBR, WZBC’s Sunday Morning Country with Cousin Kate, as well as PRI and
BBC’s Internationally distributed radio show ‘The World’.
He has performed in concert with Jazz Manouche luminaries like
Violinists: Jason Anick, Tim Kliphius, and Ben Powell and Guitarists:
Adrien Moignard, Gonzalo Bergara, Aurélien Bouly, Olli Soikkeli, Titi
Bamberger, Max O’Rourke, Henry Acker and Joscho Stephan.
Jack has been a guitar instructor at Django in June’s week long Jazz
Manouche music Camp in Northampton since 2009.
Happy Traum
Happy recorded his first solo album, “Relax Your Mind,” in 1975 and embarked on the first of many European tours, bringing him to England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany and Scandinavia, among other countries. He toured in Japan in 2001 and 2016 as a soloist, and in 2006 with Artie Traum.
“American Stranger” was released in 1977 (“An absolute gem…one of the best folk music albums released this year.” – Folk Scene).”Bright Morning Stars” was released in 1980, and “Friends And Neighbors,” recorded “live” in a Woodstock concert, was released in 1983. Shanachie Records released a compilation album, “Buckets Of Songs,” in 1988, and “Bright Morning Stars” was re-released on CD both in the U.S. and in Japan in 2001.
“I Walk The Road Again” (2005) was co-produced by Artie Traum. Among many great reviews, one said: “I Walk the Road Again’ is a breathtaking collection of bittersweet country-folk and blues tunes…. A low-key masterpiece, this album demonstrates that it’s not the pace that matters so much as the road itself. It’s a road we’re glad to see Happy Traum walking so well again.” – Peter Aaron, Kingston Daily Freeman
Happy’s 2015 CD release, “Just For the Love of It,” also received rave reviews, including four stars in Rolling Stone Magazine! It was in the top five in folk radio play for several months, and was on many “Top Ten of 2015” reviewers’ lists.
Happy continues a busy and productive life as a solo artist in clubs, concerts and festivals around the U.S., and collaborates with many musical colleagues: Jim Kweskin, Geoff Muldaur, John Sebastian, Larry Campbell, Cindy Cashdollar, Jay Ungar and Molly Mason and many others – including his son, Adam Traum, a fine singer/songwriter/guitarist in his own right.
Now in his 83rd year, Happy continues to perform, record, conduct guitar workshops and classes, and produce new lessons for Homespun. One of Woodstock, NY’s most revered local musicians, he can often be heard playing for large fundraisers or other community causes, trying to pay back the half-century of friendships and good will that came to him and his family in that creative, progressive community.
