BIOGRAPHIES
Ledah, Maura Shawn, and Willa started playing violin in
spring, 1999 with their first teacher, Nan Stricklen of
Banner Elk, North Carolina. They currently study classical
music with Jacob Dakon at the Appalachian State University
Community Music School. The girls have attended a variety of
intensive violin and fiddle camps. Their fiddle music
influences include Jerry Holland, Howie MacDonald, Troy
McGillivray, Kimberly Fraser, Jamie Laval, Jane MacMorran,
Natalie MacMaster, Kevin Burke, Martin Hayes, John Turner,
Eileen Ivers, Laura Risk, and many other fine musicians. |
Maura Shawn continues to study classical violin with Nan
Stricklen and with Nancy Bargerstock at Appalachian State
University, in addition to Jacob Dakon. She also studies piano,
cello, guitar, mandolin, and pennywhistle and is a participant in
the Watauga County Junior Appalachian Musicians Program.
She is also a first violin in the Appalachian State University
Orchestra.She
enjoys playing soccer, swimming, horseback riding, gardening,
reading, drawing, and painting in addition to her musical interests. |
Willa enjoys reading, soccer, writing, and drawing. She is the
2007-08 Valle Crucis Elementary School spelling bee champ! She loves
being with little children, and wants to be a pediatric dentist when
she grows up. |
Ledah continues to study classical violin, along with the cello,
and flute. She plays cello in her school's 7th/8th-grade string
ensemble, and flute in her school band. She is a member of the North
Carolina Western Regional All-State Honors Orchestra (on classical
violin) and the All-District band on flute. She is also a first
violin in the Appalachian State University Orchestra.
Ledah loves to read,
draw, paint, and rock climb, and holds a blue belt in kung-fu. |
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David Finck found
a renewed interest in guitar playing in 2002 when he started to play
back-up guitar with The Forget-Me-Nots. David has been building
acoustic guitars since 1984 (visit his web site,
www.davidfinck.com for more information). |
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