Jaqueline Schwab's evocative playing infuses the oft-aired soundtracks of Ken Burns' films, including his Grammy-winning Civil War, Baseball, Lewis and Clark, Mark Twain, and The National Parks. She has performed at the White House for President Clinton and on the Late Show with David Letterman. She recently collaborated with The American Pops Orchestra for their October 29, 2022, American Roots PBS special.

Charles & Cameron Gray are a father-son duo.  Charles graduated from Wheaton College, The University of Michigan, and The Eastman School of Music. He was a regular performer with the MN Orchestra from 1991-2011 and previously was a member of the Grand Rapids, MI Symphony Orchestra and the Rochester, NY Philharmonic. Cameron is a 2020 graduate of St. Olaf. He and his dad performed as soloists with the St. Olaf Choir on their 14-concert tour to the East Coast in Feb of 2020, which included concerts in Carnegie Hall in NYC and Severance Hall in Cleveland.

Patchouli’s down-to-earth, hopeful songwriting is “New American Folk,” blending elements of folk, pop, flamenco and jazz with world beat rhythms. The classically trained duo, Julie Patchouli and master guitarist Bruce Hecksel, have been dubbed “the hardest working folk duo in America.” Patchouli represents the very top echelon of today's acoustic performers, bringing the highest level of skill together with the passion, experience and joy that are a rare combination indeed.

The Carleton Chinese Music Ensemble under the direction of Gao Hong, was established in 2005 and has since performed to much acclaim at many venues, institutions, and festivals throughout the upper Midwest including the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, National Conference for Silk Road Scholars at the University of Minnesota, and the inaugural performance for Northfield Library’s Carnegie Concert Series. In 2015 the Carleton Chinese Music Ensemble and the Global Music Ensemble released their first CD – “Music from China and Beyond” featuring their performances from 2005-2015.

SlipJig is a folk duo from the Twin Cities, Minnesota, made up of fiddler Christopher Becknell and guitarist David Crittenden. Both musicians, while classically trained, are frequent performers in musical settings showcasing a large variety of styles and genres. Becknell is both an accomplished fiddler and guitarist and has released highly regarded albums on both instruments. Crittenden holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts degree from the University of Georgia and was a long time member of the Minneapolis Guitar Quartet. He is also a talented composer whose works have been commissioned and recorded by a number of renowned soloists and ensembles.  Both musicians are also educators at several institutions in the greater Twin Cities area.