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Eastman String Band Combining the talents of Good Deale Bluegrass founder and multi-instrumentalist Tim Finch, vocalist/guitarist/songwriter Savannah Finch, fiddle master Jon Glik, bassist Chris Walls, and percussion from Demetrios Kakavas and Tina Catalanotto, the Eastman String Band creates a unique and exciting acoustic sound all their own. Sponsored by Eastman Strings and D’Addario, they present original and traditional songs with high energy instrumentals.  See them at the festival on Saturday!  www.eastmanstringband.com 

Jeri Eaton is a writer and small business owner.  “I spend many hours at my computer. Standing up after hours of sitting often involves a lot of creaks and groans. I’ve found lying on the floor doing Feldenkrais a great remedy for that stiffness and lack of movement. In the process I’ve discovered an unexpected bonus of Feldenkrais - a flexibility of mind and an opening to the well of creativity. For me, a half-hour of Feldenkrais and the writer’s terror of the blank page disappears. Two years ago I decided to share this discovery by beginning my training to become a Feldenkrais practioner. It’s my hope that others will come to share this wonderful method and find their aches and pains transformed into greater movement, flexibility and creativity.”  www.feldenkrais.com/

Rev. Wendy Ellsworth is a nationally and internationally known seed bead artist. Her work can be found in major gallery exhibitions of contemporary fiber, beadwork and basketry as well as in numerous books and periodicals. With a career in beading that spans over thirty eight years, she teaches classes in off-loom beading techniques around the US and abroad. Maintaining a private studio in Buck’s Co., PA, she was a 2003 recipient of a Fellowship from the PA Council on the Arts. She has made four trips to Kenya to help elevate the status of Maasai and Samburu women through beadwork and education. She is currently writing her first book Beading and the Creative Spirit to be published in late 2009. Her work was recently featured in Masters: Beadweaving, published by Lark Books, 2008. 

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Ellen Elmes,  Muralist and watercolor artist Ellen Elmes has been painting in response to the beauty and people of her Appalachian mountain environment for forty years.  Recently retired from teaching art at Southwest Virginia Community College, Ellen continues to work with children, teens, and adults in creating visual representations of community pride and memory on downtown outdoor walls, as well as indoor walls of hospitals, churches, colleges, health clinics, and grade schools.  Her most recent mural, Changing Lives, honors the profound influence of Ira and Mary Zepp on so many lives as teachers and leaders in education, spirituality, and social justice at McDaniel College.  It is located in Hoover Library in the Center for Teaching Excellence at the College. Ellen also continues to thrive in her watercolor world of narrative imagery, from exploring the highlands of southwest Virginia and Scotland to visual journeys of mind and soul through life experiences. humanities.sw.edu/ellen

Shelley Ensor comes from a highly gifted musical family and possesses a rare, beautiful and powerful voice. She sings with The Sisters in Harmony who released their CD, Your Love, in 2001. Shelly is the vocalist with the Howard Burns Quintet, appearing on their CD, Lucinda’s Serenade, and performing at Blues Alley. She appears on the Ron Kearns CD, Live at Blues Alley, and sings with the Frederick Community College Jazz Band. Shelley directs the Trinity Baptist Gospel Choir, the Voices of Faith of First Baptist Church of Baltimore, the Men’s Choir of St. Luke’s UMC,  the Bertinna Randall Gospel Choir of St. Mark UMC, and leads the St. Paul’s UCC  choir in Westminster, MD.  Shelley has led the Common Ground Gospel Choir for 15 years and is revered at Common Ground on the Hill as one of it’s most inspired, respected instructors. 

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