Slim Harrison For over 40 years, Slim has performed at Schools and Festivals, Hoedowns & Throwdowns all over North America and around the globe. Slim has had the privilege of performing with Pete Seeger, John Jackson,  Bud & Ola Belle Reed, Patsy Montana, Blind Rev. Pearly Brown, Jean Ritchie, Sparky & Rhonda Rucker, Guy Davis, Ella Jenkins, John "Kinderman" Taylor, Keter Betts and numerous other musicians at festivals, hoedowns, house concerts & street corners.  He is the founder of the Barnstormers, Piney Mountain String Band and the Sunnyland Skiffle Band, a children's jugband and has called dances or played with countless bands including the Corndodgers, Jolly Joe’s Jugband/Western MD Highballers, Double Decker Stringband, Fiddlestyx, Sassafras Jugband, the Heartbeats, Sunshine Skiffle Band, Highroads String Band, Fennig’s All Stars & even Ralph Stanley’s Clinch Mountain Boys.

Slim is at home on the Main Stage or back porch, leading a march with Cesar Chavez or calling a dance with a children's jugband. He builds banjos & dulcimers in his workshop at Sugartree Farm & leads workshops with children making stomper-doodles, whammy-diddles & other homemade instruments. He is an accomplished Dance Caller and has called the Community Dances at Common Ground on the Hill, numerous dances in his barn at Sugartree Farm, a Country Wedding in Viljandi, Estonia and even for the 1980 U.S. Olympic team.

Considered a "Self-taught" multi-instrumentalist, storyteller & dance caller, Slim says, "I learned a little bit from everybody I met as I traveled around this great country!"  Slim performs on fiddle & fiddlesticks, banjo, banjo-ukulele, mando-banjo, mandolin, mountain dulcimer, hammer dulcimer, 6 & 12 string guitar, resophonic slide guitar, harmonica, jaws harp, mouthbow, jug, washtub bass and his one-of-a-kind “Kazoozafone”.  His greatest joy is sharing the music & dances of America & the World with children & adults.