Jeremiah McLane is a composer, accordionist, pianist, singer and educator with a diverse musical background including blues, jazz, Celtic, Québécois, French and other roots influenced music. He is the founder and director of the Floating Bridge Music School, and has served on the faculties of the Sate University of New York in Plattsburgh, the Summit School for Traditional Music in Montpelier, and at the Upper Valley Music Center in Lebanon, NH. He also teaches regularly at summer music programs throughout the United States including Ashokan, Centrum’s American Festival of Fiddle Tunes, Swananoah, Maine Fiddle Camp, Acadia Trad Festival, Lark in the Morning, John C. Campbell Folk School, Pinewoods, Bay Area CDSS Camps, and many others. In 2016, Montpelier Times-Argus music critic Art Edelstein named Jeremiah musician of the year, citing his contributions in teaching, recording and performing is his various configurations. Since 1990 Jeremiah has released over thirty-five recordings, includingThe Wind Among the Reeds with bagpiper Timothy Cummings, which won the Montpelier’s Times-Argus Vermont album of the year award for 2016.
John Thompson-Figueroa, Bass/Tuba.Born and raised in Puerto Rico, arrived in Vermont via New Orleans in 2001; has since performed and toured with a wide range of Vermont and Montreal-based jazz, theater, Klezmer and Latinamerican music groups, including Spielpalast Cabaret, Bread and Puppet Theatre and numerous others.
