Jason Adajian is a musician, folk dancer, folk dance teacher, aspiring artist and a student of world-wide ritual traditions. He has played the button accordion for dancers for 17 years and has danced with the Pipe & Bowl Morris Men and the Newcastle English Country Dancers for 23 years. He has been a teacher at Lark Camp for many years.

Meredith Axelrod is an American folk, jazz, and blues singer and multi-instrumentalist. She specializes in early-20th century American music, and has toured with Jim Kweskin.

Shay Black comes from a legendary Irish singing family. His irresistible stage presence graces Irish band “Garva” and sea shanty group “Stormalong John,” and his popular classes at the Freight & Salvage and the Starry Plough draw people in into traditional music.

Maria Culberson bio coming soon!

Darina Drapkin has been singing Balkan music for 20 years. She performs with Sonoma County’s Balkan ensemble, Gradina, and is making a solo album. She is also a trained Waldorf teacher and teaches music through Santa Rosa Symphony’s education programs.

Carey Dubbert has been playing music for 65 years. Though best known for autoharp, his other instruments include the piano, percussion, bassoon, and hammered dulcimer. In 1992 Carey won 1st place in the National Hammered Dulcimer Championships in Winfield, Kansas, and in 1999 he won 1st place at the Mountain Laurel Autoharp Gathering. Most recently he has been honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2008 California Autoharp Gathering.

Known for his relaxed and comfortable teaching style, playing tunes is always an important part of Carey’s workshops. Participants are encouraged to find ways that work best for them to achieve the sound they desire. As well as being a regular workshop and mini-concert contributor to the Northern California Autoharp Group, Carey also has given private and group lessons for over 20 years.

Bobby Edwards began French horn study at age 11. As a musical hobbyist, he also enjoys playing ‘relatives’ of the horn, like the (valveless) Natural Horn, and the long, wooden Alphorn. He sometimes plays the garden hose, too!

Ian Faquini moved to Berkeley from Brazil at the age of eight. A member of the renowned Berkeley High School Jazz program before going on to study at the California Jazz Conservatory in Berkeley, he joined the CJC faculty immediately after graduating. He is also on the faculty at California Brazil Camp, working alongside musical legends including Guinga, Hermeto Pascoal, Joyce and Ivan Lins.

With a singular set of skills, highly personal compositional style, and lush harmonic palette, Faquini is one of the most respected guitar players in the San Francisco Bay Area. He’s also a brilliant accompanist, which has made him an in-demand collaborator with vocalists around the U.S. and Brazil.

Ken Genetti s a versatile multi-instrumentalist who discovered Balkan music at Lark Camp in 1999. Inspired, he has since learned music from Bulgaria, Macedonia and Greece on several instruments and is a member of "Gradina," the North Bay's Balkan music ensemble.

Joelle Gonçalves is the Artistic Director and principle dancer of Sol Flamenco. Her formal flamenco dance training began in 2003 when she traveled to Seville, Spain, to study at Studio Flamenco José Galván and has since returned to Spain several times to study at prestigious flamenco academies including Academia de Flamenco Manuel Betanzos, Andrés Marín Flamenco Abierto, and Estudio Flamenco Juan Polvillo. She has also studied at The Institute for Spanish Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico as well as flamenco schools in Oakland and San Francisco. Now and award-winning performer, she also teaches Flamenco weekly in Santa Rosa.

Michael Greenberg has been playing strings since age 11. At first he was strictly a strummer, but in college he discovered fingerstyle technique and has been loving it ever since. Michael is excited to share his insights on fingerstyle guitar with other aspiring pickers. He currently teaches guitar with Folk Farm Music School in Sebastopol.

Chris Hanlin is an experienced luthier, having honed his skills for more than twenty years. His expertise at repairing fine wooden instruments led him to become authorized by one of the most revered American guitar manufacturers to repair their guitars. Hanlin is also an accomplished musician who has toured and played throughout the United States.

Born in rural Indiana, Hanlin’s first instrument was the drums. Hanlin moved to California in 1989, and landed a position working at World of Strings, a fine instrument repair shop in Long Beach. He apprenticed under Bob Mattingly, the most renown luthier in Southern California.

Leslie Hubbert has been learning Cuban and Puerto Rican songs for 25 years. She has taught in schools, festivals and Lark in the Morning music camp. Leslie plays in the band “Los Piratos” and also as a duo with husband Michael Hubbert.

Michael Hubbert bio coming soon!

Joss Jaffe is a vocalist, tabla player, multi-instrumentalist, composer and record producer. His critically acclaimed albums include Dub Mantra, Sun Mountain Sea, & Billboard Top-10 new age album Meditation Music. Joss’ music ranges from modern pop, reggae, and world to ambient, soothing and brainwave entraining music for spa, relaxation, yoga and meditation. He is a regular performer and workshop leader at premiere yoga conferences and transformational festivals including Lucidity, Beloved, Wanderlust & Korea Yoga Conference.

Greg Johnson is an accomplished jazz pianist and music teacher. The founder of Glass Brick Boulevard, a popular jazz ensemble, Greg grew up in the midwest listening to Gospel, Motown and Beethoven. Since 1989, Greg's musical journey has included more than 120 compositions, more than a thousand performances before more than 100,000 fans on two continents, many radio, TV and videos performances, more than 500 piano students, a dozen producer's credits of jazz, rock, pop, and folk rock recordings, and the score of a feature film-Character Killer. Glass Brick Boulevard was created in 1991 (initially named Inner Act), and performed 150 straight Monday Nights at the 4th Street Tavern in San Rafael, CA., then moved throughout the bay area.

Jenny Kerr is one of few active contemporary artists who fully embody the breadth of the Americana idiom, mining the roots of folk, blues, country, bluegrass and rock to produce a catalog of original work that is respectfully steeped in tradition while still fresh, modern and immediately identifiable as her own.

An accomplished multi-instrumentalist who deftly traverses guitar, dobro, banjo, piano and harmonica over the course of a show, with deeply soulful, powerhouse vocals that define her sound and connect with audiences worldwide.

Tyehimba Kokayi has a deep, wide-ranging background in dance, theater and music. He studied with great West African Dance masters, earned degrees in Ethnic Studies and Education, has received grant funding, and founded The Lions Den Educational Institute to educate about West African Culture.

Janessa Lynna has been belly dancing since she was 8 years old, performing at the Renaissance Pleasure Faire, Lark in The Morning traditional music camp, and throughout the Bay Area. Janessa has studied dance abroad, won awards, and she loves to teach.

Will Marsh brings refined melody, imagination and devotion to all facets of his music. He has been performing around the world on sitar and guitar for over two decades. Will has worked with Grammy-winning musicians and producers and has been featured on national T.V. His deep commitment to the tradition of Hindustani classical music on sitar has profoundly shaped his artistry and he has been blessed to study with the legendary musicians Ustad Aashish Khan, Roshan Jamal Bhartiya and Tushar Bhatia. 

His latest release "The Integration" expresses a fresh approach to bringing a world of sounds and influences together. Currently, Will resides in the California Bay Area as a sought-after teacher, performer and recording artist.

Carlitos Medrano was born in Havana and grew up steeped in traditional Cuban music. He studied and performed with many prominent Cuban musicians before moving to California in 2008. Carlitos plays with many bands and has performed in festivals all over the Bay Area.

Phil Milner has been providing repairs, maintenance and modifications to the full spectrum of musical gear and instruments including guitar and bass amps, effects and pedals as well as set-up and repairs on guitars and basses at his shop in San Rafael, as well as his decades managing the repair department for Haight Ashbury Music Center and working at San Francisco Guitarworks. 

In addition to this considerable experience on the bench and in the studio, he’s put in his time on the road as touring tech for 4 Non-Blonds, Joe Satriani, Bob Weir, Bonnie Raitt, Tracy Chapman, Graham Nash, Eric McFadden, Primus, Rickie Lee Jones, Wilco, The Donnas and more.s here

Raman Osman is a Kurdish composer and master tembûr/tambour musician from Al-Hasaka, Syria. He’s a self-taught musician who began playing at the age of 10. He started composing at the age of 15 and began developing his own style of playing tambour. He has performed at a variety of venues, including the Damascus Opera House, and several cultural centers. Raman currently lives in Northern California where he performs Kurdish music and music from the Middle East as a solo artist as well as with artists from various world music traditions.

Pauline Persichilli bio coming soon!

Celia Ramsay grew up with a passion for the ballads of Scotland, but she was also heavily influenced by popular music from the 1930s and 1940s. She likes to point out that the jazz ballads from the mid-20th century and much older ballads from the British Isles lean heavily on songs about love, and its trials, tribulations and triumphs. Celia performs her original songs, music from the Great American Songbook, and Scottish roots music from a vast repertory. She has performed at the Freight and Salvage in Berkeley in her own shows, and in shows with The Black Brothers, Holdstock and MacLeod, and Flower and McLaren. She has performed in many duo-style house concerts with Eamonn Flynn, Steve Baughman, Dave Nachmanoff, and Ken Risling. Celia recently retired from volunteer board service both for the Freight and Salvage and Lark Traditional Arts, but continues to volunteer as Program Director for Lark Camp.

Chris Reid has traveled extensively and immersed himself in Latin American music and culture for over two decades. He has deep roots in the Lark In The Morning community and performs regularly in the Bay Area, currently with Los Bahianatos.

Mark Sellin is a veteran musician and stage performer. He has acted on stage over 1000 times and directed over 30 plays. For Mark, focus is a key concept throughout the performing arts because it helps the meaning come through.

Al Striplen was a professor and counselor at Sacramento State for 40 years and now teaches Native American culture, spirituality and music at the State Indian Museum. Of Amah Matsun Ohlone and Aztec heritage, Al emphasizes the interconnectedness of all things.

Holly Tannen sings traditional songs of the United States, England, Scotland, Ireland, and France. She also channels Entities from the Half-Astral Plane who are responsible for songs such as Lily Of The Net, Bonobo Wannabee, Brownies For Breakfast, Victim of Them, Downstream From Dylan, and The Last Hippie.
Holly studied folklore with Alan Dundes at U.C. Berkeley. She edited the prestigious Journal of Anomalistic Phenomenology, and is now professor emeritus of disinformation technology at the Mendocino Institute for Sustainable Voyance.

Mark Taylor is an international recording artist, performer and teacher. His combined experience in classical and flamenco music makes him a strong and dynamic interpreter of the classical repertoire with an approach to flamenco that is rhythmically vibrant, passionate and true to the essence of the many styles he performs. Taylor began his study of classical guitar in 1980 at the Santa Rosa Junior College earning a music degree and was awarded the first Julia Harp Scholarship for music performance at Sonoma State University. He received private instruction with Kirby Wilkerson, and Phillip Roshegar, and master classes with Vladimir Mikulka, and Deborah Marrioti. He has performed in many renaissance and baroque chamber ensembles. Already a professional guitarist, he visited Spain frequently over a period of 15 years studying flamenco guitar in Granada, Sevilla and Jerez de la Frontera and Madrid with such great artists and teachers as Mario Escudero, Carlos Heredia (Seville), “El Carbonero” (Jerez), Roman Martin, and at the famous Amor de Dios dance studio (Madrid). He currently performs throughout Northern California with Sol Flamenco.

Sean Tergis grew up so immersed in folk music from the Middle East, Turkey, Greece and the Balkans that he moved to Istanbul to study and perform. Now back, Sean plays with multiple bands and produces a weekly event in San Francisco called Balkan Sundays.

Craig Ventresco is a San Francisco-based guitarist and revivalist of early 20th Century jazz, pop, and folk material. Craig specializes in playing popular music that was written during the ragtime era (circa 1890-1915). And in Ragtime-influenced finger-style Blues. And Blues-influenced Ragtime. And Ragtime-and-Blues-influenced Jazz. He’s largely self-taught and employs a one-of-a-kind pick-and-fingers technique on the acoustic guitar, which is loud and punchy and brings a pianistic quality to his solo performances. He’s come by his virtually encyclopedic repertoire via 78 records, piano rolls, and old sheet music. He also plays mandolin, ukulele, and other stringed ephemera. 

Katiana Vilá is a global vocalist, percussionist and songwriter. Katiana has lived and studied in Spain, Brazil, and Latin America. She performs with various Bay Area latin bands, flamenco ensembles and as a soloist.

Will Wheeler is a musician and software engineer who lives in Berkeley, CA. Currently the Board President for Lark Camp, he’s been involved with Lark since 2000, and spearheaded the project of turning LTA into a nonprofit. In addition to being a mainstay in the SF Bay Area Irish and Contra dance music communities, he has been on the staff of several other camps including San Francisco Folk Music Club’s Camp Harmony and BACDS Family Week.

Sue Williard has studied Balkan and international dance and song with many teachers all over the United States and Europe. She has been a member of four performing groups over the years, including Nashville's own Dancefolk. Sue has taught Balkan dance to school groups, dance camps, recreational dance groups, senior citizens, ranch hands, and people waiting for various types of public transportation. She currently teaches Balkan dance at several dance groups in the San Francisco Bay Area, and has been the Balkan Dance teacher at Lark World Music and Dance Camp in Mendocino, California for the many years.

Faisal Zedan was born in Lebanon, raised in Syria, and grew up playing the Derbakki drum. From there, he mastered the intricacies of Arabic music, moved to California in 1992, and is now a nationally known percussionist dedicated to the transformative power of rhythm.

Sophia Zimmermann trained at Colorado State University and The Hartt Conservancy. She is deeply inspired by Alexander Technique, a movement practice that helps singers work harmoniously with their body to maximize sound and minimize fatigue. Sophie teaches privately and performs around the North Bay.