Patty McCollom:

Patty has been in traditional bands for many years and teaches students in pennywhistle, banjo and bodhran.  Patty has conducted pennywhistle workshops at music festivals in California, Texas and Iowa, and she studied advanced pennywhistle with the legendary whistle player, Joni Madden, of Cherish The Ladies fame.   Patty has toured with various groups to Hungary, Croatia, and Greece, and performed at festivals in Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, Texas and Iowa.  She has performed at Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri and at the historic Carter Fold in Virginia. Each year, Patty performs at the Museum of Appalachia in Norris, Tennessee with the band, Lilies of the West.  

Les Amis is a Pasadena-based quartet of musicians who perform traditional dance music of North America. Their repertoire combines elements of Irish, Scottish, Old-Time, Finnish, and Quebecois music. The multi-instrumentalists perform on flutes, harmonica, accordions, guitar, hammered dulcimer, and percussion. They have played together at Contra Dances, music festivals, street fairs, and private celebrations for over 10 years.
 


 		 Carol Burrill is a classically-trained musician with a degree in flute performance. She discovered the hammered dulcimer and the world of traditional music in 1993. She has been a regular performer and teacher of hammered dulcimer for over ten years. She was the 1995 All-California dulcimer champion. She has performed live in the studios of Arts and Roots Radio, KCSN 88.5 fm. She performed on stage at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on Christmas Eve 2007, and the program was broadcast on KCET to an estimated one million viewers.


 		 Ned Boyer - Harmonica & recorder.      Mark Burrill - Accordian & concertina.
Jim Scheel has been playing guitar off and on for about 30 years. He has studied a variety of styles including blues and jazz, but has loved fiddle tunes since he started playing. When he plays with Les Amis, you can hear some of the other influences in his playing from vamping closed chords to bassy glissandos.
Daniel Slosberg Daniel Slosberg frequently plays fiddle with Les Amis. When he's not playing with Les Amis, Daniel also has a one man show that he performs.

"Daniel Slosberg performs his one man show, Pierre Cruzatte: A Musical Journey Along the Lewis & Clark Trail in schools, libraries, museums, and historical sites throughout the country. Many living historians portray other members of the expedition. Slosberg, however, offers a unique depiction of the expedition's main boatman and fiddler in a show which has been called "a delightful program of music and monologue," (Mike Ferguson, Baker City Herald).

 Patti Amelotte

Patti Amelotte attained her Bachelor in Piano Performance from Chapman College in 1983. She was honored as one of the "Outstanding Senior Women" by the College's President that year. During her college career she performed three major solo recitals. Her senior recital was attended by the largest audience of any student recital that year. Patti studied piano as well as piano pedagogy under Dr. Joseph Matthews. She graduated with departmental honors.

Since that time, Patti has developed a large private piano teaching business. Her students all perform well at their annual recital in June. Not only has she continued developing hers and her students pianistic abilities but she has also excelled in performing and teaching the hammered dulcimer. In 1990 she won the California State Hammered Dulcimer Championship held in Claremont, CA. Her students have also placed in the beginning and advanced competitions.

Patti has performed throughout California in the bands "Blackthorn" and "Granuaile." In 1989 Granuaile released a cassette. Both of these bands performed in the Summer Concert series in the cities of Anaheim, San Clemente and Cerritos. Patti has performed solo at Disneyland and for Pacific Bell. She was hired to play hammered dulcimer parts for a recording project for "New Earth Productions", Tom Brooks, producer and, along with her current band "Crannóg" she performed on the soundtrack for the movie "Dragon's World", Richard Band Productions.  Patti will be performing at the Music in the Mountains Festival with her band, "Looney's Fortune".

Patti teaches both piano and hammered dulcimer in Los Angeles and South Orange Counties. She is available as a solo artist as well as with many other traditional and classical instrumentalists and vocalists.