Harry Ingram was born and raised in Arnold’s Cove Placentia Bay, or as Ray Guy would call it, “That far greater bay”. Recitations have always been a core element of Harry’s upbringing, which he now performs in various venues. He’s a part of the popular “Stage to Stage” group and also a comedy recitation duo known as “The Liar’s Bench Show” with his cohort Ken Parsons. Harry writes his own original material with a published book titled “Don’t be Talkin’, however, he also enjoys keeping alive the works of greats such as John Joe English, Baxter Wareham and others. 

Raised in Bay de Verde, NL and influenced by his father Ray Walsh and the
singing and playing of his grandparents and extended family, Greg Walsh
became interested in music as a teenager and immediately took to learning
traditional songs and playing traditional instruments including fiddle, mandolin,
guitar, tenor banjo, piano accordion, bozouki, etc.
After moving to St. John’s in 1993 to attend university, he began frequenting
traditional music sessions and over the years went on to play, tour and record
with many groups including The Navigators, Irish Descendants, Foc’sle, Middle
Tickle and has appeared on hundreds of other musical projects, shows,
radio/television specials and events.
As a multi-instrumentalist and a singer of traditional songs, he has performed and
taught workshops around Newfoundland and Labrador, across Canada and
throughout Ireland with a variety of groups and as a solo performer.
A founding member of the Walsh Family Band, Greg is also a permanent
member of the Masterless Men (since 2007), the Corner Boys (since 2024) and
is a regular on the St. John’s traditional music session scene. He still records and
performs with a variety of groups and artists and currently resides in St. John’s,
NL where he works as Director of the Provincial Archives of Newfoundland and
Labrador.

Graham Wells

Graham Wells is an Newfoundland and Irish traditional multi-instrumentalist and singer from St. John’s, NL. He completed an MA in Traditional Irish Music Performance at the University of Limerick in 2013. He first learned the accordion from his grandfather, Edward Walsh at the age of 6. In 1998, Graham introduced the C#/D tuned, two row button accordion to Newfoundland traditional music. This system has since been adopted by many notable Newfoundland accordion players including Aaron Collis, Billy Sutton, Fergus Brown-O’Byrne, Stan Pickett.

Graham was a founding member of the acclaimed traditional group “A Crowd of Bold Sharemen,” recording and arranging a seminal album of Newfoundland traditional music. Shortly thereafter in 2004, Graham joined the Juno award winning band, The Irish Descendants. He performed with the Descendants for the next 7 years. Graham embarked solo with the release of his first album in 2008. In 2010, Graham founded and organized the first Féile Seamus Creagh – a festival of traditional Irish and Newfoundland song, music and dance, which is now running in it’s 13th year.

Glen Tilley and Bill Rose share a deep love and passion for the music they create. Their repertoire, an homage to the great songwriters and tunesmiths who gave voice to a generation.

With stops in New York’s Greenwich Village, Liverpool, Los Angeles and a waltz across Texas, the duo cover a sweeping range including country swing, rockabilly, dazzling guitar instrumentals, folk, contemporary singer songwriter material, alt country and original compositions by Rose and Tilley.

Acoustic guitarist/composer Gordon Quinton was born in Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland and Labrador and now lives in St. John’s. An innovative fingerpicking and flatpicking guitar stylist, he specializes in original compositions and arrangements of traditional and contemporary folk music. As a veteran artist participating in the province’s cultural life, Gordon today continues on his chosen path of musical exploration and expression, composing, performing and recording as a soloist and with others.

Featuring: Jenny Gear, Sandy Morris, Darren Browne & Erin Best

Gerry Strong is from Little Bay Islands, Notre Dame Bay and grew up between there and nearby Little Bay. His parents moved to Ireland just before he finished high school, which marked the beginning of his immersion in traditional music. Around the same time as his mother bought him a recorder, his older sister bought an album by what was then a brand new Irish traditional music group called Planxty. Along with the Bothy Band, Planxty would become a major influence on Gerry’s interest in music, and in no time at all he switched from the recorder to the tin whistle.

While working in Stephenville Crossing in the early 1970’s, Gerry became more involved in the local music scene through the influence of Stephenville physician, Dr. Kevin McCann, who introduced Gerry to several traditional west coast musicians such as Emile Benoit and Ed Doucette, among others. Around the same time, local bands Red Island and Figgy Duff were experimenting with and developing new and exciting ways of playing local music, and Gerry became part of the renewal of interest in the folk and traditional music of Newfoundland and Labrador.

In the 1970s Gerry became a founding member of the award-winning group Tickle Harbour. Gerry travelled throughout Canada and the US while playing with Tickle Harbour, and through Ireland, England and Australia with A Crowd of Bold Sharemen. Retirement from his job as an X-ray technologist at the Carbonear General Hospital has left him more time to pursue his love of music, sitting in on as many sessions as he can and performing solo or with What Odds, Cotillion and A Crowd of Bold Sharemen.

In November of 2017 Gerry was awarded the Slaight Music Unsung Hero award by the Canadian Folk Music Association for his contributions to the Canadian folk music scene.