Sarah Foard: fiddle, vocals.  Sarah blends the clean sounds of a classical violinist with the energy of Irish reels and the soul of early American jazz. Sarah began studying the violin at the age of five in Huntington, West Virginia and completed a music degree at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music studying with Patricia Green, Laura Kobayashi, Piotr Melewski, and Rebecca Henry. Sarah has performed at many venues throughout the DC area including the Kennedy Center, the ATLAS Theater, THEARC, and Strathmore Music Center. She was inspired to play traditional folk music and jazz when she began contra dancing a few years ago. She now performs regularly with the Sligo Creek Stompers and is studying jazz violin with Eddie Drennon.

Jess Eliot Myhre: vocals, clarinet, washboard, kazoo.  A native Floridian, Jess grew up dodging alligators, swinging from banyan trees and wondering what snow was like. Studying the old records of southern singers like Bessie Smith brought her west to New Orleans, where she became mesmerized by the sounds of the street bands and second lines. She is forever grateful to Joe Braun and the New Orleans Jazz Vipers, who let her sit in every week at the Spotted Cat to learn the ropes of fronting a traditional jazz band. She is now thrilled and honored to be fulfilling her destiny by inciting riotous post-barn dance jam sessions with the Sligo Creek Stompers.