Fiddle 1 Beginning: Ben Davis is a hard driving fiddler from knapps creek in pocahontas county west virginia. he started playing at age nine and came under the influences of legendary fiddlers Junior Spencer and Jake Krack. He won the 2015 Vandalia Youth fiddle contest and has high place finishes in the adult division of the same. He has also taken 2nd and 3rd place at the Fly Inn Festival contest in Huntington WV. Ben is currently the old time fiddling sound behind the band Mud Hole Control , who grabbed a place at the Galax Old Time Fiddlers Contest in 2022.

Fiddle 2 Intermediate: Dave Bing began playing guitar when he was five years old, banjo in his mid-teens and fiddle soon after. He was lucky to have learned from several different old time fiddlers with various styles and incorporated these styles into what has become his own. Dave has taught and performed old time music internationally and does annual fiddle and banjo workshops in Spain and England. His style of teaching focuses on rhythmic bowing techniques, different methods, dynamics, and timing that makes an old time fiddle tune more interesting to listen to and fun to play. Dave performed with his brothers for over 25 years and organized and performed with the groups Gandydancer and High Ridge Ramblers. He now lives with his wife on a farm in central West Virginia and builds fiddles.

Fiddle 3, Intermediate/Advance: Jake Krack, from Nicut, West Virginia, started playing the fiddle at the age of six. He has spent over fifteen years studying and apprenticing with West Virginia master old-time fiddlers Melvin Wine, Lester McCumbers, and Bobby Taylor. He has performed and taught workshops at venues such as the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Chicago Folk Festival, Merlefest, and the Detroit Festival of the Arts. Jake has won fiddle contests at Vandalia, Appalachian String Band Festival, Galax Old-time Fiddlers Convention, Mt. Airy Fiddlers Convention, Ed Haley fiddle contest, and the Henry Reed Fiddlers Gathering. He currently is the fiddler with The Bing Brothers. Jake serves as the Director of Operations of the Board of Allegheny Echoes.

Fiddle 4, Intermediate/Advanced: Tessa McCoy, from Saint Albans, W.V., has been playing fiddle since she was five years old. First starting with classical violin lessons, she began her journey into old-time fiddling at 12, taking lessons from well-known fiddler Jake Krack. With influence and help from Emily Miller, Tessa also has flourished into a powerful singer and enjoys singing traditional songs as well as creating harmonies. She is currently finishing a degree in Computer Science, recording a CD and is playing and performing with the Big Possum Stringband. Tessa placed 1st in the Fiddle Contest at Vandalia in 2019, and her band placed 1st at Clifftop in 2019 and 3rd at Galax in 2018.