Nora Garver Nora Garver plays fiddle and percussion and sings backup harmony. Her strength is the Celtic fiddle which she plays with both soul and fire. She played many years with the Potomac Valley Scottish Fiddle Club in the Washington, D.C. area for Scottish Country dances and Highland Games, and performed in the fiddle/piano duo “Thistledown”. In 2000, she moved to Winston-Salem, NC where she became the fiddler for the popular Celtic band Gaelwynd and helped release their first CD “Out on the Ocean”. Nora is also the co-founder of the Triad Scottish Fiddlers and Friends Club that meets monthly and performs around North Carolina’s Piedmont Triad area.

Rhiannon Giddens Rhiannon Giddens sings leads and plays the fiddle, banjo, guitar and percussion. She has won the Fiddle Competition (Novice Devision) and the Gaelic Singing Competition (Overall Winner), both at Grandfather Mountain Highland Games. She is a full-time musician from Greensboro, NC and sings and plays in the local band Gaelwynd with Nora. She has been singing folk music since she was very young with her father and sister; she became interested in Celtic music because of her name- Rhiannon is a goddess in Welsh mythology. She graduated Oberlin Conservatory in 2000 in possession of reams of useless knowledge and has been recovering ever since. When she is not performing Celtic music, you may find her dying in an opera at the top of her lungs, contra dancing, playing banjo or fiddle in her Black string bands (Sankofa Strings and Carolina Chocolate Drops), or designing and maintaining websites, like this one, this one, and that one.