Like a group of minstrels found electric guitars and wrote an album over the course of 500 years. [...] Bottom line: For those that like The Incredible String Band and The Band, Midway Fair is the underdog with an album of powerful, sincere, and timeless songs." ~John Powell,
www.Angelica-Music.com, July 18, 2011
Jon S. Patton was born in Baltimore in 1981 and has been a farmhand, construction worker, Russian linguist, teacher, clerk, editor, paralegal, and writer; he played as a street musician in Heidelberg, Germany. Jen Parde is a singer, songwriter, arranger, and pianist. She’s been singing jazz since high school, and jazz is a distinctive influence on her style.Tim Taormino has won competition and parade awards with various bagpipe bands, including The Baltimore City Pipe Band, Loch Raven Pipes and Drums, and Na Fianna Irish Pipe Band. Joe Scala (bass and vocals) is a singer/songwriter in Baltimore. He gigs around town solo and with his wife (under the name Katie and Joe).
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