Katherine Beck Katherine is 18 years old and has been playing with the Idaho Junior Jammer Fiddlers for 16 years. She currently receives lessons from Roberta Pearce and has also been a student of Danita Rast and Katrina Pearce. Katherine will be attending Boise State University this fall to study education.

Katrina Pearce Katrina is the three-time Champion. She was born in Nampa and lives in Boise. She has been teaching fiddle lessons for nine years, serves as the Co-Director for the Idaho Junior Jammer Fiddlers and has been running a music preschool since September of 2005. Last October she competed in Nashville and was chosed as the Grand Master Fiddle Champion where she got the honor of playing on the Grand Ole Opry stage.

Sarah Smith Sarah is 23 years old and has been playing the fiddle for the past 15 years. She began playing fiddle with the Jr. Jammers at the age of 9 and played with them until shortly after high school graduation. She played in many competitions throughout the northwest taking top rankings in multiple contests. Throughout college Sarah taught fiddle lessons while performing in the NNU string quartet and orchestra. She has played with orchestra groups in musicals such as Annie Get Your Gun and Secret Garden. When not working as a Registered Nurse in the Emergency Department, Sarah enjoys spending time outside taking photographs and playing music with her husband and brother.

Aaron Fewkes

Gayla Bollinger Gayla grew up in Twin Falls, Id. She started playing piano at age 5 and began fiddling at age 12. She has competed in various fiddling competitions since that time. She placed in the top 5 in her divisions and continues to enjoy participation in fiddling events. She lives in Boise with her husband and daughter (21 months). Gayla works as a pharmacist at St. Luke's Hospital and the VA Hospital.

Shanna Fehrs Shanna has played the fiddle for 17 years and has taught private lessons for ten years. She has competed and performed throughout the Northwest for many years. She was a member of the Idaho Junior Jammers for nine years and recorded a cd in 2001 with the band 36 String Swing. Shanna played with the Boise State Orchestra from 2001-2006. In 2006 she received a bachelors degree in violin performance from Boise State University. She plans to continue competing and teaching lessons and hopes to further her education at BSU. She currently lives in Nampa with her husband and their three children.

Dave Daley Dave Daley is a founding member of the More’s Creek String Band, and more recently, the GIANT LEPRECHAUNS. Over the past 35 years, he has played, performed, and taught old-time and Irish fiddling throughout Idaho and the Northwest. He began playing fiddle in 1972 while living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Already an accomplished guitar and mandolin player, Dave’s old-time fiddling developed through the style and repertoire of Henry Reed, as taught him by Bertram Levy – a former member of the Hollow Rock String Band. (Levy is credited with bringing the traditional stringband music of the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina and Virginia - Henry Reed, Tommy Jarrell, Oscar Wright - to the Bay Area old-time music scene in the early 1970’s.) In 1974 Dave discovered the Chieftains. Also in that year he and his wife moved to Idaho. Irish fiddle players Sean Keane, Kevin Burke, and Frankie Gavin were big influences on Dave’s fiddle playing from early on. With the More’s Creek String Band, Dave devoted his musical energies to old-time, Irish, and early western swing music, performing at numerous Northwest Folklife Festivals, Northern Rockies Folk Festivals, and McCall Folk Festivals during the late 1970’s and early ‘80’s. Dave has been a participant, performer, and instructor at the Festival of American Fiddle Tunes in Pt. Townsend, WA. More recently, Dave participated in the 2007 Friday Harbor Irish Music Camp, and for the past 4 years has hosted a weekly Irish music session at the Ha’ Penny Bridge Pub in Boise.