2022 Rustic Roots
Teaching Artists:
Joy Adams (Big Richard, Nathaniel Rateliff), Lucy Moore (Song & Guitar), Andy Reiner (High Lonesome, Whitewater Ramble), Bryan Dubrow (American Darling Valve), Jerry Bryant, & Lynz Morahn (Fiddle, Song, Rootian Tunes & Yoga)
Artists In Residence:
Ariele Macadangdang (American Darling Valve, Salome Songbird)
Rustic Roots teaching artists are inspiring musicians, educators, jam leaders & chefs.
Lucy Moore
Lucy Moore is a singer from Colorado who lives to share songs amongst friends and all people. As the daughter of two musicians, she has been a lifelong music student and has collected and studied thousands of songs. At Rustic Roots, Lucy will engage singers using meditation and breathing, Deep Listening techniques, and singing songs all week long.
Andy Reiner
Andy Reiner, an award-winning fiddler, singer, actor and composer, began playing at age five with the Reiner Family Band. Andy tours both as a solo artist and with groups Half Pelican featured in the soundtrack to the Netflix series Godless and The Queen's Gambit, as well as performing with Darol Anger and the Furies and Whitewater Ramble. He is also the producer and host of the "River of Suck" podcast, interviewing musicians, scientists and more. Andy Reiner is an official Yamaha Performing Artist and a Codabow Ambassador.
Many of Andy's string orchestra works, fiddle tunes and songs are influenced by mountains and nature. He is also known as the "Skiing Fiddler." Andy skis every month of the year and has skied while playing the fiddle top to bottom on double black diamond runs at Silverton, CO and Mt. Baker, WA. He enjoys playing his fiddle on 14,000 foot high mountain summits with his wife and musical partner, cellist Dr. Joy Adams, of Half Pelican.
Joy Adams
Raised on a small farm north of Spokane, Washington, Dr. Joy Adams attended the Eastman School of Music and University of Miami, completing her Doctorate in 2016. She has made over a dozen concerto appearances and performed with artists such as Bruce Hornsby, Ben Folds, Gloria Estefan, Bobby McFerrin, and Chick Corea. Joy plays in a progressive bluegrass band called Big Richard, and looks forward to a summer of touring with them. Recent highlights include touring with Nathaniel Rateliff and Darol Anger, performing on Live From Here with Chris Thile, the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Telluride Bluegrass Festival, recording the Emmy-award winning soundtrack to Godless on Netflix, The Queen's Gambit, and Grammy-nominated jazz album With Love by Jeremy Fox. In her spare time, Joy enjoys eating pie, skiing and climbing on things.
Lynz Morahn
Lynz Morahn asked her parents for a violin when she was five years old, and music has been a love of her life ever since. In high school, she was honored to participate in regional and state choirs, and as an adult, she has turned her violin into a fiddle and found great joy in folk music and social singing communities.
Lynz is regularly found playing, singing, and teaching around campfires, in living rooms, and at festivals and camps such as Rustic Roots, Fiddle Hell, Fat Toad, TradMaD, and Maritime & Sea Music Festivals. She's been at Rustic Roots for more than a decade, and is looking forward to teaching some of the delightful, quirky, groovy repertoire that she has found to be such a defining part of the experience!
Lynz has also been studying yoga since 2007, and will teach gentle-to-moderate classes during RR with a focus on breathwork and connection to the earth and our bodies as we make music.
Bryan Dubrow
Bryan Dubrow has played guitar since the age of nine when he picked up his dad’s Gibson SG, messed with it for a few minutes and was told “oh wait, don’t use that one.” From then on Bryan has been constantly seeking out new ways to express himself through music: learning Strokes and Red Hot Chili Peppers songs in middle school friends’ basements, leading workshops at an international jazz festival, and a few things in between.
Originally from Maryland, Bryan currently lives in Miami, Fl where he received a degree in Jazz Performance (and economics) from the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music. He can be heard performing around town; alternatively picking bluegrass tunes, blowing out eardrums with cranked amps and power chords, playing jazz, and backing up local songwriters.
A few of Bryan’s favorite musical experiences include performing at Frankfurt, Germany’s historic Jazzkeller, playing at the Jalisco Jazz Festival in Mexico, and playing shows with his wife, violinist/songwriter Ariele Macadangdang. In his spare time Bryan enjoys reading unnecessarily long and specific books, and playing (exclusively) Legend of Zelda video games.
Artists in Residence
Ariele Macadangdang
of American Darling Valve
& Salome Songbird
Ariele Macadangdang is a Filipina-American, multi-genre violinist, educator and proud introvert. Between backing up singer-songwriters in outdoor bars to performing center circle at a Miami Heat game, she can be found binging animated series in hazardous amounts. She has performed with artists such as Kali Uchis, Sech, Judith Hill, Radmila Lolly, and Emmet Cahill. Ariele enjoys collaboration with musicians in classical, folk, and contemporary styles. Many of her own original songs are influenced by whimsical cartoons and mental health topics. Her songwriting projects include American Darling Valve and Salome Songbird.
During her undergraduate degree at Western Michigan University, she soloed with the Kalamazoo Symphony and was a featured soloist in the Walmart Annual Shareholders meeting. As a Mancini Fellowship recipient at the Frost School of Music, she has shared the stage in live orchestra concerts with Ben Folds, Gloria Estefan, Terrence Blanchard, Maria Schneider and James Newton Howard. Working extensively with young violinists in after-school programs as a Graduate Teaching Assistant helped Ariele become more passionate about children's access to the arts. In her most recent educational endeavor, she helped develop an elementary violin program while serving as music faculty at St. Philip’s Episcopal School.
She loves relating real life to cartoons, writing sad songs and cooking.
