Wendy MacIsaac
Nova Scotia

At the age of five, Wendy took the stage for her first time stepdancing at a community concert in her home town of Creignish. Seven years later she began fiddle lessons and after three years, was on her own to keep learning the tradition of Cape Breton style of fiddling.
When Wendy turned fifteen, she began to learn the piano and has accompanied many of the great fiddlers from the east coast and abroad. At the age of 21 she began her music career full time with some extensive touring throughout North America and Scotland.
Wendy has seen much of the world including Brazil, The UK, Ireland, Iceland, Eastern Europe, Italy, and most of Canada and the US in the past 12 years by touring with The Cape Breton Summertime Revue in 1995, touring with Mary Jane Lamond for the past 12 years and with Beolach for the past 8 years as well as some tours with her cousin Ashley MacIsaac and many trips as a solo artist. She has taught lessons in Cape Breton, Scotland, West Virginia, North Carolina, Maine and Washington as well as many workshops at festivals all over.

To date Wendy has recorded three solo albums, "The Reel Thing"(1994), "That's What You Get" (1996) and her latest, “Timeline”(2003) and is currently working on her fourth recording she hopes to release this summer. She has also played on four of Mary Jane Lamond's recordings, the Smithsonian/Folkways Recording "The Heart of Cape Breton" in 2001, and on Beolach’s self titled album “Beolach” (2001) and Beolach’s second cd, “Variations” (2004). Wendy manages the band as well as being a member.

Mairi Rankin
Nova Scotia

Mairi Rankin is a native of Mabou, Cape Breton. She has been playing the fiddle and step-dancing for nearly 15 years. Her extraordinary skills have entertained audiences across Canada, the USA, Denmark, and the U.K. She has performed as a solo artist and with such renowned groups as Cuillin, Natalie MacMaster, Ashley Mac Isaac, Mary Jane Lamond, and “Spirit Of The Dance”.

She’s recently added acting to her repertoire having completed an adaptation of Alistair MacLeod’s “Island” with Nova Scotia’s Eastern Front Theatre (she also provided the score for the play.) She has also released her first solo recording entitled "First Hand".

Trish Clair-Peck
BC

A native of the Comox Valley, Trish has studied and taught violin and fiddle across Canada. Her approach to fiddle playing is informed by a wide variety of styles and sounds: she is inspired equally by great Irish traditional fiddlers, like Tommy Peoples and Sean Keane, and innovative contemporary artists as Oliver Schroer and Jaime RT. She played fiddle and sang in the Celtic band Hollow Promise for two years, and is currently celebrating the release of her first solo CD, a collection of traditional and original fiddle tunes entitled Dawson's Tumble. Trish can also be heard on recordings by Scott Douglas, Gary Fjellgaard and Rick Scott. When she's not performing, Trish teaches fiddle, violin, and viola at the Nanaimo Conservatory of Music, and directs the Nanaimo Fiddle Ensemble and the Junior Fiddlers.