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Born and raised on the Alberta prairies, Dan comes from a long line of musicians and performers, Cutting his teeth on country bar floors and early indie projects. Schooling took him to Red Deer College for study in Theatre, lighting and sound design before transferring over to music, majoring in performance and business. Since then, it’s been a long line of performances and studio sessions, working with artists such as Drew Gregory, Tommy Charles, Samson’s Delilah, Roy Warhurst, The Dang Package, Rachelle Van Zanten, the Dirrty Show, Mocking Shadows, Joanna Borromeo, and many more. Dan is currently project managing and producing a children’s album with First Nations artist, Kym Gouchie.
Dan is an educator and clinician in percussion and ukulele around the central Alberta region. He spends time in schools doing rhythm workshops, and has built a rockband program for both middle and high school students attending in red deer. He currently coordinates the NCF music camp in august and is the Backstage coordinator for the Robson Valley music festival in Dunster B.C.
In his spare time you can find him riding rollercoasters, adventuring through thrift stores, or hanging with his bassett hound, Roadie.
DAN BARTON
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CAM NEUFELD
i grew up on the open plains of southern alberta with a great curiosity to explore the vastness surrounding me. as i began playing music: first guitar and then other stringed instruments, it seemed the same desire to explore was evident. from rock bands playing electric guitar to finding obscure acoustic instruments and performing in far distant places, the through line has been curiosity and exploration.
while being mostly self-taught, i have had many teachers and also studied at grant macewan,abd have been a member of the north african and middle eastern ensemble (mename) for 6 years. notable teachers include george andrix (edmonton), nedim nalbantoglu (turkey) and tcha limburger (belgium).
some performance highlights include playing at the winspear with swing manouche, capital theatre with the road to django show, viljandi folk music festival - estonia virisat festival, dehra dun, india - delhi international arts festival, delhi, india - and the keelung ghost festival, taiwain.
i have been fortunate to have many musical friends and collaborators who have helped me establish my musical life in a diverse and rewarding way.
Natalie Bee is a multi disciplined artist using music and art to express her passion for creating. Her desire to inspire humans to find their own talent finds its home when she gets the opportunity to work with folks with instruments or their voice or even found objects. Always in the moment and quick to adapt, her workshops are sure to keep you on your toes!
NATALIE BEE
Maara Bryson
Maara Bryson is top ten in the world in Ninja Warrior Obstacle Course competition. Since 2019 she has been training with elite coaches and has travelled North America to compete. Since 2022 she has started to coach the next generation of ninjas and is always pushing the boundaries of what humans are capable of accomplishing.
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LINDSAY BUEKERT
Lindsay Bueckert has been a solid member of the Edmonton Music Scene for the past 18 years. She first started playing bass in her early 20s, and made the move to upright when she turned 29. Not one stick to one genre, Lindsay has explored Country, Funk, Rock, Punk, Hip Hop, and more, over the span of her music career. The main projects that she is currently involved with include The Give 'em Hell Boys, Party Jacket, Tariiiq & the Golden Eyes, Swear by the Moon, and various others.
Cindy Paul
Cindy Paul's rich vocals and rhythms combine for a melodic and insightful journey through your imagination and into your heart. On a small ranch near Fort Vermilion, Alberta, a young girl of Metis/Cree decent discovered the power of combining her voice with a guitar. By fifteen, she was composing her own songs, and at twenty one, walked into a studio, paid for an hour session and walked out with her first demo.
Cindy is an advocate for health & healing through natural therapies, traditional medicines, music, art, and cultural teachings. Cindy is deeply connected to her Indigenous roots and it shines through in every breath and beat. She truly believes in educating and healing through art and music and her compositions echo the sentiment to never soften your conviction to make others socially comfortable.
With her distinct lyrical metaphors of love bitten with honesty, her passion for sharing her northern stories and her unique neo-folk style sound we are excited to have her at this years NCF music camp.
To learn more about Cindy's exciting musical career, check out her full bio at:
Lisi Sommer
Born a first generation Canadian on Treaty Six territory, Lisi Sommer has developed a lifelong passion for the arts and music. She studied vocal performance at the U of A and then developed a keen interest in jazz phrasing and improvisation, while also immersing herself in Mexican folk music, learning to play the guitar, and discovering a knack for working a sound board. In addition to penning and performing her own songs and singing folk, blues, roots, and jazz, she sings with Gitana Del Mundo and the Balkan music super-group The GADJO Collective.
For 30 years she has been on the sound and production crew at the Yardbird suite and for the past 10 years she has been studying vocal improvisation with Karen Porkka in the V.I.N.E choir and leading vocal improv workshops at music festivals.
Lisi is excited to bring her multi-faceted talents and knowledge to folks eager to explore their voices and learn to sing freely and expressively and expand their experience of rhythm and harmony, overcome fears about improvising, and also hone their abilities to set up a simple sound system.
Scott Cook
In 2007, Albertan songwriter Scott Cook quit his job teaching kindergarten in Taiwan and moved into a minivan. He’s made his living as a troubadour ever since, touring almost incessantly across Canada, the US, Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere, averaging 150 shows and a dozen summer festivals a year, and releasing seven albums of plainspoken, keenly observant verse along the way.
His latest collection Tangle of Souls comes packaged in a cloth-bound, 240-page hardcover book of road stories and ruminations, equal parts introspection and insurrection. The album spent two weeks at #1 on Alberta's province-wide community radio network CKUA, and earned Scott his third Canadian Folk Music Award nomination, for English Songwriter of the Year. Its second single "Say Can You See" was the second most-played song of 2020 on Folk Alliance International's folk radio charts, and took top honours for the folk category in both the 2020 UK Songwriting Competition and the 2020 Great American Song Contest.
He’s been back on the road full-time since January of 2022, living in a camper-van named Roadetta with his sweetheart Pamela Mae on upright bass and vocals, visiting 43 states and 8 Canadian provinces, and broadcasting solar-powered live streams from the back of the van.
In 2024 they're touring Australia and North America, and recording an eighth album for release in the fall.
We are located in the beautiful Driftpile Valley
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