Teen Camp Faculty 2024

**John Weed - irish fiddle and Cello**
John Weed is a classically-trained violinist who switched to playing Irish fiddle about 20 years ago. John lived in Ireland in 2000 and taught fiddle workshops at the Flowing Tide International Music School in Doonbeg, County Clare. He attended the Frankie Kennedy Winter School in Dunlewey, County Donegal where he has studied with Ciaran O'Maonaigh and Dermot Mcloughlin. John has been a long-time instructor at Community Music School’s summer camps for teens and adults, and also leads the school-year Teen Band program.

**Adam Hendey**

Adam Hendey is a multi-instrumentalist and composer who has performed in Ireland, the UK, and across the United States, playing and studying with members of Lúnasa, Flook, and Molly’s Revenge. Since beginning tin-whistle at thirteen years of age, Adam has dedicated himself to the traditional music of Scotland and Ireland, while also becoming well versed in other forms of popular music. On guitar and bouzouki, Adam brings an innovative contemporary approach to traditional music, with a passion informed by intense study of music theory and a diverse wealth of musical experience. In addition to performing, Adam graduated from the Robert D. Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon, with a majors in Music and Philosophy. He has just finished a masters degree at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, studying Traditional Music and specializing in guitar performance. For more about Adam, please **click here**

**Autumn Rhodes**

Autumn Rhodes hails from Amish country in Indiana and has been performing Irish traditional music professionally since age 13. She has toured the US, Canada, Ireland, and Thailand extensively, performing on tin whistle, Irish flute, concertina, uilleann pipes, button accordion, and Irish and English vocals. She has won several fleadh gold medals and is known as an expert on the history of Irish music in California. She plays with several bands in the Midwest and California, including The Jammy Dodgers, The Golden Gate Céilí Band, Gránna, and Soltré. Autumn has 20 years of experience teaching and being an event staff musician, including at Lark Camp and Catskills Irish Arts Week.

**Shelley Phillips**
Shelley Phillips has a Masters of Music from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She plays and tours with The Anjali Quartet and The Coulter/Phillips Ensemble, performs as a duo with her husband, Barry Phillips, sings Shape Note music, and has collaborated with Rumi translator and poet Coleman Barks making two albums of poetry and music. Shelley has appeared on more than 20 albums on the Gourd music label, including her solo albums The Fairie Round, Pavane, The Butterfly, and The Wood Between the Worlds, as well as a duet album with Barry called Wondrous Love. She also has recorded music of the Shakers and produced a benefit album, Verdant Groves, for the Shaker village museums. In addition she teaches at several other summer programs, including founding the Boxwood Flute Festival's children's, teens' and seniors' programs in Nova Scotia and teaching music related crafts at various primitive skills gatherings in the west. Shelley also works as a music director within the Episcopalian church and is the founder of **Community Music School of Santa Cruz**. She lives on the foggy California coast with her husband and her very spoiled cat.

**Fox Pettinotti**
Fox Pettinotti is a multi-instrumentalist and composer who specializes in guitars, whistles, Irish tenor banjo, and mandolin. Fox attended Community Music School’s Kid Camp and Teen Camp throughout their youth.

Frannie Monahan - Cello

Frannie Monahan is a podcast producer and cellist living in Boston, MA. She came up through Community Music School’s Celtic Kids and Teen camps, where she first studied cello under Barry Phillips. She continued her musical development at the University of Oregon’s School of Music and Dance, where she studied under Prof. Steven Pologe. Though it is often considered an accompaniment instrument in Celtic styles, Frannie’s playing explores the cello’s unique strengths and capabilities through melodic interpretation. Frannie is currently producing a daily local news podcast at WBUR, Boston’s NPR station.