Dan Bailey has been a professional musician/guitarist for the last 45 years. He attended Berklee School of Music and WVU where he studied guitar and composition. He enjoys a diverse musical career performing country, jazz, rock and blues. He has worked with touring groups playing numerous concert and educational venues. Dan has extensive recording experience both locally and in Nashville. He is also a gifted songwriter having written “Quiet Kind of Crazy,” recorded by Taylor Made, which reached number one on the independent country charts. He currently owns his own studio, Elmridge Productions, in Beckley where he produces and engineers.

Adam Booth is the 2022 West Virginia Folk Artist of the Year, awarded at the Governor’s Arts Awards. His original stories blend traditional mountain folklore, musicality, and an awareness of contemporary Appalachia. Adam’s professional telling appearances include premiere storytelling and arts events across the United States, including the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, the International Storytelling Center, the National Storytelling Festival, and as a Mid Atlantic Arts Touring Roster artist, and abroad as keynote artist for the 2025 Sydney International Storytelling Conference, featured artist at the 2026 Winnipeg International Storytelling Festival, and as a Spoken Word Resident at the Banff Centre (Alberta, Canada). He serves as the inaugural Storyteller-In-Residence at Shepherd University.

Doris A. Fields, aka Lady D, was born and raised in the coalfields of W.Va. She is a graduate of W.Va. State University with a B.S. in Communications. Residing in Beckley, WV, she makes her living as a singer/songwriter and has a passion for visual arts and poetry. Making music and expressing herself through other art mediums is the driving force in her life.

Richard Grimes has built a career as both a performer and a composer, working with an array of luminaries in the field including George Crumb, Gyorgy Kurtag, and Osvaldo Golijov. He has collaborated with orchestras including the Boston Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Atlanta Symphony, London Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Dallas Symphony, and Kansas City Symphony. His abilities are built upon educational foundations laid by cimbalomist Viktoria Herencsar (Budapest Opera, Hungary), percussionist Michael Bookspan (Philadelphia Orchestra/Curtis Institute), and Cosmas Magaya (mbira Dza Vadzimu, Zimbabwe). Born and raised in Charleston, West Virginia, Grimes holds a B.M in Percussion and Business from the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University, his M.A. in Performance from Yale University, and a Ph.D. in Performance and Composition from New York University.