Taylor Runner has called square dances regularly throughout West Virginia and Pennsylvania, most notably at the Vandalia Gathering, WV State Folk Festival in Glenville, Augusta Center in Elkins and the Appalachian Stringband Festival (Clifftop).

Taylor is an expert in sharing the fun of traditional square dancing and attempts to make it fun for all ages and skill levels.

Residing in Morgantown, in 1977 he formed the Morgantown Friends of Old Time Music. In 2015, Taylor received the annual Heritage Award at the Gardner Winter Music Festival in Morgantown for carrying on the tradition of including Worley Gardner's square dance calls in his repertoire.

In the photo above, Taylor Runner stands in front of a photo of Eleanor Roosevelt square dancing in Arthurdale, WV in the late 1930s.

The Hollertones hail from the hills of Ohio.  Each with a lifetime of musical experience, they join forces to create a unique sound that builds on trad, old time and Irish music, innovative yet respectful of tradition.  The Hollertones have been  featured at Stuart's Opera House Old Time Music Week and can be found having a ball playing for contra and square dances all over the Midwest.

Members are: 

Paul Brown plays banjo, fiddle and dobro.  He is an Ohio State Champion banjo player and was a finalist in banjo at the Kansas Winfield festival. Paul has served as adjunct faculty in the Americana/Roots Music program at Denison University. Paul and Linda often play twin fiddles, breaking into gorgeous harmonies

Linda Scutt began piano at age 5 and violin at age 10.  In her later teens, she was introduced to the Hot Mud Family and began fiddling. Linda was influenced by the fiddling of eastern Kentucky fiddler JP Fraley, who became her musical mentor.  She met her banjo-playing husband at the Living Arts Center in Dayton and they still play in a band, The Corndrinkers, who run the Fraley Family Festival in Olive Hill, KY annually.  Be it a lovely waltz or a driving fiddle tune, Linda nails it.

Jeanie Thieken plays mountain dulcimer, bass and mandolin, but is best known for her driving guitar and vocal versatility.  She honed her stage skills for 20 years as the front member of the traditional band Home Remedy.  Together with Nick's upright bass, they provide the solid rhythm The Hollertones are known for.

Nick Weiland started out as a drummer in a '60s garage band before switching to electric rock bass. He found his home on upright bass playing a variety of styles, old-time to folk to swing..  He is bassist for the Hotpoint Stringband, a nationally touring contra and square dance band, as well as holding down the low end of The Hollertones.