Justin Nielsen is a performer, composer, recording artist, and teacher residing in Boise, Idaho. Though Justin loves performing, his greatest passion comes from teaching and inspiring people to play and to love music. He was a founder of ArtsWest/Fresco Arts Academy, a private school for young performing artists in Eagle, ID, where he worked and taught for 7 years. His students have literally won hundreds of national honors, including recognition from Downbeat magazine, the national Grammy organization, and the Monterey Next Generation competition. He is a founder/owner of Sing Music Academy: the culmination of Justin's last 20 years of mentoring creative musicians. The project is an online music program that focuses on mentoring musicians by giving them an immersive music industry experience.

Erik Yates has been touring and teaching with a banjo in his hands for the last twenty years. He got his start on the instrument by studying with 5-string master Bill Evans in the San Francisco Bay Area, where Erik grew up. His travels as a performer have taken him through every state in the union, including numerous stops in Idaho. He's also ventured to Europe, where he taught at France's annual La Roche Bluegrass Camp, and to Africa, where he and his band Hot Buttered Rum worked with the State Department as cultural emissaries to present American string band music to Rwandan and Zambian students and concert-goers. This will be his fourth year teaching at the Kids' Mountain Music Camp.

Singer, Songwriter, & Multi-Instrumentalist, Dustin Morris combines his classic vocal training with street-wise creativity and talent for many instruments to create a rugged, ethereal sound. He has 30 years of experience in Music, on stage, and in the studio. After 3 years touring full-time and living on the road, in 2017, Dustin performed at the legendary Red Rocks, in Colorado, in front of 10,000 fans. The Mandolin holds a giant part of Dustin's heart and he can't wait to play with you!

Jonah Shue has been involved in music and performing since he was just getting started in this world. Music was happening and all around with his parents playing and calling dances for friends in, what he likes to call, the undifferentiated beginning. Early lessons on the fiddle led to studying guitar in middle school. He studied with many of the area’s finest players and teachers before studying classical guitar at the University of Oregon. Returning to Boise in 1991, Jonah played in local bands and taught private lessons at Old Boise Guitar Co. before moving to Boston in 1995 to study jazz guitar and violin at the Berklee College of Music. After traveling around and playing all over he came back to Boise in 2002 and with fellow teachers co-founded Old Boise Music Studios where he has been teaching since 2005. A life long devotee of swinging dance music, he performs regularly with two swinging bands The Country Club, The Frim Fram Four and as a duo with the magical Emily Tipton.

Bryan Brasher is an educator and musician from Donnelly, Idaho. Originally hailing from Boise, Idaho, Bryan has long held a passion for music and helping kids find, and develop their own passions. Bryan earned his BA from Boise State University in Elementary Education, and has been a Middle School and Elementary School teacher for the last 7 years at Cascade Schools. When he isn’t in the classroom, you may find him hiking a trail with his family, or rocking a stage with his band The Dusty Huckleberries.

Emily Tipton is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer based in Boise,

Idaho. Her musical projects include: Emily and the Tiptones, Emily & Jonah, The Pearl Tones, Brook Faulk and the Family Corvidae, and Chick Singer Night. She has been involved in music from an early age and loves to champion and inspire others to play and enjoy. Currently she is working on her Master’s degree in Psychology in Applied Behavior Analysis, with an emphasis in music mediated intervention, to help further research of the power of music. She hopes to continue on to her doctrine in music therapy.