CAROL
SKALLERUD performed traditional music with fiddle-playing husband, Rick, at
the first Sioux River Folk Festival. Her love of the wooden flute took
Carol to the Boston Early Music Festival to hear Baroque and Renaissance flutes
and twice to Nova Scotia for workshops at Boxwood with players from around the world. In addition to flute, Carol plays low whistle, guitar, and button accordion. She is also with the Sioux
Falls Ceili Band.
JIM GROTH
plays both acoustic and electric guitar spanning rock, blues, jazz,
bluegrass, gospel, folk, and Celtic music. Jim has logged hundreds of
hours in the recording studio, and several of his original songs have
been published and recorded by other artists. Featured numerous times
through the years on South Dakota Public Broadcasting, Jim is currently
a regular on the Rock Garden Tour of SDPB radio, performs solo, and is in the blues band The Stallions.
JILL GROTH plays uilleann pipes, tin whistle, and low whistle. She has played Irish music for many years performing for the South Dakota Arts
Council Touring Arts Program in the Irish group Slainte. Jill attended
the Boxwood Festival twice studying flute, whistle, and pipes and has
been involved in countless workshops and festivals, both as performer and
participant. She often travels to learn from other uilleann pipers.
