Celtic Wood and Wires

Coming from a musical family, Stacie Lyn played the clarinet through her school years and experimented with a handful of other instruments, however, she discovered her true passion in 2014. After exploring her Celtic ancestry, she was inspired along with her sister to study the Great Highland Bagpipes under the direction of Dr. Arno Vosk, the former pipe major of the Nittany Highland Pipe Band of State College, PA. She plays various events and parades with NHPB, as well as funerals and memorial services throughout Lycoming County and the surrounding areas. Over the last few years, she has also dedicated her time to learning a staple instrument in trad music, the Irish whistle, to which she is delighted to be able to share with Celtic Woods and Wires. 

Carl taught geology and geochemistry at Bucknell University for 29 years. He also had another life. He started his musical journey as a fifth grade trombonist and secretly listened to his parents’ swing music recordings. In a checkered musical history, he has explored several genres of acoustic music on guitar, acoustic bass, fiddle and mandolin. He has been in a dozen bands and many, many fiddlers’ convention jam sessions featuring folky stuff, old country, Appalachian oldtime, bluegrass, swing, Celtic, and jazz. He also recorded a solo CD (Live from Home), which featured all of these styles on four instruments. He played and recorded in the Celtic trio Lux Bridge. Carl is happy to be playing with CWWires.

Shelley has been playing the viola since age 8. She continued playing throughout her school years as a member of the high school symphony, the Williamsport Symphony Youth Orchestra, student-member of the Williamsport Symphony Orchestra (WSO), and as an initiate of the Williamsport Millionaire Strolling Strings in her senior year. While in college, Shelley played viola with the college's symphony, as well as a season with the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra. Upon graduating with a music degree from Cairn University, Shelley moved out to Oregon where she studied viola privately. Though she pursued a different career path during her 16 years in Oregon, she played extensively with a number of community orchestras, choirs, and local pit orchestras. Since moving back to Williamsport, PA in 2009, she rejoined the viola section of the WSO, plays viola regularly with the Susquehanna Valley Chorale, the Williamsport Chamber Choir and Orchestra, Bach at Bucknell, and the Lycoming College Choir. And she accepts every high school musical and ballet pit orchestra opportunity she can get. Always a lover of Folk Tradition and Celtic music, sometime around 2015 Shelley was wrangled into borrowing a fiddle and sitting in on a pub session…she was hooked! Since then she's helped maintain a Traditional and Celtic Session in her hometown, participated in the Bath Folk Festival Summer School in Bath, England, subbed for contradances, camped at many Old Time and Bluegrass festivals, and enrolled as a student of Uptown Music Collective's Adult Music Program (AMP). Shelley joined Celtic Wood and Wires in August of 2020.

Sandi began playing the violin at the age of 7. She played in her high school symphony, participated in district orchestras and pop concerts in her hometown where she was able to accompany Captain and Tenille and The Four Tops. While attending college, she played in symphony and then played in the Hanover Symphony Orchestra for a few seasons before having children. Sandi continued to share her love of playing in her classroom and at church. In 2015, Sandi began playing traditional Celtic music. Sandi is a founding member of Celtic Wood and Wires, which began in early 2018. In 2019 and 2022, Sandi was selected to perform with the orchestra for the Live United concerts featuring Michael Cavanaugh. Along with her commitment to the band she continues to perform at a number of venues for solo performances throughout the region.

Carl has enjoyed and immersed himself in his Irish heritage for decades. After growing up on 80's rock music, arena rock & hair bands, he began to appreciate Celtic rock and Celtic alternative bands including The Pogues, Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphys and many others. He now appreciates quite a number of genres and prefers traditional Celtic music. Carl joined Celtic Wood And Wires officially during St. Patrick's weekend 2018, playing the bodhrán drum.