Rick Manning and Naomi Sommers met in 2019 in Ithaca, and they share a passion for traditional and original bluegrass music and harmony singing. Rick Manning plays fiddle and mandolin, performing bluegrass, swing and contra dance music with Paris Texas, String Theory, the Falling Waters Trio (Grietzer-Hodgson-Manning), the Contradictions and, formerly, Cornerstone in the Ithaca and Finger Lakes area. He has recorded five CDs, three in Nashville, Tennessee with Cornerstone in the 1990s and most recently two with the Falling Waters Trio. He is the founder and director of the Winter Village Music Camp and the Falling Waters Music Camp, both held in January at La Tourelle. Naomi Sommers is a singer-songwriter who plays guitar, banjo, mandolin and flute. She performs solo, as well as with her family band, the Sommers Rosenthal Family Band, and the old-time country slow-grass duo Gray Sky Girls. She has sung and played on more than 20 records released on her father Phil's independent American Melody label and has recorded three albums under her own name. Her most recent album, "Gentle As The Sun," was recorded in Nashville.