Cindy Harris has been making music with piano, fiddle, autoharp, bass and since she was knee high to a grasshopper. She took up autoharp at age 40, and 20 years later became the 2017 International Autoharp Champion, also winning the 2019 Mountain Laurel Championship, and repeating as International Autoharp Champion in 2023. Well known as a teacher and workshop leader, she is also a long-time contradancer, a skilled caller of contras and squares, and plays old time West Virginia fiddle tunes. Her passion for dance led to a long-term interest in dance music, and the rest is history. 

This year she will be joined by bandmates David Johnson, Chris Hollingshead and Rebecca Heath performing as “Peacock Revival.” 

Fiddler David Johnson lives in Nashville, TN with his wife and two violins. One violin toured with country singer Randy Travis for 27 years. The other violin has played concerts with various orchestras and chamber groups throughout the Mid-South since 1995. He spends the rest of his time and teaching classical violin and attending old-time festivals, sharing his skills with young fiddlers and memorizing the details of obscure old-time and bluegrass fiddle tunes. 

Chris Hollingshead has loved the harmonica for over 50 years.  He plays, tunes, cleans and transplants reeds.  Like most harmonica players he began by imitating the great blues, folk and rock players but the instrument came alive for him when he moved to playing fiddle tunes on the harp. He lives in Pittsburgh, PA where he jams with the old-time music community and rehearses with the autoharp-forward “GrayScale ContraBand” and the contradance trio “Senior Moment”.

Bass player and vocalist Rebecca Heath became fascinated with her instrument when she was 8 years old and John Cerrigone taught her how to play “All God’s Critters Got A Place In The Choir” while standing on a box so she could reach the top of the neck. It wasn’t long before she teamed up with Cindy for duo performances where they could sing and play together, and she still attends festivals with her mom. A regular at MLAG for many years, she still holds down a job putting up name cards for MLAG contest participants and plays bass in jams whenever possible.