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and his brother, Andy, our lead singer, writer and banjo player. They were in a band together pre- viously called Dancin’ Knuckles. I learned a lot from them both dur- ing this experience. Back in about 2012, we met and incorporated one of our best friends -- and now family member -- Andrew German. He is our ‘ev- erything guy.’ He plays whistles, bodhran, washboard, concertina, spoons, and sings. Like I said, EV- ERYTHING GUY. He added a lot to our sound and is imperative to most of our songs. Garret and I are NJ STAGE 2017 - Vol. 4 No. 9 now married, and enjoy the fact that the band is a huge part of our lives together.  Andrew: The way I ended up as a member of MFC was a blind musi- cal play date with the Pilbeam boys set up by a mutual friend of ours. We played a few songs together, drank an entire bottle of Jameson and the rest, as they say, is history. Tiffany: I had gone down to see Mass Folk Commons perform … and photographed their perfor- mance. Cara and I connected on INDEX NEXT ARTICLE 141