The Makers Videos

An original song by Lydia Garrison performed at the Deep Dive in Ithaca, NY at The Makers' first public gig.

An original song by Pierce Walsh

Tiny Desk Contest submission 2023 

Pierce Walsh and The Makers

Pierce on lead vocal and guitar  

Nate Silas Richardson & Lydia Garrison on harmonies and instrumentals

An instrumental waltz written while I was visiting Chéticamp, a town in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, with my grandmother – performed here by Home Remedy 

at the Arts Cafe in Springville, NY on 2/7/25 

Home Remedy with former bandmate Aaron Lipp on banjo

Live from the Pewter Shop at the 2017 Winter HOOT! 

The HOOT! is a music festival held every Summer and Winter at the Ashokan Center in Olivebridge, NY.

Friend In Spirit, written by Garrison, from Home Remedy's album released in December of 2019

Lydia: fiddle and vocals

Rosie: guitar, bass and vocals

Take My Hand, written by Garrison, from Home Remedy's album released in December of 2019

Lydia: guitar and vocals

Rosie: fiddle and vocals

Lydia gives a beginner old time fiddle lesson

Lydia teaches "Old Joe Clark" - one of her old time banjo tunes

Cooterbone Shuffle & The Mayor of Tønder from the CBC Recording session of the Turtle Duhks -- Lydia Garrison & Leonard Podolak on banjos with Jordan McConnell on guitar

Short clip from a house concert in March 2007 of Lydia Garrison and Jordan McConnell singing Bear Fox's song  Skyworld, from Turtle Duhks' "True Lover" album 

It had been more than a decade since the musicians who form the Turtle Duhks shared the stage together. Luckily for the crowd at the Suwannee Spring Reunion their reunion for the fest was as if they had never stopped jamming the nights away. 3/23/2017

Old time and Appalachian music at the 2011 Omagh Bluegrass Festival. The wonderful Footworks clog dancers also gave lessons at the bluegrass festival.