About Fiddlesticks...
Fiddlesticks is Lebanon's very own fiddle group, founded in 2009 by Family Music Studio!
The purpose of the group is to give students a way to use their musical talents; to benefit the community with a highly portable performing ensemble and most of all, to share the joy of traditional fiddle tunes and other appropriate musical material.
Meet the Leaders...
Barb Walters
I am at an exciting stage of life: I am at the intersection of experience + energy! I have been a working musician and educator for forty-eight years. Let me put that to work for you! With a music degree in violin and education from The University of Michigan, I have performed in a variety of professional orchestras in Michigan, Massachusetts, Kentucky, and Indiana. Throughout my moves, one thing has always been consistent: I have taught violin, viola, cello, and piano lessons. Every student is unique and I have learned to embrace each student’s particular musical interests and needs. I have taught students with a myriad of different personal goals and challenges. I take students where they are and help them along their musical journeys. I encourage and listen to students.
Cati Ferguson
Cati (Catheryn) Ferguson, M.A., has been teaching music in various settings for 15 years. She opened Cornerstone Music Studio where she teaches private and group classes in piano, guitar, violin, ukulele, and voice. She has made it her life goal to inspire and teach music students of all ages by equipping them with the essential skills to become disciplined, expressive, and creative musicians.
Cati grew up here in Lebanon, IN where she was homeschooled and participated in Fiddlesticks, BCYAO, 4-H, piano festivals, and church band/choir. Her love of music started when she was about nine: it started with piano lessons, but then grew to a life filled with music! She began teaching private lessons in high school for Family Music Studio and has been teaching ever since. She has been part of multiple bands, orchestras, traveling choirs, and has studied several instruments to varying levels.
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Cati graduated from JUFL in 2015 with a Bachelors of Arts in Bible and Musical Arts, and then from UCF in 2017 with a Master of Arts in Music with a focus in Piano Pedagogy.
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She is currently a Music Instructor at Cornerstone Music Studio and a Lecturing Music Professor at Johnson University Florida where she teaches Music Appreciation and Music Theory Lab (levels 1-4). Cati has taught at Seminole State College and University of Central Florida as an Adjunct Professor of Music teaching Music Appreciation and Class Piano (levels 1-4).