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Peter's on banjo, Bill's overseeing sound, Laura's fiddling. Peter was the banjo player for SNAKEROOT STRING BAND. Laura was a frequent adjunct to Snakeroot, along with bassist Francis Bray, one of the BRAY BROTHERS, a notable Bluegrass band of the 1950's and early 60's. Bio: http://www.answers.com/topic/bray-brothers. Listen: http://music.yahoo.com/release/6387653. (Wayne Logue, Brian Holloway, and Francis Bray were also at WEFT the day this photo was taken (circa 1982) but aren't in the picture. Laura,an accomplished clawhammer style banjo player, learned to fiddle as well in the late 1970s. She is now using her maiden name, Laura P. Schulman. You can read her bio and hear tunes from her 2005 CD "Pretty Little Dog" at CD BABY Independent Music: http://cdbaby.com/cd/laurapschulman. Peter was a sculptor and sculpture professor at U of I. Bill Taylor was instrumental in the founding of WEFT radio station and was it's chief sound engineer for a number of years, where he also hosted a Sunday evening program of traditional & old-time music. Bio: http://spinelessbooks.com/eclecticseizure/essays/billtaylor.html