Bill Campbell plays guitar and bass guitar for the band. In addition to his many years of experience, Bill teaches beginner guitar to adults and children. His musical career began in the '60's with formal instruction from the Rudi Lionetti Studio in Stamford. He played with bands in high school and college, and he has performed with groups at NOMAD. His other musical passions include the harmonica and bodhran (Irish drum), and he sang for a number of years with the Newtown Choral Society. Bill collects any instruments he sees and hangs them on the wall or makes them living room art. He actually plays some of them. His collection includes multiple harmonicas, violins, guitars, bodhran, stringed pennywhistle, nose flutes, tambourine and mountain dulcimer, along with his wife's piano, uke, and tambourines. Along with his many other talents, Bill is the genius at making sense of all the sound equipment.

Gwen Glasser plays fiddle, guitar and piano. She holds a music degree from Western Connecticut State University and has been teaching music locally for over twenty years.  Although rooted in classical training, her love for alternative styles of playing has led to a growing passion for Celtic, International Folk genres and contradance music.  Some of her string teachers include:  Eric Lewis, Larry Deming, Julie Lyonn Lieberman, Cookie Segelstein as well as workshops with Alasdair Fraser, Donna Hebert and Jane Rothfield.  Gwen is plays for many of our colonial and family events and concerts.

Sue Hill took up the fiddle in September of 1999 and discovered her love for traditional music. Nine months later she entered the New England Fiddle Contest and joined the Old Tyme Fiddlers Club. Growing up in Bristol, CT she played fife in Carey’s Cadets and later learned to strum the guitar. As an adult, she sang in a church choir where she learned to site read and harmonize. She was influenced by her father who played the harmonica and trumpet and her aunt and grandparents who played the piano. Sue has studied and taken classes with Becky Tracy, Donna Hebert, Jane Rothfield, Jay Ungar, David Kaynor and George Wilson. In September, 2006 she won first place in the Intermediate Division at the Blandford Fiddle Contest. Sue also runs a bi-monthly jam in Bristol and gives fiddle lessons. For the past five years, Sue has been holding square and contra dance classes for intellectually challenged adults. Sue joins The Reel Thing as a fiddler for contra dances as well as community and family dances. She is also a member of the Barn Band, Pot Luck, and Connecticut’s Bristol Old Tyme Fiddlers as well as a guest member for various other bands.

Fran Hendrickson has been a dance musician since 1977. She enjoys playing tunes for Colonial Social Dancing and Traditional Dancing on either piano or accordion, and has recorded with Connecticut groups Jackson Pike Skifflers and Spring Fever. Working with her husband Chip, they formed the Hendrickson Group in 1988 focusing on research and publication of 18th-century dance, music and song from primary sources. Fran has recorded several albums of 18th-century dance music to accompany the choreography in Chip's books. The Hendricksons taught and performed up and down the East Coast, for Loyalist Days in Saint John, N.B., and in France. Their specialty was the Minuet. Fran continues to give lessons in the Minuet. From 1979 to 2009, Fran was the Coordinator of the Danbury Senior Center where, among her duties, she organized and still maintains a musical band of senior citizens age 60s through their 90s called The Cellmates, est 1984, so named because the senior center was, at that time, in the Old Jail historic building. Their focus is pre-1940's music. Fran conceived, organized and managed the NOMAD Festival for its first nine years, fulfilling a dream to bring an all volunteer, participatory event to life, to share with others and to carry on the various folk traditions to the next generation.

Julie Sorcek, who plays flute, piccolo and saxophone for The Reel Thing, began playing flute at age 10 and has been off and running ever since. Aside from experience playing with high school and college symphonic bands, Julie has performed with the Danbury Community Orchestra, and at the NOMAD, Old Songs and Philadelphia Folk Festivals. She has been a guest musician with the contra dance bands Jane's Gang, Groovemama and Out on a Whim. Julie is a founding member of the contra dance band Wry Bred, and also performs with the folk groups Fairfield Crossing and Chicks 'n Sync.  She can be seen on a regular basis performing with other area musicians at restaurants and coffeehouses in the greater Danbury, CT area.  Julie is the concert band director at Immaculate High School in Danbury, and also runs a monthly acoustic music jam in Newtown.  Her repertoire on flute includes contra dance, Celtic, Colonial, jazz, classical, old time, bluegrass and folk music.