Midnight on the Water (Tom Krumm, Nathan Bishop and Dani Hawkins) is a string trio featuring violin, viola, hardanger d'amore, cello, mandolin and guitar. Foolhardy enough to play almost anything, their concerts regularly stitch together musical influences from Ireland to Latin America and Bach to Chappell Roan. They have performed alongside musical legends like Genticorum, Jay Ungar, and Molly Mason at venues including the Ashokan Center's Summer Hoot, the Mt. Airy Contradance's Contracopia, and Andrea Clearfield's Szalon. They have taught at Folk College, the Ashokan Center, and the Pennsylvania Folk Gathering. Originally founded as a gig band, Midnight's performances for weddings and other events throughout the Mid-Atlantic region have earned the trio over 12 consecutive "Top Performer" awards on Gigsalad.com. They have also organized advocacy events for political prisoners and sex workers, and played benefit concerts for mutual aid in Gaza and suicide prevention. In 2024 they organized a continuous multi-sited concert along three different train stations as part of the ongoing effort to save Philadelphia's Chestnut Hill West SEPTA line. In 2026, They released their first two albums Stardrops Vol. 1 & 2 featuring guest artists Jay Ungar, Molly Mason, and Wayne Fugate, and an accompanying book of music and lore.
Nathan Bishop
Nathan is a fiddler, improviser, and teacher based in Philadelphia. In addition to playing violin, viola, and hardanger d'amore in Midnight on the Water, he also plays fiddle in his manic/depressive folk trio Faoileán and his experimental Irish trad duo the Given Note, and baroque violin in La Fiocco. He has music directed for Mariner Theatrical and JoAnna Mendl Shaw’s the Equus Project, and was artist-in-residence at the Mignolo Arts Center, pairing live fiddle with self-composed soundscapes to accompany dance and theater works. His dedication to reconnecting modern movement with live sound led him to co-found the new music and dance festival When Waves Collide and to regularly co-host free movement/sound jams in NYC and Philadelphia. Far Hills, his first album with Faoileán, has received over 750k listens across streaming platforms. He has presented workshops on playing and teaching the fiddle at the University of New Hampshire and NJASTA, and often teaches at Folk College and the Ashokan Center. A Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts graduate, he studied fiddle with Cleek Schrey and plays on the 46th Håkedal hardanger d’amore.
Nathan is a fiddler, improviser, and teacher based in Philadelphia. In addition to playing violin, viola, and hardanger d'amore in Midnight on the Water, he also plays fiddle in his manic/depressive folk trio Faoileán and his experimental Irish trad duo the Given Note, and baroque violin in La Fiocco. He has music directed for Mariner Theatrical and JoAnna Mendl Shaw’s the Equus Project, and was artist-in-residence at the Mignolo Arts Center, pairing live fiddle with self-composed soundscapes to accompany dance and theater works. His dedication to reconnecting modern movement with live sound led him to co-found the new music and dance festival When Waves Collide and to regularly co-host free movement/sound jams in NYC and Philadelphia. Far Hills, his first album with Faoileán, has received over 750k listens across streaming platforms. He has presented workshops on playing and teaching the fiddle at the University of New Hampshire and NJASTA, and often teaches at Folk College and the Ashokan Center. A Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts graduate, he studied fiddle with Cleek Schrey and plays on the 46th Håkedal hardanger d’amore.
Tom Krumm
Tom is a performer who specializes in versatility. He has logged performances with artists of every genre, ranging from Roseanne Cash to Jacob Collier to Aloe Blacc to Al Kooper, and many more. He's also performed with the contra dance band Live Wire, the swing band Swingology, and as a ringer for concert and pit orchestras throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Massachusetts. Most recently, he appeared as soloist alongside Grammy award-winning fiddler Jay Ungar and the Hudson Valley Philharmonic in a performance his own original arrangement of Daybreak in the Mountains.
A graduate of the prestigious Berklee College of Music, Tom logged over 400 hours of studio and performance time during his studies. He particularly enjoyed exploring microtonal Arabic music, which he credits with removing a range of limitations from his playing.
Today, Tom exhibits an unusual capacity to play anything asked of him on violin, mandolin, and guitar in recording sessions and concerts across the east coast. His work as a educator includes teaching engagements at the Ashokan Music and Dance camps since the age of 17, and more recent work at the University of Pennsylvania and his own private teaching studio in Philadelphia.
In his free time, he enjoys basketball, mixology, and hanging out with his cats, Banana and Bread.
Tom is a performer who specializes in versatility. He has logged performances with artists of every genre, ranging from Roseanne Cash to Jacob Collier to Aloe Blacc to Al Kooper, and many more. He's also performed with the contra dance band Live Wire, the swing band Swingology, and as a ringer for concert and pit orchestras throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Massachusetts. Most recently, he appeared as soloist alongside Grammy award-winning fiddler Jay Ungar and the Hudson Valley Philharmonic in a performance his own original arrangement of Daybreak in the Mountains.
A graduate of the prestigious Berklee College of Music, Tom logged over 400 hours of studio and performance time during his studies. He particularly enjoyed exploring microtonal Arabic music, which he credits with removing a range of limitations from his playing.
Today, Tom exhibits an unusual capacity to play anything asked of him on violin, mandolin, and guitar in recording sessions and concerts across the east coast. His work as a educator includes teaching engagements at the Ashokan Music and Dance camps since the age of 17, and more recent work at the University of Pennsylvania and his own private teaching studio in Philadelphia.
In his free time, he enjoys basketball, mixology, and hanging out with his cats, Banana and Bread.
Dani Hawkins
Dani has made music with the Boston Philharmonic, the Richardson Chamber Players, the Delaware Symphony Orchestra, and various other ensembles and contradance bands. From 2010-2014, they played as one half of Driftwood Duet, which performed over 100 engagements a year and won consecutive Best of Gigmasters awards in 2012, 2013, and 2014, and Wedding Wire's Couple's Choice Award in 2014. In 2012, Dani released “Ride EP,” a DVD of original multimedia art based on footage and field recordings taken while living out of a van. They've taught cello at Maine Fiddle Camp, Fiddle Hell, the Ashokan Center, Folk College, Summertrios, Princeton in Asia, Open Access to Music Education, and Cornell University.
Dani received their PhD in ethnomusicology from Cornell University in 2023 after completing previous studies in cello, composition, and ethnomusicology at Princeton University, the New England Conservatory, and the Memorial University of Newfoundland. They have conducted fieldwork in China's Hunan province, Brooklyn, Wet’suwet’en territory, Philadelphia, rural New England, and Ghana, and have presented the resulting scholarship at the Society for Ethnomusicology, the American Studies Association, the Royal Society of Canada, the International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance, and the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation. Their dissertation, Listening Beyond Modernity: Race, Radicalism, and Folklife, won the 2024 Donald J. Grout Memorial Prize, and their paper "Writing Music / Writing Movements" was awarded the 2023 Pantaleoni Prize by the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology. In addition to teaching conventional undergraduate music classes, they’ve designed and taught interdisciplinary seminars like “The Politics of Listening: Sound and Civic Life” and “Music in the Making and Unmaking of Race" at Memorial of University of Newfoundland, Cornell University, and Swarthmore College.
They enjoy hot wings, beer, bodysurfing in the summer, and jumping in lakes and rivers in the winter.
Dani has made music with the Boston Philharmonic, the Richardson Chamber Players, the Delaware Symphony Orchestra, and various other ensembles and contradance bands. From 2010-2014, they played as one half of Driftwood Duet, which performed over 100 engagements a year and won consecutive Best of Gigmasters awards in 2012, 2013, and 2014, and Wedding Wire's Couple's Choice Award in 2014. In 2012, Dani released “Ride EP,” a DVD of original multimedia art based on footage and field recordings taken while living out of a van. They've taught cello at Maine Fiddle Camp, Fiddle Hell, the Ashokan Center, Folk College, Summertrios, Princeton in Asia, Open Access to Music Education, and Cornell University.
Dani received their PhD in ethnomusicology from Cornell University in 2023 after completing previous studies in cello, composition, and ethnomusicology at Princeton University, the New England Conservatory, and the Memorial University of Newfoundland. They have conducted fieldwork in China's Hunan province, Brooklyn, Wet’suwet’en territory, Philadelphia, rural New England, and Ghana, and have presented the resulting scholarship at the Society for Ethnomusicology, the American Studies Association, the Royal Society of Canada, the International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance, and the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation. Their dissertation, Listening Beyond Modernity: Race, Radicalism, and Folklife, won the 2024 Donald J. Grout Memorial Prize, and their paper "Writing Music / Writing Movements" was awarded the 2023 Pantaleoni Prize by the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology. In addition to teaching conventional undergraduate music classes, they’ve designed and taught interdisciplinary seminars like “The Politics of Listening: Sound and Civic Life” and “Music in the Making and Unmaking of Race" at Memorial of University of Newfoundland, Cornell University, and Swarthmore College.
They enjoy hot wings, beer, bodysurfing in the summer, and jumping in lakes and rivers in the winter.