Meet Our Staff
People Who Love Our Culture and The Youth
Our Staff
Trish Gardner
singing
Lucas Pasley
Fiddle
Jessalyn Smith
Singing
Kyle Dean Smith
Mandolin, Guitar, & String band
Emily Spencer
Banjo, Dulcimer, & String band
Martha Spencer
Dance
Erika Testerman
Fiddle
Kaylie Wagoner
Guitar
Board Members
Kate Irwin
Board Chair. Graphic Designer, local business owner. Parent of AJAM students.
Trish Gardner
Vice Chair. Retired Clinical Research Professional. Ballad Singer and fiddler, flower farmer and baker extradordinaire!
David Baynes
Retired middle school woodworking teacher. He plays mandolin and he enjoys traditional music.
Jack Cahn
Retired physician and old-time fiddle and banjo player. A full-time volunteer for AJAM.
Carol Greene
MTS, CMP, Certified Music Practitioner
Kathleen Lauchlan
A career marketing executive and entrepreneur. Bringing extensive experience in creative strategy, branding, and business leadership, she looks to contribute creative expertise in building brand awareness, community and financial support in her role on the Alleghany JAM Board.
Dr. Charlie Mangano
Retired Cardiologist with an interest in old time music, plays guitars, writes songs, enjoys Appalachian Music.
Deborah Sherrill
Retired English and guitar teacher. Long time AJAM board member. Committed to perserving the old time Appalachian music traditions
Emily Spencer
banjo, dulcimer, & String band teacher; multi-instrumentalist, matriarch of the whitetop mountain family band
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