Fiddle player Brandy Forsman and banjo ace Tom Maloney formed Four Mile Portage nearly 20 years ago, naming their act after a Boundary Waters portage. The couple met at the University of Minnesota Duluth in 1996 and later married while serving as Peace Corps volunteers teaching in Kenya. They play old-time Appalachia fiddle tunes for the Tamarack Dance Association and have delighted audiences across Minnesota and Wisconsin by getting people dancing at parties and weddings or simply playing tunes. By day they work at Harbor City International School.