day. Since 2014, Bartlett has also been a member of the 5-piece Stringrays, with Rodney Miller, Max Newman, Mark Hellenberg, and Stuart Kenney. In addition to being a contra dance musician, Bartlett has maintained a dual identity as an old-time musician. He helped found the Monks shortly thereafter (with Frank Hall, Claudio Buchwald, and Abby Ladin.) The Monks released two critically acclaimed recordings, distributed widely by County Records: Let Us Play (1998), and Ragged But Righteous (2002). In 1999, Bartlett began playing with Illinois native fiddler Garry Harrison, and he was an integral member of the group that made the now legendary recording of original old-time music, Red Prairie Dawn (2000). Though a proud practitioner and teacher of various traditional music styles, Bartlett has made his own recording career as a musical iconoclast, choosing to blend musical styles rather than adhere to any notion of genre purity. This started with Sam and Sue Belting You with Reels (1993, re-released in 2006) with Bartlett playing swing guitar with traditional Irish fiddler, Sue Sternberg. Bartlett traveled to southwest Louisiana in 1996 and teamed up with Dirk Powell to make Swamp Ceili, the first radical mixing of Irish and Cajun and Zydeco music. Swamp Ceili featured the slide guitarist Sonny Landreth. In 2004, Bartlett followed Swamp Ceili with a recording of all original music, Evil Diane. This was the first contra dance repertoire CD to be reviewed on NPR’s All Things Considered. In 2016, Bartlett released a sequel to Evil Diane, Dance-a-rama. Cartoonist and community artist Concurrent with a long and active music performing career, Bartlett has maintained another identity as a documentarian and drawer of tricks and stunts. The Journal of Stuntology was Bartlett's self-published zine from 1992 to 2006. A selection of cartoons from the zine was edited into the book Stuntology (2002) and followed in 2007 by The Big Book of Stuntology. Workman publishing bought the rights to these two books in 2007 and put out The Best of Stuntology (2008). Bartlett has also self-published 51 Impossible Stunts Anyone Can Do. Bartlett has been a featured character/performer on the Indiana PBS show, The Friday Zone, since 2012. The steady rotation of 45 different segments of his stunts has made him recognizable to children throughout the state. As an offshoot of illustrating a series of books, Bartlett has been hired by the city of Bloomington, Indiana, to do public artwork, notably