Adam Sweet has a BA in music and certificates in music education. He graduated from Hampshire College in 1985 and began teaching fiddle and mandolin part-time in 1986. In 2009, Adam became a full time teacher offering private and group lessons on violin-family and mandolin-family instruments, guitar, bass and Irish bouzouki:
2004-2019 Celticado with Jim Bunting on guitar, mandolin and bouzouki, and Adam Sweet on fiddle and mandolin
1997-2004 Woodkerne with Paul Burton on guitar, John Rough on banjo, Dan Richardson on bodhran, Andy Weiner on bodhran and Adam Sweet on fiddle and Irish bouzouki
1997-1999 Swift River Bluegrass with Claiborne Woodall guitar, John Rough banjo, Bruce bass and Adam Sweet fiddle
1989-1999 Maple Ridge Bluegrass with Terry Atkinson guitar, John Rough banjo, Joe Blumenthal bass and Adam Sweet fiddle/mandolin
1986-1990 Pioneer Valley Symphony Orchestra with Nathan Gotschalk, conductor
1989-1999 Valley Light Opera
1980-1985 Hampshire College - Five College Symphony Orchestra and various string bands with friends: Pieces of Neck, Backwoods Medicine and The Lonesome Fish Quintet
1978-1980 GBYSO including a tour of Europe
1974-1980 The Conservatory at Rivers, Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music
1966-1974 The New England Conservatory of Music (pilot Suzuki program at Dana Hall)