Four Mile Portage

Twin Ports banjo-and-fiddle duo playing old-time and Americana music for listening and dancing.

Four Mile Portage is a banjo-fiddle vocal duo with Brandy Forsman on fiddle and Tom Maloney on banjo, named after a Boundary Waters portage. The duo draws on Appalachian fiddle tunes, community dance and Americana, and plays Tamarack Dance Association contra dances at Duluth Folk School. Four Mile Portage played Duluth's Music in the Park series at Lincoln Park on August 4, 2026.