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Sara Watkins

Sara Watkins, (born June 8, 1981) is a fiddler, vocalist, and songwriter, and is one third of the contemporary bluegrass/folk band Nickel Creek. Her brother Sean Watkins, also a member of Nickel Creek, plays guitar and sings in the group. Sean and Sara have been with Nickel Creek since its beginning in 1989. Nickel Creek recently participated in a project dubbed Mutual Admiration Society, a collaboration with former Toad The Wet Sprocket singer Glen Phillips.

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GreatOutdoors

Great Outdoors are four furry gentlemen of the alt-folk-indie persuasion. Their music has been gracing the halls and venues of southern england since summer 2004. With their latest single, recorded up on a mountain in Wales and mastered at Abbey Road, the band are pulling beard strings from Surrey to California. Kind words about their music : - " Gorgeous " - Huw Stephens, BBC Radio 1, "they've a fondness for Animals on their sleeves" - BBC Southern Counties, " rather nice of them!' Phil Jupitus BBC6 and so on..

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Rags

There are at least two artists with this name: 1) A glam rock band of the 1970s, contemporaries of the New York Dolls. 2) Charlie Davenport, a singer/songwriter from northern California.

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Andi Almqvist

Andi Almqvist is a multi talented Swedish musician and artist. He was born in Vienna and due to his father's work lived in many different places in his childhood, like the US, the Soviet Union and several eastern- and western European countries. Influenced by "the raw energy of Pixies, Nirvana and 16 Horsepower, the poetry of Nick Cave, Tom Waits and Bob Dylan, and the angst of Depeche Mode and Skip James" Andi has over the last years created his own musical voice.

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Will Kaufman

Will Kaufman is a former Marshall Scholar who has taught at the University of Central Lancashire since 1991, specialising in English and American Studies – chiefly literature and culture. His research interests include American humour, the Civil War, transatlantic cultural relations, popular and traditional music and psychological readings of history and culture. Will’s first book, The Comedian as Confidence Man...

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Owl Eyes

one: Owl Eyes is Brooke Addamo, a 19 year old Melbourne singer/songwriter who threads elaborate fantasies of escapism in fictional worlds into breezy, intelligent indie-pop songs. Although she was eliminated from Australian Idol, where she was a contestant during season 6, she is now paving her own way up the charts. On her EP Faces, she teamed up with producer Jan Skubiszewski (The Cat Empire, Phrase, Kram , and has been described as a "honey-voiced Melbournite who has a habit of conjuring up wistful, dreamy pop tunes."

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