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Cat Power

Charlyn Marie Marshall, also known as Chan (pronounced "Shawn") Marshall, was born in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. on 21 January 1972. After dropping out of high school, she started performing under the name Cat Power, while in Atlanta, backed by musicians Glen Thrasher, Mark Moore, and others. She soon moved to New York City, United States in 1992, then later opening for Liz Phair in 1994, she met Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth and Tim Foljahn of Two Dollar Guitar, who encouraged her to record, and played on her first two albums, 1995's Dear Sir and 1996's Myra Lee.

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Bruce Cockburn

Bruce Cockburn, (pronounced "CO-burn"), has had a long and distinguished career with much success in his native Canada. His first albums were fairly straight ahead folk music spotlighting his brilliant guitar playing. In fact, there were a good number of instrumental guitar numbers on those early recordings. A Christian element came into his music around the time of the album Salt, Sun And Time, and over time his writing has taken on a stronger and stronger political orientation.

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Iain Matthews

Iain Matthews ( also popularly known as Ian Matthews ) has had a long singing career dating from the swinging 1960's, where he released material as the vocalist of Pyramid. He later joined Fairport Convention, and went on to have a long and winding career, sailing through trends in rock, pop, country and folk with some chart success and maintaining a continuous cult following since his commercial peak in the late 1970's.

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Casey Edward Denman

Casey Edward Denman is a musician and songwriter currently based on the South East Coast of England. After years of moving between the outer environs and bustle of London, Brighton and Scotland, he finally settled in the small seaside town of Eastbourne where his music had the space to fully bloom and come to fruition.

Casey grew up in a musical environment and began playing music at a young age. He exhibited a natural flair for stringed instruments, most notably the guitar and banjo, then later grew to include the balalaika, saz, and mandolin amongst his repertoire.

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Bunny

Bunny refers to a number of bands and artists. The band Bunny formed in mid 1998 in the town of Doncaster, UK. Bunny were formed through a mutual love of Royal Trux, The Butthole Surfers, Girls Against Boys, Beck, dEUS, The Flaming Lips, Love, Blues Explosion, The MC5, Clinic, Elvis, Guided by Voices, Neu!, Devo, The Stooges, Brainiac, The Ramones, The Make Up, The 13th Floor Elevators, and others.

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