Rita Hosking
Rita Hosking is an American composer and musician based in Davis, California. She plays Americana and bluegrass styles of music, including not only well-known standards but also original songs.
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Greg Trooper
Rarely has there been a more aptly named singer/songwriter than Greg Trooper. Over three decades, the New Jersey native has soldiered on through the victories and setbacks unique to a career dedicated to music, proving through gestures large and small that he's one of our best. It's evident in the company he keeps, the critics who praise his recordings, the fans who invest in his shows and the artists who learn his songs, wishing they'd written them. It is most evident in what Amazon.com calls his "catalog of superbly crafted albums.
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The Old Believers
Keeley Boyle and Nelson Kempf live and make music in Portland.
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Dan Tyminski
Dan Tyminski (b. June 20, 1967) is a bluegrass composer, vocalist, and instrumentalist. He is a member of the band Alison Krauss and Union Station and has released a solo album entitled Carry Me Across the Mountain (2000) on the Doobie Shea Records label. He is likely best known for the song "Man of Constant Sorrow," which was featured in the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? and won the 2001 CMA award for best single as well as a Grammy Award for best Country Collaboration with Vocals (along with Harley Allen and Pat Enright, filling out the vocals for the movie's Soggy Bottom Boys).
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The Felice Brothers
The Felice Brothers are a folk rock/country rock band from upstate New York founded in 2006. It is comprised of the five main members Ian Felice (lead vocals, guitar, piano), Simone Felice (drums, vocals, guitar), James Felice (accordion, piano, organ), and their friend Christmas (bass), previously a traveling dice player. They have been joined by Farley, a washboard player and fiddler, and others who at times had a horn section to the band. The three brothers are from the Catskill Mountains of New York. They hail from Palenville, NY, twenty minutes from Woodstock.
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Hayes Carll
If you haven’t already heard of Hayes Carll, you soon will. In the three years since his self-released second album, Little Rock became available, Carll has toured relentlessly in North America and abroad (performing over two hundred shows a year), founded a successful singer-songwriter music festival on the Gulf Coast of Texas, secured a record deal with Lost Highway Records, and has even seen Little Rock become the first self-released album to reach #1 on the Americana Music Chart. He’s only getting started.
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Sanctorum
Sanctorum are a metal band from and located in Essex, England and have been together since late 2002. The current line-up is:
› Kris Sawkins - Bass / Backing Vocals
› Aaron Sly - Lead Vocals / Guitar
› Ash Lewis - Lead Guitar / Backing Vocals
› Matt Alston - Drums & Percussion / Backing Vocals Former members:
› Chris Eldridge - Bass / Backing Vocals Links:
http://www.sanctorum.co.uk.
http://www.myspace.com/sanctorum
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The Wolfnotes
The history of The Wolfnotes crosses islands, states and land masses. From New York via Abu Dhabi and Zurich, to Northern Ireland and France, the band members started out spread across the world but found each other in London, forming a band to play the kind of music they'd all always wanted to make. Formed 3 and a half years ago as Kurran & The Wolfnotes, the first two singles ‘Whatabitch’ and ‘Your Four Limbs’ were released via Chess Club Records, and now the band is working with Pledge Music to release both the ‘Static Bleed’ EP and the first full length album.
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Brown Bird
Brown Bird is an American acoustic band. Pulling from the influences of the blues, outlaw country, roots rock, early American folk, Gypsy and Eastern European music, Brown Bird offers harmonized voices, haunting lyrics and diverse rhythm and instrumentation, which surges in waves that often swell into high-spirited, foot-stomping madness. Brown Bird began in 2003, and has since toured extensively, including a European stint supporting RI-based band The Low Anthem. The band went through several line-up changes before settling on it's current form as a duo:
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Devon Sproule
A talented singer and songwriter, Devon began her musical career when she was still an innocent-eyed child. She managed to record two full-length albums and tour with some of the music world's biggest names even before she hit the age of 20. Her first album drew rave reviews from most critics and put her on the often rocky road toward stardom. Devon was born in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, in the spring of 1982. She grew up in a household filled with music and family and friends.
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