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Accordion Death Squad
We come from Ratsylvania, where we would dance, play music, fight, strip off all our clothes, blacksmith, and generally carry on without work of a mundane sort.
Andy Waldeck
Andy Waldeck was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He became fascinated with music at an early age listening to, and eventually stealing, his parents folk and jazz records.
(the) Biscuit Rollers
The Biscuit Rollers is a collection of blues musicians that found each other in the early part of 2006. After trying many combinations of musicians and other instruments, finally settled down with the basic core of The Biscuit Rollers.
Blue Line Highway
Since its inception in 2001, Blue Line Highway has forged a unique Americana hybrid of blues, contemporary pop, and traditional country music.
Blue Stone Sky
Blue Stone Sky sprang into being in September 2006. Utterly charming three-part harmonies couched in a bed of folk-rock and Americana music.
Brianna Lane
This chick puts the word “singer” in singer /songwriter. Brianna is a sweet-voiced alterna-folkie who grew up in Minnesota. Brianna has a voice and a presence beyond her years. She strums an acoustic guitar with the same power in which she sings.
(the) Buzzard Hollow Boys
The Buzzard Hollow Boys are based in the central Virginia city of Charlottesville. It’s members have been playing together under various band configurations for over 20 years.
Byron Massie
Country singer-songwriting.
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Dallas Wesley
There’s nothing to say that ain’ been said, and nothing to do that ain’ been done. Small am I in a small world, but every once and a while we get to see what’s big…at least the little ones do.
Danny Schmidt
With a lyrical complexity and a style reminiscent of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s magical-realism, Austin, TX-based singer / songwriter Danny Schmidt’s been tagged “the best new songwriter we’ve heard in 15 years” by Sing Out Magazine.
(the) Deer Creek Boys
Traditional bluegrass & gospel.
Deja Moo
Deja Moo is a band with depth, feel, a fun acoustic/rhythmic sound, and great style and attack on traditional tunes. Their original songs convey the essence of Deja Moo through the traditional singer/songwriter talents of Ken, and the old timey, simple living influences heard in Chip’s songs.
Driving Force
Driving Force was formed in October 2005. Four members are coming from the band Blue Light Special, and Zach Mongan and Adam Kruzic happily stepped forward to fill the empty spots. Although the band’s name comes from the hard driving bluegrass they play, there is an ironic element to the name.
Eli Cook
Eli Cook grew up on the blues: Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, the Wolf, Lightnin’ Hopkins, and Mississippi John Hurt. He first picked up the guitar when he was fourteen, and began his own performance career playing vintage blues, gospel shows, and revivals in Nelson County, Virginia when he was fifteen.
Emily White
Born and brought up in Memphis, Tennessee on a healthy diet of Keith Sykes’ Songwriters’ Nights, Emily White learned the appeal of acoustic music early. She seems to have a love of the genre embedded in her DNA somewhere…
Fata Morgana Belly Dance
In the heart of wine & horse country of Central Virginia, women & girls are re-discovering the ancient art of belly dancing. Perhaps the oldest form of dance, bellydance has helped countless women get and stay healthy, confident, and strong. Since this form of dance is low- to no-impact, it is ideal for everyone, from victims of injury or debilitating illness, to mothers with small children, to older women who cannot do high-impact aerobic workouts.
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Gene & Gayla Mills
Gene has been playing in the Central Virginia area for over 30 years. He has established a reputation as a versatile singer-songwriter-guitarist. Gayla plays bass and guitar and sings harmony.
Heather Berry & the Dominion Grass
Heather Berry grew up in Sherando, Virginia which is located at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Central Virginia. She got her first experience singing in front of a crowd in her Grandfather’s church, Central Baptist in Waynesboro, VA at the early age of five years old.
(the) Honey Dewdrops
Laura Wortman and Kagey Parrish write songs that link images of a forgotten past with contemporary words.
Howie Campbell
Campbell is a fine guitar player, easily one of the better mostly rhythm-oriented types I’ve heard, and his weaving of guitar and melody was fine work as well.” - Mark Grabowski for The Hook
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Jan Smith & Jeff Vogelgesang
Based in the Blue Ridge Mountains of central Virginia, the Honeybirds play a swinging mix of classic country, folk, and bluegrass music.
John Brannen
To hear his music is to also visit the kudzu-draped locales below the Mason-Dixon Line as well as meet the distinctive characters to be found throughout the region, and travel along on Brannen’s actual and emotional journeys as a dyed-in-the-cotton son of the South.
Johnson County Sheriffs
We call our music “Appalachian Rock”, since that seems to be the most apt description for our energized blend of rock, bluegrass, country, folk and celtic styles.
Joia Wood
Her music inspires the soul. It heals the heart…. You can hear it on a rainy day or sing it on top of a mountain. It is diversity fortified, with the essence of love exuding from within. You don’t just listen to Joia’s music. You feel it.
Jonathan Byrd
Jonathan’s delightful, substantive songs are rich with imagery and textures of influences from Appalachian, country, early American balladry, modern atmospheric Mideastern, urban and old timey folk music.
Junior Moment
Junior Moment has an awesome folk / 80’s / eclectic sound - great music, very easy on the ears. That’s hard to find these days.
Karen Mal
In three short years, Karen Mal has gone from a virtual unknown on the Austin acoustic music scene to one of the most sought-after performers around, both as a solo artist and as a sideman for others on mandolin, guitar, and harmony vocals.
Kate Peterson & Sarah Cleaver
Michigan-based, Pleasantly Aggressive Folk Duo Nervous but Excited is two songwriters, two singers, two guitars, a mandolin, a violin, a few harmonicas, a barrel of harmony, some vaguely choreographed dancing and a lot of laughter.
Lisa Roberson
From a flat bed truck in Appalachia to a honky-tonk in Nashville or a village square in Lithuania, Lisa Roberson has performed her original country blues for more than four decades.
Liz Stahler
Liz Stahler is raw, real and undeniably talented. Her voice is mesmerizing, and truly unique. Her songs are memorable and beautifully crafted.
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Mariana Bell
With the acquisition of a vintage electric guitar, she has branched out from folksier roots and often plays her own approach to melodious rock with a band of merry men (and women) who think her tunes are cool. She has developed her style with the likes of Shawn Colvin, Bruce Cockburn, and Ani Difranco in mind. However, she’s also been likened to Joni Mitchell, and John Mayer.
Mary Gordon Hall
A regular at the Swannanoa Gathering, students and instructors alike seek her out for her incredible harmonies. It’s not unusual to find visiting artists on any of Charlottesville’s stages to ask Mary Gordon to come up to sing backup harmonies.
Molimo
Molimo is a nomadic ritual in which music is used to heal a group that feels themselves to be out of balance with nature. It also describes the sacred instrument played in the ritual. The mythical white elephant embodies the spirit of Molimo - the possibility of redemption, the return of “soul.” In this spirit we play songs that call us to engagement to community - to stand against the madness……stand with us!
Morwenna Lasko & Jay Punn
Hailing from Charlottesville, VA, this duo has more raw talent and natural style than you ever thought was possible.
Nathan Moore
Nathan Moore has logged a lot of miles as “a sad man playing in a jam band, looking for the happy melody, in a minor key”, and he’s created a thousand brutally honest, astonishingly witty and poetically hopeful songs along the way.
Nervous but Excited
Michigan-based, Pleasantly Aggressive Folk Duo Nervous but Excited is two songwriters, two singers, two guitars, a mandolin, a violin, a few harmonicas, a barrel of harmony, some vaguely choreographed dancing and a lot of laughter.
Paul Curreri
With his instinctive, sensual gift for melody, Curreri’s songs are saturated in colour and feeling… Simple, yes, but you just can’t get enough of it.
Pixy-Led
Irish, folk & americana Girl Band with sweet three-part harmonies.
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Red River Roller Coaster
Red River Rollercoaster is a Alt bluegrass country folk blues band.playing original music in the Shenandoah valley and well beyond.
Robin Wynn
Whether playing solo, or accompanied by her six-piece band, Robin Wynn’s shows are marked with high energy and good spirits, with her distinctive, smooth-like-honey/sharp-as-a-tack vocals cresting the wave.
Scuffletown
Scuffletown is an acoustic duo featuring singer /songwriter Marc Carraway and multi–instrumentalist John Whitlow.
Trees On Fire
Charlottesville, Virginia’s appointed “hybrid-rock geniuses,” Trees on Fire delivers airtight four-part harmonies supported by a unique blend of electronic and organic styles that gives rise to the term “organica.”
Trent Wagler & the Steel Wheels
Trent Wagler & the Steel Wheels perform Original Oldtime and Americana Music. This is Roots Music. Acoustic Music ranging from old time, country folk, with elements of funk, soul, and the blues.
(the) Wigsnatchers
The Wigsnatchers hail from Charlottesville, Virginia, where they perform all manner of Americana roots music, including pre-war swing, jug band music, jump blues, Dixieland, rockabilly, bluegrass, old time and hokum.
Worm Patterson & All Problems Solved
The Legend, Worm Patterson has been playing music since he was 8 years old. Worm started playing bass and eventually began playing guitar and banjo. Worm and his uncle Lester, were know by many from all over Virginia. They played bluegrass, with Lester on the banjo and Worm on the guitar.
