CANDY ROOM Okcate Smith McCommas is enrolled Mvskoke (Creek) and of Mexican and Celtic heritage. Under the band name CANDY ROOM alongside her husband Steven, they write and produce music that addresses environmental and social issues, such as inequity, worker exploitation, and mental health awareness. Currently, CANDY ROOM is working…
Lilli Lewis As the story goes, Lilli Lewis should never have been. Before she was born, Lewis’ mother was told her baby probably wouldn’t survive due to lung trouble, so the fact that Lewis now makes a living singing with those same lungs is a gift she never takes for…
Jean Rohe Jean Rohe writes one-of-a-kind narrative songs, concerned as much with the interior lives of her narrators as with the wider world outside them. Jean recently won the 2022 Kerrville Folk Festival New Folk songwriting contest with her deeply personal and timely song “Animal”. Her latest full-length record as…
Arielle Silver Arielle Silver is a consummate storyteller whose rich, expressive voice and acoustic guitar frame expansive melodies that echo her tours and travels across the American heartland. Raised on folk festival fields and synagogue pews, in woodsy and watery places up and down the Atlantic Seaboard and now based…
Rachael Kilgour Rachael Kilgour is a Canadian-American songwriter and performing artist whose plain-spoken, lyric-driven work and intimate performances have endeared her to listeners and fellow artists alike. The 2015 grand prize winner of the international NewSong Music Performance & Songwriting Competition and winner of the 2017 Kerrville New Folk Contest,…
Shelley Segal Segal's work is rooted in organic sounds and instrumentation. Her nylon acoustic helms both the fingerpicking of her gentle, folkier offerings and the force of her rockier surges. Raised in her father's Klezmer (traditional jewish folk) band she incorporates many of those early influential melodies, progressions and even…
Saxon Kincy Old Man Saxon is a rapper from Denver, most recently featured as the crowd favorite on Rhythm + Flow, the hit Netflix series hosted by Cardi B, Chance the Rapper and TI. His music has been featured on HBO's Silicon Valley, Netflix hit films Malcolm and Marie and…
Carla Gover Carla Gover is a Kentucky-born artist who performs original and traditional music. She offers renditions of ballads and banjo tunes from her native Appalachia as well as original tunes which touch upon themes of home, family, a sense of place, social justice, and spirituality. She has won a…
Elisa Harkins Elisa Harkins is a Native American (Cherokee/Muscogee) artist, singer, electronic music composer, and curator based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her work is concerned with translation, language preservation, and Indigenous musicology. Harkins uses the Cherokee and Mvskoke languages, electronic music, sculpture, and the body as her tools. She is the…
Aaron Marfizo Aaron Marfizo is a multi-instrumentalist, music producer, audio engineer, and music community activist. Aaron has a Bachelor’s of Science in Music from the University of Colorado Denver, where he studied audio engineering and piano performance. His accompaniment and production has been featured on local stages across all genres.…
