Joselyn Wilkinson Joselyn Wilkinson, of acclaimed folk blues duo Joselyn & Don, is a professional musician, arts educator and facilitator working to create equitable access to music education for disadvantaged youth and advocate for diversity in the folk and roots music community as well as founder of the women’s global…
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…
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…
Cary Morin Described as “one of the best acoustic pickers on the scene today,” Cary Morin brings together the great musical traditions of America like no other. With deft fingerstyle guitar and vocals that alternately convey melodic elation and gritty world-weariness, Morin crafts an inimitable style often characterized as roots-infused…
David G Smith Internationally acclaimed songwriter-troubadour David G Smith (davidgsmithmusic.com) is an acoustic solo performer with a lyric intensive style featuring guitars, a resonator, music and a voice that range from dirt-funk to intimate. Think James Taylor meets Townes Van Zandt. His music is a blend of Folk, Americana, Country…
Austin Willacy Austin Willacy is a veteran member of The House Jacks with whom he has produced 10 full-length albums and completed multiple world tours. For the past 20 years, Austin has directed 'Til Dawn, Youth in Arts’ award-winning teen a cappella group that empowers youth to find their voices…
Jenifer JohnsJenn Johns is a powerhouse, vocalist, songwriter, producer, activist, and entrepreneur who creates sounds, experiences, and products that are sure to stir your soul, inspire your mind and move your body.Ms. Johns has taken her brand of “afro-diasporic world music” all over the globe, rocking stages from Denver to…
Elexa Dawson Elexa Dawson presents sultry, spirited, original music with a "warm honey mixed with prairie dirt" voice. "Music is Medicine" (2019, Lost Cowgirl Records) has received international airplay and “High Place” charted at #6 on Sirius XM’s Indigenous Music Countdown. First recognized as the founding member of Weda Skirts,…
