While attending art school in Baltimore, MD Dan Blakeslee, a Maine native discovered that he had an equal and deeply rooted connection to music. He would sneak into the galleries to play his guitar through the late hours of the evening surrounded by easels and oil paintings. After four years in "Charm City" he returned to his childhood home in the Tatnic Woods of South Berwick, ME. That summer he played street corners in New Hampshire and Maine while working at a lobster restaurant. His employer urged him to sever ties to manual labor for one of a more musical nature. A phone call from a friend offering him a room in Somerville, MA began his journey south in 1995. While settling into this artful community he began to practice his craft in the smoke laden subways of Boston. He now has been making music and art in the New England region ever since, leading him to tour the U.S. and abroad. He has performed with The Low Anthem, David Wax Museum, Dawes, The Lumineers, Deer Tick, Liam Finn, Brown Bird, Josh Ritter, Old 97's, Will Dailey, Death Vessel and Kimya Dawson to name a few. His album "Owed To The Tanglin' Wind" featuring The Low Anthem was released in 2014. In 2015 his dream of playing Newport Folk Festival became a reality, where Bob Dylan went electric 50 years earlier. And after a pause between full band records his long awaited album "The Alley Walker" featuring his band The Calabash Club came out in 2017 to much acclaim. After touring the US a couple times and much journeying it was time to get back in the studio. Blakeslee had been dreaming of making a full length Christmas album for over a decade inspired by his retro music collection. So on a cold winter night in 2019 Blakeslee stepped into the studio for the first session of "Christmasland Jubilee". This full-length album by Dan Blakeslee and the Calabash Club will be revealed on December 1, 2020 and is their third release together.

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Will Dailey's sound has been described as a venn diagram of multiple genres with a rich vintage vibe channeled through his authentic, wry and energetic performances. All inspiring famed rock journalist Dan Aquilante to call him “the real deal”. Dailey's albums are met with stellar reviews, top 20 on the national Billboard Heat Seeker chart twice and he’s won 8 Boston Music Awards including Album of the Year, Artist of the year for his album National Throat that he released after leaving Universal Records to start his own label. "Make Another Me", the first single from is new album, comes out September 27th. 
He has shared the stage and studio with Eddie Vedder, Willie Nelson, Roger McGuinn, Kay Hanley, G Love, Steve Earle, and Tanya Donelly. In June of 2013 he was featured on a Stephen King/John Mellencamp project produced by T Bone Burnett called Ghost Brothers Of Darkland County and, in that same year, also released an original song he wrote inspired by Jack Kerouac's Tristessa.  Dailey has played at Farm Aid four times alongside Neil Young, Willie Nelson, Dave Matthews and John Mellencamp. His latest album, Golden Walker, was released summer of 2018 and hit #1 on Billboards Northeast Heat seekers. The Boston Herald called the album: “A new peak” and named it an album of 2018. In 2021 Dailey set out to play 100 shows across America, sharing stages with Brandi Carlile, Sharon Van Etten and Pearl Jam.
In summer of 2022 Dailey released his single “Easy to Be Around” with a 68 second surprise attached to it. The single slides into a second song that lists the full credits from the instrumentalists to the cover artist and all the audio engineers in between. In 2023 Dailey embarked on another project called The 10 Dollar Song: A concept where a new composition called "Cover of Clouds" was available exclusively on his merch table, never to be released physically or on digital platforms, during a 25 date spring tour.  People pay what they want to listen to it once on a disc-man and headphones. Then write their thoughts in a book that travels with the song. In an era of music history that’s ruled by algorithms, the double-single of sorts could be considered a risk, but Will Dailey disrupts industry norms - not the other way around.

Jenee Halstead is a musician and healer whose work bridges the mystical and the grounded. Described by the Boston Herald as creating “sorceress music, holy music, but for druids and faerie folk with an aesthetic both heavenly and earthly,” her sound blends global sacred traditions, cinematic soundscapes and contemporary songwriting into a transformative experience. Her latest album, Into the Heart, reimagines ancient mantras for modern listeners, inviting them into a meditative and uplifting sonic journey. Produced by Dave Brophy in Boston, the album reflects Jenee’s commitment to crafting music that inspires and connects. Beyond music, Jenee integrates over 15 years of spiritual training into her work as a healer and coach, helping others embrace transformation through sound, spirit, and heart-centered leadership. Whether on stage, in the studio, or in a coaching session, Jenee creates spaces of healing and connection through the power of sacred sound.

Over three years since his last live performance, New England singer/songwriter Keith Cowley has revived his vocal health and repertoire, returning to the stage to present b-side acoustic favorites and original music. While he’s been a growing coastal acoustic songwriter, he is known for his often uncommon charismatic choices of 90’s & early 2000’s covers performed in area venues for the last 15 years. More noteworthy may be his strong yet subtle transformative vocals and voicings drifting across the recognizable lines of Duncan Sheik, Edwin McCain, Dave Matthews and so much in between. Come on out for a fun and early night out before the week begins again!

Audrey's music  has evolved over the years into an eclectic form of singer-songwriter indie rock performed as a “one-man-band” multi-instrumentalist using loops on guitar as well as accordion, ukulele, banjo, drums, vibraphone and other unique instrumentation. Overall this music blends together her early influences of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, John Fahey, and Bob Dylan with contemporaries such as Sufjan Stevens, Robert Wyatt, Radiohead, Dungen, Wilco, Steroelab, and Arcade Fire. She performs nationally and internationally and reside on the east coast.

Audrey was nominated “Best Folk Act” at the Boston Music Awards in 2009, which adds to her nominations for “Outstanding Singer-Songwriter of the Year” in 2008 at the BMA’s and “Best Female Vocalist” in 2009 and “Best Folk Act” in 2010 in the Boston Phoenix Music Poll. She also won the “Riving Rising Star 2009″ competition sponsored by WXRV 92.5FM the River. Audrey has shared the stage with Suzanne Vega, They Might be Giants, Grace Potter, Josh Ritter, Sam Amidon, Beth Orton, Glen Hansard, Ra Ra Riot, among others.

James Houlahan's music is an ethereal mix of acoustic roots, alternative folk, and strange flights of sonic alchemy. His original songs combine traditional forms and simple melodies with evocative language and stark imagery. Influenced by a tradition that includes Dylan, Waits, Young, and Cohen.

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