Fort Collins alternative folk-rock trio Whippoorwill – Alysia Kraft (guitar, vocals), Staci Foster (guitar, banjo, harmonica, vocals), and Tobias Bank (drums, vocals) – released their much-anticipated full-length debut, “The Nature of Storms” on November 15, 2019. Produced by J.Tom Hnatow (Horse Feathers, Vandaveer) and mixed by Duane Lundy (Jim James, Ringo Starr) at Lexington, KY's Shangri-La Studio, the album is the product of two years touring the American west honing a sound both expansive and raw, rootsy and otherworldly, and always landing in the grittier ‘alt’ corners of country and folk.

"Cello Dave" Huebner is a professional musician, graphic designer, writer and photographer.  He tours with The Two Tracks, and has recorded and performed in years past with Sweetwater String Band, The Littlest Birds, and his first band Old Coyote Moon.

“Aaron Davis is an essential force in the Americana roots music scene in Wyoming” (JH Community Radio, KHOL). Wyoming-based, Kentucky native Aaron Davis stages his songs with poetic amplitude and a deep well of old-time and modern sonic textures—voice, acoustic & resonator & lap steel guitars, open back banjo, harmonica, mandolin, foot percussion, and tailor-made phrase sampling and analog simulations. Aaron is chiefly known as co-founder of national touring act Screen Door Porch, as engineer-producer-session player at his Three Hearted Recording Studio, and for the eclectic quartet Aaron Davis & The Mystery Machine. Aaron’s solo shows are versed in both improvisations and intricate arrangements, working the lesser-worn corners of the American musical fabric through an unconventional lens with a downhome fusion of alt-country, groovy slide blues, story folk, gypsy grass, Western swing, and funky roots rock—often bridged with stories of unsung characters. Nearly two decades of touring the country and staying true to the write-and-record troubadour sensibility has led the press to describe Aaron as “a combination that goes down like top-shelf bourbon” (Austin Chronicle) with "a searing slide guitar" (Country Weekly), and “a particularly standout approach that mixes poetry, groove and roughness” (Lonestar Time). Recognizing Aaron’s twelve-album discography, the “truly phenomenal songwriter” (Americana UK) with “lyrical prowess” (JH Buckrail) was one of two composers in Wyoming to be awarded a Performing Arts Music Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts—“a merit-based honor for an artist’s work in their field.” He has been fortunate to share bills with many of his heroes including Wilco, Willie Nelson, Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit, Buddy Guy, Sam Bush, Brian Wilson, Steve Earle, Grace Potter, Sarah Jarosz, Justin Townes Earle, and James McMurtry. Most recently, Aaron embarked on once-in-a-lifetime recording endeavor—The WyoFolk Project—in which he produced-recorded-mixed a compilation album featuring fourteen of Wyoming's celebrated songwriters performing new works at his studio. His twelfth release, Medicine EP (2023), features four original songs bound by medicinal themes, recorded in Austin with longtime collaborators.

Sweetwater String Band is a cello driven original bluegrass band from the High Sierra. 
Since 2008. Please visit our website, or facebook for the most up to date information.
Patrick Ferguson, bass
Dave Huebner, cello
Jeff Meadway, guitar
Scott Roberts, mandolin



Life-affirming Mancunian electro-pop"
-  Tom Robinson BBC 6Music
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"That has Manchester's musical heritage running right through it like the writing in rock"
-  Guy Garvey (Elbow)  BBC 6Music

"Lush"
-  John Kennedy  Radio X

Test Card Girl is a solo project by new Manchester indie singer-songwriter Catherine Burgis. Having grown increasingly frustrated with an admin-based existence, and wishing to conquer a life-long fear of singing in public, Catherine embarked on a country-wide tour as a musical comedian in 2018 complete with novelty miniature keyboard. Winning awards (North West Comedian of the Year, Frog and Bucket 2018, Funny Women Semi-Finalist 2019, Beat the Gong Winner, The Arc, Stockton 2019) and growing in confidence as a singer, she performed her first (and last) gig as solo synth-folk artist Test Card Girl in February 2020, with all subsequent gigs immediately being cancelled due to the dawning of a global pandemic.
 
With live performance not possible, Catherine turned her attention to recording and released her first single 'Holds Me Down' in 2020. The single was picked up by BBC 6Music, Radio X, Absolute Radio and XS Manchester and she was named Steve Lamacq's BBC 6 Music 'One to Watch' in January 2021. Catherine was awarded an Arts Council grant to make a further 3 singles in 2021 and is currently working on her debut EP 'Fly' with producer Seadna McPhail at Airtight Studios, Manchester.  The EP is due for release in Spring 2022 and will feature guest performances from drummer Andy Hargreaves (I Am Kloot) and bass player Nathan Sudders (Miles Kane, Guy Garvey, Nadine Shah). Test Card Girl's music ranges from lo-fi bedroom pop to simple indiefolk songs, influenced in equal parts by the standard-issue musical taste of a 90's Manchester teenager; an obsession with the MIDI sounds of childhood keyboards past and finger-picking folk songs of old. In January 2022 Catherine was announced as one of 10 Manchester International Festival MIF Sounds artists​ and will be performing live throughout 2022 (dates TBC).

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Gravel road vocals, quick-picked guitar, and a rhythm section with stomping ground sound. Raised by wolves, taught by squirrels, enemy of the owl. May all the wrong notes be right.  

Adam Morford- Drums, vocals
Austin Morford- Bass, guitar, vocals
Matt Skinner- Guitar, bass, harmonica, vocals

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