The award-winning Swedish quintet Jaerv presents an extroverted, vigorous and heartfelt folk music with influences from both jazz and pop music. Together, the five members have created a homogeneous, vivid sound which has established Jaerv on the folk music scene as well as in many other forums. Rooted in multiple musical traditions, Jaerv offers a varied stage performance where vocal, five-voiced tunes blend in with energetic dances and free improvisations. Jaerv is known internationally, and has toured the U.S., Japan,…

Westbound Situation blends the precision of classical chamber music, the rhythmic drive of bluegrass, and the colorful expression of jazz into a new style of chamber music—chambergrass. The quartet—comprised of Grant Flick on violin, Matt Davis on banjo, Zach Brown on cello, and Jacob Warren on bass—mixes composition and improvisation seamlessly into their entirely memorized arrangements. --- www.westboundsituation.com The group formed out of the 2016 Acoustic Music Seminar (AMS), a program run by multi-instrumentalist Mike Marshall. The program accepts 16…

POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19. NEW DATE T.B.D. Like romantic dust, Drew Gibson's music draws on influence from the American days of country-blues and songwriters of the recent past.  Since releasing his debut album, Letterbox, in 2007 the finger-style guitarist from Virginia has garnered attention from USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Area Music Association, The Greenville Journal, OnTap Magazine, RVA Magazine, and No Depression for his intensely personal songs and stagecraft as a live performing story-teller. --- www.drew-gibson.com https://youtu.be/CWZCQM5eQlo…

POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19. NEW DATE T.B.D. Andy Cohen is a virtuoso finger-style guitarist who has been described as “a walking, talking folk-blues-roots music encyclopedia.” He grew up in a home with a piano and lots of Dixieland Jazz records. During the Sixties Folk Revival, he got hooked on the music of Big Bill Broonzy and the Jim Kweskin Jug Band. When Andy was 16, he heard South Carolina’s Rev. Gary Davis perform and the effect on him was profound.…

POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19. NEW DATE T.B.D. Chris Merkley has performed more than a thousand shows, from the streets of Paris to venues throughout Europe and across the United States.   He has released nine albums with a variety of groups, including the songwriting duo Merkley & Morgan; his high-octane Bluegrass and Country Blues globetrotting band, The Crooners; and the swampy blues-rock trio, Digger Jones. Merkley's most recent solo album, Momentos, was recorded in the early morning hours at the Homer…

POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19. NEW DATE T.B.D. Aaron Jonah Lewis is a champion fiddler who has been elbow-deep in traditional American fiddle and banjo music since his first lessons at the age of five with Kentucky native Robert Oppelt. Lewis has taken blue ribbons at the Appalachian String Band Festival in Clifftop, WV, and at the Old Fiddlers Convention in Galax, VA, the oldest and largest fiddlers convention in the country. He is also noted for his mastery of multiple…

POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19. NEW DATE T.B.D. Abiding by a love for adventure, Corner House finds purpose and solace in the beauty of earth and music. Clinging whole heartedly to studied traditions, the Boston-based band writes and arranges music liberally comprised of Irish, Scottish, Appalachian Stringband, and Bluegrass influences. --- www.cornerhouseband.com The singular roots music scene of Boston, Massachusetts, has long been a destination for musicians seeking level footing to build upon. On Winter eves most suited for warm tea…