Danny Schmidt

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Austin, TX-based singer/songwriter Danny Schmidt is a writer's writer, with a lyrical depth drawing comparisons to Leonard Cohen, Dave Carter, and Townes Van Zandt. Sing Out magazine called Danny the best new songwriter they'd heard in 15 years. Midnight Special's national syndicated radio program proclaimed Danny's latest CD, Parables & Primes, to be one of the five most significant albums in the last twenty years. His musical style draws from deeply-rooted Appalachian mountain gospel to haunted English balladry, from syncopated Piedmont country blues to vagabond 60's protest folk-stumpery. But it all blends into a singular style all his own. Not to be missed.

Carrie Elkin

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With the fire of Patti Griffin and the rawness of Rickie Lee Jones, Carrie Elkin's songs are, at once, intimate yet universal, naked yet richly adorned . . . Carrie grew up in Ohio and now calls Austin, TX home. The immediate nature of her songs approaches Van Morrison's Inarticulate Speech of the Heart, promising emotion that can leave the listener winded. Elkin's music ranges from delicate to downright boisterous combining folk, gospel and the sounds of the Appalachian Mountains. The Steamboat Pilot proclaimed "she's going to achieve widespread acclaim...she is a serious songwriter and a gifted vocalist....Elkin is going places, just wait and see."

Sally Shuffield

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Durango, Colorado, based singer/songwriter, Sally Shuffield, has been compared to Iris Dement and early Nanci Griffith by “No Depression” Magazine and the Colorado Bluegrass Music Association. She writes and sings songs about growing up in rural Arkansas, as well as traveling and living throughout the West. With the release of her third CD last year, “Something in the Water,” she firmly establishes herself as a leading new voice in the Americana/folk tradition. According to Deb Reynolds at KRZA in Alamosa, Colorado, "Sally Shuffield is the real deal -- an American folksinger in the traditional sense of the term." Her music has been widely played on public radio stations across the country and internationally, charting this year on the folk and American Roots Charts. According to George Maida at WCVE in Richmand, Virginia, “Lyrical content and melody (of Sally’s songs) are wedded with ease and crowned with Sally’s gorgeous voice. A deep intelligence fuels these songs; the listener need only be open to their sense of nuance.” Sally recently opened the show for Robert Earl Keen in Durango, Colorado, where the Durango Herald said of her performance, the “sublimely voiced Sally Shuffield is able to make a good tune look easy.” Sally tours all over the country, playing prestigious festivals and concert series.