As a singer-songwriter, Wyatt Easterling says “life is about facing change and embracing it.”  His songs touch on love, loss, moving on, freedom of speech and all with an honesty listener’s can relate to. After years of running a major record label and publishing company he embraced his true passion: songwriting and performing.

Wyatt Easterling’s decades of success in the music industry includes a myriad of roles from performer to songwriter, and as an executive of both a major record label and publishing company. This wealth of experience and accompanying success in all these varying facets of the industry give him a unique and valuable understanding of the music business. When Atlantic Records opened their Nashville office, Easterling signed on as Chief of A&R, and started his track record of success by signing artists such as Tracy Lawrence, Michael Johnson, Neal McCoy, and John Michael Montgomery. Easterling and Doug Johnson, produced Montgomery's multi-platinum debut album, Life’s A Dance.

Wyatt then partnered with Miles Copeland (Sting, The Police, IRS Records) and formed the Nashville Division of Bugle Publishing Group and Firstars Management as Director of Operations. Easterling brought Keith Urban to Firstars Management and worked at length with Urban in the studio recording the project that landed Keith his first major deal at Warner Bros. Records. In addition to ushering notable artists into the mainstream, Easterling and Copeland created Bugle Publishing Group’s The Castle, the first of its kind songwriter's retreat held yearly at Miles Copeland’s Chateau Marouatte in France. This event saw great success with a long list of esteemed artists and writers such as Keith Urban, Cher, Carole King, Jon Bon Jovi, Peter Frampton, Olivia Newton-John, and Stuart Copeland, to name a few.

Wyatt then signed alternative roots artist Paul Thorn into the company for management and publishing. Easterling produced Paul's album, Hammer & Nail, along with Greg Wells and Billy Maddox for A&M Records, Los Angeles. After Bugle Publishing, Easterling decided it was time to get back to songwriting and promptly signed with DreamWorks Publishing. Eventually Wyatt opened Terra Nova Music, his own publishing company in Nashville, which had eight writers on staff. 

A former member of The Stray Birds, Maya de Vitry performs a blend of indie folk with elements of Americana and alt-country.  This singer-songwriter captures and conveys the emotional depth of the human connection.

Originally from Lancaster, PA, Maya de Vitry is a Nashville-based songwriter, recording artist, producer, and instrumentalist whose music blurs the lines of country, folk, indie rock, and Americana. An admirer of the dedicated song craft of writers like John Prine, Gillian Welch, and Townes Van Zandt — and of the stirring vocals of artists like Bonnie Raitt and Nina Simone — Maya de Vitry’s music invites listeners into a space of openness and connection. 

After a formative chapter of touring and recording as a member of roots-Americana trio The Stray Birds, Maya launched a solo career with her 2019 album Adaptations, earning praise from Rolling Stone Country, NPR Music, and No Depression. Since then, she has independently released four records and has nurtured a devoted community of listeners.

With a magnetic voice and a hard-won sense of purpose, she has toured across North America and Europe, supporting artists like The Wood Brothers, Aoife O’Donovan, John Craigie, and Mighty Poplar. When she is not traveling, Maya thrives in more behind-the-scenes roles, working in recording studios as a producer for other artists within her musical circle. Her songwriting appears on albums by Molly Tuttle, Lindsay Lou, Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, and Steve Poltz, and her skills as a multi-instrumentalist and harmony singer have contributed to many Nashville recordings.

Her fourth full-length release in just six years, The Only Moment, is a 10-track testament to personal reinvention and creative growth. "I’m not just making different music now. It feels like I’m breathing in a different atmosphere," she reflects on her evolution from The Stray Birds to her solo journey. Her sense of liberation is especially apparent in her live shows, which have become a space for spontaneity, peace, and freedom, often woven together with personal stories that connect the songs. “After the show, I just want to know if I’ve helped you feel more free,” Maya says. “That’s my unspoken agreement—to myself, my bandmates, and everyone in the audience.”

A multi-instrumentalist with a distinctive voice, the award winning songwriter, Darrell Scott has a way of taking everyday moments in life and turning them into relatable songs.  He penned the classic “You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive” about his Kentucky coal mining family roots and has several other recognizable chart topping hits under his belt.

A former ASCAP and NSAI Songwriter of the Year, Scott has garnered many accolades, including these rich words from environmentalist, writer and musician Nathaniel Riverhorse Nakadate, who wrote, “Darrell Scott mines and cultivates the everyday moment, taking the rote, menial, mundane, and allowing it to be surreal, ever poignant, and candidly honest.” 

Leading the album collection is “Kentucky Morning,” Old Cane Back Rocker’s first single that tells the story of many a southern family’s migration to the north, where factory work held promises of a good living. Written from the perspective of the one who stayed behind, “Kentucky Morning” is a decidedly southern song that oozes family – and Kentuckian – pride.  "I am proud of this band, this recording and these stories of real people in this unreal time,” Scott says. “Love and hope and goodness and simplicity still exists, folks. We are still here.”

Alice Howe and Freebo are powerful performers individually who manage to both lead and support each other in their well-crafted songs displaying flawless harmonies and tasteful instrumentation. Howe’s voice is strong and captivating revealing layers of meaning.  Freebo, a genuine folk, rock and blues icon, is one of the great bassists of our time.

Alice Howe and Freebo present a unique study in contrasts, bringing together a rising voice in Americana music and a venerable rock, folk, and blues icon. Each a compelling performer in their own right, they both lead and support each other in their well-crafted songs with flawless harmonies and tasteful instrumentation. They have worked as creative collaborators in the studio and on stage since 2017. Freebo weaves his unique fretless bass stylings into Alice’s superb vocals for a presentation with undeniable chemistry.

To hear Alice Howe sing is to be enraptured by the natural, unaffected beauty of her voice. There’s no artifice, no histrionics — just honest, authentic, emotionally resonant singing in the tradition of the roots music that shaped her. On Circumstance, her second and latest album, the Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter guitarist displays her vocal prowess and introspective writing in abundance, mining both her heart and her musical tastes for a deep, personal journey across an Americana soundscape dotted with blues, folk, country, soul and rock. Recorded in two sessions at the legendary Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, where Etta James and Wilson Pickett once shook the walls, the record channels their spirits with 11 stirring tracks that pull no punches diving into the vagaries of the heart and her own personal journey. As an old soul inside a 30-something millennial, Alice puts her stamp on Americana’s venerable strands with 10 standout originals evoking both the classic singer-songwriters and the seminal music that once filled airwaves, roadhouses and juke joints.

Freebo is best known for his decade of touring and recording with Bonnie Raitt, and has distinguished himself as one of the great bassists of our time, playing on records with CSN, Maria Muldaur, John Mayall, Ringo Starr, Dr. John, and Neil Young as well as appearing on Saturday Night Live, The Midnight Special, The Muppet Show, and in concert with the legendary Spinal Tap. Not willing to simply rest on those achievements, Freebo delved more deeply into his creativity and has become a highly regarded singer/songwriter, now working on his 6th full-length solo CD. A multi award winner and finalist in numerous songwriting contests, Freebo’s music reflects his compassionate concern for the world and people around him, and his lyrics and open stage banter have helped him connect with listeners worldwide. A live musical experience with Freebo is astute, insightful, clever, and truly melodic.

Tim O’Brien has been an essential part of the fabric of the folk, bluegrass and Americana scenes for the past fifty years. Having performed with his wife Jan Fabricius nationally and internationally since 2015, their deep collaboration has served as a narrative of the couple’s life together. In concert with a guitar, a mandolin and their two voices an intimate acoustic roots collection of both traditional and original music is presented.

With Rachel Sumner on guitar and lead vocals, Kat Wallace on fiddle and Mike Siegel on upright bass, Rachel Sumner and Traveling Light specialize in applying their deeply rooted musical knowledge to new interpretations of traditional folk songs and tightly crafted original songs written by Sumner. Magic happens with just three instruments and the harmony of their voices.

Fresh off a first place win at the 2023 Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival band competition, Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light have been captivating audiences throughout the northeast. With songs as sweet and biting as the nectar and venom in her voice, Sumner's lyric-forward writing and penchant for snaking chord progressions demand something far beyond folk conventions, highlighting the acrobatic range of her brilliant bandmates Kat Wallace (fiddle) and Mike Siegel (upright bass).

Sumner is no stranger to the stage. She spent her early career on the bluegrass circuit, singing and writing with the genre-bending Boston group Twisted Pine. Since setting out on her own, Sumner's songs have been critically acclaimed, winning the Lennon Award in the folk category of the 2021 John Lennon Songwriting Contest for her song "Radium Girls (Curie Eleison);" earning her a spot in the Kerrville New Folk Competition; and being chosen four consecutive years by WBUR/NPR as one of the top Massachusetts entries in the Tiny Desk Competition. 

Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light released their debut LP in the summer of 2022 to critical acclaim.

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Hubby Jenkins is a talented multi-instrumentalist who shares his love and knowledge of old-time American music. Delving into his southern roots and following the thread of African American history woven through country blues, ragtime, fiddle, banjo and traditional jazz, he attempts to represent different aspects of our history and experiences through the illumination of music

David Jacobs-Strain and Bob Beach are a multigenerational duo.  Hailing from Eugene, OR, Jacobs-Strain is a striking guitar player with a deep love of blues and roots music. His voice is an unexpected delight of silky pure intonation. Bob Beach has been a professional musician for over 50 years.  He adds the harmonica and flute to his vocals. Together the two reveal their broad scope of musical genres.

David Jacobs-Strain writes songs and performs them and covers. He's also an accomplished guitarist, playing a Pogreba resonator guitar. His skill is as distinctive as the guitar. As Art Podell in Art Folkworks said, "Boy oh boy, can he play! Taj Mahal meets Mark Knopfler? A good comparison."

With comparable skills on the harmonica and flute, Bob Beach, from Pennsylvania, has more than 50 years as a working musician. Bob has performed as a sideman for the Avett Brothers, Sean Mullins, Spinning Leaves, the Youngers, Ollabelle, and many more. He's performed regionally with several groups and musicians including the Bob Beach Trio, Mason Porter, Hezekiah Jones, the Cat’s Pajamas, and the Philadelphia Jug Band.

The two, David from Oregon and Bob from Pennsylvania, have formed an unusual duo, of two generations, of two coasts, and with a new take on blues and roots music. On stage, the two sit next to each other. Bob often uses his 1940s microphone; David sings the lead most of the time; and both take turns wowing the audience with solos on their respective instruments. In 2023 they released their only duo album thus far, The Belfry Session, recorded at The Belfry in Sisters, Oregon. 

Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem are a New England-based folk quartet. Arbo’s unmistakable smoky voice is joined with two lively baritones and a deep bass for the ultimate in harmonies.  Add a guitar, fiddle, upright bass and an interesting percussion kit to the mix for an uplifting evening of sound.

Harmony, rhythm, indelible songs – these are the hallmarks of Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem, now in their 17th year. From the Newport Folk Festival to the California World Music Festival and beyond, this band’s steadfast brew of wit, camaraderie, and musicality leaves audiences everywhere humming and hopeful, spirits renewed.

Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem are Rani Arbo (fiddle, guitar), Andrew Kinsey (bass, banjo, ukulele), Anand Nayak (electric and acoustic guitars) and Scott Kessel (percussion). At the helm, Arbo is “blessed with an unmistakable voice, both light and sultry, with a hint of tremolo and smoke” (Acoustic Guitar). With Kinsey and Nayak’s vibrant baritones and Kessel’s resonant bass, the band’s signature lockstep harmonies can shake the rafters or hush the room. Arbo’s fiddle is sweet and sinewy, while Nayak’s guitar stretches across genre lines. Kinsey’s old- time bass anchors the deep groove of Kessel’s homemade percussion kit — a truly funky collection of cardboard boxes, tin cans, caulk tubes, packing-tape tambourines, bottle-cap rattles, Mongolian jaw harps, and a vinyl suitcase.

In the lineage of string bands who blur the boundaries of American roots music, Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem have always been standard-bearers, with a particular knack for pairing words and music. From bluegrass barnstormers to sultry swing, old-time gospel to bluesy folk-rock, they consistently turn in lush arrangements with “stylish, unexpected choices” (Acoustic Guitar). Original songs fit seamlessly aside artful re-workings of Georgia Sea Islands music, Hank Williams, Leonard Cohen, Bruce Springsteen — just a few of the many places this band is willing to go.

Writes Maverick Magazine, “How refreshing to hear something that sounds as if it has come from people who are genuinely original thinkers. As soon as Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem strike up, you realize this is a band that is unpredictable and impossible to pigeonhole. But, what a thoroughly mellifluous melange — sophisticated, soulful and always handled with care and a lightness of touch that is part folk/jazz/country, part blues/old time, and all good. There is a togetherness that flows right through the heart of the performance. It never gets too clever and always remains understated and classy.”

Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem have seven releases on Signature Sounds, most recently Wintersong (November 2016), a celebratory, poetic, reflective collection of seasonal songs; and Violets Are Blue (April 2015), an eclectic bouquet of love songs infused with poetry and groove — that “skip over sentimentality and go straight to the bittersweet truth” (Music Matters Review). Some Bright Morning (2012) and Big Old Life (2007) are the backbone of the band’s American Spiritual program. The band’s family album, Ranky Tanky, won top awards from the Parents’ Choice Foundation, National Association of Parenting Publications, and the American Library Association. The band’s strong residency programs include school and family shows, hands-on percussion-building workshops and Arts in Medicine offerings.