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2023 Performer Bios
Performer Bios 2023
Waterbound

Waterbound

Waterbound brings together Steve Akerman and Mimi Geibel, and they bring us new twists to fiddle tunes, folk, and Celtic-inspired music, as well...

Performer Bios 2023
Trillium

Trillium

Some unions are just destined to be.  Friends of friends connected us back in 1995, and soon, Betsy Wellings, Lisa Marie Kuhlman and...

Performer Bios 2023
Thaddeus Spae

Thaddeus Spae

Thaddeus Spae:  A forty-year veteran of the folk wars, award-winning singer/songwriter Thaddeus Spae is an innovative, eclectic entertainer who mixes unreliable narratives with...

Performer Bios 2023
Skweez the Weezle

Skweez the Weezle

Skweez The Weezle played their first Tumbleweed Music Festival performance in 1999, and have played every live festival since, along with a virtual...

Performer Bios 2023
Sillertides

Sillertides

Many folksongs and ballads are built around a conversation between two or more characters, and the singing may be shared by different people,...

Performer Bios 2023
Russell Bartlett

Russell Bartlett

The Famous Lost Words of Russell Bartlett By Richard Smith, Metroplex Insights Veteran songwriter-troubadour Russell Bartlett, who grew up in rural Washington state,...

Performer Bios 2023
R B

R B

R B is a multi-instrumentalist who grew up in Florida, went to high school in Maryland and joined the Navy in ’92 &...

Performer Bios 2023
Mike Murray

Mike Murray

Mike Murray has been playing folk, country, and original acoustic music pretty much all his life.  He’s won the Tumbleweed Songwriting Contest twice,...

Performer Bios 2023
Megan Cronin

Megan Cronin

Portland based multi-instrumentalist Megan Cronin plays folk music at its most vulnerable, showing the tender underbelly of the human experience. Inspired by artists...

Performer Bios 2023
Jerry Callahan

Jerry Callahan

Jerry Callahan is a singer/songwriter/guitarist from Kennewick.  He grew up in Western Massachusetts and started playing electric guitar in his teens.  He led...

Performer Bios 2023
David Kidman

David Kidman and Melissa Marosy

David Kidman (Ilkley, UK) is a singer whose eclectic and extensive repertoire encompasses both traditional and modern-day ballads, sea shanties and maritime and...

Performer Bios 2023
Curtis and Loretta

Curtis and Loretta

Curtis & Loretta are a folk singer-songwriter duo, guided by their love of good songs and inspired by the stories of people they...

Jane Titland Memorial Songwriting Contest Finalists

Jane Titland Memorial Songwriting Contest Finalists

Waterbound

Waterbound

Trillium

Trillium

Thaddeus Spae

Thaddeus Spae

Skweez the Weezle

Skweez the Weezle

Sillertides

Sillertides

Russell Bartlett

Russell Bartlett

R B

Mike Murray

Mike Murray

Megan Cronin

Megan Cronin

Jerry Callahan

Jerry Callahan

David Kidman and Melissa Marosy

David Kidman and Melissa Marosy

Curtis and Loretta

Curtis and Loretta

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