Sweet Beaver 2017 is brought to you by the generous support of Grassy Hill Entertainment, Hearth PR, Saving Country Music, Berklee College of Music and Dollartone.

WEDNESDAY FEB. 15 SONGS OF LOVE AND PROTEST


Gaby Moreno
Wed. 10:30 - Midnight Songs of Love and Protest
Note: Gaby is performing only her Official showcase and this 
unofficial showcase



Gaby Moreno is a grammy nominated singer songwriter hailing from Guatemala (based in LA). She's furiously toured the world and just released her 6th album "Ilusion" produced by Gabe Roth (Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings/Amy Winehouse). 
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Al Scorch 

Wed. 10:30 - Midnight Songs of Love and Protest
Fri. 1:30 am
 



A punk rock banjo-wielding John Prine or Billy Bragg, Al Scorch writes for the every person. Through his acrobatically poetic politics, hopeful tales of love lost, or cathartic takes on urban chaos, he pens rowdy campfire stories, calls for action, and draws the epic from the ordinary.
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Wild Ponies


Wed. 10:30 - Midnight Songs of Love and Protest





Doug and Telisha Williams went from folk duo to "Wild Ponies" overnight a few years back. As independent artists in an uncertain world, Doug and Telisha know they are lucky to be in this Wild Ponies thing with all their musician friends and with each other.
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Eve Sheldon
Wed. 10:30 - Midnight Songs of Love and Protest


Eve Sheldon, former lead singer of The Wilders, has found her true gender (!) as well as a new and natural sound. Hypnotic, expressive vocals with sweet, intricate finger-picking give her original songs a soulfulness...a gravity...that only years of living a complicated, painful and joyous life can give. Intriguing, powerful music...

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Matt Haeck
  
 Wed. 10:30 - Midnight Songs of Love and Protest
 Fri. 11:30 pm 



East Nashville’s Matt Haeck comes by his contradictions honestly. Classic and tattooed, retro and current, scrappy with an honest, lyrical voice that leans toward Hank Williams without ever being derivative, he sings truths hard-earned from years of struggle most men twice his age have never seen.
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THURSDAY FEB. 16th

Red Tail Ring
Thursday 10:30 - 11:30 ITR



Red Tail Ring is the Americana roots duo of Michael Beauchamp and Laurel Premo. Based in Kalamazoo, MI (US), the collaboration blends the loving attention of revivalist fervor with the playful creativity of starting from scratch. Formed in 2009, Red Tail Ring released their fourth full-length studio album, Fall Away Blues, in late 2016 (#5 on FolkDJ September and December 2016). The new album features original and traditional songs and tunes in an old-time and country blues style that explore topical subjects, such as a devastating community-wide gun tragedy and environmental struggles in the US, as well as changing relationships and a shifting sense of home. American Roots UK says, “[Red Tail Ring is] the very best of the 21st century’s minimalist and highly original folk music . . . a peerless duo.” Their new music proves - even after 800 shows across two continents - that Beauchamp and Premo are still finding new musical pathways for discovery and exploration. 

The Steel Wheels
Thursday 11:30 pm


The Steel Wheels hail from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, combining strong acoustic instrumentation with resonant, effortless harmonies. Wild As We Came Here (2017), produced by Sam Kassirer (Lake Street Dive, Josh Ritter, Elephant Revival), compounds on 2015’s 'Leave Some Things Behind' to deliver the band’s most explorative album yet. 
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Phoebe Hunt and The Gatherers
Thursday 1 am


..is the brain/heart child of violinist, vocalist, and composer Phoebe Hunt. This music swells, crashes, rests, and shifts beneath Phoebe’s soulful, plaintive voice. Sounds of Americana and swing, from her Texas roots, are woven with rhythmic concepts culled from her study of Indian Classical music, feeling surprising yet familiar.
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Bella Hardy
Thursday 10:30 - 11:30 ITR


BBC Radio2 Folk Singer of the Year 2014, Bella won universal acclaim for "With The Dawn’ named "...nothing short of a masterpiece” (London Times). She's opened on tour for Mary Chapin Carpenter, was the only UK artists selected for WOMEX15, and spent seven weeks as British Council's Musician in Residence China. 
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Wink Burcham
Thursday 12 Midnight

An old soul with a song craft that belies his age, Wink Burcham has a genuine reverence to the past with a knack for writing witty,
heartfelt lyrics that immediately pull the listener into his stories.The music easily slips between old-fashioned country, grass-roots folk, and Piedmont-style blues. 

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Cécile Doo-Kingué
Thursday 1:30 am

Award winning guitarist, singer - songwriter Cécile Doo Kingué is rapidly earning a stellar reputation amongst the roster of great guitarist coming from Canada. The 5 time MapleBlues nominee plays incredibly powerfully, gaining recognition for her exceptional stage presence. In 2017 She is both a showcasing artist and Music Camp instructor.
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Gaelynn Lea
Thursday 10:30 - 11:30 ITR


Gaelynn Lea was the 2016 winner of NPR's Tiny Desk Contest.She is a violinist and singer from Minnesota who has performed her mix of original songs and traditional, live-looped fiddle tunes for over a decade. Gaelynn Lea has a disability called Osteogenesis Imperfecta, and regularly advocatesfor disability rights.

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Molsky's Mountain Drifters
Thursday 12:30 am

Grammy-nominate fiddler and Berklee Visiting Scholar Bruce Molsky brings the next generation of roots players, guitar genre-bender Stash Wyslouch (Deadly Gentlemen) and master of the clawhammer banjo, Allison de Groot (The Goodbye Girls) together for an audacious, joyful and compelling musical journey as Molsky’s Mountain Drifters.
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John Craigie
Thursday 2:00 am

If John Prine and Mitch Hedberg had a baby, the resulting product would resemble something very close to Portland, OR singer-songwriter John Craigie. Musically comparable to Prine, with the humor and wit of Hedberg, the humble, gracious, and hilarious Craigie is one of the best storytellers of our time.
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