Children (13+) → Standard ticket price
Young Children (5 & under) → Free with accompanying adult
*Policy: Children must be supervised at all times. Our festivals are family-friendly but still prioritize a listening atmosphere.
LINE-UP
NICK SHOULDERS
Nick Shoulders is an American country singer-songwriter from Fayetteville, Arkansas. After achieving local success with his punk rock band Thunderlizards in the early 2010s and playing harmonica and banjo with Shawn James and the Shapeshifters, in 2017 Shoulders began releasing country music as a solo artist. His solo work has reached a much wider audience, beginning with a performance of his original song "Rather Low" gathering considerable momentum on YouTube. Shoulders has been praised for his distinctive vocal style, which incorporates influences from early country music in the form of yodelling and whistling.
ERIN RAE
Three years after the release of her critically acclaimed debut, Putting On Airs, Nashville-raised singer-songwriter Erin Rae shares an intimate, honest, and playful version of herself through her sophomore album Lighten Up. Produced by Jonathan Wilson, and recorded in the musically hallowed grounds of California’s Topanga Canyon, the album represents a sonic and inner shift for Rae. In it, she embraces more of her influences, like baroque-pop, cosmic country, and indie-folk songs while mirroring a more compassionate self-view she calls “accepting my humanness”.
SALLY ANNE MORGAN
Sally Anne Morgan, is a working musician. Her most recent music can be found at bandcamp, as well as all major streaming sites. She plays with several bands, including Black Twig Pickers and House and Land. Sally is also a self-taught illustrator. She learned letterpress printing by apprenticing at Innerer Klang in Asheville. Combining hand drawn images with antique letterpress printing techniques, hand-set type, and hand-carved linoleum blocks, Ratbee designs and letterpress prints cards and other art from her home studio. She specializes in multi-piece wedding invitations with a personal, quirky flair. Her cards and art prints can be found in Asheville, as well as in many independent shops across the country.
LITTLE MAZARN
‘The music of Little Mazarn is a cool float a few feet from the ground through a dimly lit, almost familiar forest.” —Thor Harris, Talkhouse
“Naturalistic but futuristic: sentimental banjo plucks perfectly ground Jeff Johnston’s squirmy singing saw and songwriter Lindsey Verrill’s piercingly characteristic voice.” -Rachel Rascoe, the Austin Chronicle
SARAH LOUISE
Sarah Louise is an artist living in Asheville and inspired by the natural world. “Louise’s daring blend of heartfelt stream of conscious playing and bold studio processing demonstrates her unique ability to craft poignant music regardless of what tools she uses. She finds harmony rather than dissonance in synthesizing raw and organic materials with the technological. Sections of electronic bursts swell and ebb with a lifelike pulse, collapsing distinction between the natural and artificial. Each piece inhabits its own biosphere and Louise’s guitar and voice act as the flora and fauna. With Nighttime Birds and Morning Stars, Sarah Louise has reimagined the limitations of guitar music to create a work of sublime resplendence.” -Thrill Jockey
THE MONTVALES
Born and raised in Knoxville, TN, Sally Buice and Molly Rochelson of songwriter duo The Montvales spent much of their formative years busking amidst the Elvis impersonators and musical saw players of the town’s Market Square, honing their uniquely boisterous harmonies and driving, joyful sound. Eventually they graduated to playing indoors on the local Americana radio station, WDVX, and found community in old-time circles around town. A local fiddler’s dairy cows were among the first intrepid listeners of their early DIY recordings. After moving away for several years to seek their fortunes separately, Molly and Sally finally reunited in 2019 to write and record their first album, Heartbreak Summer Camp. The two now make their home in Cincinnati, OH, spending their days touring extensively and crafting intimate, storytelling-driven songs that explore the joys and perils of self-determination. Their new album, Born Strangers, is produced by Mike Eli LoPinto (producer and co-writer of Emily Nenni’s “On the Ranch”, guitarist for Chris Stapleton) and recorded in Sean Sullivan’s Tractor Shed Studio in Nashville. Tracks from the album have been featured by The Bluegrass Situation, Holler., The American Songwriter, The Bluegrass Standard, Twangville, and more. The twelve songs careen recklessly across the whole folk-country spectrum, showcasing The Montvales’ distinctive harmonies and building a sonic world just expansive and surprising enough to hold the wide-eyed existentialism of the stories and questions raised by the lyrics.
HEMLOCK
Hemlock is the music of Carolina who is swamp-raised, phone-fi alt-folk. Anchors in chi / atx / louisiana, but more often on the road.
ARTISTS-AT-LARGE
AURAL COMMUNION with Sarah Louise
Sarah Louise present[s] a new form of aural communion…sound forms in tune with the thrust of existence. - NPR
In this time of ecological and social crises, Sarah finds hope in our capacities to listen to the Earth through the infinite expressions of our animal bodies. Sit with Sarah and the plants to learn how to listen and sing together. Sarah is an accomplished artist, musician, and herbalist in Asheville, NC.
SCHOOLHOUSE PUPPETS with Becca Lane
Becca Lane was a preschool teacher for 15 years before starting Schoolhouse Puppets, a Madison County giant puppet collective. Schoolhouse Puppets bring joy, creativity, and fun through giant puppetry, parades, performances, and hands-on creations.
BE ART: INTERACTIVE ART SPACE with Jane Sleeper
Collaborative and communal land art weavings, faerie houses, face and body paintings, Henna, and other connective creatives experiences with Spring Creek local artist, Jane Sleeper.
BABA YAGA’S PHOTO HUT with Taryn Piana
Hidden deep in the haints and hollers of Southern Appalachia there is a mythical hut that runs about on chicken feet. It’s glass eye capturing glimpses of the folks that dare sit down and stare back. Follow your intuition into the hut and bare your beautiful souls for the eye of the witch within. Baba Yaga’s Photo Hut creates timeless tin-type-style photography, and polaroids printed on site or archived to the oracle(internet). We aim to capture magical moments in time and memories of beautiful gatherings. Whether you seek the rough and rustic, beautiful and ethereal, folky fun, or childhood innocence captured, we welcome all within.
Spring Creek homesteader and multimedia artist Taryn Piana worked professionally for 20 years in the arts, music, and performance. During that time she found a passion for mythos and folklore, storytelling and philosophy. Photography was a natural outlet for her to express and capture the beauty that is everywhere. She is inspired by the community and culture of Southern Appalachia and would be honored to collaborate with the muses of the moments.