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Elevated in South Dakota by Mennonite missionaries, singer/songwriter Rachel Ries spent her formative years immersed within an unusual mixture of Congolese spirituals, Mennonite hymns, and the favorite Carpenters tunes of your day. Now located in Vermont, Ries produced her documenting debut in 2005, liberating For You Just, a charming group …

Bridging the worlds of indie rock and roll, alt-country, and folk, singer/songwriter Dawn Landes provides used a similarly diverse selection of artists including Fred Eaglesmith, Amy Rigby, John Gorka, and Rainer Maria. A Louisville, Kentucky, indigenous, Landes relocated to NY to wait N.Con.U. and play music. She acquired a weekly …

Heavily influenced with the confessional alternative folk stylings of Ani DiFranco, Anaïs Mitchell began writing songs when she was 17. Delivered in Vermont, she went to Middlebury University and traveled through the entire Middle East, Latin America, and European countries learning global politics before alighting in Austin, TX, in the …

Purveying an utterly enchanting appear that borrows from folk, pop, Western golf swing, and early vocal jazz, Los Angeles’ fancifully called Ditty Bops feature the tightly woven harmonies of Amanda Barrett (who also grips mandolin and dulcimer duties) and Abby DeWald (who also performs guitar). Though Barrett and DeWald fulfilled …

The lone constant of California’s long-running Dark View is John Andrew Fredrick, an anglophile having a Ph.D. in British from the University or college of California at Santa Barbara. Because the past due ’80s, Fredrick offers sporadically released well-regarded albums which have obtained comparisons to the home of Like, the …