Ed Clem and the Backsliders
Check out this group’s performance at the 2015 festival!
Coneflowers
The Coneflowers are a group of fierce women who love to make music on their day off. Members of the group include accomplished local bluegrass, folk, choral, and classical musicians who sing
The Deep Hollow
The Deep Hollow are a trio from Springfield Illinois with a contemporary Folk/Nashville-Austin, Texas sound. They are recent winners of the American Songwriter Magazine 30th Anniversary Song Contest for the
Mike and Olivia
Mike and Olivia are a contemporary and traditional folk duo based in Champaign, IL. They perform Americana music with soulful singing and rich harmonies. Their repertoire includes original songs, traditional
Black Ridge Road
Black Ridge Road is a Champaign, Illinois-based bluegrass band, with Roger Bowen, on mandolin and harmony vocals, Roy Britton on guitar and lead and harmony vocals, Doug Buchanan on resonator
Bashful Youngens
The Bashful Youngens are an Americana singer-songwriter duo out of Champaign, Illinois featuring the acoustic stylings of Carrie Chandler-Harrison (mandolin, guitar, vocals) and Aaron Short (harmonica, guitar, vocals). Their style
Still Shine
Formed in the summer of 2014, Still Shine is a group of like-minded, seasoned musicians blending acoustic roots and progressive bluegrass. Mixing mandolin, harmonica, banjo, acoustic guitar, upright bass, and tight
Women in the Blues Workshop, with Gaye Adegbalola
In this workshop, Gaye Adegbalola traces the history of blues women from the 1920s to today. She’ll share video and/or audio clips from Bessie Smith to Billie Holiday, from Rosetta Tharpe
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Pickin’ Illini Open Jam Session
Come join members of the Pickin’ Illini in an old-fashioned, pickin’-style jam! If you love to pick bluegrass, blues or folk, or just want to sing along, then pull up a chair
Hobnob String Band
The Hobnob String Band is an acoustic musical group steeped in the traditions of American music from old time to bluegrass to blues, while traveling down the unpaved uncharted road