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Queen Quet (Georgia Sea Islands)
Queen Quet Marquetta L. Goodwine is a singer/vocalist, author, computer scientist, lecturer, and cultural historian. She is the founder of the premiere advocacy or...
Rachel Reynolds (Fox, Arkansas)
Rachel is an artist and folklorist with a background in art and cultural policy and arts-focused grassroots organizing in underserved communities. Reynolds received...
Randy Sabien (St. Paul, Minnesota)
Randy Sabien has over forty years of performing experience as a contemporary violinist. He also has extensive touring and guesting experience, having toured as s...
Rickie Monie (New Orleans, Louisiana)
Preservation Hall pianist Rickie Monie was raised in New Orleans’s Ninth Ward. Monie’s parents played piano in church, and at home they would spin records by ...
Paul Anastasio (Richard, Louisiana)
Paul Anastasio began studying violin at age nine and soon gravitated to popular and folk music. By his mid-twenties, he had studied with jazz violin pioneer Joe...
Arturo Rodriguez (Seattle, Washington)
An accomplished musician, author, teacher, and DJ, Arturo Rodriguez has performed worldwide, sharing the stage with such music legends as Tito Puente; Dave V...
Jeanie McLerie and Ken Keppeler (Silver City, New Mexico)
Bayou Seco plays music from the Southwest. Jeanie and Ken have collected music from older traditional American musicians for most of thei...
Belén Escobedo (San Antonio, Texas)
Belén Escobedo plays rare and beautiful fiddle tunes in the South Texas-Mexican grass roots Tejano Conjunto tradition. Growing up on the south side of San Anton...
Bertram Levy (Port Townsend, Washington)
Bertram Levy is one of the few accomplished bandoneonistas in North America. In 1989, Bertram first heard the instrument played live by Astor Piazzolla. He...
Bethany Highley (Bonners Ferry, Idaho)
Bethany is a professional recording artist and session vocalist with classical vocal training, choir, musical theater, and worship leading experience. She ca...
Carla Sciaky (Lakewood, Colorado)
Carla Sciaky is a multi-instrumentalist and folk singer-songwriter based in Lakewood, Colorado. As a soloist, she toured the US and Europe throughout the 1980s an...
Brian Walther (Bismarck, North Dakota)
Brian Walther’s career in music goes all the way back to 1982 and he has played countless styles of music. Whether it be as a polka drummer, a bass player in...
Brian Marshall (Humble, Texas)
Brian Marshall is considered one of the keepers of the unique Texas Polish fiddle tradition. Performers like Brian Marshall have been responsible for a recent revita...
César “Jarochelo” Castro (Los Angeles, California)
A professional son jarocho musician, luthier, and instructor, César Castro has been an active liaison between communities in the US and Veracruz,...
Dave Robinson (Phoenix, Arizona)
Dave Robinson is a Phoenix-based classical musician and jazz guitarist who plays everything from classical to contemporary music. He has performed with Stevie Nick...
David García (San Antonio del Guache, New Mexico)
Lifelong musician and cultural anthropologist David García works at the Center for Regional Studies-University of New Mexico. He calls himself a c...
Daniel Ho (Los Angeles, California/Honolulu, Hawaii)
Daniel Ho is an ‘ukulele virtuoso, slack key guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, singer-songwriter, producer, audio engineer,...
Dan Ansotegui (Boise, Idaho)
Dan Ansotegui was raised by the scents and tastes of his mother’s cooking and the sound of his father’s music. The music came from the accordion and the aromas that fi...
Dewa Berata (Los Angeles, California)
Bapak I Dewa Putu Berata is an internationally acclaimed Balinese musician, teacher, and composer based out of the San Francisco Bay Area and Pengosekan, Bali...
David Romtvedt (Buffalo, Wyoming)
David Romtvedt was born in Portland, Oregon, and raised in southern Arizona. He is a writer and a musician. A recipient of two NEA fellowships, the Pushcart Prize...
David Reihs (Portland, Oregon)
Playing Arabic keyboard and accordion, Middle Eastern percussion, ud, and elektro-saz, David Reihs is a multi-instrumentalist turned producer and educator who curren...
Dewa Ayu Dewi Larassanti (Bay Area, California)
Dewa Ayu Larassanti is a Balinese dancer, musician, and vocalist who regularly teaches at Sanggar Çudamani, a Balinese performing arts school founde...
Eddie Parente (Portland, Oregon)
Originally from Jersey City, NJ, Eddie Parente studied violin and four-part harmony at Jersey City State College and played in string orchestra while studying jazz...
Del Rey (Seattle, Washington)
Del Rey started playing guitar when she was four years old. At thirteen, she was immersed in the world of folk music via the San Diego Folk Festival. She has tried to...
Erin Heist (Juneau, Alaska)
Born and raised in Juneau, Alaska, Erin Heist plays guitar and sings bluegrass, old-time, Cajun, and country music. She performs in a duo with her husband and in a honk...
Gao Hong (Northfield, Minnesota)
Gao Hong, a Chinese pipa player and composer, began her career as a professional musician at age twelve. She graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music in Be...
Fred Riedel (Gresham, Oregon)
A retired schoolteacher, Fred Riedel is the bandleader, guitar player, and singer for the blues band—swing style—Blues Battalion. The group plays cover tunes as well ...
Jessica Pacheco (Los Angeles, California)
Jessica was born and raised in Miami, Florida, to Cuban parents Miriam and Jose Pacheco. Growing up, Jessica partook in numerous extracurricular activitie...
Isaac Callender (Sand Coulee, Montana)
Isaac has been a regular in the North American folk music scene for the last twenty years. He has performed with such notable acts as Jeff Scroggins and Colo...
Nat Hulskamp (Portland, Oregon)
Born in Portland, OR, Nat Hulskamp began studying guitar with guitarist/composer Paul Chasman at age seventeen. He was soon introduced to flamenco guitar by José So...
Nathaniel Kuster (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
Known as a “virtuoso de la quena,” Nathaniel Kuster (whose stage name for many years was Chichí Pérez) plays wind instruments from the Andes Mountains, i...
Kozue Matzumoto (Los Angeles, California)
Born and raised in the Tohoku (東北) area in Japan and having lived in Tokyo as well, Kozue is now based in the Los Angeles area. She has played the koto si...
LaRhonda Steele (Portland, Oregon)
Gospel, jazz, and blues singer LaRhonda Steele began her musical journey in Jones, Oklahoma, at age 13 singing her first solo in church. Her journey continued to...
Lawrence F. Archambault (Fort Yates, North Dakota)
Lawrence (Larz) Archambault, a Hunkpapa Lakota from the Standing Rock Sioux Nation of North and South Dakota, is the drummer for the recording gr...
Kevin LaMarr Jones (Richmond, Virginia)
Kevin LaMarr Jones is a dance artist, choreographer, and performer. He is the artistic director of the community-based dance company and academy called Clav...
Luc Reynaud (Winthrop, Washington)
Luc Reynaud is a musician, producer, and humanitarian who lives by the code that anything is possible if we do not limit ourselves. Along with his band Luc and t...
Giani Martinez (Tampa, Florida)
Metal/heavy metal musician Gianfranco Martinez De La Torre lives in Tampa, Florida, where he was born and raised. He does promotions and booking for a DIY venue loc...
Hal Ide (Iowa City, Iowa)
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1954, flutist Hal Ide grew up in a northern suburb of Detroit. He completed an undergraduate degree in Music Theory and Composition at Central...
J. Michael King (Greenville, South Carolina)
J. Michael King is a composer, writer, and accomplished Piedmont blues musician. He plays in the time-honored style of bluesman Reverend Gary Davis, a ...
Hasan Khalil (Lincoln, Nebraska)
Hasan Khalil is a Yazidi Syrian immigrant who spent years in a refugee camp in Syria before relocating to Lincoln, Nebraska’s sizeable Yazidi community. Hasan is a...
José Alfredo (Chicago, Illinois)
José Alfredo Guerrero is an educator and musician who grew up in Chicago’s La Villita. A graduate of DePaul University’s School of Music, he is a member of Madera...
Gregory Hodges (Spartanburg, South Carolina)
South Carolina-based blues musician Gregory Hodges has spent years touring with and performing with a number of different acts, including Col. Bruce Ha...
Javier Garcia (Miami, Florida)
Born in Spain to a Cuban father and Irish mother, Javier Garcia is a composer, arranger, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and singer who performs in the realms of fu...
Jason Hedges (Gainesville, Florida)
Jason grew up in Gainesville, Florida, and has been performing since childhood. He is a musician and actor and has been involved in the theater and music scene ...
Jake Fussell (Durham, North Carolina)
Originally from Georgia, Jake Xerxes Fussell is a singer and guitarist who lives in Durham, North Carolina. He has toured extensively as a solo performer and ...
Jada M. Lark (U.S. Virgin Islands)
Originally from Chicago, Illinois, singer Jada M. Lark relocated to the U.S. Virgin Islands, where she met her husband and performs as a singer in the reggae ban...
Johnny Rawls (Purvis, Mississippi)
With a career spanning more than 50 years, Johnny Rawls is an internationally recognized recording artist, music producer, and songwriter who tours extensively t...
Jay Burgess (Muscle Shoals, Alabama)
Guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter Jay Burgess is part of a new generation of Muscle Shoals musicians continuing in the long tradition of the Muscle Shoals so...
Joshua Asante (Little Rock, Arkansas)
Joshua Asante is a musician, writer, and photographer. He is the lead vocalist and guitarist/keyboardist for the Little Rock, Arkansas-based indie bands Amasa...
