Scott grew up in a very musical family with his grandfather, who was blind from age nine, was a local musician in Livingston Montana, playing the piano, drums and singing in the Rhythm Ramblers. His father, the man who taught him to play the guitar at the age of 5, also was a guitar player and singer. Growing up in small towns in Montana has its challenges, but it has also giving Scott the life needed to reach for his dreams of being a singer/ songwriter. Having two musically talented daughters, it has sparked the idea of performing together as a family, but as fate would have it, only one daughter, Kayla, has shown the desire to chase his crazy dream of being a full time musician.

Kayla started her musical interest in 6th grade where she took up the violin. Although her desire for music was rich, she moved on from the violin and on to the guitar. In her High School years, she was heavily involved in the school choir. When she was 16, Kayla entered a talent show at her High School. As she was just getting started with playing guitar, she didn’t feel ready to accompany herself, so of course, Dad was quick to jump in. Kayla, upon graduating from high school, went on to culinary school, before jumping in with both feet and traveling all over Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon playing music in local bars, Brewery’s and private functions. Their unique blend of family harmonies draws their followers into a musical journey. From their renditions of Journey’s Don’t stop believing to their original Whiskey in Heaven, the listener is taken through the facets of time and touched by memories of the familiar songs they cover. Their original songs are written from personal memories and life experiences that touch you in so many different ways.

Sturtz’s music stands out for its distinctive, soothing instrumental and vocal harmonies. The acoustic quartet – Andrew Sturtz [vocals, guitar], Jim Herlihy [banjo], Courtlyn Carpenter [cello], and Will Kuepper [bass] – falls somewhere at the intersection of folk and soul, with lead singer Andrew Sturtz’s melodic vocals soaring over the lower string instrumentals. Sturtz is based in Boulder, CO, and has toured across the U.S. opening for groups like the Eli Young Band, Trout Steak Revival, Lillie Mae, the Band of Heathens, and Smooth Hound Smith. NPR’s All Songs Considered described the band as “a reassuring breath of fresh air that pulls me back to simpler times” in their April 2020 blog. Sturtz released their debut album You’ve Done this Before in August 2021, and now they are hard at work touring on this album and writing songs for their next album. When they’re not playing music, you’ll probably find them milling flour, farming, laying in a creek, or eating native foliage.

ELI HOWARD AND THE GREATER GOOD has an alternative country rock sound that has not only created a dedicated fan base in the Northwest and beyond but allowed him to share the stage with artists including the Steel Woods, Whiskey Myers, Shane Smith and the Saints and William Clark Green. Their new single “Wildfire” is rapidly gaining popularity on Spotify.

Jam/Grass/Folk from Portland, OR

Since 2015 and extending far into the future, Band of Comerados plays music that makes you feel good. Call it bluegrass, jamgrass, folk, or indie, what sets the band apart is their intricate instrumentation, dual vocal parts, intense improvisational jams, and the fact that these guys have so much damn fun when they’re playing live music!

In between traveling up and down the west coast in 2022, BoC managed to coax a bevy of Portland’s finest musicians into the studio to record an ambitious, full-band EP entitled With Friends Like These. It features current and former members of TK & The Holy Know Nothings, Yak Attack, and World’s Finest, and was mixed by Tyler Thompson of Fruition. Although the band added drums, percussion, saxophone, trumpet, flute, and fiddle, the product definitively makes you feel good. The EP was released on Halloween in 2022, and follows previous releases Kindsight (2020), Trial & Error (2019), and Tomorrow is Today (2017).

From their inception around campfire jams, Band of Comerados has come a long way. Earning their stripes at dive bars, breweries, block parties, and house concerts in their hometown of Portland, Oregon, the band began to get a foothold in some of the city’s finest venues, like Laurelthirst, White Eagle, Goodfoot, Aladdin Theatre, Wonder Ballroom, Mississippi Studios and more. Expanding their fanbase, they traveled up and down the west coast from Southern California to Northern Washington, and east through Idaho, Utah, and Arizona. Festival appearances include What the Festival!?, Beltane Music Festival, 4 Peaks Music Festival, Northwest String Summit, Gem & Jam, and more.

Brandon Campbell grew up in Orange County, California and began playing the guitar at age 15. A decade later he moved to Hollywood, CA and in 1998 founded the “The Graveyard Farmers”. The band successfully combined Rockabilly, Blues, Punk, late-night horror, and opened for such luminaries as Link Wray, The Blasters, The Damned, The Stray Cats, L7, The Knitters, and Exene Cervenka. His songs from that project have appeared in such films as “The Hillside Strangler”, “Liars’ Poker’, “Haunting Desires”, “The Lair”, and “Bikini Frankenstein”. In 2002, famous burlesque star Dita Von Teese volunteered and starred in their video “Kiss Your Ass Goodbye”.

Shortly after dissolving The Graveyard Farmers and relocating to a remote mountain town north of Los Angeles, Campbell began delving into the music of Gypsy Swing and the guitarist Django Reinhardt. With his penchant for mystery and the macabre, Brandon began forming his own take on the style, attempting to create something that could be beautiful and passionate, yet still flirt with darkness and occasional humor.

In 2010, Brandon released the album “Ten from the Galley” which contained nine of his original compositions that he recorded in his home studio, playing all of the instruments himself.

Brandon Campbell’s latest album, “Mishap in the Foyer”, was released in October 2018 and contains ten more of his original instrumental compositions. Again, Campbell recorded in complete isolation and played all of the instruments himself including two that he built – a cardboard upright bass, and the “Clairvoyachord”.

The Brandon Campbell Trio are:
Brandon Campbell – Guitar
Brian Hickey – Upright Bass
Mark Evans – Tenor Guitar

A four piece Grateful Dead Tribute jam, Call Down Thunder features Eli Madden & Dave Pettibone on guitar & vocals with bassist Chip Fieberg and drummer Jon Swift. The band frequents Central Oregon local venues including Broken Top Bottle Shop, Niblick’s & Greene’s, Crosscut Warming Hut No. 5, High Desert Music Hall and others playing an energetic show of timeless Grateful Dead songs that keeps the dance floor moving and the people happy.

Innovation meets tradition in bluegrass band Fog Holler. Based in Portland, Oregon, the band features keening brother duo harmonies, rollicking banjo, sassy guitar, bowed bass, and ripping fiddle. Inspired by a range of influences from The Stanley Brothers to Buck Owens to Primus, Fog Holler breathes fresh life into well worn forms like the murder ballad and the power waltz. With deeply personal, sometimes tongue-in-cheek lyrics, the band pays homage to their classic country and bluegrass forbears by modernizing these familiar frameworks. Described by two-time Grammy Award Winner Cathy Fink as “The next generation of the many shades of grass”, Fog Holler’s captivating tunes and coordinated outfits are quickly enthralling longtime bluegrass fans and newcomers alike.