Waterbound
Waterbound brings together Steve Akerman and Mimi Geibel, and they bring us new twists to fiddle tunes, folk, and Celtic-inspired music, as well as Metis, Canadian, and Swedish tunes with an unusual combination of instruments. Playing mandolin and autoharp, they will tug at your emotions with that Celtic sense of longing, wonder and joy. Mimi […]
Trillium
Some unions are just destined to be. Friends of friends connected us back in 1995, and soon, Betsy Wellings, Lisa Marie Kuhlman and Aileen Denton had joined together in a well-blended 3-part harmony folk venture, performing throughout the Puget Sound at local venues, events, festivals, and on the radio. We chose the beautiful tri-petaled trillium […]
Thaddeus Spae
Thaddeus Spae: A forty-year veteran of the folk wars, award-winning singer/songwriter Thaddeus Spae is an innovative, eclectic entertainer who mixes unreliable narratives with songs ranging from humorous and deftly satiric to inspirational, literate, and allusive. He accompanies himself with precise exuberance on an improbable assortment of instruments, including 12 string guitar, harmonica, trombone, banjolin, ukulele, […]
Skweez the Weezle
Skweez The Weezle played their first Tumbleweed Music Festival performance in 1999, and have played every live festival since, along with a virtual performance in 2021. The band salutes the organizers and volunteers for putting on this annual event! We play Celtic music in traditional and our own styles. Our gigs have taken us throughout […]
Sillertides
Many folksongs and ballads are built around a conversation between two or more characters, and the singing may be shared by different people, clearly differentiating the characters and bringing them and their story to life. The Sillertides are Linn Phipps (of Stornoway, Scotland) and Doug Huggins (of Colorado Springs, Colorado), who offer live zoom shared-singing […]
Russell Bartlett
The Famous Lost Words of Russell Bartlett By Richard Smith, Metroplex Insights Veteran songwriter-troubadour Russell Bartlett, who grew up in rural Washington state, made his debut at South by Southwest in 1998. Bartlett says he started writing songs when he was a young child. “I still remember the very first one,” he laughs. “We lived […]
R B
R B is a multi-instrumentalist who grew up in Florida, went to high school in Maryland and joined the Navy in ’92 & is now a retired Chief. He has been happily married since 1999. Several years ago, friends who were on the same ship taught R B the major guitar chords. While stationed in […]
Mike Murray
Mike Murray has been playing folk, country, and original acoustic music pretty much all his life. He’s won the Tumbleweed Songwriting Contest twice, performed at nearly every Tumbleweed Festival since the first one, and at other festivals such as Seattle’s Folklife, the Alaska Folk Festival, and others. He’s played with the Smelter Rats, Smoke Creek, […]
Megan Cronin
Portland based multi-instrumentalist Megan Cronin plays folk music at its most vulnerable, showing the tender underbelly of the human experience. Inspired by artists as varied as Tori Amos, Billie Holiday, Sarah Watkins, Brandi Carlile, and Nick Drake, she focuses on alluring melodies and smooth vocal lines that are powerful even without her poignant and often […]
Jerry Callahan
Jerry Callahan is a singer/songwriter/guitarist from Kennewick. He grew up in Western Massachusetts and started playing electric guitar in his teens. He led several rock bands in Holyoke and Amherst MA in the 70s and 80s, playing the college circuit and building a repertoire of original rock and blues tunes. After relocating to the Pacific […]