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the Shady J's
the Shady J's are a K-W band who dabble in anything from folk to pop playing just about everything in between.
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Those Rowdy Corinthians
"Those Rowdy Corinthians" (Sam Adams and Josh Compton) share their love for their roots, hymns, old-timey songs, and storytelling. Influenced by their Appalachian ancestors, they sing songs about trains, ships, love (lost or not), spiders, losing, running away, death, peace, pain, life, the wind, and God. They tell stories of thieves, disciples, and themselves as they explore their deep love for music and strive to keep the music of their ancestors alive.
Singing is loving.
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All performers - Sorted by name Z -> A
IMPORTANT: Performers listed here may appear at various Mennofolk festivals across the country. Please check the individual festival pages for listings of who will be performing at each location.
List all performers sorted by: Name Z -> A :: Name A -> Z
List performers by genre: American roots :: Bluegrass :: Cajun :: Celtic :: Music for Children :: Christian :: Classical :: Folk :: Gospel :: Hiphop :: Latino :: Peace and Justice :: Rock :: Singer/songwriter :: Storytelling
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Wendy Chappell-Dick |
| http://www.mennofolksonggirl.com/ | |
| For Wendy, making music is thoroughly woven into relationships. Compared by some to Kate Wolf for this combination of friendship, folk style and heartfelt melody, Wendy chooses her songs like quilt squares, her music partners gathered round the table for so much more than music. Her tools are a cello, guitar, dulcimer, hymnal, and a stock of over 1000 tunes by memory. Wendy calls herself an evangelist, an activist and an enthusiast of music that comes from the cradle of the Mennonite church. Her music is at home at protests, coffeehouses, living rooms, churches, woods and cabins. She is active in all genres especially including children's, celtic, classical, choral, a capella, historical folk, and 80s rock and roll. | |
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Trent Wagler & the Steel Wheels |
| http://www.trentwagler.com/ | |
Trent Wagler & the Steel Wheels remind me of something I've never heard before. Acoustic String Band and solitary soul performance, bounding fiddle tunes, and deep lyrical landscapes. No wonder John Bright called him "an americana songmaster." |
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Tim Shue |
Tim Shue comes to us from Kidron, Ohio, where he is director of music at Central Christian High School. At home on the guitar, fiddle, and other folk instruments, Tim performs unique arrangements of hymns and original songs. Inspired to by topics like his native Kansas, tornadoes, grandma, church life, to his favorite hobby of birding, Tim's songs are driven by stories, meaning, and connection. |
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tim lowly |
| http://www.timlowly.com/ | |
fairly minimal and sometimes ethereal soul indebted rock (or was that folk) music that floats between personal rumination and political critique
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Those Rowdy Corinthians |
| http://www.myspace.com/thoserowdycorinthians | |
| "Those Rowdy Corinthians" (Sam Adams and Josh Compton) share their love for their roots, hymns, old-timey songs, and storytelling. Influenced by their Appalachian ancestors, they sing songs about trains, ships, love (lost or not), spiders, losing, running away, death, peace, pain, life, the wind, and God. They tell stories of thieves, disciples, and themselves as they explore their deep love for music and strive to keep the music of their ancestors alive. Singing is loving. | |
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the Shady J's |
| http://www.myspace.com/theshadyjs | |
| the Shady J's are a K-W band who dabble in anything from folk to pop playing just about everything in between. | |
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The New Johnsons |
| Erin Johnson and Hannah Johnson play the music that has been living in the hills of Virginia for centuries. Though Erin and Hannah have only been living in these hills for most of their twenty one and twenty year lives, they are totally in love with the old time Appalachian music that they play. The two Keezletown natives have made their faces known around Harrisonburg by busking on the streets and playing at The Little Grill Collective, a local worker-owned restaurant. Erin | |
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The Land |
| http://www.homeontheland.ca | |
| The Land's music combines intricate vocal harmonies with guitar, viola, violin, banjo, mandolin, and sometimes organs and synthesizers. The music is mellow, like warm milk at bedtime. | |
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Spencer Cunningham |
Spencer Cunningham (on the right in the photo) sings and plays claw-hammer banjo, Guitar and Mandolin, solo or in the string band, "Ten Mile Creek". His music is drawn from the wonderful old gospel songs he heard as a child while staying with his grand father, who was a Methodist minister in southern Ohio, the folk music he was drawn to in college, and the appalachian ballad and string band music he regularly indulges in through local and regional festivals and 'jams'. Spencer teaches photography at the Toledo Museum of Art, and Owens Commuunity College. An exhibition, and/or photography/music workshop along with a concert by Spencer or "Ten Mile Creek" is an option. |
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Sons of the Day |
| http://www.sonsoftheday.com/ | |
| Since it's inception in November of 2003, Sons of the Day has sung in a wide variety of settings and is available to sing at events ranging from church services, civic events, corporate events, weddings, and a host of occasions in between. They perform a cappella music from all eras and genres, from Renaissance motets, Early American folk tunes, to arrangements of popular music and songs by other contemporary a cappella groups. |
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