A
Jenn Adams: working anthropology into her music
Chloe Agnew: falling young into Celtic Woman
Akvarium: revolutionizing the Russian music scene
Elias Alexander: Who needs sleep?
Dana Alexandra: infectiously pop 🎧
Albert Alfonso: drumming with the bodhran swami
Maya Angelou: singing, swaying & shouting
Brooke Annibale: being quiet 🎧
Anonymous 4 (Johanna Rose): weaving the fine art of women's ancient music
James Apollo: finding cultural motivations in song
Asphalt Orchestra (Jessica Schmitz): choreographing anarchy with a piccolo
B
Baka Beyond (Martin Cradick): munching on caterpillars & making music with a pygmy tribe
Jesse Baker: creating movement with his music 🎧
Robert Bakker: hunting dinosaurs & making paleontology cool
Rose Baldino: fiddling witchery with Burning Bridget Cleary
Robert Ballard: finding the Titanic promotes nerdless science
Scott Balsai: taking a hike 🎧
Baltimore Consort (Mary Anne Ballard): resurrecting ancient pop
Glenn Banner: bridging a historical gap to Gettysburg
Barnaby Bright: finding Bliss 🎧
Samantha Bee: 50 years after the Stonewall riots, how far have we come? 📺
Michael Been: heeding The Call
Beggar Folk:
• a band born of ping-pong smack talk 🎧
• getting good angles 🎧
Julie Bell: fantasy painting for two of a kind
Beolach (Wendy MacIsaac): choosing music over Mounties
The Berrymans: surrealism meets silliness
Jessica Biel: making a mission of the female perspective 📺
Mary Black: singing for the joy of music
Sarah Blacker
• flexible modality 🎧
• land of opportunity 🎧
Blazin' Fiddles (Catriona MacDonald): a rose among thorns
Adam Blessing: a hard-working balancing act 🎧
The Blind Boys of Alabama (Jimmy Carter): gospel is alive
Rory Block: singing her country blues
Odds Bodkin: telling stories as an alternative to The Tick
Christopher Bohn: living the creative life 🎧
Brethren: fun with con-science 🎧
Bright Blue Gorilla: gorillas in the mix
Broken Fences
• mend the gap 🎧
• not the begging type 🎧
Brother (Angus Richardson): siblings in arms
Wanda E. Brunstetter: basing books on Plain writing
Burning Bridget Cleary (Rose Baldino): fiddling witchery
Burning Bus: guilt-free funk
Octavia E. Butler: pounding out novels on a manual typewriter
Corty Byron: out the window 🎧
C
Derrick Cameron: spreading the Cape Breton tradition
Fil Campbell
• working for a living, & finding her songstress roots
• celebrating the women who came before 🎧
Stephanie Carlin: a deeper look at structure 🎧
Liz Carroll: fiddles, kids & the Cubs
Travis Caudle: on the road again with an Australian singer-songwriter
Celtic Woman (Chloe Agnew): falling into Celtic Woman
Cherish the Ladies (Joanie Madden)
• the jig is up
• riding the Celtic wave
Chubby Checker: twistin' his life away
Circle of Fourths (Joe Lynch): bearing music
Clairseach (Ann Heymann): something for the Irish to harp on
The Clancy Brothers (Liam Clancy & Robbie O'Connell): keeping the faith & mellowing as they go
Mychal Cohen & Campfire Ok: asking the world for direction 🎧
Bernard Cornwell: crafting stories with vivid historical & military detail
Oliver Craven: pickin' for fun 🎧
A Crowd of Bold Sharemen
• on the Newfoundland fringe
• a Newfoundland identity
Chrissy Crowley: music philosophy
D
Danu (Oisin McAuley): doing his best
Paula Danziger: sdrawkcab gnitirw
Rachel Davis
• catch her while she's young
• developing her Cape Breton style
Tove de Fries: a Danish treat
Monalisa DeGross: collecting words
Charles de Lint: issues, inspirations & stories to tell
Iris DeMent: aching, longing & celebrating
Mark DeRose & the Way Home: consistent schizophrenia 🎧
Dervish (Cathy Jordan): Irish music for fun & profit
Donna-Marie DeWolfe: making a happy tune
Diner: just a good-time band
Dochas: anti-pop Scottish girl power
Rita Dove: breathing poetry
Alan Doyle: making a career of Newfoundland pride with Great Big Sea
Maggie Drennon: nontraditional Irish traditions
Richard Dreyfuss: a civil discourse on America's forgotten history
Noam Dromi: creating, collecting & telling stories, making strides in the delivery of content during a pandemic, & the very last chat with Carl Reiner 📺
Ducky & the Vintage: the art & the music 🎧
Dustbowl Revival (Zach Lupetin): playing in the shadows where jazz, blues & bluegrass intersect
E
Stacey Earle & Mark Stuart: situations where people would listen 🎧
T. Obinkaram Echewa: telling stories in three dimensions
Enter the Haggis: spreading bagpipe rock to the masses
Wesley Eure: dinosaurs, broken toys, Welcome Back, Kotter & Land of the Lost
F
Peter Facinelli: Twilight actor refuses to be typecast, and wants to do it all 📺
Olivia Farabaugh: Making her way in Nashville
Fine Friday: gigging in Gaelic
Fire in the Glen: lighting the flame 🎧
Fishtank Ensemble: leaving the mule caravan behind
Carolyn Forche: facing up to atrocities through poetry
Joella Foulds
• Otis Tomas's fiddle tree
• Team Cape Breton
Julie Fowlis: staying true to her Hebridean roots
Kimberley Fraser: a left-handed approach to tradition
Betty Friedan: issues without gender
The Frogs: proudly "happy fun"
Brian Froud, Wendy Froud & Terri Windling: making faeries
Frozen Poet: unusual perspectives
G
Gaelic Storm
• surviving Titanic
• setting new courses
Jordan Gagne: TV composer finds himself rewriting scores in his head 📺
Pat Garrett: ties to Taylor Swift
Dick Gaughan: debunking Scottish claptrap
David Gettes: man of steel
Gwenan Gibbard: Welsh ambassador
GiveWay: but don't give up
Philip Glass & Paul Leonard-Morgan: scoring Tales from the Loop, where the fantastic interacts with the mundane 📺
Glengarry Bhoys: planning ahead
Katy Glorioso: trying her hand 🎧
Dean Gonzalez: on the road with Dave Grohl's What Drives Us 📺
Eddie Gonzalez: On My Block depicts a reality its creators know all too well 📺
Kenneth Good: love among the Yanomama
Great Big Sea (Alan Doyle): making a career of Newfoundland pride
Alyson Greenfield: striking tinder 🎧
Grey Eye Glances: buying back their music, note by note
Jonathan Groff: from wishing well to Woodstock
Guess Who (Garry Peterson): still pitching after all these years
Kevin Guilfoile: casting shadows
Roy Gullane: remaking traditions with the Tannahill Weavers
H
Jeremy Haft: On My Block depicts a reality its creators know all too well 📺
Harem Scarem
• not pop on purpose
• gigging in Gaelic
JP Harris & the Tough Choices: just country 🎧
Patti Harrison: 50 years after the Stonewall riots, how far have we come? 📺
Dan Hart: avoiding fame "at all costs"
Caleb Hawley: overcoming his inner jazz snob 🎧
Martin Hayes: tradition through innovation
Josh Heald: kicking into the future: Cobra Kai creators honor the past as they update The Karate Kid 📺
David Hemingson: producing drama, comedy & romance in Whiskey Cavalier 📺
Carolyn Hester: & the Fortress of Folk
Ann Heymann: something to harp on
Anne Hills: singer finds a voice for her dreams
Barby Holder: a period player
Hope for Agoldensummer: sex, babies & poverty 🎧
Dani Hoy: rockin' the trop
Jon Hurwitz: kicking into the future: Cobra Kai creators honor the past as they update The Karate Kid 📺
Dermot Hyde: a piper in the Pipeline
I
Joy Ike: two steps forward 🎧
Indian Summer Jars
• too original for Sarah Squared 🎧
• "Don't watch her foot!" 🎧
• holding on to feeling good
Indigo Girls (Amy Ray): art & activism
Ellen Irmisch: the Tartan Terrors are the evil twin of Riverdance
Eileen Ivers
• beyond space to fiddle
• keeping the tradition alive
J
Cheyenne Jackson: saying "yes" to everything: multi-talented actor moves between genres and media with the greatest of ease 📺
Jamie Jensen: on the road with the Road Trip writer
Cathy Jordan: Irish music for fun & profit with Dervish
Shannon Johnson: fiddling around with tradition
K
Joel Allen Kabik: the tell-tale heart ... of an actor
Lucy Kaplansky: unzipped
Ryan Kauffman: playing what he feels 🎧
Guy Gavriel Kay: devising worlds
Nuala Kennedy: gigging in Gaelic
Kilmaine Saints
• punky Irish madness 🎧
• building an army 🎧
Brandon Kim: on the road with Dave Grohl's What Drives Us 📺
KimberLiana: catching butterflies
Kingsfoil
• plugging in 🎧
• bleeding hearts 🎧
Jennifer Knapp: from contemporary Christian to Americana
Habib Koite: making a musical life
Camela Widad Kraemer: staging her songs 🎧
Heather Kropf
• recognizing Hestia 🎧
• something shiny 🎧
Maxine Kumin: the poetry of a New England landscape
L
Mercedes Lackey: obeying the rules
Nelson Lauver: the American Story-Teller
Donnell Leahy & Natalie MacMaster: making music at home & away
Dave Lefever: almost like a dream 🎧
Lenahan: more than just Celtic rock
Paul Leonard-Morgan & Philip Glass: scoring Tales from the Loop, where the fantastic interacts with the mundane 📺
David Levy: planetary cataclysm makes him a household name
Beverly Lewis: basing books on Plain writing
Caryn Lin: Vivaldi meets Pink Floyd through electric fiddler
Jenn Lindsay: "antifolk" woman at work
Via Linota: defining the "newternative" sound 🎧
Thomas Lux: poetry for the people
M
Anita MacDonald: a fiddle from Santa
Catriona MacDonald: a rose among thorns
Max MacDonald & Joella Foulds: Team Cape Breton
Kendra MacGillivray: fiddling like nobody's business
Sabra MacGillivray: dancing Cape Breton-style
Troy MacGillivray: a piano teacher's dream
Burton MacIntyre: dancing Cape Breton-style
Wendy MacIsaac: choosing music over Mounties
Iain MacKintosh: with a banjo on his knee
Cynthia MacLeod: borrowing music from the neighbors
Natalie MacMaster
• a fiddler who keeps on her toes
• fiddler, producer, wife & chef
• making music at home & away
Glen MacNeil: writing for a distant home
Joanie Madden
• the jig is up
• riding the Celtic wave
Michelle Malone: musical therapy & goats
Mandalele: crossing state lines 🎧
Matchbox 20: fame on the road
Iain Matthews: finding comfort in southern folk-rock
Ralphie May: comedy & a need to change the world
Peter Mayer: mysteries of the world 🎧
Sarah Mbogo: singing her gift
Oisin McAuley: doing his best with Danu
Alyth McCormack: Hebridean singer/actress gets back to basics
Rhyne McCormick: hard-working the region 🎧
Frank McCourt: living his story
David McCullough: a little touch of Harry
The McDades
• fiddling around with tradition
• just who are they, anyway?
Manus McGuire: an Irishman in Cape Breton
Maggie McKaig: ancestral connections 🎧
Tony McManus: reinventing the guitar
Mike McMonagle: a hopeful turn 🎧
Shannon McNally: no time for whining
AJ Michalka: getting schooled with spinoff star from The Goldbergs 📺
Darry Miller & The Veil
• personal transformation 🎧
• fresh soul 🎧
Misstallica (Gina Gleason): Metallica, but with lady bits
Buddy Mondlock: rocky road to Kerrville 🎧
Craig Moodie: pulled by the sea
More Power to Your Elbow: giving all they got in a Celtic revival
Annie Moses Band (Annie Wolaver Dupre): family is instrumental
Motherphunk: sort of familiar, but not like they sounded back then
Tudur Morgan: Wales songs
Gary Mullen: a Queen at heart
Patricia Murray: keeping an eye on Prince Edward Island
N
Nassiri: world peace through music
The Nields: putting a harder edge to their music
O
Fergus O'Byrne: on the Newfoundland fringe
Maura O'Connell: a singer in retirement
Robbie O'Connell: keeping the faith with the Clancy Brothers
Brian Oerly: firefighter, stuntman, action star 📺
Old Blind Dogs (Elias Alexander): Who needs sleep?
Robert Olmstead: milking his memories for his fiction
Out the Sun: hating labels
Judith Owen: eccentric Welsh singer
P
Keith Parkinson: success in the cards for fantasy artist
Janice Ward Parrish: recalling integration
Jim Payne: a Newfoundland identity
Katy Payne: elephant songs
Penn & Teller: the science of magic & laughter
Eddie Pennington: fingers 'n' thumbs
Christian A. Pierce: driven to create by the Real Bros real-life counterparts 📺
The Pig Merchants: weight with levity 🎧
Stuart Pimm: the balance of nature?
Emily Pinkerton: weaving the Americas 🎧
Pipeline: a piper in the Pipeline
Brendan Power: power to the harmonica
The Proclaimers: walking another 500 miles
Michelle Purple: making a mission of the female perspective with Jessica Biel 📺
The Pyrates Royale: acts of musical piracy
R
Amy Ray: art & activism with the Indigo Girls
Red Molly: poised for the leap
Bill Reid: bringing the music together
John Renbourn: wants applause for his music, not himself
Mark Ricker: Emmy-nominated production designer came to Ma Rainey's Black Bottom without revisiting past productions 📺
Hiram Ring
• breathing deeply 🎧
• crossover appeal 🎧
Stefani Robinson: writing What We Do in the Shadows, Man Seeking Woman & Atlanta 📺
Ben Rothermel: personal raw emotion 🎧
Saul Rubinek: family history makes Hunters deeply personal for actor 📺
S
Tommy Sands: peace through music
Pauline Scanlon: rising Irish star
Scantily Plaid: Celtic music, Canadian style
Hayden Schlossberg: kicking into the future: Cobra Kai creators honor the past as they update The Karate Kid 📺
Bobby Seale: proud Panther
Douglas September: ambient textures 🎧
Seven Nations
• rockin' pipes
• a fiddle in the mix
78 West: not a trend
Al Shade: Country & proud at age 95
Richard Shindell: somewhere near stardom
Silver Hawks: flashback or revelation
Slackwater News: more rock, less ramble 🎧
Slambovian Circus of Dreams (Joziah Longo): catching up with eccentricities
Smothers Brothers: the power of Yo
Jessica Smucker: cooking it raw 🎧
Norman Spinrad: revisiting the Druid King
Amanda Sprecher: saving Broadway
Nancy Springer: writing what she wants to read
Squash: a crossover breed
Start Making Sense (Jon Braun): yearning to Byrne
Static Trees: growing prolific 🎧
Dietrich Strause: poetic perspective 🎧
Stray Birds: pushed into harmony 🎧
Joseph Strider: where he's supposed to be
William Styron: a dose of his war
Taylor Swift: owes thanks to Pat Garrett
T
Tannahill Weavers (Roy Gullane): remaking traditions
Tarras (Ben Murray): caught in a whirlwind
Tartan Terrors (Ellen Irmisch): the evil twin of Riverdance
Norberto Tavares: journey of the Badiu
Theodore Taylor: living on The Cay
Tempest: turning over a new Lief
They Might Be Giants (John Flansburgh): nerdy by nature
Tamlyn Tomita: opening people's minds & hearts with documentary series Asian Americans 📺
Toy Soldiers: telling the tale 🎧
Trinidad North Steel Band (David Gettes): man of steel
Brian Tyler: composer started on Dune, now writes music for Yellowstone 📺
U
John Updike: shared recollections
V
Boris Vallejo: fantasy painting two of a kind
Vas: listening for the soul echo
Le Vent du Nord
• the French-Celtic connection
• a French-Canadian storm
Vinegar Creek Constituency: explosions in a junkyard 🎧
W
Jonathan Lloyd Walker: Van Helsing showrunner moves vampiric mythology in new directions 📺
Taylor Ware: fair yodeling
Kevin Welch: keeps on writing songs
Amanda Wells: destined from birth to make music
Holly M. Wendt: love, loss & hockey
Susan Werner: from opera to folk
Cornel West: Race Matters author is a fan of ordinary people
Matt Wheeler: fostering a community 🎧
The Wiggles (Greg Page): making a little Wiggle room
Jason Wilber: time away from Prine 🎧
Bet Williams: flooring people with her strong stage presence
Dar Williams: living in a Green World
Huw Williams: hoofing it, Welsh style
Chet Williamson
• a devout skeptic
• Psycho writer
Terri Windling, Brian Froud & Wendy Froud: making faeries
Paul Winter
• turning nature into music
• crafting Celtic soundscapes
The Winter Sounds: gone with the wind 🎧
Denison Witmer: building spaces through song
Wolfstone (Stuart Eaglesham): a carving on the rock spurs "old guard" of Celtic rock
Wooden Soul: not a sing-along band
Victoria Wyeth: artistic insights from Andrew Wyeth's girl
Y
Emily Yanek: forever young, & touched by songs from before she was born
Weird Al Yankovic: he's no Amish expert, but parody artist finds inspiration in film
Z
Charlie Zahm: never a rock star, singer finds joy in Celtic traditions
