Bee Taylor
Bee Taylor is a once-in-a-generation talent whose live shows have become legendary for those who have attended them…Onstage, Bee Taylor is equal parts lioness and songbird. Sometimes she stalks the space, a mesmerizing performer who is dancing, singing, playing instruments, and completely engaging with the audience… She is commanding as she stands still at center stage, belting out a ballad that hushes the most raucous rooms. Music-lovers leave her shows as newly converted evangelists, encouraging others to see her.
Rebecca Rego
Rebecca Rego has been a recording artist, producer, and writer for the last 20 years. She has written and recorded nine albums and toured the country many times over. For the last five years she has called Lexington, KY home. She and her partner, J.Tom Hnatow own Small Blue Studio and welcome dozens of musicians a year to record work, and collaborate on musical projects.
Ella Webster
Ella Webster is a Lexington native and performer in Kentucky’s traditional, Americana and folk music scenes. She studied violin and fiddle music for over a decade under Amy and Daniel Carwile, and was a mentee of Pike county fiddler Jim McCown. Ella currently tours nationally with the artist Cole Chaney as a fiddler and vocalist. Recently, Ella has branched out as a songwriter and performs her original music with a band, or as a duo with Charlie Overman.
Blind Corn Liquor Pickers
Like the moonlight brewed intoxicant for which they are named, BCLP play a variety of bluegrass whose origins are difficult to ascertain. As corn liquor flows through an old car radiator, old-time traditions mix with modern methods in ways that can be unsettling, inspiring, euphoric or blindness-inducing. It's bluegrass that burns going down, warms your gut, and then hits your head like a thunderbolt of white lightning. Banjos, mandolins and fiddles mingle with drums and electric guitars and the soaring, emotive vocals of lead singer Beth Walker harness an Appalachian blues to make the stories in their songs really sing. The songs are highly original, revisionist takes on traditional American music themes. Genre send-ups, fiery political pieces, modern-day murder ballads, existential moodpieces or moonshine-drenched party songs, you'll hear it all in a Blind Corn Liquor Picker performance that will in turn make you laugh, think, dance and (of course) drink.
The Wheelhouse Rousters
“Inspired by the natural environs of their native Kentucky, The Wheelhouse Rousters have developed a devoted populist following courtesy of the fact that they’re certified festival favorites, having made appearances at such high profile gatherings as Bourbon and Beyond, Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Americanafest, Terrapin Hill Harvest Festival, Lowertown Arts and Music Festival, and the John Hartford Memorial Festival, among the many. In addition, they had the high honor of representing the US at the World Folk Biennale in Jinju, South Korea, which gave them the opportunity to collaborate with UNESCO artists from across the globe,”
Lee Zimmerman, BLUEGRASS TODAY
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