2x ‘Performer of the Year’ - New England Music Awards. Boston Music Award nominee.
Soulful original songs with compelling lyrics and pop-sensibility. Steeped in jazz & classic rock. "soaring folk-gospel...tender, defiant...genius."

Early set 7-9pm:

DJ BFG 9:30 till the dancing is done.

Taylor Gail Rodgers grew up walking into the forest in the early hours of the morning, striking panic in her mother upon not finding her in bed. She still strikes panic in her mother with the stories she tells in her songs. Rodgers draws inspiration from the songwriters Anaïs Mitchell, Adrianne Lenker, her bandmates in Camellia, Justin Vernon, Sadurn, and Nathaniel Rateliff. From passenger to driver to dive bar to midnight porch, she shepherds the audience through the experiences of her life.

She weaves these stories between her songs, drawing heavily on her background in theater. It is no wonder then that the audience is an integral part of her shows - she will ask for your thoughts, your dreams, your questions, and laughter. 

This Machine is a combination of folk and roots styles drawing from the traditions of Seeger, Guthrie, Leadbelly, The Almanac Singers, jug band music, blues and labor songs. The trio incorporates the older songs with newer interpretations, preserving melodies and stories while re-presenting them with contemporary musical innovation in conjunction with lyrical social commentary. Adam, raised outside Boston, and now hailing from Shelburne Falls MA, has played folk music for nearly 25 years, and provides vocals, rhythm and picking on a long-neck banjo, and contributes some of his own songs; Liam Gude grew up steeped in American folk, and has since fallen in love with the blues as well. He plays guitar, slide guitar, and works to play harmonica in the style of Geordie Gude, Woody Guthrie, and Sonny Terry; and Andrew Fries, music teacher and multi instrumentalist, who spent his earlier life in Nebraska and Missouri, and now resides in Brattleboro, Vermont, sings high harmony and backs the group on bass. Overall, This Machine's music crosses a variety of folk and roots boundaries, and has something to offer all listeners of these styles

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From the rolling hills of New England, Katherine Winston is a Singer/Songwriter whose music is a blend of country, folk/rock, and pop. Inspired by musical icons like Stevie Nicks, Brandi Carlile, and Dolly Parton, Katherine's powerhouse vocals and raw emotional power have captivated audiences all over the country and beyond.

Katherine's journey in music began at a young age; her passion for performing was evident even as a child. Throughout her teens, she honed her craft by gigging at local cafes, bars, clubs and restaurants. This dedication led her to audition for Season 14 of American Idol, where she showcased her exceptional talent and earned a spot among semi-finalists. Following her American Idol experience, Katherine ventured to Los Angeles, immersing herself in the vibrant music scene of the West Coast. There, she collaborated with other musicians, wrote heartfelt songs, and recorded music, further refining her unique sound. After several years of growth and exploration, Katherine felt the call to return to her roots in the East to continue on her path.

Whether fronting a full band or captivating listeners with the intimacy of a solo acoustic set, accompanied by just her guitar or piano, Katherine's versatility as a musician shines through. She distinguishes herself not only with her powerful voice and stage presence but also through her deeply relatable songwriting, which explores the intricate layers of human emotion and experience. Beyond her musical gifts, Katherine uses her songs to connect with others, offering hope, joy, and solace. Deeply connected to nature, people, and emotions, she views songwriting as a way to leave the world better than she finds it. In a time when many seek connection and understanding, her music serves as a bridge, helping listeners feel less alone and more empowered. Katherine is committed to using her art to spread positivity and healing, one song at a time. Her live shows are a testament to her ability to connect with audiences on a profound level, leaving fans spellbound with each heartfelt lyric and impassioned melody.

Be sure to keep an eye out for Katherine’s upcoming performance schedule, as well as her latest music releases. Her debut full length album, 'Something Special, Nothing Fancy' is out everywhere now!

Howard Fishman Quartet’s music is a highly eclectic blend of Americana, Brooklyn soul, early jazz, rock, gospel and experimental music. Rooted in the syncopated rhythms of New Orleans, his sound combines gritty, storytelling-driven lyrics with swinging acoustic instrumentation that is highly improvisational, exuberant, and intimate, all at the same time.

Fishman has been an international touring artist for nearly three decades, and has shared bills with artists as disparate as Andrew Bird, Odetta, Yo Yo Ma, Nellie McKay, Taj Mahal, and Califone. He has released eleven albums of music to date, with another slated for release this year.

Fishman’s memorable live shows are known for their spontaneity, exploration, humor, and risk-taking. Tonight, he will be joined by Russell Farhang on violin, Rafael Castillo-Halvorssen on trumpet, and Andy Cotton on upright bass.

MATTIE & DEBBIE is one of the great duos of their generation.

Comprised of two of the most unique talents to come out of the acoustic music scene, drummer/singer Sean Trischka and Bluegrass guitarist/singer Stash Wyslouch are a whole greater than the sum of their parts.

Satan’s Junction, their debut album to be released April 2026 weaves intimate space and luscious harmonies with bluegrass pickin', top-40 hooks, and a slew of powerful anthems to get the whole family singing. Surely a kitchen sink of sound held together by an indescribable thread of musical intimacy, humor, knowledge, and experience.

They’re one of the few groups to open for Billy Strings and Mr String’s words are sure to echo in your mind after seeing this couple of rabblerousing sweethearts:

“I just f*cking love those guys” - Billy Strings

Sean and Stash cut their teeth playing together, both as sidemen and bandleaders, in many different bluegrass/roots/folk/rock formations since 2013: The Deadly Gentlemen, Tony Trischka’s Early Roman Kings, The Stash Band, and Corporate Punk, to name a few.

Individually speaking:

Jersey boy Sean Trischka is an instinctive and sought-after drummer, songwriter, and singer with a musicality that relies on warmth, pocket, and a sense of playfulness. He has collaborated with a variety of notable artists and bands including Carsie Blanton, Mipso, Oteil Burbridge (Dead & Co), Bertha AKA Grateful Drag, Lula Wiles, and The Stray Birds.

Stash Wyslouch is an iconoclastic Bluegrass flatpicker whose style is instantly recognizable incorporating any and all influences. He's played with Molsky's Mountain Drifters, The Jacob Jolliff Band and shared the stage with the likes of Julian Lage, Bryan Sutton, Peter Rowan and David Grisman.

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Though better known for building the institution that is Boston’s imminent post-everything band, Pile, Rick Maguire’s work as a solo artist is the thread that started it all. Sinewy and hypnotic guitar lines that to the untrained ear may recall such easy signposts as Slint or (Smog) slowly reveal themselves to be something more, something so hypnotic that all frame of reference is lost in the process. Maybe it’s a bit like standing in place, staring at a subway train that never stops going. Or maybe it’s the blues. Who can say?

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The one and only David Reed returns to the DreamAway with his master troubadour vibes and cigar box guitars.

"Folk-rockin' Caribe-vibe Groove Music served with a side order of Smokehouse Blues!"

Wild Weeeds is the manifestation of five mutant rock n’ rollers that grew out of the ponds, lakes and streams of Columbia County, NY. Wild Weeeds play “Garage Rock” like the Seeds, the Standells and the early Stones but mix in New Wave, Copake surf music and their own unique warped energy. RandyJoe Weeed plays guitar like blues rockers from the Summer of Love, Whyman B Weeed lays down slithering smiling bass lines, Marc E Marc Weeed is the lake child of Keith Moon, and Moss Weeed is a rockabilly Lou Reeed. Together they are certainly wild..... The Wild Weeeds!!!

In another era, I would have played square dances, been a court musician, or a circus fiddler, and loved every minute of it,” says veteran LA violinist and songwriter Chris Murphy, whose spirited and haunting original music bends genres and even centuries with ease.

Murphy grew up in an Irish-Italian family near New York City, surrounded by the disparate sounds of his neighbors’ traditional music: Italian mandolin songs, pulsing Latin rhythms, and bracing Irish rounds. Eventually falling under the spell of late, great multi-instrumentalist David Lindley (Jackson Browne, Ry Cooder, Bob Dylan) Murphy went on to explore Turkish and Indian music at Bard College, and studied composition at Boston’s prestigious New England Conservatory of Music.

Since then, Murphy has hypnotized crowds in more than forty US states, done extensive tours of England, Belgium , and The Netherlands, and amassed a breathtakingly deep catalog of over 500 works. His over fifteen original albums—including 2023’s brilliant “The Road & the Stars”—boast A-list players from the Tom Waits band, Wilco, X, The Desert Rose Band, Elvis Costello, and the Buena Vista Social Club.

“To me, music is liquid,” Murphy explains thoughtfully. “I’ll twist and turn, and hammer and mold, and shape, cut, and paste the music to create a fresh experience for my audience at all costs.”

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The Bird Calls is a prolific indie-folk/singer-songwriter project founded by Reading, Pennsylvania native Sam Sodomsky. Known for its intimate, bedroom-recorded sound, the project has released dozens of albums on Bandcamp exploring themes of melody, memory, and everyday life.

In the tender, surrealist world that Knishkowy has developed under the name Adeline Hotel, stories have been told through sprawling psych-rock epics (2020’s Solid Love), stark solo guitar performances (2021’s Good Timing), piano-led orchestral song cycles (2021’s The Cherries Are Speaking), and lush, jazzy compositions that felt like a genre unto themselves (2023’s Hot Fruit). Inspired by indie lifers and fellow world-builders like Jim O’Rourke and Phil Elverum, the Ruination Records co-founder has rewritten the rule book with each new project, inviting listeners to join as he discovers new channels for his singular voice. By now the sound of Adeline Hotel is equally identifiable through Knishkowy’s dextrous fingerpicking—the aural equivalent of tracing your fingers through cool sand at sunrise—as his low, whispered vocals and autumnal melodies.

Synthesist Eric Hnatow and vocalist Haley Morgan make music as Home Body, harnessing light, sound, and movement to present a throbbing synth spectacle oozing with raw energy and emotional grit. Hailing from western Massachusetts, the duo plays with form and improvisation, enchanting audiences with their infectious spirit and danceable, moody electro-pop. Live, they punctuate their sound with manual light manipulation, reaching beyond their performance to create a high-vibration spectacle that is physically and emotionally moving. 

“Marine” –  an intriguing desciption of Dave Dersham's oeuvre,  courtesy of New York based, anti-folk / improv-slam artist James O’Brien.  Collectively, are songs of cautionary tales: submerging archipelagos; the unfolding eco-dystopia; and Samoan pigskin heroes.  Dave spent his formative years in the Pioneer Valley of Western  Massachusetts, meandered west, and eventually returned, despite mediocre snowpack, relentless rain – interspersed with draught – and unsettling occasions of smoke-infused humidity,  the newest of new normals.

Dave completed his first CD, The Burn of Summer (2003) in Somerville, MA, engineered by Jabe Beyer, Tim Kelly, and Tom Eaton (Willam Ackerman).  The crew synthesized the threads with elan, earning substantial airtime on Folk Radio’s WUMB (UMASS/Boston), WERS (Emerson College), and as a new artist finalist for Mountain Stage, a live, nationally syndicated radio production.

Gilding the Lilies (2011) was recorded by the kaleidoscopically-stringed lloyd Thayer of Watertown, MA, and Jared Fiske: djembe, electric/acoustic guitar, bass, keyboard.  Corporate excess, mass-transit, and regrettable camping choices were some of the themes.  The sophomore collection was well-received and distributed internationally.

A sly humorist, cultural critic, and melancholy optimist, Dave's third album, Another Interregnum (2024), addressed temporary out-of-body homelessness, relief from a burning planet, and working class bravado. The work was engineered by Andrew Atkin (13 Queen Studios) and recorded, mastered, and co-produced by Mark Alan Miller of Sonlab / Side Track Studio (Jay Mascus, Dar Williams). 

Dave's 4th CD, Farce, will emerge in 2027.

Ever since the Berkshire Folk Society started meeting at the Lodge on Wednesdays in the 1950s for hootenanny night, Wednesday has been the night for a community music share on the mountain!

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“Some of the best songwriting of their generation.” - LA Times

"Some of the best folk-rock music you will ever hear.” - TapeOp

“A national treasure.” - Anais Mitchell

”A party band with a conscience” - Boston Globe

"In the vanguard of today's vibrant folk revival" - PopMatters

“One of New York State’s finest treasures.” - Americana UK

“These two will shatter any preconceived stereotypical notions of what it means to be a folk musician.” - Coastal Journal

“Nonet marshals the defiant spirit needed to heal a damaged world” - No Depression

“The Mammals tell stories that are at once topical and timeless, bearing a message of hope
and empowerment with a modern string-band sound.” - Freshgrass Festival

“Hailed by many as Americana trailblazers, Ruth Ungar and Mike Merenda, happily married and exuding togetherness on stage, are also gently-mannered activists with well-crafted songs that successfully ask potent questions of politicians and raise issues to probe how we can improve the planet. They deliver their material persuasively and in an eloquent manner with enjoyment of their music underpinning the approach overall. The music is the motivator throughout.” - Celtic Music Radio

There has always been something disarmingly human about The Mammals. Long before culture fractured into its current bewildering kaleidoscope of noise and contradiction, they were already tending to the quiet, essential work: remembering the stories that hold people together, and singing them with an honesty that resists corrosion. Their music feels less like performance and more like a gathering—a return to the communal spaces where truth is spoken gently, without spectacle.

Formed by Mike Merenda and Ruth Ungar, The Mammals emerged from the fertile soil of folk tradition, but not as preservationists. They listened closely to the past but their instinct was always restorative rather than nostalgic. They carried forward the lineage of protest music, family harmony, and grassroots resilience, weaving them into something alive, awake, and stunningly contemporary. Their songs carry the emotional clarity of people who understand what is at stake—not just politically, but spiritually, culturally, even ecologically.

Their work is concerned with the fragile foundations of real life: home, community, lineage, the dignity of work, the precarity of hope. They write like people who have seen both the beauty and the unraveling of the American story and who still believe, stubbornly, in the possibility of repair. And their performances—welcoming, unrushed, almost ceremonial—create a space where audiences can breathe again, remembering themselves in the process.

Out of this ethos emerged The Hoot, the biannual festival at the Ashokan Center that Mike and Ruthy helped build from dream to gathering place. The Hoot is not simply an event; it is an act of cultural care—an invitation for people of all ages to come together in the woods, to listen, to dance, to learn, to reconnect. It is a living manifestation of what The Mammals believe in: music as community, community as medicine, and the land itself as teacher. The festival has become a kind of sanctuary, a reminder that joy and belonging are not luxuries but necessities.

The Mammals make music for a world that is forgetting how to listen. In their harmonies is a reminder that truth is rarely loud, that connection can be a form of resistance, and that art—when rooted in sincerity—can help us navigate even the most unsettled times. They offer not answers but companionship, a kind of melodic refuge where the heart can regather its strength. Their newest release, Touch Grass Vol. 1 & 2, continues this work—songs rooted in land, kinship, and the urgent need to reconnect with the world beneath our feet. The albums feel like field notes from the heart: intimate, grounded, and offered in a spirit of repair.

In an era defined by fracture, The Mammals remain devoted to wholeness: to the places they sing about, the communities they nurture, and the fragile, enduring human spirit at the center of it all.

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Since she was 12 years old, Samoa Wilson has been captivating audiences with a voice the New York Times calls “sweet, effortless, old-timey”. Raised in the riverbed of traditional North American folk music, she came up in the Boston scene, under the wing of jug band and folk legend Jim Kweskin. Her two duos, the Four O’Clock Flowers, and Fatboy Wilson & Old Viejo Bones, have become staples of the thriving New York City folk community. Additionally, her vintage jazz trio has been filling ears with material from the golden era of 20's and 30's musical treasure; a sound at once more bluesy and more contemporary than expected. Her choice of repertoire makes the difference: torchy and honeyed renditions of haunting little-known tunes, from a woman’s perspective. From the source of the traditional and classic material, she poses a modern complaint, salutes the transformation of women’s work and suffering into women’s triumph. 

“ ... a deep understanding of the early era of recorded pop ... a gorgeous, fun sound.” — The Boston Herald 

The Lucky 5 is a hard-swinging jazz band that blends 30’s and 40’s style swing with gypsy and Parisian flavors to create a unique blend of music that stands by itself. Combining originals and creative reworks of old standards, The Lucky 5 continues to be a favorite among music lovers young and old alike.

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Singer-songwriter Bobby Sweet is an engaging storyteller and dynamic performer. The Berkshire native and sixth generation musician has received praise for his Country-Americana style and story songs about real life. Stylistically, Bobby’s music resides somewhere between John Prine, Jackson Browne, and a countryfied Bruce Springsteen, with a hint of Texas Swing. Between 2008 and 2016, Bobby toured the US and Canada as lead guitarist with Arlo Guthrie. His travels with Guthrie included performances at Carnegie Hall, the New Orleans Jazz Fest, and Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion, among many other landmark venues. Bobby’s songs have aired on many hit television series, such as Nashville, Touched By An Angel, Walker Texas Ranger, CSI, and Judging Amy. He has released seven solo albums to date. He will be performing with his trio featuring pedal steel guitarist Pete Adams and vocalist Lara Tupper.

5 Pound Horse has created a regional and international buzz around electric live performances where anything’s on the table — French-language songs, banjos, marimbas, melodies from Africa and Ireland and anywhere else they draw inspiration. They’ve graced Berkshires institutions like The Dream Away Lodge and MASS MoCA’s FreshGrass Festival, appeared at Pittsburgh venues like the Thunderbird Music Hall and James Simon’s sculpture studio Pittsburgh PA, and thrown legendary parties at their home BarN in Williamstown, MA. They toured Europe in 2024 playing as The Durgas and 5 Pound Horse combined into one group. The band are poised to record their first EP with producer Ronan Chris Murphy (King Crimson, etc).

Heart-stirring, original, and epiphany-inducing, 5 Pound Horse is ready to ride into a town near you for a night to remember. Saddle up!

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Raybody (fka Katy Rea) writes classic singer-songwriter shit that gets weird. Her voice is endlessly dynamic—feral and tough in its nurturing. Backed by Andrew Forman (Guitar: Daryl Johns, Nick Hakim) and Ethan Kogan (Pinc Louds,) the trio moves between cinematic extremes. Her bandmates—jazz artists steeped in NYC’s experimental and indie rock scenes—interpret her songs with a range that’s both crushing and soaring. It’s the sound of a woman at work: maniacal, but warm. Past bills with: Little Wings, Mei Semones, Allegra Kreiger, Being Dead, Lily Seabird, Bartees Strange, You Bet, Florry, & more.

Jackie West

NYC <-> Hudson Valley – based musician. Released sophomore album Feb 27. 2026 “Silent Century” and debut album ‘Close To The Mystery’ via Ruination Records, May 2024.

“It’s me, baby, you”, Jackie West sings on the opening track of her new record, Silent Century.

Like a hall of mirrors, West’s sophomore record unfolds like a playful conversation between the artist and herself. Throughout the course of Silent Century, they confront head on “the ones that are telling us ‘don’t speak’, uncovering their voice, seductive and surprising, no longer silent.

Berkshire greats Jordan Weller, Matt Downing, Kip Beacco and Dan Teichert!

While attending art school in Baltimore, Maryland in the early 90’s Dan Blakeslee, a Maine native discovered that he had an equal and deeply rooted connection to music. He would sneak into the galleries to play his guitar through the late hours of the evening surrounded by easels and oil paintings. After four years in “Charm City,” he returned to his childhood home in the Tatnic Woods of South Berwick, ME. That summer he played street corners in New Hampshire and Maine while working at a lobster restaurant. His employer urged him to sever ties to manual labor for one of a more musical nature. A phone call from a friend offering him a room in Somerville, MA began his journey south in 1995. While settling into this artful community he began to practice his craft in the smoke-laden subways of Boston. He now has been making music and art in the New England region ever since, leading him to tour the U.S. He has performed with Langhorne Slim, Josh Ritter, David Wax Museum, Lydia Loveless, The Lumineers, Deer Tick, The Low Anthem, Brown Bird, Sean Rowe, Jonah Tolchin, Old 97’s, Death Vessel, Kimya Dawson among others. In 2015 his dream of playing Newport Folk Festival became a reality, where Bob Dylan went electric 50 years earlier.

The hills and highways are made for wandering, this is forever rooted in Dan Blakeslee who performs an average of 160+ shows per year. In a gymnasium at Laconia Prison (NH) in 2005, a crowd of 150 inmates became hushed after hearing Blakeslee’s songs of hardship, hope, and true grit later released as a live album. In the late winter of 2006 brought him a string of 27 shows with Tiger Saw (Dylan Metrano, Alan Bull, Angel Deradoorian (Dirty Projectors)) to the southern US and straight up the Mississippi River igniting his passion to continue on this path for the years to come. In June of 2012 upon returning from the 120-mile journey by foot on the Massachusetts Walking Tour Blakeslee mapped out a tour of a different shape slated for the fall of that year. This venture spanned 7 states, with Blakeslee performing 31 shows in 25 days as his Halloween alter ego “Doctor Gasp” making a connect the dots Jack-O-Lantern face on a map of New England. 2013 brought him to Austin, TX in March for SXSW followed by a tour with his band “The Calabash Club” in late June of that year.

Blakeslee has released ten full-length albums to date. Two of them were recorded by long-time art school friend Ron Harrity (Peapod Recordings) the first “Lincoln Street Roughs” was recorded in a warehouse called The Map Room in Portland, Maine in 2007. The next was “Tatnic Tales” released on May 10, 2011. It is a collection of Blakeslee’s country folk songs most stemming from real life experiences. This album features his band The Calabash Club who formed in a Dover, NH basement in October of 2008. The members: Mike Effenberger – piano, Nick Phaneuf – bass, and Jim Rudolf – drums; are the essential ingredients in this acoustic folk outfit. “Tatnic Tales” was recorded in Dean Ludington’s barn in North Berwick, ME by the railroad as the friendship between the members of the band bloomed. “Tatnic Tales” is the first full-length album the band has recorded together to date. Blakeslee’s following album “Owed To The Tanglin’ Wind” was recorded at the Columbus Theatre in Providence, RI by Ben Knox Miller and Jeffrey Prystowsky (The Low Anthem). It was released on August 19th, 2014 with which Blakeslee did extensive touring in 2015. This album received “Album Of The Year” from Red Line Roots. Blakeslee was also awarded 2014 “Folk Artist Of The Year” at the Boston Music Awards, and “Male Performer of The Year” at the 2015 New England Music Awards. After a pause between full-band records his long awaited album “The Alley Walker” recorded by studio wizard Chris Chase (The Noise Floor) featuring his band The Calabash Club came out in 2017 to much acclaim. After touring the US a couple of times and much journeying it was time to get back in the studio. Blakeslee had been dreaming of making a full-length Christmas album for over a decade inspired by his retro music collection. So on a cold winter night in 2019 Blakeslee stepped into the studio for the first session of “Christmasland Jubilee”. This full-length album by Dan Blakeslee and the Calabash Club was revealed on December 1, 2020, and is their third release together.

A prolific artist, Dan Blakeslee has made over 600 rock posters in his career some of which are featured in the book “Art of Modern Rock” published by Chronicle Books. He has done album covers for dozens of bands including Assembly of Dust, Slaid Cleaves, The Tan Vampires, Jonah Tolchin, and many more. After seeing his posters, The Portsmouth Brewery (NH) asked Blakeslee to draft 8 beer label designs and the Northampton Brewery (MA) followed soon after commissioning him to make a label six-pack design. His beer label art has garnered national recognition with the Alchemist Brewery’s (VT) “Heady Topper” in 2012 and “Focal Banger” in 2014. His hand silk-screened posters have traveled the USA in the “National Poster Retrospecticus” in 2013 curated by the LAP Gallery and his own 100 piece Rock Poster Expo that has been exhibited numerous times through the years.

My name is Leo DiSanto, and I'm a song and story man and compulsive adventurer. A rural Pennsylvania yokel with a passport, a guitar, and a blog, I've hauled my wanderlust wagon everywhere from gypsy camps in Transylvania to monasteries in the high Himalaya to the wild interior of Alaska. I see this more or less as my existential mission: to inspire and be inspired.

This website is meant to be the nexus for my various musical endeavors, adventure chronicles, sporadic literary efforts, out-loud dreams, swashbuckling blunders, bungling philosophical considerations, and general windmill tilting. Information about and music by my original string band, Vinegar Creek Constituency, can be found at http://www.vinegarcreekconstituency.com, where you can name your price for downloads of all our albums. Our music can also be found on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, Pandora, YouTube, and all the usual places; links to us on those sites are on the VCC homepage. 

I love to spend some of my time on this beautiful, ape-infested earthrock getting to know the people who connect in some way with the things I make, so please feel welcome to contact me through this website to give me feedback; share interesting factoids, daring recipes, or pictures of your dog; discuss weird metaphysics; or inquire about enlisting my services as a writer/ entertainer. 

If you take delight in my various deeds and creations, please keep this ramshackle human entertainment factory in production by making a pledge of as little as one measly buck on patreon.com- it's the most direct way to support my work, kind of like buying your cabbage from the farmer who grows it rather than the big distributors (or industry execs) who lowball him for it. Here's the link to my Patreon page: 

The Glass Hours are American songwriters Megan Barbera and Brad Armstrong. Combining influences from Megan’s Colorado mountain roots and Brad’s Birmingham, AL southern roots, the Americana/Country Folk duo met in New York’s Hudson Valley in Summer 2022 and began writing and performing together immediately. They recorded their first album the following spring.

Their self-titled debut album was released by Cornelius Chapel Records in March 2024, and several songs from the album were featured by Americana UK, The Bluegrass Situation and Americana Highways. The duo was invited to play NYC’s Underwater Sunshine Festival, an annual music showcase curated by Adam Duritz, lead singer for Counting Crows. From there, they self-booked two national tours in 2024 and began writing their second album while on tour in the West.

The Glass Hours second album, Chapel Glass, was recorded in November 2024 at Dial Back Sound in Water Valley, MS. Chapel Glass is set for release September 19, 2025. It was co-produced, engineered and mixed by Clay Jones (Al Green, Modest Mouse.) and includes Matt Patton (Drive-by Truckers, Laura Jane Grace) on bass, and Jason Lucia (Blue Mountain, Galactic Engineers) on drums.

BIO

A songwriter’s songwriter, known for his lyric craft, distinctive voice and soulful songs steeped in classic rhythm & blues, pop, jazz, folk and country, Milton first gained notoriety in his hometown New York City when his song “In The City” became a hit on New York’s WFUV radio. His live performances, which include material from every one of his albums, are praised for their wit, humor, and captivating charm.

Milton has toured extensively throughout the states since 2005, as a headliner and appearing as support for his hero and mentor Chris Smither, in addition to shows and tours with Joan Osborne, Steave Earle, Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore,  Sonny Landreth, Colin Hay, Kat Edmonson, Josh Ritter and many more.

In late 2019, Milton premiered his 5th and finest album Studio City with a sold out show at City Vineyard NYC.  The album, a veritable tour de force of songwriting and studio craft, features 12 ultra-catchy, concise tunes ranging in style from Sinatra-esque full orchestra swing, to Sgt. Pepper-like whimsical comedy to vintage country and New Orleans rhythm and blues.  In concert, Milton and his ultra-sharp band of NYC veteran session players deliver the songs seamlessly with Milton’s own graceful live arrangements.