Hannah Kaminer & The Wistfuls

Hannah Kaminer is an artist and singer-songwriter writing songs about love, loss, and home. Raised in small towns in Western North Carolina, she fuses echoes of Appalachian and country traditions with wistful, Americana-style songwriting. She has released three studio albums: Acre by Acre (2015), Heavy Magnolias (2018) which was co-produced with GRAMMY-winning engineer Julian Dreyer, and Heavy on the Vine (2024) which she produced with her band, The Wistfuls.

Her latest album, Heavy on the Vine, was released in January 2024, and has garnered play and a Studio B session at WNCW as well as reviews and mentions by the NYTimes, Americana-UK, The Bluegrass Situation, and AltCountry(NL). Currently, Kaminer and her band are promoting the new album in the Southeast U.S. and beyond. Hannah and the band were named one of the “Best Things We Saw at AVLFest 2024” by Rolling Stone.

Kaminer has opened for nationally recognized acts, including The Steep Canyon Rangers, Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters, Daniel Shearin (of River Whyless), Adrianne Lenker (Big Thief) and more. Kaminer's songs have been recognized with two North Carolina Regional Artist Project Grants, in the finals of the Chris Austin Songwriting Contest (at MerleFest), and in Asheville's Brown Bag Songwriting Competition. She has also been recognized for her work to produce Music for Quarantine in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hannah & The Wistfuls have been playing as a band since 2023, but a few of this band's members (Jackson Dulaney and Jackson Grimm) are multi-year collaborators with Hannah on her albums and live band events. Hannah & The Wistfuls created and collaborated on Heavy on the Vine, releasing the album in January 2024 (see reviews and press here) and opening for bands such as The Steep Canyon Rangers, Scott McMicken & The Ever-Expanding, and Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters.

Learn more at https://hannahkaminer.com/

Simba Baumgartner & Adrien Marco

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Shay Martin Lovette

The tale of wayfaring songwriter Shay Martin Lovette is shaped by an enduring creative pursuit, an inseparable connection with the natural world, and a deep appreciation of the nonpareil musical voices of the past. The True As They Come EP, a new batch of homespun songs weaving intricate tales of retrospection and self-discovery will be released on April 26, 2024. Like the winding rivers and tributaries of his Appalachian homeland, Lovette's music flows with emotional depth, poetically exploring the beautiful melodies of the land and the human soul. With Joseph Terrell of Mipso back at the helm as Producer, these songs feature some of North Carolina’s brightest musicians and signify a shift in the gravity of Lovette’s writing.

Lovette’s songcraft has elicited high praise from American Songwriter, The Bluegrass Situation, No Depression, Under The Radar Magazine, Glide Magazine, and New Commute.  In April of 2022, Lovette and band capped off a tour in support of his album Scatter & Gather with a performance on the esteemed Watson Stage at Merlefest in Wilkesboro, North Carolina.

Learn more at https://www.shaymartinlovette.com