STELLA PRINCE is a new generation folksinger from New York, now in Nashville. Described by Nashville Scene as the artist “carrying the banner for a new generation of folk musicians”, Stella’s goal is to bring folk music to a new generation, describing her sound as “Gen Z Folk”. She recently made history as the youngest performer at this year’s Tin Pan South. Stella’s EP became the #2 Most Downloaded record, the only folk album, solo female performer, and one of the only independent releases to do so, charting in the Top 20 on the Alt Country Charts. It was also played on BBC and NPR’s “All Songs Considered”.

WoodSongs Kids: Elle Hack & Ellinor Pogue met at the Kentucky Opry and started singing harmony together. 

STEPHANE WREMBEL is one of the world’s foremost guitarists, think Tommy Emmanuel meets Django Reinhardt. Hailing from Fontainebleau, France, Wrembel honed his craft traversing the French countryside before graduating from Berklee College of Music in Boston. With a career that spans the globe. His world-class band includes Josh Kaye on guitar, Ari Folman-Cohen on bass, and Nick Anderson on drums.

CATFISH INTHE SKY play bluegrass with an attitude ... a GOOD one! This is a band with an instrument make-up of fiddle, cello, cajon, and ukulele. With a style described as “Upbeat Americana Folk-Grass for All Ages,” these Berklee College of Music in students combine Appalachian fiddle tunes, bluegrass and original music.

ROB ROBINSON is a veteran songwriter and blues musician. His songwriting and vocal expertise is reflected in the infectious, swampy groves of the first single “If I loved You Hard Enough.” Rob is not just a brilliant blues musicians, he also supports other artists as owner of the infamous and historic Puckett’s Grocery in Leiper’s Fork, Tn just outside of Nashville, one of the best live music venues in middle Tennessee. Watch his blues video.

WoodSongs Kid: Reece Carroll is a 13 year old banjo player from Nicholasville, Kentucky. 

MICHELLE WRIGHT is a country music star originally from Canada. She burst onto U.S. radio In the early 90s and went on to score 25 Top Ten radio hits with songs heard on country music stations worldwide including the hit TAKE IT LIKE A MAN. She comes to WoodSongs performing songs that have helped her win over 40 major awards, including 16 CCMA Awards and her induction into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame. 
ELVIE SHANE is a Kentuckian who broke into the music scene with his Platinum certified Number One single, My Boy. A heartfelt tribute to a step-parents unconditional love. Elvie Shane’s sophomore album, “Damascus,” draws on powerful imagery and reflects Shane’s own journey of grappling with success, mental health issues, and the search for meaning in the midst of acclaim. Shane tackles themes of community, mental health, and the pursuit of the American dream.

WoodSongs Kid: Louise Schilling is a ten-year-old songwriter from Lexington, Kentucky.

SUE FOLEY is an amazing guitarist. She’s a Canadian musical triple talent as a blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. With her painted fingernails, Sue strokes, strums, shakes and shimmies a six-string, unleashing a tone that doubles as her voice, loud, proud, and true. Her new acoustic solo album, ONE GUITAR WOMAN is a moving tribute to the female pioneers of guitar, the women whose music and lives delivered the inspiration and paved the way for those that followed. 

JAKE YBARRA Texas-born is a brilliant, multifaceted Texas-born musician. His heartfelt and literary lyrics explore cinematic themes of love, loss, and the human experience, resonating with listeners on a deep emotional level. His debut album “Something In The Water” is full of heartfelt tales that display his story telling ability, that invite comparisons not only to his songwriting heroes but also to his favorite authors such as Ernest Hemingway. 

WoodSongs Kids: Bluegrass Brothers are a family band from Salisbury, North Carolina.

THE HEART COLLECTORS are a folk group from Australia. With soaring cello, intricate guitar, sparkling mandolin, boot banging banjo, passionate strikes of a tambourine and the thundering of the bodhran, The Heart Collectors are four charismatic performers that create real musical synergy, marrying progressive folk/rock sensibilities and clean classical precision.

WoodSongs Kid: ALEX DAVIS is an incredible, banjo picking 11 year old from Manchester, TN. He loves airplanes, fish and of course, the banjo. 

THE PRICE SISTERS are twin sisters Lauren and Leanna Price from Kentucky. As a musical duo they are poised to become the torchbearers for bluegrass music as it enters its eighth decade. While their playing is strongly rooted in the classic style of Bill Monroe, their smooth, polished sibling harmonies infuse the music with a fresh, contemporary appeal. 

RANDY STEELE is an award winning banjo master … and career firefighter … from Chattanooga TN. He maintains two identities: mild mannered banjo-wielding bluegrass virtuoso by night and as a Captain in the Chattanooga Fire Department, he’s saved plenty of lives by day. 

WoodSongs Kid: Reagan Brown is a 13-year-old mandolist from Springville, Tennessee.

BEX MARSHALL is a European blues legend and comes to us all the way from England. She is a UK British Blues Award winner and 4 time European Blues Awards nominee. Her career began working on ocean cruise liners and in poker dens in the Netherlands. A fascinating story but amazing blues music. Her new album “FORTUNA”.

WoodSongs Kid: Isaac Biver is a 17 year old fingerstyle guitar player from Freeburg, Illinois.