3:30pm

Carrie Elkin
Singer-Songwriter

"If human auras were visible, Elkin would have had a blue buzz of electricity surrounding her body, and sparks would have been flying. If she hadn't been anchored to some veteran side men...her feet might have left the ground...Elkin is going places. Just wait and see." - Tom Ross, Steamboat Pilot

4:30pm

5:30pm Dinner w/

Bridger Creek Boys
Montana-based bluegrass/newgrass quintet

www.bridgercreekboys.com

6:45pm

Danny Schmidt
Singer-Songwriter

Winner of the prestigious Kerrville New Folk award in 2007, Austin, TX-based singer/songwriter Danny Schmidt writes with a lyrical complexity and a style drawing comparisons to Townes Van Zandt and Leonard Cohen, leading Sing Out Magazine to tag him: "the best new songwriter we've heard in 15 years."

www.dannyschmidt.com

8:00pm

2:30pm

John Floridis
Missoula-based guitar virtuoso, singer-songwriter and composer

“You are so engrossed in the performance that you forget you are not him and he seems to forget anyone else is even there! Man! He did things with that guitar that might ought to be illegal! You have go to hear this guy play, you have got to see him perform.” – - Henry Lockhart

www.johnfloridis.com

3:30pm

Aaron Espe
Indie/Folk singer-songwriter

Referring to Aaron's first album, My Whole Life, Derek Sivers, President of CD Baby (The world's largest seller of Independent Music) gushed in a personal email:
 
"Aaron, I love your 'My Whole Life' CD so much I'm going to feature it on the Front Page of CD baby for a few days. We get about 100 new albums sent to us a day (about 100,000 total), and yours is one of the best I've ever heard."

www.aaronespe.com

4:30pm

Laurie McClain
Nashville-based singer-songwriter

"What good folk music should be: earthy, truthful, heartfelt...Laurie shows listeners her naturally sweetened voice and delightful sense of humor...Some songs lament the world's hassles and heartaches; others long for a kinder world where everyone is happy, healthy and free...idealistic without becoming preachy." - Rainbow Rowell - DAILY NEBRASKAN, Lincoln, NE

www.lauriemcclain.com

5:30pm Dinner w/

Jawbone Railroad
Montana-based bluegrass/roots americana quartet

www.myspace.com/jawbonerailroad

6:45pm

Meg Hutchinson
Red House Records' award-winning contemporary acoustic songwriter

Boston Globe review of Meg's new album, Come Up Full:
 
"In Meg Hutchinson’s universe, there is no useful distance between the personal and the political. Her honey-husk voice sings about the Iraq war and her own reawakening from depression with the same troubled intimacy. On a new album, Come up Full, beautifully soft-spoken melodies commiserate with searching lyrics that are all the more convincing for their uncertainty."

8:00pm