Sarah Sample (Sheridan) Sarah Sample is an award-winning songwriter with a “raw, graceful voice”  (Salt Lake City Weekly) and beautiful songs that weave a trail of stories through folk, Americana, and  country, garnering comparisons to Sheryl Crow, The Weepies, and Bonnie Raitt. Redwing, Sample’s sixth  album, features more of her cut-to-the-bone storytelling, framed with empathy and compassion, and told  with the best singing of Sample’s career. Redwing is—among other things and in the grand tradition of  albums—a breakup album. But this was no romantic heartbreak; Sample’s breakup was spiritual. She left  the committed religion of her upbringing (and its stringent rules and by-the-book lifestyle) to chart her  own spiritual course. Her previous release with songwriter Edie Carey, ‘Til The Morning, won Best  Children’s Album in the 2014 Independent Music Awards. Sample has performed at Merlefest, Folks  Fest, Telluride, and Kerrville, and has won songwriting contests at most of these. She has warmed-up  stages for Darrell Scott, Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers, Marketa Irglova, and Over The  Rhine.

Aaron Davis (Hoback) is chiefly known as co-founder of decade-long national touring act Screen Door  Porch and his eclectic quartet Aaron Davis & the Mystery Machine. The multi-instrumentalist, engineer producer, and vocalist will stage a one-man show on acoustic and resonator guitars, banjo, harmonica,  and percussion. Aaron works the lesser-worn corners of the American musical fabric through an  unconventional lens. Slide banjo? Detuned guitar made of metal? You bet. From “searing slide guitar”  (Country Weekly) echoing mid-century acoustic blues, to a patchwork of story folk and roots music,  pensive alt-country, and an improvisational prowess, Aaron has been described as a “truly phenomenal  songwriter” (Americana UK) with “a particularly interesting approach that mixes poetry, groove and  roughness” (Lonestar Time) and “a combination that goes down like top-shelf bourbon” (Austin  Chronicle). He has shared bills with many of his heroes—Wilco, Willie Nelson, Jason Isbell, Buddy Guy,  Sam Bush, Brian Wilson, James McMurtry, and Hayes Carll. In conjunction with a Performing Arts  Music Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts, Aaron just put out his tenth  release, Catalyst.

Abby Webster (Wilson) has quickly established herself as an artistic force in the regional music scene,  performing on this tour as a duo with drummer-percussionist Ryan Ptasnik. Dry wit with raw honesty,  the avant-garde lyricist’s songs are filled with metaphor and dark humor, though they are just as  whimsical as they are visceral. These elements are tied together in her recent single, “88 Constellations,” which was co-produced by Webster and Davis. In addition to her various releases as a solo artist, she also  releases music with an electronic duo, Ski Lift. Webster received a 2021 Performing Arts Fellowship in  Music from the National Endowment for the Arts—a merit-based honor for an artist’s work in their field.