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Jared Samuel / Invisible Familiars

Born in dusky hours between wolf and dog, always late but is convinced he's right on thyme. Sagittarius + a lot of Scorpio qualities.

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Elizabeth Venable

Elizabeth Venable is an artist and musician from Portland OR. She fronts the band Fronjentress, and is a founding member of the band Sad Horse. Other musical projects she has been involved in include The Naysayer, Papa M, The Scrapers and Tara Jane O’Neil.

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Alexander Turnquist

Alexander Turnquist is a Kingston , NY based multi-instrumentalist and composer most widely known for his use of the 12- string acoustic guitar as a driving force in creating landscape musical fantasies, expressing longings and fulfillments through movements and melody, creating harmonies out of everyday moments captured within a daydream. As an accomplished 12-string guitarist/composer, Alexander Turnquist was naturally alarmed when the ulnar nerve in his left hand seized up in 2013, but after a surgical procedure he gratefully started the process of learning to play guitar again. His recovery was cut short when not long after the surgery he was hospitalized with meningitis. Though his recovery is ongoing, and he continues to struggle with a weakened immune system and memory loss, he was inspired to soldier on, rather than being deterred by his physical struggles. Turnquist's latest full-length Flying Fantasy confirms the idea that out of great hardship can come great art. As he wrote the material for the new album it became clear that his sensitivity had sharpened, his empathy magnified, and his sense of purpose blossomed. The unfortunate circumstances he endured ostensibly forced his metamorphosis from a remarkable guitar player to a truly great composer. Much like the butterflies that adorn the album cover, he seems to have changed form and taken flight. The album opens with the sparse harmonics of "House of Insomniacs", which are soon joined by lush swells of vibes, cello, and even wordless vocals. On the tracks that follow, Turnquist continues to make use of this dynamic sonic pallet, even adding organ, piano, marimba, steel drums, violin, and french horn to the mix. From "Red Carousel", which was inspired by Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes, to the somber lilt of the love song "Wildflower", to the truly arresting title track "Flying Fantasy" which uses only 4 open strummed guitars and loops of damaged tape and wire recorders, every note of Flying Fantasy vibrates with life as Turnquist ushers us though his intoxicatingly colorful worlds of sound.

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Andrea Maddox

Andrea Maddox and the Hey Y’alls is a six piece Americana band living and playing in NY's Hudson Valley. A native Tennessean, Andrea is inspired by the legendary women of classic country music and, over the years, has cultivated her own sultry style of songs filled with love and longing. With plenty of tunes for two-stepping and waltzing, The Hey Y’alls bring a lively dance vibe to the party. They are regularly featured at the Colony in Woodstock, The O+ Festival in Kingston, Skinny Dennis in Brooklyn and many other venues throughout New York and the Hudson Valley. This all star band includes Victor Lissabet on lead guitar, Bella Kosmacher on fiddle, Lara Hope on bass, Jon Blackstone on Pedal Steel, Roger LaRochelle on drums and Andrea Maddox on lead vocals and guitar.

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Rachel Blumberg

Rachel Blumberg is best known as an inventive, creative drummer who has played, toured, and recorded with heaps of wonderful bands and musicians including Michael Hurley, The Decemberists, M. Ward, Tara Jane O'Neil, Lori Goldston, Mirah, Sam Beam, Laura Gibson, Bright Eyes, Mirah, Death Vessel, Old Unconscious, Norfolk & Western, and many more. She is a current long time member of the experimental rock band Califone and also has her own solo project Arch Cape where she plays improvised percussion and other instruments to her animated film. She is also a visual artist who works in paint and animation, and has made music videos for folks like Gillian Welch and Iron & among others.

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Elaina Tardif

Elaina Tardif is an artist and musician living in Portland, OR. Her musical projects include Tender Age, Meringue, Talking Contest, Wet Fruit, Low Land Painter, and The Walkaway Wendies

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Sallie Ford

Is a musician/artist originally from Asheville, NC but moved to Portland OR in the fall of 2006. She toured and played with her band Sallie Ford & the sound outside from 2011-2016. Her touring days are mostly behind her, but you can see her play with her country band “the Barbaras” and her basement rock band WLY MTN (pronounced Woolly Mountain). She also is a graphic designer, illustrator and printmaker.

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Samwise Carlson

Originally hailing from rural Southeastern Idaho, Samwise moved to Boise in 2012 and spent the next seven years performing, writing music, touring, and hosting house shows before relocating to Portland, OR where they currently live. They have been accompanied by string sections, harpists, accordionists, pedal steel players, and percussionists, but often perform solo, and have opened for the likes of Aldous Harding, Neal Morgan, Laura Veirs, Ora Cogan, Circuit Des Yeux, Marisa Anderson, Stelth Ulvang, Coco Rosie, The Secret Beach, and many other artists acclaimed in their genres. They’re known for their angelic voice, unique finger-style guitar technique and gently hypnotic, moving performances akin to the spirits of Nick Drake, Vashti Bunyan, and Joanna Newsom. Tispur has released two records; “Sleepy Creature” in 2017 and the self-titled album “Tispur” in 2022, and is currently recording their third album.

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Galen Ballinger

Galen Ballinger (*1986, The Dalles, Oregon) is a self-taught painter, musician, and writer living and working in Portland, Oregon. Combining distinct sonic and visual vocabularies, his work dissects truth and beauty within the subtleties of ordinary life. His work amplifies the overlooked spaces, within city and wilderness, through large-scale interactive habitats. Often, his work calls for a collaborative approach, both locally and internationally.

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Samuel Farrell

Samuel Farrell is an artist, musician and curator of Curly Cassettes currently residing in Portland Oregon,USA. Sam’s art practice attempts to allow us a momentary escape from reality, whether it is through his overtly psychedelic architecturally inspired colorful dreamscape paintings or through the sounds of the collection of curly cassettes he has compiled over the last 15 years, Sam paves the road to that special place where, if even for a moment, nothing else matters except the art.

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image of Casssingle “The Horse Lives On” 2 songs hand doodled art

Casssingle “The Horse Lives On” 2 songs hand doodled art

I've done three volumes of Neil Young songs since the pandemic. I started doing it just as a activity because I was locked inside -- and what could be more fun than playing Neil songs? Pretty soon I had a whole double album worth of stuff, and then I thought, maybe I should write a couple songs about Neil or inspired by Neil. So I did those, and I added those to the the first record. And then I've done two more volumes since then, and one of them has, like, five or six songs that I wrote myself, inspired by Neil. Suddenly it's 2025, his eightieth birthday, just a couple days ago. And, I thought, well, I'm gonna do two original songs, and I'll call it Neil Young Vol. IV. I had planned on doing a seven-inch for his birthday, but no way I was ever gonna get that together in time. So I just recorded these two songs last week (with help from Joe Adragna) and put them up on Bandcamp, and this cassette will be the only physical manifestation of it, for now anyway. Neil & Crazy Horse had a song called Fucking Up, so this is Fucking Up 2. It's about getting old, you know. But staying young too. And the other song, Requiem for a Horse... I mean, I may be jumping the gun because I don't know that Crazy Horse is dead or anything like that. Of course they're not, but, you know, I felt like maybe their days playing with Neil might have come to an end. Maybe - I mean, I don't know. It's open-ended song though. It may be called a "Requiem", but the chorus is “the horse lives on and on and on” So, you know, it it could go either way. And either way, it's beautiful.

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Scott McCaughey

Scott Lewis McCaughey is an American singer, guitarist and songwriter and the leader of the Seattle and Portland-based bands The Young Fresh Fellows and The Minus 5. He was also an auxiliary member of the American rock band R.E.M. from 1994 until the band's break-up in 2011, contributing to the studio albums New Adventures in Hi-Fi, Up, Reveal, Around the Sun, Accelerate and Collapse into Now.

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Matt Emmons

Matt Emmons is an artist and musician from Dayton, Ohio, living in Portland, OR. Besides solo performances, his musical projects include Plastic Harmony Band, Dirt Twins and Dean The Dog. He is a professional stop-motion animator by day.

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Eric Crespo

Eric Crespo is an artist, musician and engineer based in Portland, Oregon. He helmed the solo project Ghost To Falco and is an original member of the band Abronia,

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Nathan Moore

Nathan Moore is a multi instrumentalist and artist from Yellow Springs, OH living in Portland, OR. Musical projects include but are not limited to Dean The Dog, Teen Age, Sport Fishing USA, Wooden Indian Burial Ground, Laith & The Texas Birds & Shilpa Ray.

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Rick Pedrosa

Rick is a musician and artist from Baltimore living in Portland, OR. Woodwork art and music stuff. Bands he plays in include but not limited to Abronia, Federale, Meghan Diana, Jeffrey Silverstein & sometimes Rose City Band. He releases solo records under the name The Far Sound.

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