"One of the finest songwriters I have ever heard, Australian or otherwise." David Fricke/Rolling Stone

Two renegade southern bands who deal variously in gorgeous psychedlic dirges and mutant stained-glass bluegrass

Gates will open at 9:00 am on 5/24. The festival ends at 1:00 pm on 5/27.

The Nickatina Experience Tour 2013

Superior psychedelic jangle pop from one of the Valley's best new bands.

Long before the Go Gos, Bangles, and around the same time as Fanny (the early 70s), three Smith and Mount Holyoke students formed The Deadly Nightshade.

An Evening of Bluegrass and Beyond

With energetic live performances and award-winning instrumental abilities, the five women of Della Mae are turning heads and winning hearts.

Album release show! "There & Back" out May 28th.  Acoustic Show at 7PM. Electric at 10PM

Album release show! "There & Back" out May 28th. Acoustic Show at 7PM. Electric at 10PM

Deleasa ticket + meet & greet option

Crooked Still singer Aoife O’Donovan steps out with solo debut "Fossils"

Brilliantly talented British musician and songwriter

New album the Long Surrender marks 20 years of evocative, earthy songs with a torchy, devil-may-care beauty from this husband-wife duo

Emerging from the chillwave underground (Toro y Moi, Beach Fossils, Youth Lagoon) Ariel Pink is branching out and has a smash on 93.9 The River with "Only In My Dreams"

The Spirit of Creole Country. Free Zydeco/Cajun Dance Lesson, The Cupid Shuffle, with master teacher Larry Kaufman. Feel the joy of zydeco!

New album "Honky Tonk" on Rounder Records. Son Volt embodies what modern country music should be.

"Enormous ensemble of strings, horns, guitars, drums and voice. Their blend of early Arcade Fire-style rock with cool pop string arrangements is wonderful." Bob Boilen NPR

Two great new Valley bands with bright futures

Copping their name from Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov, Seattle band Ivan & Alyosha earned NPR Song of the Day honors with "Easy To Love"

At its best, music is one of the most basic ways that humanity has found to come together and Jonathan Richman holds this truth at the heart of all his songs.

Award winning slam poet with the theatrical flair of an actor, the literary arsenal of a Beat poet and a hio-hop soul.

The music of Jimi Hendrix and classic blues from Muddy Waters, Albert King & more.

Saturday Night Live Comedian and Weekend Update Anchor live onstage with a hilarious stand-up routine

Two truly inspired new artists on one bill.

Phenomenal acoustic guitarist who once held all three top slots in the Top-Rated Videos of All Time on YouTube.

Boston six-piece for fans of MGMT, Phoenix, Passion Pit.

Afrobeat, Caribbean, funk, and trad Northern Fiddle with Fiddlehead Zoe Darrow, former Alchemystic Garrett Sawyer, Peter Siegel, Dave Noonan, and Julian Gerstin.

7 Below play painfully accurate compositions and patient jams from short, tight rock and roll to cow funk creating a pleasingly familiar experience for Phans of all ages.

You know Big Head Todd and the Monsters? Well, this is Big Head Todd sans Monsters, capiche?

Amadou Bagayoko & Mariam Doumbia met at Mali’s Institute for Young Blind People and have since become the foremost ambassadors of contemporary West African music

Winsome, wicked and witty, Chic Gamine embody the ‘60s girl-group vibe with a French pop curveball and four rotating lead-singers

Titanic local team-up of blues guitar master and superb jazz drummer.

The World Famous Pontani Sisters present a traditional burlesque show with modern twists for the best in sideshow and variety entertainment!

Rocky Mountain-reared, Nashville-based Winston Yellen's Night Beds shares the same lamp-lit and expansive musical campsite as Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes, and Mark Kozelek

Album release show from superb new Valley trio of seasoned local musical vets

Record Release Show for "Random Sighting" by this Valley native who works as a piano tuner by day but at night....

New album focuses on farming, rural America, locavores, food safety, & the comic potential of herbicides. The show features two sidemen and an array of farm props.

The son of late Malian guitarist Ali Farka Touré inherited his dazzlingly fluid phrasing combining the prowess of a global superstar with down to earth charisma

The Black Lillies have quickly risen to the forefront of the Americana scene with their unique country, roots, rock and blues via Appalachia.

This Alabaman's voice is like thunder rolling in before a sweet southern rains. Fans of Brandi Carlile and the Indigo Girls take note!

Rising Eight Piece New Orleans Brass Band. “The missing link between Public Enemy and Louis Armstrong” -The Village Voice

Rock and Roll hall of fame member and original mad man Leon Russell has performed and collaborated with legends such as Elton John, George Harrison, and Joe Cocker

New album on the way 'Dear Mark J Mulcahy I Love You' from the iconoclastic singer, songwriter, tragicomic opera composer of Miracle Legion and Polaris,

Four of the Greatest Female Blues Artists Join Forces backed by some of some of the best musicians in the business

This year's show in Mali thwarted by civil war, Malian Artists for Peace and National Unity answer by taking the storied Festival in the Desert on the road

New album this June on Jack White’s Third Man Records!

Native Oklahoman Samantha Crain's new album Kid Face produced by John Vanderslice (the Mountain Goats, Spoon). Bombadil channels influences from Cake to the The Kinks

"Another level altogether." MOJO "Top ten British Blues guitarists of all time." GUITAR AND BASS MAGAZINE

Freshly minted graduate of the New England Conservatory with multiple awards and appearances on Austin City Limits, A Prairie Home Companion, Bonnaroo, Newport and Telluride.

New EP Chimera Vol II available June 25th.
You can get a signed copy a week early if you pre-order from ChrisPureka.com

Folk-rock combo from Gulfport, Mississippi, (about to tour with FUN!) has a charming, small-town and undeniably Southern twang and spirit.

Blues guitar dynamo from the Berkshires

Special Meet & Greet and VIP Packages Available

New album Sugaring Season on Anti- Records

One of the UK’s most buzzed-about new talents, with critically acclaimed EPs, sold-out shows worldwide and nods from the likes of Bon Iver and Ryan Adams.

Classic rock from NYC in the tradition of Hendrix, Cream, and the Allmans

"With THE HIGHWAY, Williams has recorded her most accomplished, mature and world weary album. Even Hank Sr. would be proud.” American Songwriter

Four Decades of Hits

Free Zydeco/Cajun Dance Lesson, The Cupid Shuffle, with master teacher Larry Kaufman

Hawaiian singer/songwriter does it "Island Style"

Award winning, hard touring, multi-instrumentalist guitar, lapsteel, mandolin, trumpet, Americana genre bending, Texas-bred triple-threat musician singer songwriter

"Amnesia" "What Can I Say?" "Fall On Me" "County Line"

This show is moving to Saturday, August 30th.

New band created by Miles Arntzen, drummer with Antibalas and Superhuman Happiness, inspired by amazing power of Fela Kuti's music.

Every ticket includes a digital version of the new
album The Hurry and The Harm available June 4th.

An evening of hits and favorites from this all-star duo of England Dan & John Ford Coley and The Hollies fame

Postponed from 5/10. All tickets will be honored.

Belongs in the ranks of songwriting bards like Nick Lowe, Dave Alvin, and Harlan Howard. "An alt-country genius"- Tina Fey

Calvin Comedy! Runner up (to a dog show) on NBC's America's Got Talent, seen on TheTonight Show with Jay Leno, Last Comic Standing and more!

Gorka is widely heralded for the sophisticated intelligence and provocative originality of his songs.” – Boston Globe

Live movie riffing from the creator and original cast of Mystery Science Theater 3000

See Mavis Staples live with Bonnie Raitt on Austin City Limits Thursday, June 6th at 9:30PM on PBS station WGBY

The Voice of Clannad, live with her band.

Annual St. Patrick's Show