WArum Rae is a singer-songwriter based in Brooklyn, New York. Her full birth name is Arum Rae Valkonen and she is from Colorado Springs, Colorado. Her sound is heavily influenced by jazz singers like Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone. Her style blends heavy, nocturnal beats with auto-tuned soul singing. Arum began performing by driving up to three hours from Virginia to play at various open mics in Washington, D.C. and Frederick, Maryland, which would then open the door for her to return as an opener, and finally performing as the headlining act. Arum now resides in New York City.
WBig John Bates is a Canadian punk cabaret and metal guitarist and vocalist.
WGrayson Capps is an American Americana and blues rock singer-songwriter.
WChris Castle is a folk/Americana singer-songwriter, community activist and politician. Cleveland Magazine has described his songwriting as an "authentic connection to the world-weary soul of American roots music", while The New London Day's Rick Koster calls Castle "a visionary songwriter" and "a tunesmith of almost scary vision, narrative acumen and hooky instinct". The late Tommy Ramone once described Castle by saying "Chris Castle sings his unique songs of depth and beauty with a voice well textured by life's experiences."
WLinda Chorney is an American singer-songwriter and award-winning filmmaker, originally from Sudbury, Massachusetts.
WCharley Crockett is an American blues, country and Americana singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He has released seven albums since 2015, with Lil G.L.'s Blue Bonanza peaking at number 11 on the US Billboard Blues Albums chart.
WMadison Cunningham is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. Her 2019 album, Who Are You Now was nominated for the best Americana album in the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards. Rolling Stone describes her music as "a new spin on West Coast folk-rock, with classical tendencies, electric guitars, jazz-school chord changes and alt-rock strut all living under the same roof".
WShakey Graves is an American Americana musician from Austin, Texas.
WLibby Johnson is an American singer-songwriter. She co-founded indie folk band 22 Brides in 1992, and released her debut solo album, Annabella, in 2006.
WChris Knight is an American singer-songwriter from Slaughters, Kentucky. In addition to releasing solo records of his own material, Knight has had a successful career writing songs that have been recorded by Confederate Railroad, John Anderson, and Randy Travis among others.
WChristian Lopez is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Martinsburg, West Virginia. He was also the front man and guitarist of the Christian Lopez Band. Beyond Lopez, band members as of 2017 included Jason Navo on bass, and Cameron McClaren on drums.
WTrixie Mattel is the drag persona of Brian Michael Firkus, an American drag queen, singer-songwriter, comedian, author, and television personality from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Mattel is best known for being the winner of the third season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars and for placing sixth on the seventh season of RuPaul's Drag Race. In June 2019, a panel of judges from New York magazine placed her fourth on their list of "the most powerful drag queens in America", a ranking of 100 former Drag Race contestants. Mattel co-hosts the web series UNHhhh and its Viceland spin-off, The Trixie & Katya Show, alongside Katya Zamolodchikova. Mattel's first studio album, Two Birds, was released in 2017, followed by her second album, One Stone, in 2018. Her third album, Barbara, was released in 2020.
WKatherine Nicole Pruitt is an American singer-songwriter based in Nashville, Tennessee. Her debut album, Expectations, was released in 2020 by Rounder Records.
WRodes Rollins is an American singer-songwriter from Boulder, CO who is currently based in Brooklyn, NY but also spends time in LA and Mexico City. She calls her Americana, pop-esque music “cowboy poetry” and Billboard has referred to her sound as “part spaghetti western, part psychedelic.”
WKeith Sykes is an American singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. More than 100 of Sykes' songs have been recorded by John Prine, Rosanne Cash, The Judds, Jerry Jeff Walker, and George Thorogood, though he may be best known for co-writing "Volcano", the title track of Jimmy Buffett's 1979 album.
WSeth Walker is an American electric blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He has released 10 albums to date, the most recent entitled Are You Open? (2019). Walker's musical genres include Americana, blues and jazz.
WThe White Buffalo is the professional moniker and stage name of American musician and singer/songwriter Jake Smith, who was heavily influenced by Irish Traveller, Manor Donohue — and his poetic nature.