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Based in Oregon with Appalachian roots, the Miller Twins cut their musical teeth over 20 years ago in a local midwest bar scene.  Ben and Nat bring guitar, mandolin, tenor banjo, and blood harmony to the stage. Influenced by John Prine, Texas singer songwriters, and acoustic sets of the Grateful Dead, the twins blur the lines between folk and bluegrass music. With the lyricism of folk and the drive of bluegrass, their sound is uniquely their own. They are pure acoustic and purely entertaining!

Gushing reviews surround Shipe’s multi-genred Americana work. His last two projects — Yellow House and Villain — charted in 6 countries on 3 continents. The Beast Is Back is previewing to the same promising reception, going deep with love songs for grown-ups, triumphant anthems, slow-burn reflections, rollicking stompers, and elegies. Vividly drawn characters are treated with empathy, humor, passion, and swagger. Producer Tyler Fortier (Anna Tivel, Jeffrey Martin) enriches the acoustic palette, gathering Pacific Northwest all-stars’ pedal steel, piano & organ, strings, horns, mandolin, fiddle, banjo, and Shipe’s fine slide guitar, honed on years of touring as an electric front man. Shipe has opened for Bob Dylan, Taj Mahal, Keb Mo, Derek Trucks, Cake, Jerry Joseph, Los Lobos, Hootie & Blowfish, Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers, Jimmy Cliff etc. He takes command of any-sized stage, solo or accompanied. Nominated for Best Original Song at the Los Angeles International Indie Short Film Festival, Shipe music is cinematic. Two songs appear in the AOF award-winning Vicktory to the Underdog, nominated for Best Soundtrack. (“Pit Bull Blues” has received million YouTube hits.) Thirty-six Shipe tunes have rotated on over a 100 independent and commercial radio stations.

Raised on a diet of Old Testament hellfire and damnation-style preaching, fresh venison, powdered milk, and freeze-dried potatoes, Jeshua grew up working class and country. His family split their time between his Scots-Irish Mum’s hometown of Summerland, British Columbia and his American Pop’s Baker City, Oregon. A healthy dose of rock and roll radio accompanied car rides to and from church; and a backdrop of Canadian Folk resonated from grandma’s, cousins’, uncles’ and aunties’ guitars and mandolins along the dirt roads of the Okanogan Valley. Jeshua fell in love with music at a very young age. He was called, in a dream, by the fierce electric guitar of Jimi Hendrix. At 9, he was put on his life path when he received his first acoustic guitar from his father and mother. 

Rebellion became the natural inclination for young Jeshua as he became increasingly aware of the contradictions in his religious conservative environment. He was heavily influenced by secular music, considered contraband, smuggled into their judeo-christian household by his brave older brother Jamin. Being exposed to this raw form of art at 11-years-old changed his life forever. With albums like Bad Religion’s – ‘Stranger Than Fiction’, Rancid’s – ‘And Out Comes The Wolves’, and NOFX’s Heavy Petting Zoo, Jeshua’s eyes were blasted open by punk music’s 3 distorted chords. At 16, Jeshua and Jamin formed the grimy, fast, and loud punk band Larry And His Flask. Larry later morphed into one of the most instrumental Folk-Punk bands of their era, touring relentlessly and influencing the genre permanently. 

At the closing of Larry And His Flask in 2019, Jeshua immediately poured himself head over heels into the next chapter of his musical life. He began focusing on forming his smooth, centered, and rough around the edges vocal style, and honing in on his honest and reflective lyrics. Jeshua released his debut solo album ‘Shoot The Moon’ in the midst of the pandemic in September 2021. He continues to grow his fanbase in the states and internationally with over one-hundred-thousand streams on Spotify and Youtube. Recently, Jeshua received the Best New Artist award from People’s Choice Award in his home of Bend, OR, and has received acclaim from local and international press. Having shared the stage with artists like, Dirtwire, Fishbone, Willy Tea Taylor, Possessed by Paul James, Bridge City Sinners and more. 

We’re a small swing group from Bend, Oregon specializing in Django-style jazz, tunes from the Great American Songbook and beyond.

In this sub-genre of jazz–inspired by Belgian Gypsy guitar wizard, Django Reinhardt–you’ll find tunes with names like Swing 39, Swing 42, and Swing 48, all named for the year in which they were written. We took our name from the latitude of Bend, Oregon.

This music will put a smile on your face and a bounce in your stride. Actual melodies! It’s jazz for people who don’t like jazz. That’s right, it’s Gateway-Jazz. You might even leave whistling some of these tunes. Come have a listen.

Joel Chadd writes and plays songs that are brutally honest and open hearted. His themes are universal, but the songs feel as if they were written just for you. His melodies dance between soulful vocals and passionate guitar playing, drawing the listener ever-so-close. These are songs that explore the full range of human emotions we all navigate.

Founded in the growing open mic scene in and around Bend, Billy and the Box kid is a hard hitting Country band that will leave you thinking you just went to a Punk show.

Singer/song writer Anderson Koenig leads under the stage name “Billy” utilizing his unique country blues voice with his fast paced original songs. Accompanied by cofounder Scottie “The Box Kid” McClelland, a seasoned percussionist, who brings a traditional sound and constant energy through his box drum or “cajon”. 

Together they created Billy and the Box Kid and have since added two other local talented musicians. Tommy Lutz or “Mr T on the Mando”, a string instrument specialist and guitar maker, Tommy brings the bluegrass jam sound by playing mandolin. Along with Tyler Bolts, a Oregon born, versatile, talented singer/songwriter/musican who covers the low end on bass guitar.