California-based fiddle, guitar, and banjo player, and ardent 78 collector  Frank Fairfield has made his living as a musician, often found playing on the streets of Los Angeles. Handpicked by Fleet Foxes to open their U.S. tour last year, Frank released a 7” on Tompkins Square and recorded his self-titled debut album. His music has won over tough critics and purists like Grammy winning producer Chris King (Charley Patton, People Take Warning box set), Phil Alexander (Mojo) and Greil Marcus, to name a few.

Amanda Jo Williams was born a little white girl in Georgia. She had a lot of outdoor fun, especially with her brother. She quit college very abruptly and moved to New York at 19. After a year on the runway, some lovers and things, Amanda and friends took a bus to Kingston and hitchhiked with a woman to Woodstock. They slept in the woods the first night and Amanda was scared. In town the next day they met a crazy shaman of Woodstock. He took her to artist Paul McMahon’s house, the hippie hangout. Paul would teach her to play guitar when she was pregnant with his twins, Ginger & Hominy. Williams was about to enter nursing school when she came to Los Angeles in August 2008 to play Manimal Vinyl’s Spaceland residency. Amanda Jo Williams plays a child’s guitar and kick drum and writes unusual folk songs with a Southern twang from outer space.

Olentangy John is John Atzberger and himself, whom he discovered at a secluded campsite somewhere in the Appalachian foothills in late 2002. The two have since evolved a style that sounds partly new and partly old and totally new. O! Be Joyful is Olentangy’s first full-length, the result of several years of months and days and minutes and seconds.

Horse Thieves is Alex Maslansky and friends playing haunting, original songs he writes that seem like they belong in a saloon on a graveyard. He describes them as a glass bottomed cadillac or the holes in the road, especially that big one on the trail up to aunt Genevieve’s place.

Emily Lacy is a folk and electronic sound artist generating works in music, film, and other media. She has performed in exhibitions at PS1 MOMA, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Hammer Museum, and LACMA, in addition to various living rooms and DIY spaces all throughout America. She works very closely with Machine Project. She grew up in a forest. She believes  in making committed and active performance environments where sound and vision are joined into a wild trance of human exchange.  “Together, in our parade, we can make a way forward.”

Henry Wolfe is a songwriter and singer living in Los Angeles. His songs bring to mind the mid-70′s heyday of Paul Simon, Randy Newman, Paul McCartney and Harry Nilsson, emphasizing quality and taste over novelty and experimentation. Yet while his music sounds familiar, his voice is his uniquely his own and it is anything but ordinary. Whether performing solo on his hollow-body electric guitar, or accompanied by a backing band, Henry Wolfe swings and stomps, moans and whispers. His music is alternately jazzy and twangy, funky and soulful, channeling the best of the past for an audience of the present.