Born in Miami, FL, now residing in Portland, Maine, Melvin Gradiz (@melvinjg_music) is a guitarist and songwriter influenced by blues, funk, jazz, punk, and more.

Kate McCann is a folk singer and banjo player based in Midcoast Maine.  Playing both original and traditional music, Kate draws from her time spent immersed in old-time, Irish, and maritime folk music traditions.  Through her arrangements of traditional songs and original compositions she explores how traditional music exists in the contemporary world not as a static artifact of the past but as an active practice that both the musician and audience can engage with. Her first EP “Sea Songs,” was released during the summer of 2023 and pulls from the maritime music tradition she became deeply familiar with after spending a year working as a chanteyman at the Mystic Seaport Museum.  The EP’s first single “Bone Dry”, was winner of the 2023 Maine Songwriters Association Songwriting Contest.  With a sound comparable to classic troubadours such as Joan Baez and Peggy Seeger but with contemporary flair and distinct New England roots, Kate is excited to continue creating material that straddles the line between old and new.

Justin Gordon is a Georgia-born songwriter who cut his teeth playing country blues and ragtime before writing his first few songs about country life and the road, recording his first album in 2002.  In the oughts, he toured the country with The Avett Brothers, self-recording four more albums.  Gordon produced and released his sixth full-length album Backwater in January 2019.  In the last five years, Justin has focused his artistic efforts in analog photography yet still enjoys chances to share his music.  In 2023, he and his family moved to Brooks and fell in love with Maine, where he continues to take photos, play shows and also enjoys playing bass in local band Dee Dee Sea with two new friends.

Tom Peabody is a songwriter from Virginia who now calls Portland, Maine home. Though he has been writing songs for much of his life, he only started sharing them after the pandemic, and he has been making up for lost time since. He released an EP “Snow Geese” in 2021, and he has another EP coming out October 25.