For the California-based quartet Color Green, playing music is about embracing the unknown, with live performances that are dynamic and unpredictable. Their sound, a blend of ‘60s SoCal folk-rock, ‘70s classic rock, ‘80s underground rock, and ‘90s psychedelic dance-rock, creates a unique live experience grounded in earthy melodies and cosmic jams. Sharing stages with acts like Fuzz and the Brian Jonestown Massacre, they infuse their music with spontaneity and a deep connection to the present. Their latest album, Fool’s Parade, captures this essence, featuring tracks that range from the quiet, heartfelt "5:08" to the energetic jam "Kick the Bucket." Each song showcases the band’s collective creativity, reflecting their journey from casual basement sessions in New York to becoming a cohesive unit that thrives on each member’s input and musical passion.

Born and raised in New York, Lucia Zambetti, started her musical career as a singer-songwriter at an early age releasing her first song That Night at the end of  2019.  It has captivated a huge audience on all music streaming platforms with its memorable storytelling and melodism.

Her passion for music not only comes from her parents who are professional musicians but an extended family of players like her cousin Johnny Zambetti of The Palms who has shared his talents by recording guitar on a few of her releases. Lucia finds her songwriting inspiration in everyday life, family, friends, books, flims, shows, and legendary music performances. Lucia is a diverse music fan.  One will find The Beatles, older Heavy Metal, Bedroom Pop stars and French 60s Pop tunes on her personal playlist.

Now with six tunes streaming, she has millions of spins and fans throughout the world. As a member of the ASCAP, Lucia loves collaborating with other musical artists and has done so on her songs, Dance Dance, with legendary guitarist Smokey Hormel (Beck, Adele,Johnny Cash), Don’t Call Me Baby featuring rapper Tate Tucker and You’ll Be Fine featuring the lead guitarist of Bravery, Michael Zacharin.

The Arizona-born, Nashville-based Danielle Durack’s music combines the pop sensibilities of childhood favorites like Sara Barellies with a modern wit that slots her right next to contemporaries like Boygenius and Hop Along. Beginning with debut album Bashful, Durack’s developed her sound into something mature and emotionally complex, without skimping on the hooks and humor. Her third album, Escape Artist, arrives February 16th. 

Following Bashful, a breakup led to an artistic breakthrough: her sophomore record, No Place garnered praise from Pitchfork, NPR, and other outlets for its honest portrayal of a long term relationship’s dissolution. No Place was released in the middle of an intense, lockdown-induced writer's block. Once she started writing again, music became her solace and a place to safely process the emotional turmoil of the past year. The title, Escape Artist, is a reflection of this.

Escape Artist, recorded with Samuel Rosson once again, is her densest, most emotional record to date. The topics are more wide-ranging; lighthearted breakup narratives now coexist alongside darker material about anxiety and codependency. The soundscapes where Durack finds herself on Escape Artist, in and of themselves, are someplace heavenly and otherworldly in which to lose herself for just a little while: “Music has been a safe place for me to go to all this time.”

Northwest Washington singer/songwriter Veronica North takes listeners on a personal journey with her music. Whether in an acoustic ballad, chill electric pop song or a nostalgic country-pop one, her lyrics display incredible self-awareness and vulnerability. Her latest EP, double bar line, delves into the liberating yet painful process of shedding expectations and finding one’s true self.

Summer Barbone

Summer currently resides in the PNW, nestled in a log cabin in the woods... literally in her Walden era. Professional gardener by day, she draws inspiration from the natural world, the rhythmic cycles and seasons that we all share, and it’s complex overlap with the human experience. Her music is rooted in her ever-evolving explorations of what it means to be alive.

Growing up a dancer in a musical household, Summer fostered a unique and multi-faceted relationship to song from the beginning. Long before she learned to play an instrument, she was studying the dynamics of music and how it intricately reflects our humanity.

“Music has always been the backbone of my self-expression- deeply woven into the ways I understand the world and myself,” Barbone says. “Music, humility, and kindness really was the ‘religion’ that raised me and my brothers.”

When a spontaneous road trip turned multi-month adventure in the summer of 2017, Summer and two college best friends found a magnetic spark in the excitement of all living together out of a 2002 Dodge Ram 1500 van named “Whitney the White Whale”. After a wild and formative journey, traveling all around the US Southwest & Pacific Coast, the three of them birthed an experimental hip-hop collective called Psilosapiens. It was with Psilosapiens that Summer first began writing, performing, and touring around Arizona.

In 2019, she parted ways with the group to pursue solo endeavors and eventually landed in Brooklyn, New York, where she recorded her debut album Mind Garden with the help of friend and producer Cameron Rood in 2020.

As the wild and untamed soul that she is, Summer didn't last long in the big city and has since found a home in the San Juan Islands off the Northern most coast of Washington, where she spends most days out gardening and studying herbalism, dancing in the living room, or cuddling her kitten, Banjo.  She is currently recording her sophomore album which is expected to arrive early 2025.

"French Cassettes’ music drifts skillfully between indie pop and rock with sticky, mischievous and exhilarating turns.” – VICE

"The San Francisco indie-pop band French Cassettes deal in short, compact bursts of guitar-slathered joy that instantly elevate the mood of the room; if the Strokes traveled back in time and recorded a younger, tighter prequel to Is This It, it would neatly resemble French Cassettes’ debut full-length, Gold Youth. " - KQED (NPR)

French Cassettes, a harmony-driven power-pop quartet from San Francisco, create music brimming with intricate, hook-filled melodies that captivate listeners. Their sophomore LP, Rolodex, was conceived in a stairwell and self-recorded across the Bay Area, resulting in layered and complex tracks. The album features elaborate vocal harmonies, inventive percussion, honey-coated basslines, and a blend of clean and fuzzy guitars, creating a sound that’s both majestic and esoteric. Frontman Scott Huerta’s playful, verbose lyrics add a semi-autobiographical puzzle-like quality, making Rolodex an epic and mature statement from the band.

Swindler is leading the jamband scene in the Pacific Northwest with their unique brand of Psychedelic Funk. – Relix Magazine

Swindler produces a fresh and original sound that integrates funk, jazz and psychedelic rock into a masterful sonic tapestry. Their innovative approach makes each live experience compelling and unique. The band continues to expand an already rapidly growing fanbase with each show. Funk based grooves, tight melodic arrangements and strong instrumental improvisation all create a vibe that brings the dance floor alive.

Based in Seattle, they have toured extensively throughout the northwest and beyond. Swindler has been a favorite late night festival band featured at Northwest String Summit Festival, Summer Meltdown Festival, Element Music Festival, 4 Peaks Music Festival and more where they drew rave reviews from fans and festival promoters alike. Swindler has shared the bill with numerous national touring acts and regional favorites such as Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Pink Talking Fish, Yak Attack, Kung Fu, Jerry Joseph and many others.

Jesse Roper is a blues/Americana artist with a penchant for writing modern indie infused blues music and delivering bombastic live performances buoyed by his virtuosic guitar playing. His innate and impressive musical talent has served him well, giving him the flexibility to play with soul icon Booker T. Jones, rock veteran Colin James, blues belter Beth Hart, and Canadian legend Burton Cummings.

The stage is where Roper shines. It has been his home since overcoming crippling stage fright during his early twenties. Fear is a part of Roper’s past that barely seems real today - especially when you see the in-concert image of a six-string soldier, hair matted to his face, tearing up the stage, without a hint of second guessing.

Roper’s last album ‘Horizons’ marked a sonic high point in his career thus far. Working closely with famed JUNO-nominated producer Gus van Go (Metric, The Stills, The Beaches, Arkells, Sam Roberts) on that new collection of songs pushed Roper into creating some of his best work.

His newest single "Make It All Work Out" is the first of multiple energetic, fresh, soulful and R&B inspired tracks from a forthcoming LP that harkens the voices of JJ Cale, Leon Bridges, Alabama Shakes - while maintaining Roper's strong and unique expression in the genre.

Adventuresome doesn’t properly describe Roper as an artist, because when the guitar-wielding dynamo sets out to accomplish something, there’s no telling where his mind will wander, or when his energy will go.

Cascade Cody is a PNW Folk Musician specializing in songs about Washington State. His varied sounds have earned him a unique spot on the Washington Music scene, and he will be performing at several music festivals this summer with his band, Cascade Cody & His Unpulled Bootstraps

Brittany Collins writes songs that are equal parts heartbreaking and hopeful. Her hauntingly powerful voice evokes imagery of the rugged mountainous landscape where she was raised and still lives in the Pacific Northwest.

Collins released her debut album "Things I Tell My Therapist" on September 2nd 2022. It examines the pain of familial ties (“The Apple”), the beauty of love that grows and evolves (“The Journey”), self-discovery (“Somebody”), reconciliation (Things I Tell My Therapist”), and the dichotomy of living an everyday life while also dreaming of becoming who you know you are meant to be (“Two Worlds”). The album has received features in Americana Highways, Adobe and Teardrops and Glide Magazine, as well as radio play on ABC Country, Ditty TV, Country Du Monde and CMR Nashville and over 30,000 streams and counting on Spotify!

Morgan McHugh boldly pens his own entry in the decades-old folk-americana songbook. Powerful vocals that cut to the bone. “I write from the heart and I really think about what I'm writing,” he notes.”There’s a real ebb and flow to the process. For the past few years I’ve spent the summers on fishing boats in Alaska, and when I don’t have cell service and I’m really off the grid I have a lot of time to think. It is when the creative process really gets rolling.” McHugh’s songs come from a deeply personal perspective; clean, honest and dripping with truth.

The Hickoids are a long-running cowpunk band that trace their roots to mid-1980's Austin. The band was inducted to the Austin Music Hall of Fame in 2014 and since reforming in 2006 has toured extensively around the U.S. and Europe.