Rounders Revival invites you to share in an evening of light-hearted and uplifting acoustic music steeped deeply in the folk-americana traditions of universal story telling and soulful harmonies. 

Join in for the Rounders renditions of singer-songwriter favorites and inspired originals.

Instagram: @roundersrevival

Dream Away Reading Series 6:30-7:30PM

A graduate of Vermont College of Fine Arts, Mary Warren Foulk (she/her) has been published in The Hollins Critic, Palette Poetry, Fjords Review, Silkworm, The Gay & Lesbian Review, and North American Review, among other publications. Her work also has appeared in Who’s Your Mama? The Unsung Voices of Women and Mothers (Soft Skull Press), (M)othering Anthology (Inanna Publications), and My Loves: A Digital Anthology of Queer Love Poems (Ghost City Press). She has two award-winning chapbooks, If I Could Write You a Happier Ending (dancing girl press) and Erasures of My Coming Out (Letter) (The Poetry Box). Her newest collection, The Show Must Go On, was a finalist for the 2021 Gival Press Poetry Award, and the Inlandia Institute’s 2022 Hillary Gravendyk Prize, and a semi-finalist for the Word Works' 2022 Washington Prize. It is forthcoming from Fernwood Press.

A graduate of Middlebury College and the Bread Loaf School of English, Emily received her MFA from the University of New Hampshire in 2014. She was a fellow at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in 2017, an artist-in-residence at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in 2018, and a resident at Newnan ArtRez. Her stories and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Glimmer Train, Prairie Schooner, Post Road, The Literary Review, Green Mountains Review, The Rumpus, and Longreads among others. She lives and writes in Western Massachusetts and teaches writing workshops at Writers in Progress.

Kate Senecal received an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2013. She is the former fiction editor of Storychord. She has received an honorable mention in Glimmer Train’s 2019 Short Fiction Contest, was the winner of Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose’s 2021 Award in Fiction, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2016. Kate’s fiction has been published in The Laurel Review, The Foundling Review, Storychord.com, and The Waterwheel Review, and Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose.

Simone Stevens 8:00-10:00PM

Simone Stevens is a singer-songwriter based in the Hudson Valley. After years of honing her skills and recording countless songs in New York and L.A., Bonsai, her latest musical project, received praise from outfits like Paste and Spin magazine. The debut record was produced and recorded by Dan Molad and Pete Lalish (Lucius) and featured pedal steel extraordinaire Greg McMullen (Geln Branca, Trixie Whiteley.)

Mariee Siou, now based in Portland, Oregon, is an abstract story teller of the natural world via a form of deep emotive folk music ushered by her clever worthsmithing and sharp ethereal voice . Through her music she strives to fill a cultural void left by severed connections to her Indigenous Mexican and Hungarian heritage and to thereby address the broader cultural voids felt by Americans today. She has been a fixture in the Neo-folk scene since her 2007 debut breakthrough album Faces in the rocks (selling a heroic number of both CDs and vinyls), an album now acclaimed as a cult classic that remains one of the true gems of modern-day folk music. She is revered for her delicate finger picking style and poetic mysticism, often drawing immense feeling through a voice of soft potency and haunting sensitivity. Marie deeply values the medicinal qualities of music and believes that gathering to share her songs is ultimately for healing purposes.

She has extensively toured Europe and the US and has shared tours with acclaimed artists like Mazzy Star, Buffy St. Marie, Bert Jansch, Brightblack Morning Light, and Joanna Newsom. She has released 4 studio albums including collaborations with artists such as Alela Diane, Bonnie “Prince” Billy and just released an EP called “Circle of Signs” in May of 2023.

Lifelong multi-instrumentalist and Philadelphia based singer-songwriter Donnie CoCo fearlessly explores the landscape of grief, modeling a determined and curious effort to grow upward from a place of pain. For fans of Jaala, Nai Palm, and Jeff Buckley—Donnie’s soulful voice and tongue-in-cheek lyrics haunt listeners as potently as their dynamic guitar finger-picking with playful musicality. Donnie CoCo’s debut single ‘Bad Word’ was recorded at Office Ours on Knox in Germantown and released independently in July 2024. It will be followed up with a full length record in 2025.

She will be accompanied by Erik Kramer. He  is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and producer best known for his bass playing as a sideman in a plethora of local and touring acts including Uprooted with Michael Glabicki of Rusted Root. His transporting songs weave together psychedelia, folk, eclectic grooves, and everywhere in between through the improvisational lens and spirit of jazz. He put out his debut record "Missed the Boat" in 2017 and will be putting out the follow up in 2025. Kramer runs a Philadelphia based recording studio, label, and venue called ‘office ours on knox’ that supports every step of the creative process for many of that area’s most exciting up and coming singer-songwriters. 

Monte Weber is a New York-based sound artist, performer and multi-genre composer/producer. His concert music can be heard in different kinds of venues throughout the country including: Kaneko Museum (Omaha NE), National Sawdust (Brooklyn, NY) and Lincoln Center (NYC). Weber’s solo project Metno explores various avenues of electronic music performance including sound installations, interactive performance technology and modular synthesis.

Mike Cobb & The Crevulators are inspired by Bob Dylan, The Band, Beatles, Stones, Tom Petty, Replacements, Tom Waits, Los Lobos, Beck, and many more. 

Singer-songwriter-guitarist Mike Cobb comes from Norfolk, Connecticut, was once signed to Island Records, and has shared the stage with Oasis, Cake, Legendary Shack Shakers, Bad Daddies, and many more. Cobb is bilingual and sings in English and Spanish. 

Cobb’s Berkshire based band features John Hartcorn on bass, Felix Carroll on drums, and Chris Ferrone on saxophones. They’ve been featured on 98.1 WKZE and have played The Lion's Den Stockbridge, Berkshire Mountain Distillers for Berkshire Busk, Egremont Barn, Methuselah Bar Pittsfield, Infinity Hall Norfolk, Black Bear Americana Festival, and many more throughout The USA and Spain. 

Kate Prascher is a singer and multi-instrumentalist best known for her evocative songwriting. She was thrilled to be named an IBMA Songwriting Showcase finalist in 2021. Inspired by her Tennessee roots and influenced by master song crafters like Hazel Dickens and Gillian Welch, singles The Fox and the River and City of Ghosts showcase Kate's versatility as both writer and performer. Her songs are outspoken and sometimes tender, by turns playful and heart-piercing.

Ink 19 described Kate’s "delicate and expressive singing" and “intangible vintage feel". Christine King writes,

“Kate Prascher is a jewel waiting to be discovered".

Kate's past work includes her 2019 solo EP Bright Like This, 2016's Almanac recorded with The Tumble and a self-titled EP released by The Wildwood Sisters. She has performed with numerous artists as a singer, mandolinist and duet partner.

Kate Prascher’s new album, 'Shake the Dust' is a recognition of our everyday darkness. It wades through the undercurrents of memory drawing half-portraits of characters both real and imagined while shining a light on the complex web of our relationships. 

Shake the Dust is expected in summer 2024 and features Bobby Hawk (Taylor Swift), Bennett Sullivan (Bright Star), Nate Sabat (Mile Twelve) and Jason Borisoff (Cricket Tell the Weather). Expect new songs from a voice that has been described as having an “intangible vintage feel.”  

Wes Buckley, Brian Kantor, Miles Lally, known as Vaguely Pagan, keep an audience moving with their brand of toe tappers, hippy spinners, you name it, but at the end of the night, they kind of just play soul music. You can see, hear and feel them enjoying themselves. The original songs veer into psych, folk, jam and rock territory and the cover songs are the ones you forgot how much you loved to hear. Hop on the train and boogie down to your new favorite jams.

Dust Bowl Faeries perform a faerie-tale fusion of dark cabaret and gothic polka music, infused with a dose of witchcraft and a dusting of woodland magic. The accordion driven freak-folk ensemble hails from the New York Hudson Valley and draws inspiration from sinister circus songs, murder ballads and Eastern European folk music. Singing saw, piano accordion, electric bass and acoustic guitar combine to create the Dust Bowl Faeries otherworldly sound. Dust Bowl Faeries was founded by Ryder Cooley (faerie queen) and her taxidermy spirit animal, Hazel the Ram. Ryder and Hazel are joined by Jon B. Woodin (rocket faerie) and Jude Roberts (hobbit faerie) for this special trio performance. 

"You can almost smell the gas lamps in the street & the absinthe being poured" - Americana Highways

Lou Craft is an expat Manhattanite blessedly ensconced in the Hudson Valley with the cats Raymour and Flanigan, riding her yellow electric bike, writing musicals, painting, sculpting and teaching art workshops. She has loved the Dreamaway since she was a counselor at Camp Watitoh (we called it Mama's then) 

Pioneer Valley musician, Nate Martel of the bands, Beast Mode, Outer Stylie, and Llama Lasagna, performs solo at the Dream Away Lodge. His sets are soulful, gritty, and fun and he has a remarkable voice you will not want to miss.   His solo project is soulful and socially conscious; deep, sometimes dark, but often uplifting.  

Glori Wilder is back at The Dreamaway Lodge for a soulful night of original music. Accompanying herself on piano and guitar, Glori shares stories of life lessons, triumphs and tragedies through her lullaby lyrics and passionate voice.

Born and raised in Milton, New York with an upbringing in musical theater and the performing arts, Lucas Neil is the youngest son of founding member and long time drummer of ‘The Make’, Jeffrey Johnson. While Johnson’s other children went on to find vocations in sensible fields, Lucas sought the company of trees, books, and day dreams. Neil’s musical style, an acoustic blend of Americana and indie-folk, has a palpable sense of spiritual symbolism, storytelling, atmosphere, and gratitude for life.

The Dove Guns is the long time passion project of close friends and local musicians Will Malcolm and Zach Booz - one that first budded in the Berkshire woods but has since bloomed and blossomed in various forms all over the globe. Their music draws heavy influence from American folk classics, British rock icons and West African rhythms, and their sound is inspired by boot stomping buskers, camp-fire singing and shameless pop covers. The newest iteration of The Dove Guns features multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Tobey Sol LaRoche and acclaimed vocalist Lillian Jones. This acoustic roots ensemble is writing original music that feels new yet familiar. Singing harmonies that feel soothing yet searing. And sharing their music with both whimsy and resolve. 

Dream Away Reading Series 6-7:30PM

Anne-E. Wood’s fiction is forthcoming in the Colorado Review and has appeared in TLR, No Tokens, Gargoyle, Agni, The Chicago Quarterly Review, New Letters, The Cream City Review, Tin House, Fourteen Hills and others. She lives in Brooklyn and teaches in the Writing Program at Rutgers Newark.

Sarah Bridgins is the author of the Sexton Poetry Prize winning collection DEATH AND EXES (Eyewear Books, 2022). Her work has appeared in Tin House, BuzzFeed, Bustle, and Joyland among other publications. She is co-founder of the Ditmas Lit reading series in Brooklyn.

Lena Valencia is the author of the short story collectionMystery Lights(Tin House Books, 2024). Her fiction has appeared inBOMB, Electric Literature, Ninth Letter,Epiphany, the anthologyTiny Nightmares, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a 2019 Elizabeth George Foundation grant and holds an MFA in fiction from The New School. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she is the managing editor and director of educational programming atOne Storyand the co-host of the reading series Ditmas Lit.

Lisa Michelle Anderson w G Winnard on Drums/Vocals & Simon Guthrie on Keys from 8-10PM

Lisa Michelle Anderson’s music is a rich blend of Americana, folk, and rock, deeply rooted in her global upbringing from Southeast Kansas to Australia, Iran, and Greece. At 16, she picked up a guitar, inspired by Joni Mitchell and Neil Young, and what began as a hobby soon became her life’s passion. From her early days performing at Silver Dollar City in Branson, to playing in rough biker bars in San Diego, Lisa has honed a sound described as “heartfelt Americana, smooth vocal phrasing, and rugged charm.”

Her live shows are a journey, guiding audiences through stories of love, loss, and life’s complexities with warmth and honesty. Whether solo or with her band, including talents like G. Winnard and Simon Guthrie, Lisa captivates with unforgettable choruses and a folk rock style that’s both comforting and bold. Her upcoming 2025 LP and international tour promise to push her creative boundaries while staying true to the authentic storytelling that has become her hallmark.

Now based in the Massachusetts Berkshires, Lisa continues to draw inspiration from her surroundings, connecting with audiences in intimate venues and creating music that invites listeners to live her stories with her.

The music of Jenna Nicholls has been turning heads since she arrived on the door step of the Lower East Side of NYC.  Whether she’s crooning a jazz standard, belting out a New Orleans style dirge or plucking her 1920’s style original ballads on her Ukulele, she’s giving a vintage genre a new spin with her own lush nostalgic style and melodic sensibility.

Recently, Jenna has toured with Ingrid Michaelson, shared the stage with Oscar Winner Glen Hansard, Amanda Palmer, Lucius, Joan as Policewoman, Gerry Leonard (Spooky Ghost/David Bowie).  She’s performed in venues all over the world including the Beacon Theater NYC, and Carnegie Hall.

Fannie Pack performs an eclectic mix of folk and alternative rock including inspired originals by Melissa Brinton.  

Members : Melissa Brinton on lead vocal and guitar, Elaine Morel on vocals and bass, Eileen Markland on violin and penny whistle, Paul Armstrong on percussion 

Roots music - Fierce folk

For Camp Saint Helene, the concept of otherworldliness is neither strange nor complex, but alluring and holy. Created by Elizabeth Celeste Ibarra, Dylan Nowik, Wesley Harper and Alex P. Wernquest, they approach their craft akin to a ritual, leaning into the notion that art and expression are sacred experiences on an overstimulated planet. Often informed by the spirit of a defunct Christian-summer camp turned arts-colony deep within the mountains of New York, their music searches for shimmers of hope amidst hints of doom.

“Farfisa Song”, off their debut record, Mother (2019), was named KEXP’s Song of the Day and added to KEXP Music that Matters Vol. 683 by Cheryl Waters. She describes Camp Saint Helene as  “..call[ing] to mind the '60s California folk scene with their gentle, waltz-like pastoral sound”. Additionally, “Farfisa Song” was featured predominantly both  in Amazon Prime’s teen horror drama, “I Know What You Did Last Summer” (2022) and Zoe Lister-Jones’ series SLIP on The Roku Channel (2023). Mother was named by Bandcamp as a New and Notable record of 2019, describing it as “Occult-folk in the 70’s U.K. tradition that further affirms the link between Appalachian and British folk songs”.

In 2023, they were commissioned by NADA x Foreland to present a live performance and installation piece titled “Into the Garden” for Upstate Art Weekend in Catskill, NY.

They recorded their first album almost entirely live to 8-track, ½” tape, at Basement Floods Records in Catskill, New York. Their second album is currently in production.

Dubbed, “Among the best folk-rock artists in the US” by the Tucson Weekly, singer/songwriter Namoli Brennet has been touring the US and Europe for 12+ years. A 4-time Outmusic award nominee who was featured in the inaugural Trans 100 list, Brennet has self-released an astonishing 13 albums since her debut in 2002. Her music has been featured in The Advocate, on NPR and in the Emmy-award-winning documentary Out In The Silence which details the struggle of a gay teen growing up in rural Pennsylvania. Brennet’s live performances spurn typical singer/songwriter fare, opting instead for incorporating loops, delays, keyboards, foot percussion and vocal effects to create a one-woman soundscape. Pride.com included her performance in Las Cruces as “One of the most iconic pride performances of all time,” along with Nikki Minaj, Arianna Grande and Tegan and Sara. An artist whose music has evolved, along with their gender, into something sophisticated, powerful and moving that defies categorization.

Based in Western Mass, Moon Hollow is a high energy band that performs original and traditional tunes inspired by folk, americana, bluegrass, alt-country & early jazz music. Catchy originals and tight three part harmonies! They have shared the stage with Ryan Montbleau, Bella's Bartok, Mamma's Marmalade, DiTrani Brothers, Jake Slater, Matt Heckler, Fancy Trash, Folkfaces, Chris Pureka & more. 

Stella Kola is the collaboration of Beverly Ketch, a poet and vocalist who’s performed in folk-psych bands such as Bunwinkies and Viewer, and guitarist Rob Thomas, a longtime member of fearless experimental ramblers Sunburned Hand of the Man. They’d been writing dark acoustic songs together for some time before deciding on a name. Ketch originally wanted to call their project “Star Soda,” but she settled on “Stella” in tribute to a friend’s grandmother, who’d recently passed away. -Chicago Reader

Bong Wish is the solo project of Palestinian-American artist Mariam Saleh. While living above a music venue, where she was also employed, she was exposed to a myriad of jazz, psych, and experimental music. In turn, Bong Wish incorporates both the high-energy and distortion of garage alongside kaleidoscopic soundscapes, and folds them into its folk rock sensibility.

Dan just came out with a hardcover book of his original hand drawn rock posters and there is a chapter dedicated to Dream Away Lodge. He will have books on hand to purchase.

With a suitcase of songs, Maine folk troubadour Dan Blakeslee ventured into the smoke laden subways of Boston in 1995 to practice his craft. His songs of true life adventures combine the essence of early folk music with a dose of country grit. He has toured the U.S. and abroad performing with Josh Ritter, Sean Rowe, The Lumineers, Old 97's, The Black Lillies, and Kimya Dawson among others. In 2015 his dream of playing Newport Folk Festival became a reality, the location where Bob Dylan went electric 50 years earlier. Dan Blakeslee delivers his songs with that same heart of a young, lyric scribbling troubadour, who knows because he’s tried it, can out sing a passing train.

"Not since Dick Curless left Fort Fairfield, Maine for Nashville and beyond has the Pine Tree State produced a native son with the same potential for success in country music until now." 

- Stacy's Music Row Report

Rounders Revival invites you to share in an evening of light-hearted and uplifting acoustic music steeped deeply in the folk-americana traditions of universal story telling and soulful harmonies. 

Join in for the Rounders renditions of singer-songwriter favorites and inspired originals.

Instagram: @roundersrevival

Formed in the fog of the timeline around the fall of the Twin Towers, the death of Elliott Smith, the peak influence of Pitchfork and the dawn of the iPod, the members of Winterpills met and began making music in the old-fashioned winter of 2003 in the heady Northampton, MA music scene. At first 4 friends who all knew each other’s songs and talents and had all recently suffered a common adult loss of some kind or another (a dead parent, some breakups, a custody battle, etc), they gleefully stumbled upon their sound: Flora Reed and Philip Price’s harmonies and “heartrending” songwriting (so says No Depression), Dennis Crommett’s tender shoegaze guitar, Dave Hower’s unclassifiable drumming, later on Max Germer’s moonlit bass feel. "Winterpills gradually builds elegant arrangements... While the gathered instruments offer some solace, the songs stay haunted,“ wrote Jon Pareles in the New York Times.

The cinematically-weird pop songs came effortlessly and partly channelled the freshly mourned Smith, a bit of the dust of Big Star, Low,  Joni Mitchell, maybe a little Radiohead – and yet something else all their own. “I don’t know why Winterpills aren’t one of the most cherished pop bands in the world,” wrote Jonathan Lethem in Rolling Stone: “Their songs are mournful, slow-exploding and lyrically dazzling, and their albums have a coherence that’s rare.”

Over the past 19 years, the band has released 7 albums and numerous singles and EPs, has spent weeks both on the road and in the woodshed, and seems unwilling to relent. Emerging from the nightmarish forced hiatus of the pandemic has given them a new perspective on their art. The restless Price released 3 solo albums during the unhappy break, but is back with a trove of new music for the familiar alchemy to be reborn.

"An ice-filigreeing-the-bare-trees sound, cold and achingly beautiful -- is what sets this group apart... downright glorious when the harmonies start, as crisp and shining as crystal." - The Washington Post

Tiger Saw is a New England-Based indie rock band celebrating 25 years. They have explored a slowcore / Americana sound over nine albums, and are beloved for their innovative sounds and vocal harmonies.

Chandler Travis has had a long and checkered career in the world of show biz, beginning in the seventies when he and Steve Shook joined up as Travis Shook and the Club Wow. Besides achieving much popularity on the east coast, the duo brought their peculiar blend of comedy and music all over the U.S. and to the nationwide television audience on such programs as the Tonight Show, the Midnight Special, and Dick Cavett. Along the way, they released an album and appeared on stage with everyone from Bonnie Raitt to Bruce Springsteen to especially good pals NRBQ and George Carlin (with whom they toured for many years) to Elvis Costello to– well, you get the idea.

In 1980, Travis was a founding member of the Incredible Casuals, who released four albums (not counting 2007’s “Best Of” collection, “World Championship Songs”), toured consistently all over the world, and are still at it, much to the delight of a small but rabid international following.

In 1988, Chandler began moonlighting as a solo performer, presenting the unlikely mixture of oddball humor and incisive songwriting that continue to be his trademark and appearing with such diverse acts as 10,000 Maniacs, Mose Allison, Roger McGuinn, and (deja vu perhaps?) George Carlin. Upon the arrival of the critically lauded “writer-songsinger” CD, the solo career kicked into high gear with two successful west coast tours and a European jaunt in 1993; “Ivan in Paris” followed in 1998, as did “After She Left” in 2009.

Late in 1996 (much to his own surprise and delight), Travis found himself fronting a nine-piece band, the modestly monikered Chandler Travis Philharmonic -probably the world’s only alternative dixieland / omnipop band. Between three and eighteen CDs followed (depending on whether you count the CTP’s fifteen contributions in 2000 to the improbable and ground-breaking RadioBall series), plus years of extensive touring. The CTP’s latest effort, “The Chandler Travis Philharmonic Blows”, arrived in 2010.

Next up was the formation of two interesting new bands, the Catbirds and the Chandler Travis Three-O, both of whom issued widely divergent debut CDs (very loud and electric, and very soft and acoustic, respectively) in 2013. The crowd went wild!

Most recently, in an attempt to not only sum up the story so far with some of the best tracks from the last three decades, but to advance it with 8 new ones; Chandler released “Bocce & Bourbon: the Comfortable Songs of Chandler Travis & David Greenberger”, which includes work from all his current projects, all in the service of work by his longtime favorite lyricist, David Greenberger, thus setting the world aflame yet again (goes without saying doesn’t it? Or, at least might have…).