ABBY THE SPOON LADY AND CHRIS RODRIGUES are buskers from Asheville North Carolina and are internationally known street performers after one of their videos went viral. Ab-by is one of very few professional spoon players in the United States and has been a professional street performer for over a decade. She studied American folk percussion, music, and folklore while traveling the United States by foot and rail. Chris is a one-man band and multi-instrumentalist. Together the two create a dynamic duo with very complex rhythms playing origi-nals and reworking classic gospel songs.
McPEAKE builds on the 150 year tradition of this legacy musical family from Belfast, Ireland that influenced Van Morrison, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, John Lennon and others. Figuring promi-nently in the EMMY Award-winning PBS Special “Music of Ireland,” the band is now taking the world of Celtic music by storm with its own contemporary brand of self-penned songs and compositions. The new generation of this legendary family has developed a distinctive sound that is totally immersed in the popular culture of today, while maintaining a firm anchor in the influences of past generations.
WoodSongs Kids: The Band of Kelleys is a multi-award winning progressive bluegrass band of 4 siblings from Appling, Georgia now based in Nashville, TN.
