Portland artist Ac Sapphire returns with the decadent new album Dec. 32nd, songs from a cycle that honors Sapphire at her best: guitar, and vocals front and center; celebrations of the songwriter, the shredder, that she is. Sapphire sits serenely among the songwriting class that is our generation's Laurel Canyon sound. Ac's music has a grasp on the cosmic side of Americana. She resides in Portland, but was once a desert denizen, and her southwestern exposure shows in the wide open, dusty, romantic sound of each song. She's the winner of Relix Sonic Showdown, a finalist in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest. She's shared the stage with artists like Son Little, long time friend Sunny War, and even been featured on a Shirley Manson (Garbage) song. Ac has played the Philadelphia Folk Festival, Treefort Music Fest. Even as this album is being released, she's finishing recording another with NewSong Music as the winner of their 2022 contest.<hr>Natt Meek is a Seattle/Tacoma based musician. In 2023, she started sharing song ideas with friends, and with their encouragement, she played her first live show that summer- a secret show set at Timber Music Festival. She is currently working on her first solo ep. She also sings and plays violin in False Hemlock, a Seattle based band.<hr>Where’s Beth is the alt folk project of songwriter Sarabeth Weszely. Shortly after releasing her debut EP, she built a home recording studio and began the deeply collaborative project that would become Bone Broth (Sept 2024). Bone Broth is an emotionally charged, strikingly honest, and at times humorous exploration of the domestic, written in the months surrounding the wedding of Sarabeth and her collaborator Jesse Thorson. Drawing on her work as a poet and professional ghostwriter, Where's Beth has been called “a master at storytelling” (Glasse Factory) writing songs that are “poetic and playful and grounded in experience” (Various Small Flames). The raw devotional quality of Sarabeth’s writing draws on longtime influence, Sufjan Stevens, and her unconventional approach to rhyme and phrasing recalls the likes of Joni Mitchell and Connie Converse.