Past Events
The Appleseed Collective
The Appleseed Collective
As a triune of songwriters, Appleseed Collective craft tunes from the sublime to the darkly evocative. They swing from dim club storytelling swagger to rich vocal harmony, from hot club hot licks to spacey ambience, from old Irish reels to modern American indie. Despite...
The Early Mays
The Early Mays
The Early Mays create Appalachian-inspired songs built on deep country sensibilities, masterful singing and a sweet old-time sound. There is an unsurpassed magic that springs from entwined and entrancing vocal harmonies.
Van Wagner
Van Wagner
Van Wagner received an Outstanding Achievement Award in 2018 from the Pennsylvania Heritage Songwriting Contest. His music has been featured on the History Channel, WVIA tv, as well as Country Music Television (CMT). He has released 28 original albums and published a bo...
Ken & Brad Kolodner Quartet
Ken & Brad Kolodner Quartet
The dynamic father-son team Ken & Brad Kolodner weave together a captivating soundscape on hammered dulcimer and clawhammer banjo blurring the lines of Old-Time, Bluegrass and American Roots music.
Dede Wyland & The Big Howdy Band
Dede Wyland & The Big Howdy Band
Big Howdy is a progressive bluegrass band from Washington, DC. Skyline alum Dede Wyland’s clear, powerful voice fronts a group of virtuoso multi-instrumentalists: Randy Barrett, Ira Gitlin, and Tom McLaughlin.
Simple Gifts
Simple Gifts
Combining tradition with innovation, Simple Gifts creates some of the finest arrangements in folk music today: swing fiddle creeps into a Romanian dance, spoons show up in an Irish reel, and a blues lick introduces a Klezmer melody.
Joe Jencks
Joe Jencks
Joe Jencks is an 20-year veteran of the international folk circuit, an award-winning songwriter, and celebrated vocalist based in Chicago. Merging conservatory training with his Irish roots and working-class upbringing, Joe delivers engaged musical narratives filled wit...
Carolann Solebello / George Wirth
Carolann Solebello / George Wirth
George Wirth is a singer/songwriter with a gift for telling human stories shaped by imagery and narrative. Carolann Solebello’s smooth, compelling voice and warm acoustic guitar style surely nod to rural folk traditions, yet her decidedly urban sense of rhythm and sop...
TOLINS-STETZ-SLEIGH
TOLINS-STETZ-SLEIGH
Andy Tolins, Richard Sleigh, and Bill Stetz are not strangers to Acoustic Brew patrons. Andy has graced the Brew stage 9 time since 1995. Richard’s been here at least 5 times as a headliner. Bill has sat in with local roots, blues, celtic and bluegrass groups - many o...
The Scooches
The Scooches
Perhaps one of the only groups blending world rhythms and Global Folk with Americana, Folk Traditions, New Orleans Influences, alt grass, music of the 1920s and bluegrass. Nick Russo plays guitar, banjo, and resonator and was a sideman with Jimmy McGriff, Teddy Charle...
Austin Macrae / Sophie Buskin
Austin Macrae / Sophie Buskin
Shimmering lyrics, deft finger-picking and soaring melodies—Ithaca’s Austin MacRae is a troubadour whose songwriting is characterized by poetic lyrics and poignant stories from rural upstate NY. Raised in the heart of New York City by two accomplished musical parent...
Debra Cowan & John Roberts
Debra Cowan & John Roberts
It all started with a question in 2009: "How are you getting to Chicago?" And with that, folk musicians John Roberts and Debra Cowan decided to team up for a series of small concerts in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Illinois before arriving as separately booked artis...
Hiroya Tsukamoto
Hiroya Tsukamoto
Hiroya is a one–of–a–kind composer, guitarist and singer–songwriter from Kyoto, Japan. He began playing the five–string banjo when he was thirteen, and took up the guitar shortly after. Hiroya has been leading concerts internationally including several appeara...
Karyn Oliver
Karyn Oliver
Karyn Oliver is part Joan Osborne, a touch of Janis Joplin and a bit of Emmylou Harris – effortlessly oscillating from bluesy to country and back. Her musical inspirations come primarily from the eclectic mix of music to which she was exposed while growing up in the m...