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(Doris Justis and Sean McGhee) celebrated their 30th Anniversary in May 2014.  Noted for their close vocal harmonies and guitars backing their original songs and original interpretations of the best folk/acoustic songwriters, they have shared the stage with a "who's who" of folk such as Tom Paxton, Nanci Griffith, the Chad Mitchell Trio, Noel Paul Stookey and Peter Yarrow, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Bill Danoff, Jon Carroll, Schooner Fare, Christine Lavin, the Limeliters and the list goes on.  They have been the "houseband" for Music Americana and WFMA since 1984 and continue that role by performing at the Second Sunday El Golfo Showcase from time to time.


Honest, sincere, and often humorous, has been performing his slice-of-life lyrics to audiences across the United States since the mid-90s.  Described by Billboard Magazine as "intensely sensitive and impressively intelligent,” Gellman’s songwriting captures the simple moments of everyday life and wraps them in notes that will have you humming along – long after the song is over.  On stage, Gellman combines friendly banter with a sonorous, tenor voice that critics have compared to the late John Denver.  Gellman has traveled near and far to perform at renowned acoustic music venues throughout the United States and Canada including The Birchmere in Alexandria, The Ark in Ann Arbor, The Blue Bird Café in Nashville, The Tin Angel in Philadelphia, and Club Passim in Boston.  In Washington, DC, he has performed at the National Theatre and The White House.  Gellman has had the honor to open shows for Dar Williams, Cheryl Wheeler, Richie Havens and Richard Shindell, among others.


With "a voice that's simultaneously rich, honeyed, dense, and altogether quite beautiful..." is a recovering opera singer inspired by Joan Baez and Judy Collins. In the summer of 2012, she left her job in Boston and went to Europe with a travel guitar; she performed in 4 countries and returned to the US to release her first original album, Coming Home. She lives and performs in Washington, DC, though she's known around the world as "Allison from Boston."