Singer/songwriter and guitarist five CDs and captivating performances showcase his engaging collection of songs and stories celebrating the lives and landscapes of rural American people with warmth and humor.  Since permanently leaving his corporate environmental engineering career in 1996, the award-winning folk and Americana artist has traced half a million miles of blue highways and backwater towns, and earned critical acclaim and enthusiastic fan response.  His music and messages are always compelling, infused with his literate prose, eye for intriguing detail, and soundscapes that span haunting blues, feisty anthems, rustic folk, and a bit of swing.

never meant to become a serious songwriter.  For much of her life, she sang for fun and dabbled on the piano, but her real passions were poetry and nonfiction writing.  She published numerous poems and essays in magazines and journals during her twenties, but she increasingly found herself turning to the piano.  Moving her fingers over the keys seemed to draw out words from a different place within her - a deeper, yet more effortless place.  Now, seven years into her music career, she still thinks of herself as a writer first - and a reluctant performer.  But audiences experience her voice as a sincere and captivating embrace - the perfect sonic match to her emotionally eloquent lyrics.  Jessica has performed all over the Eastern U.S. and has won several national songwriting contests including the Connecticut Folk Festival Song Competition in 2013.  She has opened for notable acts like Cheryl Wheeler and The Kennedys and shared festival stages with Patty Larkin, Catie Curtis, Dar Williams and others.  She released her second full-length album, Tumbling After, in September 2014.

(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.