Craig Young hails from the southwest coast of Newfoundland and Labrador. He has worked with many country artists, including Jason McCoy, Eli Barsi, Gord Bamford, George Canyon, Carolyn Dawn Johnson and Terri Clark as well as living and recording as a session player in Nashville for eight years. While there he also embraced bluegrass music and has taken a deep dive into that genre. He has won four Canadian Country Music Association awards in the All Star Band- Guitarist category.

Craig’s album “Black Diamond Strings” was released July 2013 to much acclaim, winning the MusicNL award for Country, followed with the album “Charlie’s Boogie”, a collaboration with guitar slinging, gypsy jazzer Duane Andrews, which won an East Coast Music Award in 2014 for the “mostly” instrumental album.

Known for his guitar prowess and powerful vocals, Craig has recently moved back west to perform and teach, building a studio where he records and produces projects for other musicians. He is currently touring Alberta and BC and working on a new solo project, due out in the coming year.

Colleen Power is an award-winning, bilingual singer/songwriter and performer living in St. John’s, and a prolific and creative force in the Newfoundland and Labrador music scene. Always engaging, Colleen comfortably embraces diverse musical styles, with lyrics ranging from heartfelt to comedic, political to personal. She is a multi-talented, uniquely diverse musician with strong Newfoundland content and themes. Colleen is currently host of the Bell Fibe TV miniseries “Sing Me Home”, where she explores six communities in the province with fascinating place names and creates a song for each episode. She is a past commissioned songwriter for CBC Radio One NL, and has written songs for several films and private entities.

Colleen has been performing live regularly, both solo and with her band for nearly three decades and looks forward to performing more live shows and touring her new projects in the future. Colleen’s music, along with her eighth solo project, Tales From Downtown West is available at http://www.SingSongMusic.ca.

Photo credit: Chris LeDrew

Claire Porter is a singer/songwriter who has been described as a mix between Judy Garland and Tom Waits. She writes music about detritivores, love stories and tiramisu.

She was born in Newfoundland, learning folk storytelling traditions. She committed a couple of years to hitchhiking and learning travelling songs. She moved to Montreal to learn jazz and refine her powerful stage presence. In 2012, she started playing with Claire Porter and the Stouts in the downtown circuit in Montreal.

For the past 36 years, Jean Hewson and Christina Smith have been ambassadors of Newfoundland culture, bringing the music and songs of their Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador to festival, concert and folk club audiences in North America and Europe. They are the recipients of the Ernie King Tradition Bearer award from the Celtic Roots Festival, Goderich, Ontario. Their music has been broadcast nationally by the Canadian Broadcasting Coorporation, and their CDS Like Ducks! and August Gale (Borealis) have received multiple nominations and awards.

Over the past 20 years, award winning singer-songwriter Chris Picco has established himself as one of Atlantic Canada’s most dynamic and diverse musicians both as a solo artist and as front man for St. John’s based rockers, The Long Distance Runners.

 Since 2004 Chris has recorded and released eight critically acclaimed records. His most recent, Split Down The Middle  (2023) has earned him a MusicNL nomination for Rock Artist of The Year. His most recent LDR record received several ECMA,  Juno and MusicNL nominations in 2016/17 and in 2013 Chris’ solo record The Beach earned him a MusicNL Male Artist Of The Year Award. He has worked as both a session musician and producer and has shared the stage with artists ranging from Wintersleep, Said the Whale, Mother Mother and The Wooden Sky to Jim Cuddy, Bob Snider, Ron Sexsmith, Kyp Harness, and Ron Hynes. 

Currently, Chris is busy songwriting, producing and performing material from his new record Split Down The Middle available everywhere you get your music.

Charlie-Rose Neis has been writing music since she could talk. Luckily for her, her best friend Sydney Oliver is able to help bring the dream to life. They started off as two friends just jamming with each other, and became an official duo a few months ago. They’re both headed to grade 10 this year, at Holy Heart of Mary and Holy Spirit High School. 

Friends, there are artists, fiddlers, side musicians aplenty.

There is only one Carole.

Brian Cherwick’s Weirdo Show Brian Cherwick is a multi-instrumentalist and leader of the speed-folk band Kubasonics. His “Weirdo Show” combines quirky original songs about his weird family with a variety of weird instruments from his extensive collection.

 Originally from Toronto, Brad Klucowicz moved to St. John’s, NL in 2018 and quickly became immersed in the traditional music scene of the city. With familial roots in Fox Harbour, Placentia Bay, Brad learned the basics of the button accordion as a child by watching his Grandfather and uncles. Despite rarely playing the accordion throughout his teens and 20s, he developed a life long appreciation for the culture and traditional music of Newfoundland. Brad returned to his musical roots and began playing the accordion again in 2018, and has not looked back. Moving to Newfoundland rekindled his interest in traditional music, deepened his connection to Newfoundland and stoked his interest in the musical connection between Newfoundland and Ireland. This interest became an obsession, which  is evident in his extensive repertoire of traditional Newfoundland and Irish music, which he shares with willing – and unwilling – listeners each weekend in downtown St. John’s.