The founder of what American indie folk band also led DeYarmond Edison featuring Field Report's Christopher Porterfield?
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Christopher Porterfield Christopher Porterfield is an American songwriter, guitarist and singer. He currently leads the folk band Field Report. Porterfield previously played with DeYarmond Edison, a band led by Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire with a degree in journalism.
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Bon Iver Bon Iver ( Bone-ee-VARE) is an American indie folk band founded in 2006 by singer-songwriter Justin Vernon. The name "Bon Iver" is derived from the French phrase "bon hiver" (] ), meaning "good winter", taken from a greeting on "Northern Exposure".
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Fences (band) Fences is an American indie rock band from Seattle, Washington formed by lead vocalist and guitarist Christopher Mansfield, guitarist Benjamin Greenspan, bassist and vocalist Lindsey Starr and drummer Elliott Garm Chaffee. They released their debut studio album "Fences" in 2010 and "Lesser Oceans" in 2015.
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Hefner (band) Hefner were a British indie rock and "urban folk" band formed in east London in 1995. They were active from about 1996 until 2002; since then they have played together only once, for a tribute to the DJ John Peel, who was a strong supporter of theirs.
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Victor Bailey (musician) Victor Bailey (March 27, 1960 – November 11, 2016) was an American bass guitar player. He was the bassist for Weather Report during their final years from 1982 to 1986, and launched a solo career in 1988. As a musician, Bailey was known for his signature scat-bass solos.
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Desaparecidos (band) Desaparecidos is an American rock band from Omaha, Nebraska. It is a project headed by singer/guitarist Conor Oberst, the frontman of the indie folk band Bright Eyes.
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Lewis Porter Lewis Porter, PhD "(né" Lewis Robert Porter; born 1951) is an American jazz pianist, musicologist, educator, and author.
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Circles Around the Sun Circles Around the Sun is a 2012 album by United States indie/roots folk band Dispatch. It is their fifth full-length studio album, the first recorded in over a decade. Speaking with Songfacts.com, the band's vocalist and guitarist Chad Urmston said how it felt recording with Dispatch after all that time: "It's always challenging to put an album together with three different song writers. But being 12 years older and taking all that time away helped as we had a better appreciation for each other." The pre-order was made available on June 5, 2012. The pre-order included various bundle packages, and a download of the track "Josaphine". Synthpop artist Adam Young of Owl City did additional programming on the album.
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Gentleman Auction House Gentleman Auction House is an American indie rock band from St. Louis, Missouri, currently signed to Emergency Umbrella Records. The band was formed in 2005 as a way for lead singer Eric Enger to record and perform his songs. The band consists of Enger, Steve Kozel, Kiley Kozel, Eric Herbst, Ryan Adams, and Stephen Tomko. Gentleman Auction House was named "Best Indie Band" in 2009 by the Riverfront Times.
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Driftwood (band) Driftwood is an Americana/Folk-Rock band from Binghamton, NY that was formed in 2005. The group consists of Dan Forsyth (guitar, vocals), Joe Kollar (banjo, guitar, percussion), Claire Byrne (violin, vocals), and Joey Arcuri (upright bass, vocals). Their music has been described variously as "fusing traditional Americana and with contemporary influences and timeless subject matter".
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The Village Green (band) The Village Green is a Portland, Oregon indie rock band, composed of lead vocalist/guitarist/composer J. Nicholas Allard and drummer/producer/back-up vocalist Jeremy Sherrer, bassist/back-up vocalist Dave Depper, & lead guitarist/back-up vocalist Nathan Junior. The band have recently reformed as of 2012 and are working on a new album.
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Larry Porter (musician) Lawrence "Larry" Stephen Porter (September 1, 1951 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American jazz musician and composer.
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Simon Joyner Simon Joyner (born 1971) is an American singer-songwriter from Omaha, Nebraska, United States. He has influenced the music of Bright Eyes. In the early 1990s, Beck listed Joyner in his top 10 albums when asked by "Rolling Stone". He is also known for the so-called "Peel Incident," when British DJ John Peel played his album, "The Cowardly Traveller Pays His Toll", from beginning to end on air. Joyner has collaborated with John Darnielle, of The Mountain Goats. He is named after Paul Simon.
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Eric Von Schmidt Eric Von Schmidt (May 28, 1931 – February 2, 2007) was an American singer and guitarist, songwriter, painter and illustrator, and Grammy Award recipient. He was associated with the folk boom of the late 1950s and early 1960s and a key part of the Cambridge folk music scene. As a singer and guitarist, he was considered to be the leading Cambridge specialist in country blues at the time, thus the Cambridge analogue of Greenwich Village's Dave Van Ronk. Von Schmidt co-authored with Jim Rooney "Baby, Let Me Follow You Down: The Illustrated Story of the Cambridge Folk Years".
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Bias Boshell Tobias "Bias" Boshell (born 20 July 1950) is an English songwriter and musician, best known as the founder of the folk rock band Trees.
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School of Seven Bells School of Seven Bells (often stylized as SVIIB) was an American indie rock band from New York City, formed in 2007. It originally consisted of Alejandra Deheza (vocals, guitar), her sister Claudia Deheza (keyboards, vocals) and Benjamin Curtis (guitar, synthesizers, vocals). Claudia Deheza left the group in 2010, and Curtis died of lymphoma in 2013. Using demos of songs Curtis had written prior to and during his illness, the band's fourth and final album, "SVIIB", was completed posthumously and released in February 2016.
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Porter Records Porter Records is a United States record label that specializes in jazz, hiphop, electronic, world, and experimental music. Its catalog is self-described as "music for the eclectic listener", with albums by artists Henry Grimes, Joe Chambers, Matthew Welch, Heikki Sarmanto, Chll Pll, and Mason Lindahl, among others.
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Eric D. Johnson Eric Donald Johnson (born June 7, 1976) is an American singer-songwriter, composer and multi-instrumentalist. He is best known as the leader of the influential folk-rock band Fruit Bats, and for his frequent collaborations with bands such as The Shins, Vetiver and Califone. He has also scored films, most notably Our Idiot Brother and Smashed. In 2014 it was announced he would begin a new solo recording project called EDJ.
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Scott Avett Scott Yancey Avett (born June 19, 1976) is one of the lead singers and founding members of the folk-rock band, The Avett Brothers. Avett primarily plays the banjo but also plays harmonica, drums, piano, acoustic guitar and electric guitar for the band based out of Concord, North Carolina. In 2008, their album, "The Second Gleam", reached the ten spot on Billboard.com's Top Independent Albums Chart. Avett is also an accomplished artist and printmaker. He owns his own gallery in Concord, North Carolina and has had his work displayed in the Envoy Gallery in New York City.
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Everly (group) Everly was an American folk musical duo formed in Battle Ground, Washington in 2008 by friends Bethany Joy Lenz and Amber Sweeney. Their debut EP, "Mission Bell", was launched on iTunes.
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LaDonna Smith LaDonna Smith (born 1951) is an American avant garde musician from Alabama (U.S.). She is a violinist, violist, and pianist. Since 1974 she has been performing free improvisational music with musicians such as Davey Williams, Gunther Christmann, Anne Lebaron, Derek Bailey, Eugene Chadbourne, Misha Feigin, Michael Evans, David Sait, Jack Wright, John Russell, Sergey Letov, Toshi Makihara, Andrew Dewar and many other of the world's major improvisers. As a performer, she has toured the USA, Canada, Europe, including Russia and Siberia, China and Japan. Her music is documented on dozens of CD and LP recordings, including the obscure "Say Daybew Records" - of Fred Lane & the Debonaires. An active organizer, she produced numerous concerts in Alabama and the Southeast, including the "Birmingham Improv Festival". She is an educator and serves on the Board of Directors of I.S.I.M., the International Society of Improvised Music. In 1976, LaDonna Smith co-founded TransMuseq Records, in collaboration with Davey Williams. In 1980, the improvisor magazine began as an extension of I.N., "the Improvisor's Network", a grass-roots organization that attempted to connect improvising musicians across the USA, founded at that time in New York City. LaDonna is currently editor-in-chief and publisher of "the improvisor" (the "international journal of free improvisation"), which now exists on the web.
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Ashlyn Maine Ashlyn Maine is an American Indie Folk band from Harvest, Alabama founded by members Jake England, (guitar, vocals) and Aaron Myers (banjo). Other members include Joe Schrenk (mandolin) and Chelsey Ray (vocals, harmonica, percussion).