“Travis Cyr plays “Acousta-Funky-Folk-Grass” …or…Cerebral Folk Music. Whatever you call it, the music is a genuine reflection of the land he lives. Quiet, gentle and peaceful, yet vast, dark and strong. Combining vividly honest and poetic lyrics with aggressive, fast paced acoustic guitar work, these songs break a LOT of strings! He stilll loves Jim Henson, listening to vinyl, playing in the garden and stinking like earth. His latest album, 2009’s “tiny music” is being enjoyed by everyone who has it, please do check it out. Travis plays shows throughout the great state of Maine and confusion.

Putnam Smith, who hails from Portland, Maine, could be an old-world troubadour fresh from the 19th Century.  After all, he lives in a log cabin,  plays his Grandfather’s banjo, and prints up the jackets to his CDs on a 1901 Pearl Letterpress (hand set type, pedal powered!).   Yet this rootsy multi-instrumentalist songwriter (he also writes and performs on guitar, mandolin, fretless banjo, and piano), steeped as he is in Appalachian traditions, is very much a storyteller for the modern age.