
The GreenMan Tavern
The Starwood Festival presents
Tuesday
5-6 PM (Happy Hour)
Giacomo and Friends
Midnight
Darwin Prophet
Wednesday
5-6 PM (Happy Hour)
Awen
Midnight
Dust Bowl Faeries
Thursday
5-6 (Happy Hour)
Bardic Circle with Sinann
Midnight
Blackwillow Starling
Friday
5-6 (Happy Hour)
Wandering Spiral
Midnight
Ginger Doss & Lynda Millard
Saturday
5-6 (Happy Hour)
Colin and the Crows
Jack (Giacomo) Lowry is a musician who works with developing innovations in world fusion music through a confluence of musical influences and chi energy. Being a percussionist from a young age, Jack developed a keen ear for rhythm. A guitarist in his youth, Jack has become proficient in Oud and Cumbus which he plays along with mandolin. Having been in the music business for over 30 years, Jack feels it is a form of prayer when he is able to connect and share his musical chi with the people of the Earth.
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Darwin Prophet is an eccentric and eclectic singer-songwriter, traveling galaxies of time in search of the muse. She weaves a mist of myth and memories, from Medusa's lair to Camelot, to Oscar Wilde's parlor, to visiting the futuresongs of timelords and hitchhikers. Her unique style of literary rock will take you to a place you remember but have never heard before. Her spirit was born on the Planet Mi in the Galaxy Solfege, but the form she inhabits has walked a spiral of experience from singing country at honky tonks and as house singer at the original Gilley's, crooning with big bands, performing as a piano bar chanteuse from NYC to Galveston, as a show band and top 40 cover band starling, a heavy metal frontchick, a guitar slinger with the all female alternaprog band Velvet Hammer, to becoming a touring recording artist, and a fave among Texas conventions like Akon, WhoFest, Steampunk November, FenCon, and All-Con.
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Awen (Welsh for ‘poetic inspiration’) is Ian Corrigan and Liafal. Awen’s music draws on the traditions of British and Irish folk song and storytelling, as well as the traditions of Neopagan spirituality. Rollicking guitar rhythms combine with dynamic vocal harmonies to produce a powerful sound that will captivate and delight any audience.
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Dust Bowl Faeries perform a faerie-tale fusion of dark cabaret and gothic polka music, infused with a dose of witchcraft and a dusting of woodland magic. The accordion driven freak-folk ensemble hails from the New York Hudson Valley and draws inspiration from sinister circus songs, murder ballads and Eastern European folk music. Singing saw, piano accordion, lap-steel, bass, percussion and acoustic guitar combine to create the Dust Bowl Faeries otherworldly sound.
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Bardic Circle with Sinann Patricia
Community mic hosted by Sinnan Patricia - Sign up Wednesday afternoon at Green Man or with Sinnan
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Blackwillow Starling are a duo of musicians who incorporate elements of female/male harmony vocals, acoustic guitar, bouzouki, whistle, and percussion along with insightful lyrics. They reach out to listeners of pagan music, acoustic folk, and Celtic traditionals.
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Wandering Spiral featuring Michelle Davidson and Rick de Yampert, performs original East-West fusion, Buddha lounge and trance soundscapes, plus their arrangements of Beatles classics and Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir.” Their instrument palette includes sitar, Native American and Arabic flutes, metal and wooden tongue drums, digital tabla, bass, crystal and Tibetan singing bowls, tribal percussion and synth. Wandering Spiral has performed at mind/body/spirit events, art festivals and art exhibit openings, Pagan gatherings, UU programs, sound meditations, yoga sessions, sacred events, cafes, concerts and more.
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Ginger Doss & Lynda Millard
Ginger (They/Them) is a performing songwriter, music producer, spiritual practitioner and inspirational speaker. Their dynamic and compelling songwriting explores multiple genres, including rock, alternative groove, tribal, and folk and is inspired from a passionate and diverse study of spirituality. They tour extensively throughout the US and Canada igniting audiences with high energy performances and music that radiates with all the colors and callings of the divine.
Lynda is an accomplished singer songwriter whose career spans many successful original band projects in which she contributed her life changing songwriting, signature bass playing, vocal prowess, and spine tingling command of the flute. Together with Ginger she founded the popular rock band Dreamtrybe in the early 2000's and before that, helped form and was a front member of the highly acclaimed Velvet Hammer. Now touring with Ginger Doss, she contributes not only her talents on bass, vocals, and flute, but her songs and energy as well. Best of friends, when Ginger and Lynda join their voices and songs, the connection between their souls is palpable. They have a harmonic grace that can only come from an energy that spans many lifetimes, not only musical but physical incarnations as well.
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​Colin and the Crows
Colin blends lyrics and poems with melodies pulled from the ether to create spellbinding songs. The natural flow of the songwriting process makes room for different genres to mesh together. With contributions from other musicians it culminates into an energetic and heartwarming experience to behold.
Rosencomet Project presents
The Starwood Festival
Main Stage
Tuesday
River (formerly River Glen)
Blackout Rose
Wednesday
Wizards of Acoustic Guitar
(feat. Michael Kelsey, Brian Henke, and Kelly Zullo)
Thursday
Billy Woods
Cowboy Princess Brigade
Friday
Act Casual
Didges Christ SuperDrum
Saturday
Erica Sodos
Hexxen
River (formerly River Glen) was born-at-home and grew up gigging on street corners, at Starwood, and at other summer festivals with his family band, The One Hat Band. With more than thirty years on stage, River's performances have become an event, a get-in-your-feels experience between audience and performer. River's folk-pop lyricism is a vehicle for deep wonderings and reflection on what it means to be human today. Always with tasty grooves and clever, rhythmic rhyming. This solo performance will tastefully incorporate a looper pedal to allow River to showcase his abilities on guitar, violin, and mandolin, in addition to his powerhouse vocals and storytelling.
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Blackout Rose is the new WorldRock Afropunk superfuge of Unbridled Rock n' Soul!
Rebranded and Reborn from formerly being known as DLHR (Daddy Longlegs' Homegrown Revival), the band once known solely for Mardi Gras-esque live performances, has grown to develop and become its own force of genre. Led by frontman Davidione Pearl bringing the energy shoulder to shoulder with bassist Lovest Watson, guitarist Mike McNamara, and drummer Gregg Garlock, Blackout Rose is ready to bring you a spirited high energy show to remember.
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Wizards of Acoustic Guitar
Michael Kelsey brings a free-flowing improvisational style to the guitar that involves every inch of his instrument. From his funky, percussive playing style that conjures an image of a one-man version of STOMP to lush instrumentals reminiscent of Michael Hedges/Phil Keaggy, his performance blends multiple musical genres and vocals along with some techno fun to create a sound all his own. Throughout a performance Michael may make use of technology, his improv skills, objects in the room, and audience interaction to make music for the ears, but more importantly, a musical experience for the senses.
Carolina Coast-based singer/songwriter, Kelly Zullo’s voice melds seamlessly with her “funk finger style guitar” folk. Her original music has been noted for its impressive guitar accompaniment, using “some speedy finger work and hard hitting right hand technique while she sings at the same time” (Guitar World Magazine). A lover also of great songs, she re-brands iconic 80’s and 90’s songs with refreshing new arrangements of classics that clearly and concisely honor the lyrics while transforming them often into a previously unimagined entity.
Brian Henke composes and performs his music like a painter putting images on canvas, a kind of sonic shaman, drawing his inspiration from the world around him. His unique guitar style has been called everything from Folk to New Age to Neo-Classical to Pastoral, or as Brian likes to call it, “a big stewpot of everything, stirred up, simmered and served to taste.” Throughout all of his music is an undercurrent of spirituality and mysticism that Brian says is very much a part of the creative process. Because of this he has received radio air play all over the world on shows as varied as WKSU’s “Folk Alley” and John Dilberto’s “Echoes.”
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Billy Woods has been a professional drummer since 1958, performing across the United States. In 1980, he discovered the dumbek, playing for accomplished dancers including Eva Cernik and Susannah Del Vecchio. Billy traveled and studied in Egypt in 1987. He has had the privilege of playing on stage with many wonderful musicians, including Souhail Kaspar. In the 30 years he has been teaching, many of his students have gone on to excel in their own right.,Thursday,Main Stage
Act Casual,Act Casual, a dynamic fusion band hailing from Detroit, has garnered attention for their electrifying performances, haunting harmonies, and innovative improvisational style. Merging elements of blues, funk, extended instrumentals, and catchy pop melodies, the band has become a vibrant force within the Midwest music scene. Their rise from intimate basement jam sessions to sold-out performances at renowned venues such as Detroit’s Magic Stick and Lager House, Ann Arbor’s Blind Pig, Columbus’s Woodlands Tavern, and Mount Pleasant’s Centennial Hall reflects their growing popularity and dedicated fanbase.
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Cowboy Princess Brigade
Glitternative, dynamic group, the Cowboy Princess Brigade brings a brassy, polished touch to early 60’s soul and Americana roots music. With intimate lyricism, sultry, high-energy vocals, and tasty improvisational jams, each song brings its own unique flow. Costumes, horns, strings, double bass, antics, and supreme creative collaboration make this titillating live show sure to bring out your inner cowboy princess.
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Act Casual is a dynamic fusion band hailing from Detroit, has garnered attention for their electrifying performances, haunting harmonies, and innovative improvisational style. Merging elements of blues, funk, extended instrumentals, and catchy pop melodies, the band has become a vibrant force within the Midwest music scene. Their rise from intimate basement jam sessions to sold-out performances at renowned venues such as Detroit’s Magic Stick and Lager House, Ann Arbor’s Blind Pig, Columbus’s Woodlands Tavern, and Mount Pleasant’s Centennial Hall reflects their growing popularity and dedicated fanbase.
Didges Christ SuperDrum comes from the city of Murdvaw on the planet Grok... Upon arriving in this dimension and space in time in the year 2010 they recorded their self-titled debut album using terrestrial instruments and percussion centered around the terrestrial ""didgeridoo"", and gradually have been adding their alien technology to the sound. The music is trance-inducing and you should not operate heavy machinery while under their influence...
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Magician and Mentalist Erica Sodos enchants audiences to believe in the impossible, creating transformative experiences over her 35-year career and 6,000 performances. With her mastery of mind-bending illusions and mentalism, Erica blurs the boundaries of reality, taking guests on a journey through enchantment. Her performances blend dazzling visual illusions, audience involvement, mind reading, escapes, and personalized messaging, crafting a fun and truly transformative experience where the extraordinary unfolds before their eyes. With a unique mix of humor, mystery, and wonder, Erica ensures that no two shows are ever the same. She emphasizes audience interaction, empowering participants to become the magicians themselves, reminding everyone that we each have the power to create magic. Erica’s passion for where the intersection of performance magic and real magic meets is where her shows truly shine, turning each moment into an awe-inspiring celebration of the impossible.
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Hexxen
Traditional folk, rune and heathen folk, musical theatre and choral music, rock & roll, glam rock, and heavy metal are only some of the elements that shape the music of Johnny Hexx into a hybrid, unique style. Ancestral roots, reverence for tribal traditions, spiritual animism and mysticism, a multitude of musical backgrounds, and a rebellious attitude all come together to form their songs, which touch on many emotions and moods ranging from triumph and woe, to happiness and despair. Creating works from outcast anthems to reverent songs made to honor ancient times, Johnny Hexx wants to leave few stones unturned musically. Hexxen is both inspired by, and an expansion of, the music created by Johnny Hexx, adding the diverse musical talents of musicians who are equally committed to the same collaboration in eclecticism and grounded mysticism, conveyed through evocative and driving multi-genre music.
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The Didge Dome
Mayan Ruins - acoustic show at 1:30 AM Saturday
(after midnight Friday)
The Premier Purveyors of Psychedelic Tribal music for Dancers & Trancers!