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Spring Offensive

Spring Offensive is a band that you will come back to time and time again. Not only do they write melodies that you will find yourself humming at inappropriate times, their love for telling stories is clear. Their live shows promise to be exciting and inventive, if not, a bit unhinged. There is a spectacle for every song, and along with their dirty, stenciled I Was Killed By The Spring Offensive t-shirts, they seem to harness boundless energy. They are currently residing in Oxford.

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Brennen Leigh

Brennen Leigh is a songwriter, guitar player, mandolin player and singer who tours throughout the United States as well as internationally. Her influences include American songwriters such as Guy Clark and the Louvin Brothers. She was born in North Dakota and lives in Austin, Texas.

Brennen Leigh on Last.fm.

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Thunderbridge Bluegrass Boys

http://www.thunderbridgebluegrass.com/ The Thunderbridge Bluegrass Boys came together in the Spring of 2005, following Brian and Martin's request to Nick (a songwriting acquaintance from the local circuit) to write a bluegrass song with a view to performing it somewhere someday to someone. The first song Nick wrote specifically for the band (How Much) I'm Needing You was thrashed out in the Schofield brothers' small recording studio at Tonedale Mill.

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Old Man Luedecke

Old Man Luedecke (Chris Luedecke) is a singer and player living near Halifax, Nova Scotia. Old Man Luedecke left the big old city of Toronto, met a girl in the Yukon, fell in love, bought a banjo and fell in love again. After a couple of years of love and banjo and the makings of a brilliant performing career in sunny Halifax, he returned to the Yukon with his sweethearts. There he woodshedded. He wrote a ton of songs over the next year and a half.

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The Sweet Lowdown

The Sweet Lowdown is an old time/roots trio based in Victoria, BC, Canada. The members are Amanda Blied (guitar), Shanti Bremer (banjo), and Miriam Sonstenes (fiddle) — three musicians who come together to create music inspired by their love of old time, folk, blues, bluegrass and other forms of roots music.

The Sweet Lowdown on Last.fm.

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