7:30 PM: Stu Fuchs
Stu Fuchs is an award winning musician and teaching artist, empowering people of all backgrounds to express themselves through creative play. A “classically trained, improvisational freed multi-instrumentalist”, Stu blends mindfulness and music at his annual “Ukulele Zen” retreat held at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck NY. His YouTube channel “Ukulele Zen” offers holistic ukulele lessons to over 100,000 subscribers. In 2014 Stuart was awarded a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts for his work bringing healing music to cancer patients at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo NY, where he was a professional artist in residence for eight years. Stu’s Gypsy Jazz band “Babik” performed in concert halls across North America and with symphonic orchestras and he has toured to three continents playing classical guitar and ukulele with the internationally acclaimed new age Kirtan artist Snatam Kaur. Stuart's meditative guitar playing was featured on Snatam Kaur's Grammy Award nominated Best New Age Album "Beloved."
8:00 PM: The Early Risers
The Early Risers are a folk duo made up of Ashley Storrow and Putnam Smith. Both rootsy and lyrical, their original songs feature close vocal harmonies and arrangements on a wide array of instruments: banjo, guitar, mandolin, piano, and shruti box. After pursuing separate solo singer/songwriter careers, they joined forces in 2015 and have since toured across the country, from Maine to Texas to California to Vancouver, BC. Their album “Making Life Sweet” went to #1 on the folk DJ charts in Nov, 2019.
They have played notable venues such as Club Passim, Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, and the High Plains Public Radio concert series. Ashley and Putnam put on a unique and remarkable show that lingers in the heart, mind, and imagination, long after the last round of applause.
Ashley and Putnam now live in Putney Vermont with their two daughters. When they are not making music you can find them writing plays, in the garden, and working with young people!
9:00 PM: Brooks Hubbard
Brooks Hubbard is a national touring independent artist from the mountains of rural New England. Since the age of three, his connection with music has led him on a path of continuous growth, both as an artist and human being. From writing songs about the Iraq war at age fifteen to recording with members of Jackson Browne & James Taylors’ bands, countless house shows and concert venues , to opening for artists like KT Tunstall, Robert Cray, Reckless Kelly, Matt Mays, and Stephen Kellogg. Brooks has put in his 10,000 hours and then some to become a powerful singer, songwriter, and entertainer.