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Steve Taylor graduated from Boston’s prestigious Berklee College of Music with a degree in Songwriting. After college, Steve returned home to Michigan and became a fixture in the Detroit music scene while earning a Master’s Degree in Music Theory from Wayne State University. Blending soulful music and intimate lyrics, Steve Taylor performs all over Michigan as a solo acoustic artist and with his band, The Steve Taylor Three. Their latest album “Temporary Heart” was released in 2024 all of their five albums is available on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube, or wherever finer music is streamed. The band’s single, “Raining on Christmas”, won the Detroit Music Award for “Outstanding Country Recording” in 2023. “Temporary Heart” won the Michigan Music Award for Best American Album in 2025.

Carmel Liburdi is a Detroit based alt/indie songwriter, musician and multimedia artist. Their work is inspired by the human condition, and focuses on humanity/the experience of emotion and having a body. Their visual artwork centers body positivity, as well as fantasy and macabre themes.

Carmel has been performing their original songs in the Detroit area and all around the US since 2015, with albums released as far back as 2010. Their music is regularly featured on local NPR, and has been nominated for multiple Detroit Music Awards.

With a background in 2D and 3D art, music, and photography, they have a love of expression in many forms; including screen printing, upcycling clothes, and DIY stickers and zines. Whether political or personal, Carmel’s creative style aims to blend comedy and drama into an intimate conversation with their audience.

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Michigan-born country singer Hard Luck Pete, whose real name is Pete Atkinson, has built a reputation as one of the Midwest’s loudest voices in the fight to keep country music real. As frontman of Hard Luck Pete & The Wrong Way Streets, he blends outlaw grit, raw honesty, and blue-collar storytelling with a proud anti-Nashville stance — writing songs for working people, not record execs. His originals like “The Road,” “Four Nights in Waco,” and “Where’s Your Sister Man?” cut through the gloss and remind listeners what country was meant to be: real, rough around the edges, and full of truth.

Detroit born Singer-songwriter Jan Krist was raised on rock, and schooled in the folk music of the 60’s and 70’s.Today, Krist's work reflects the power and poetry of having matured as an artist in that place and time. Jan has recorded 12 critically acclaimed CDs. Her newest CD, Since You Asked Me, is slated for release October 25, 2025.

Jan is a member of super group, Diamonds in the Rust ( Annie and Rod Capps, Jim Bizer, Alan Finkbeiner, and Jan Krist) and often performs as a duo with Jim Bizer.

Jan has received 5 Detroit Music Awards, been a Kerrville New Folk Finalist twice, and has received numerous accolades from Billboard, Entertainment Weekly, The Chicago Sun Times, and the Detroit News and Free Press.“

"Unreservedly recommended”, Bob Darden, Billboard Magazine