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Bev Grant

Bev Grant

  Bev Grant is a labor and social activist, feminist, singer-songwriter, photographer and 2017 Joe Hill Award winner from the Labor Heritage Foundation for her work as a cultural worker as well as the 2017 winner of the ASCAP Foundation’s Jay Gorney award for her song We Were There.  Former leader of the cutting edge 70s and …

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Tom Kastle

Tom Kastle has been a singer and folk musician for decades, traveling the world, collecting and performing maritime songs and stories, and captaining sailing ships on the Great Lakes. These days, Tom lives in Madison and his passions are even more diverse and include a recording of original songs based mostly on traditional fiddle tunes, …

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Robb Johannes

Robb Johannes

Robb Johannes (he/him/his) is currently currently channeling his 4-octave countertenor voice, composition, songwriting, multi-instrumental (guitar, bass, keyboards, lap steel, percussion), and multi-media (filmmaking, visual art, graphic design) skills into the newly-formed ensemble, a question of when (www.aquestionofwhen.com). Tagged as an “anonymous multi-media artistic collaboration between members of previously-established acts,” a question of when is in …

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Michael Fitzpatrick

Michael Fitzpatrick

Traditional Irish Musician and Balladeer

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Leigh Cline

Leigh Cline

I am a guitarist who works in Folk, Celtic & Greek/Turkish genres having been part of the 1960s -70s folk scene both as a player and as a presenter (Mariposa Folk Festival among others) as well as performing and recording in Greece & Turkey since the 1970s. I presently work with my fiddler daughter Alana …

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Tom Neilson

Tom Neilson

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Jaden Spanier

Jaden Spanier

I have been playing music for 15 years and have graduated from Humber College. I am a hardworking freelance musician.

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Arthur McGregor

Arthur McGregor

Arthur performs with The Celtic Rathskallions, a children’s musical theatre, Moore & McGregor, ( recording ‘Dream With Me’ ) a duo with my wife, Wendy, and McGregor and Lindsay with Graham Lindsay along with solo shows with a mix of my songs and others. I ran the Ottawa Folklore Centre for 34 years, and I’m currently …

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Dan Schatz with banjo Louisville

Dan Schatz

Traditional and contemporary folksinger, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer

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Susan Lewis - photo by Tito Fuentes

Susan Lewis

As a member of the women’s trio Belles of Hoboken in the early 80s (with Janet Stecher and Marcie Boyd), Susan performed throughout the New York City area and recorded numerous songs for the “Fast Folk” musician’s cooperative monthly musical “magazine.” When she moved to Seattle, Susan was a founding member of the quartet Shays’ …

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Local 1000 exists to unite and organize professional touring musicians to create a strong network, provide access to benefits, and increase our impact in the world.

As a member of Local 1000, you belong to a network of like-minded musicians who do most of their work outside of their immediate geographic location. We are traveling musicians, uniting to improve the welfare of all.

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Fair Trade Music - Local 1000AFM Local 1000 believes that all working musicians deserve a fair and just living wage for live performances and a respectful, safe working environment. We assert that these are rights for cultural workers, not privileges. Fair Trade Music is our organizing campaign to bring these conditions to the greater musical community. Performers, Presenters, and Audiences working together to strengthen our community.

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