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Virgil Brown is a Canadian singer-songwriter, finger-style guitarist, podcaster & author. He’s a natural entertainer who has played coffee houses, pubs, nightclubs and concert halls all over the world.
He’s got a well-seasoned voice reflecting his heroes, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, and John Prine. He engages his audience with humor and flair as he braids the songs together with stories.
In 2024 Virgil had to cancel his summer tour as was diagnosed with prostate cancer. With the help of a fantastic medical team at Southeast Valley Urology in Gilbert Arizona, he is currently cancer free.
2025 is a brand-new start and the summer tour is now being booked, with dates in Arizona, Washington State, and Alberta & British Columbia, Canada.
Recently, Virgil Brown Released Two Albums: The Lost Paris Tapes and Almost Famous in Alberta (The Album.) He also released a 3-song EP of duets with his son Samuel called: 2-fer by Brown & Brown. A new album will be ready in the spring of 2025.
In 2023 he Released his first book, a memoir collection of 35 short stories called: Almost Famous in Alberta & Other True Stories, now available On Amazon.com
In September of 2023, Brown debuted his “Wildwood Flower” one man show at Sedona Film Festival’s Mary D. Fisher Theater. The event was a book release celebration and the kick-off for his fall/winter solo acoustic tour of Northwest and Canadian destinations.
The 2023 fall tour was a great success with a string of solo shows in Arizona, Idaho, Washington, Vancouver Island, and as far north as Alberta, Canada. He also played with his Seattle band The Midnight Flame Throwers in Bellevue and Snohomish, Washington.
In early 2024, Virgil Brown released two songs in a collaboration with Canada’s greatest Fiddler: Calvin Vollrath.
“Rootsy and cleverly honest. Superb guitarist, and singer-songwriter”
– Peter North — Edmonton Journal
Billy Bond, Jr. is a singer/songwriter from Prescott. Billy moved to Arizona 21 years ago from Southern Colorado and took 20 years off from his music career. He was a member of the popular trio, Hired Hands, that played the Taos and Santa Fe clubs and resorts for many years.
About 20 months ago, he decided to dust off his guitar, build back his voice and get the calluses back on his fingers. He’s been hard at it ever since playing several nights a week around Northern Arizona. He is a member of The Cactus Farmers, a trio, and performs regularly with Austin Lynn Austin as a duo.
Billy combines his unique guitar style, dobro, Weissenborn and lap steel instruments with expressive vocals into a wide range of songs from Hank Williams to Prince. But his specialty is a full catalog of obscure Southwestern tunes and original songs that touch the heart and please the ear.
Tom Andes sets the stories of the lonely, the brokenhearted, and the downwardly mobile to rowdy, up-tempo traditional American music that feels so good, you forget the bad times. His songs run the gamut from finger-picked acoustic blues to country, from gospel to tunes that might have sounded at home on the indie rock charts in the late 90s. In 2022, Tom released his debut EP, “Static on Every Station.” In a favorable review, writing for Offbeat, Dan Willging called the title track “infectious with charge-ahead energy spearheaded by Andes’ searing guitar tones.” The follow-up, “Those LA Nights,” was released in 2023. You can read Dan Willging’s review from Offbeat here.
Tom was born and raised in New Hampshire and grew up listening to classic rock, metal, and pop on the radio. A visit to New Orleans when he was 18 changed his life. It ignited his love of American roots music, especially the country blues that had inspired the musicians he’d grown up listening to.
Tom’s band in New Orleans has featured a variety of accomplished New Orleans musicians including Glenn Grass, Mike Perry, Stoo Odom, Beau Bishop, Marc Allen Linam, Hannah Kreiger-Benson, Ian Petillo, Dylan James, and M.X. Turner. The band has played well-received shows at Carnaval Lounge, The Den at Howlin’ Wolf, Saturn Bar, Carrollton Station, Portside Lounge, BJ’s Lounge, BMC Music Club, Dmac’s, and The Domino. One of Tom’s songs, “Uptown Blues,” was included in Dear Rowdy, an Aldora Britain Records compilation of Americana artists, and he was interviewed for the ABR e-zine, giving him international exposure. He has participated in the Mississippi Songwriters Festival, the Ozone Songwriter Festival, and has played guitar for Emily Neustrom and the Fried Honeys.
After living all over the country, on both coasts and twice in New Orleans, in 2024, Tom relocated to Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is currently getting established in a new city, where he is gigging regularly, playing in several bands, as a solo performer, and in his own band. On February 14, 2025, Southern Crescent Recording Co. will release The Ones That Brought You Home, which collects Tom’s two EPs on vinyl. Tom is writing and recording songs for a full-length record.
Tom is also an accomplished writer of fiction, with dozens of stories appearing in publications including Best American Mystery Stories 2012 and Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and a novel forthcoming from Crescent City Books in 2025.