Music industry blogger, playlist curator, and touring DIY musician, Jesse Lacy, is known for his amiable disposition, catchy songwriting, intimate performances, and support of fellow artists. He experiments with his history in classical, jazz, and pop music when composing solo and for his contemporary singer-songwriter band. Jesse Lacy, honors the 1970's singer-songwriter tradition, while reflecting contemporary artists: Iron & Wine, Glen Hansard, and Tom Petty. He has been awarded with a 2016 Folk Alliance International​ Conference Scholarship and is working on his second full-length album. Matthew Francis Andersen was born and raised in Chicago. But as a former walleye and musky fishing guide home has also been as far as northern Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula. That's where Andersen's EP Blue Line takes you: from the local taverns and street lights, to the boat landings and rivers deep within the northwoods. Matthew Francis Andersen's writing shows you where this Midwesterner has been. Logging trucks and taxi cabs, game wardens and bar patrons live inside these songs.

Andersen has won American Songwriter Magazine's 2012 Lyric Contest, and shared the stage with the likes of Steve Forbert, Kevin Gordon, Stacey Earle and Mark Stuart. $5