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MICHIGAN RATTLERS
Michigan Rattlers are a folk-rock band composed of Graham Young (guitar), Adam Reed (bass), Christian Wilder (piano), and Tony Audia (drums). Meeting as childhood friends, they began writing music and performing together in their hometown of Petoskey, Michigan.
Their self-titled Michigan Rattlers EP attracted reviews from No Depression, Bluegrass Situation, B3 Science, and Rolling Stone, who named the band one of their “Ten New Country Artists You Need To Know” in 2016. They’ve continued to evolve beyond the “country” label ever since.
In 2018, following a summer tour that included stops at Bonnaroo, Firefly and Electric Forest; the band released their debut full length album, 'Evergreen’. "This is a band with solid songwriting chops and instrumental skills," says No Depression. "'Evergreen' shows this four-piece from Petoskey, Michigan making a stand, making their way."
Growing into a more expansive sound, the band’s second full length album, ‘That Kind of Life’, was released in 2021 to positive reviews.
With live shows being at the core of the band’s identity, the Rattlers continue to tour relentlessly, bringing their honest songwriting and high energy rock n roll to stages across the U.S. and Canada.
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ANNA MAY
Alternative tragic Americana, invocations for peace & judgment reshaping with bleeding heart stream of consciousness poems. Anna May is an eclectic artist whose songs bear a placelessness that lends to their timeless nature. The deep exploration of heartbreak and trauma has been an ongoing quest throughout Anna's work. Her lyrics have been heavily textured by a lonesome whimsicality that finds itself most at home in the vastness of the American West or in landscapes of stark frontiers. Anna's music honors the nomadic spirit with memory, meditation & fresh interpretations of folk music and jazz influence. She honors a hope to enhance connection, humility, healing, and joy among people in the process of parting with typical genre rules.
Anna's lyrical sensibility is steeped in wisdom, and layered with evocative musicality and metaphysical embroidery while eschewing the mainstream & parting with platitudes. Anna explores both estrangement and connection while taking cues from artists like Billie Holiday, Shawn Colvin, Neil Young, and Tom Waits. Anna has been compared to artists like Jeff Buckley & Aimee Mann.
Anna's songs are tender, immersive, moodscapes & a deep dive into introspective, meditative states while exploring the fragile intersection of nature & humanity. Ethereal & whimsical, sensitive & heavy, Anna blends the musical influence of her classical, folk & jazz rooted upbringing, into a wholly unique creative trajectory. From her childhood spent submerged in sonic textures, to teenage years discovering visionaries of authentic expression, like Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, Anna has over time deepened the resonance, resolve and clarity of a voice that is distinctly her own and that craves truthful expression. She has as much an affinity for jazz and fifties pop as she does for folk & 90s alternative, all serving to enhance the understated and subtle power of her songs.
Anna's quest through music is to harness the healing medicine of meditation, and to hope in the landscapes of oppression. Anna has opened for artists like Kacy Hill, Amythyst Kiah, The Arcadian Wild, People Museum, Jann Klose & Nova One.
In 2025, Anna will open for Altan at Coach House Concert Hall & for the Jacob Jolliff Band at Camden Opera House. Anna will be a performer at the 2025 Wildflower! Arts and Music Fesitval.
Anna has been featured by Ones to Watch and Ditty TV. In 2024, Anna was a featured guest on NPR's Great American Folk Show, on WKU PBS Lost River Sessions (episode to air in 2025) & her song, The Show was chosen as song of the day on KUTX in Austin in August 2024. In 2024, Anna was nominated for Best Americana Act at the New England Music Awards. In 2024, Anna was featured on the WDVX Blue Plate Special, on Radio Venice & at Breaking Sound Los Angeles.
Anna has performed at wildflower music & arts festival, treefort music festival, boston arts festival, water lantern festival, trout lake hall, abbey arts in seattle, Globe Hall in Denver, Sheridan Opera House in Telluride, Club Passim in Boston, Hotel Cafe in Los Angeles, Salesforce Tower in San Francisco, Brick and Mortar Music Hall in San Francisco, Volcanic Theater Pub in Bend, Broadway Comedy Club in Manhattan, the Mint in Los Angeles, Trip in Santa Monica, Spiderhouse Ballroom in Austin, Hotel Cafe in Los Angeles, Rockwood Music Hall in New York City, Wall Street Theater in CT, Crying Wolf in Nashville, High Dive in Seattle, Tennessee Brew Works in Nashville, The Underdog in Nashville, The Cobra in Nashville, Franklin's Main Street Festival, Larimer Lounge in Denver, PNC Live Studio, Camden Public Library, Duxbury Free Library, East Lyme Library, Burlington City Arts, the Arts Cafe Mystic, the Folk Project, Cape Cod National Seashore, The Whiskey Room, The Space Ballroom, Folktale Winery, Wadsworth Mansion, Al's Den in Portland, 333 lounge in Brooklyn, Alberta Street Pub in Portland, Florence Griswold Museum in Connecticut, Snow Public Library on Cape Cod, and many more.
Anna has been featured in publications like zo magazine, the Vagina Singalongs, V13 media, KDVS, Radio Brooklyn, the Folk Music Notebook, the Oor Country Show, UK Country Radio, Haiku Reviews, WMFU's Give the Drummer Radio, Face Culture, the Rua Room, Hudson Valley Rag Shop podcast on WVKR, Country Cutler, Portland Radio Project, Wildflowers and Weeds on Xray FM, Freeform Radio Portland, Lost Church Radio, WCNI, WCIB, Pawling Public Radio, Radio SoBro, WHIV New Orleans, WNC Original Music podcast, 92.5 The River, Gnarly Whale Sessions, KRAC in Montreal, KZUM in Nebraska, The Westerly Sun, Indie Boulevard Magazine, C Heads Magazine, Medium, Shout Out LA, Music Crowns, Music Mecca, Voyage LA, New Noise Magazine, Vents Magazine, Fame Magazine, Skope Magazine, A & R Factory, The Curiosity Hour Podcast, the Something Rather Than Nothing Podcast, Thrive Global, Northern Public Radio, Louder Than War, Authority Magazine, Music Hunger, We Write About Music, Lost in the Nordics, Beach House Magazine, Doppio Magazine, Broken Color Blog, The New London Day, The CT Post, Vox Wave Magazine, Music City Memo, The Sounds Won't Stop, Luther Lucals, Music Matters podcast, She Makes Music UK, Nashville Indie, the old grey cat blog & others. Anna May was nominated for best Indie song of 2023 by Indie Boulevard Magazine. Anna was featured as track of the day in 2024 by The Other Side Reviews and by Radio Venice.
Anna has showcased with Breaking Sound Los Angeles, We Found New Music, Monday Monday Hotel Cafe showcase, and is a Soundsplore artist.
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