The Good Luck Thrift Store Outfit is celebrating 20 years of making music! That’s why we’re throwing this celebration! All the core members, Taylor Webster, Willy Tea Taylor, Chandler Pratt, Chris Doud, Matt Cordano and Aaron Burtch will be on hand. Yes, Chandler is flying in from across the pond, and long-time contributing axeman Ben Reisdorf will be joining in on a few as well. We will be doing something we have never attempted before; playing both acclaimed studio releases in their entirety on consecutive nights. A first-time-ever performance of The Ghost of Good Manners will be the Friday night main stage showcase, and a first-time-ever performane of Old Excuses will be the Saturday night main stage showcase.

Three songwriters. Five bandmates. More than 15 years together, building a grassroots audience with a combination of stacked vocal harmonies and collaborative, song-driven Americana. Fruition is proof that there’s strength in numbers.

Moving from Humboldt County, California in 2000, Austin’s bad boys of bluegrass, the Weary Boys quickly became a staple of the music scene when they arrived with their furious fiddlin’, scorchin’ telecaster licks, high lonesome harmonies, and driving train beats fueled by upright bass and snare with brushes. They went from busking at the university to selling out the legendary Continental Club in less than a year. Living up to their name, they quickly ensued upon a heavy touring regimen across the U.S. and Europe, opening for heroes Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, and Leon Russell. They’re currently working on their next studio album.

Driven by singer-songwriter Avery Hellman, ISMAY creates music that is a tapestry of alternative American roots full of alt-country textures and lush folk songs. Their music owes more to geography than genre, with songs about the sights, sounds, and singular characters found way out west on a new horizon.

The Pine Box Boys are familiar to most as darkgrass darlings, offering songs in the lyrical tradition of the smoldering murder ballad, but juxtaposed against the lighthearted delivery of bluegrass wild fire. Despite the sometimes macabre stories and dark humor, the show is some good hearted, good stompin fun. More importanty, The Pine Box Boys got their start right about the same time as Good Luck Thrift Store and we have shared many a stage over the past 20 years. Excited to be playing with them once again!

"There’s bad in the best of us, there’s good in the rest of us”-  Leslie Stevens’ moving, sonorous songcraft will leave a bookmark in the most golden part of your soul.  

Leslie Stevens has earned accolades from the cognoscenti for her recordings and live shows as a luminary in the Los Angeles music scene. The masterful collection of songs on her self-titled third release, finds the artist venturing beyond her beloved folk and country into mysterious, new terrain. She explores the grit and the riches of it all, accompanied by renowned musicians from the bands of Lucinda Williams, Bruce Springsteen, and Bob Dylan and members of Incubus and My Morning Jacket. While Stevens has flexed her vocal and compositional skills on Hollywood scores and TV shows, the video for the album's "Blue Roses" sees the favor returned as she's joined on camera by accomplished actor Jon Hamm, who plays her faithless, microphone-hijacking suitor.

Sumner's is a voice born to sing country. Never forced or strained, his vocals add gravitas to any lyric. Strings sit alongside tasteful synth tracks; dobro and steel guitar bring out the country. It is a melding of eras, sounds, concepts, and stylings woven together to form an album that oozes warmth and feeling.

Born and raised in Knoxville, TN, Sally Buice and Molly Rochelson of songwriter duo The Montvales spent much of their formative years busking amidst the Elvis impersonators and musical saw players of the town’s Market Square, honing their uniquely boisterous harmonies and driving, joyful sound.  After moving away for several years to seek their fortunes separately, Molly and Sally finally reunited in 2019 to write and record their first album, Heartbreak Summer Camp. The two now make their home in Cincinnati, OH, spending their days touring extensively and crafting intimate, storytelling-driven songs that explore the joys and perils of self-determination.

Mike Clark is a singer/songwriter living in Pueblo Colorado.  In 2013, to great acclaim, he released the Soul & Rock & Roll album, Round and Round under the name Mike Clark and the Sugar Sounds, and took off playing live concerts across the United States and abroad. Since then, with the help of so many great musicians, the Sugar Sounds have released the albums, Moon Rock, and, Live at the Trinidad Lounge and are urrently touring their brand new album Hot Coffee.

Tom Vandenavond is a contemporary ghost with a wisdom in his music that exceeds his years. His sound embodies the nature of solitary travel and the inevitable connections made from a life on the road. He has torn through his Midwest roots and created an auditory imprint of the highways and byways, truck stops and roadsides of the afforded white line spectacles of the American construct.

Awahnichi achieves a rare victory for true storytellers with poetic tales of sorrow and beauty. The songs are patient, tender and simple. Capturing crowds with the profound meaning of the stories he shares.

Local favorites and, Strawberry Music Fest regulars, and the hardest working couple in bluegrass, Honey Run brings a fun mix of thoughtful original folk music, fast picking and playing, and lively old bluegrass tunes. Beautiful harmonies, by Kat Baker and Owen Ragland are complemented by the fiddle, the mandolin and guitar. The full sound that accompanies the thoughtful lyrics and catchy melodies of Kat’s songs ranges from tender to downright fun. The eclectic mix of oldtimey roots, americana sounds, and "stellar picking" truly creates a unique experience.

Randy Mandy Band is a songwriting duet from the small town of Knights Ferry. The band is composed of Amanda Russell and Randy Russell, writing and singing themselves up and down the state. There original set of music calls back the ghosts of classic rock, old country, blues, folk, and soul with a new style that still holds close to their hearts.

Neil Jackson (founder/singer of renowned California indie-rock band, Built Like Alaska) has embarked on a new creative project to realize his prolific song cache; meet Sylvan Improvement. Longtime friends and collaborators Taylor Webster and Chris Doud (of TGLTSO) and Aaron Burtch (TGLTSO and Grandaddy) joined in to flesh out the songs. In between the rumblings of trains and loads of laundry, surrounded by animal heads and windchimes, the quartet has begun recording a full length studio album set to be released in 2025. Bringing a rural perspective to sturdy rock songs, the music conjures images as "warm and rich as the central valley sun.”

hauntingly beautiful

Alex Salcido and Ray Vietti (the “brothers”) trade lead vocals depending on the song, but both of them posesse a lived-in, world-weary vocal style that is perfectly suited to the material.

You might recognize this chap as the stellar lead guitar-banjo-mandolin player of The Good Luck Thrift Store Outfit! While he has been living life to the fullest abroad these last few years, he has been putting out his own music. We’re thrilled he’ll be back stateside to perform with the full band in the main showcase each night, but equally pumped to let you all listen to what this creative mastermind has been up to in the solo asrtist world.

From his early days co-fronting The Good Luck Thrift Store Outfit, to singing solo in countless cowboy bars, to pitching countless wiffle ball games, Willy Tea has never lost the vision. Now Willy Tea Taylor has taken his vision of the “hero hang” on the road. and his talented traveling band The Fellership is made up of his fantastically talented buds who play Willy’s songs with a brand of reckless abandon and utter humility that spits in the face of pretense.

Much like the duo themselves, the songs range near and far, from the sticky humidity of the Carolinas to the arid and dusty cellars of the West, telling stories of simplistic beauty that unravel through gritty vocals and thoughtful harmonies. The bare authenticity of each song sweeps up the listener for a ride that might wander but will certainly not end in the same place where it began.

Cole Hinkle is a singer/song-writer from the Central Valley of California, writing songs about the everyday struggles of the common man. His sound can be described as Traditonal Country Music with a modern twist. While Cole's heart lies in classic country, he brings aspects of blues and 60s era soul music into his songs, his voice is often described as high and lonesome, and full of emotion as a he sings of love, loss, and life.

Pure Americana from Santa Cruz, California. Johnny Dodd, the former singer of Santa Cruz legends, Tater Famine, continues to bring the goods with this new ensemble of energetic top notch musicians. Be ready to dance the day down with this “rootsy, folksy, country rock outfit” - featured only at Otis’ Late Night Tavern.

Renowned for her soulful delivery, picturesque lyrics and a larger than life stage persona, Tiffany Rose often draws comparisons to such greats as Janis Joplin, Grace Slick, and Etta James. Backed by a powerhouse rhythm section, sultry guitar and a smooth as Sunday morning blues saxophone. Tiffany Rose and the Outlaw Hearts aren’t ones to be defined by genre, but rather by their heart & soul.

Born in California’s Central Sierra, The Neighborhood Sound blends psychedelic rock, punk, funk, jazz, and American roots into a genre-bending storm of sound. Tim McCaffrey, Jonny Sidorvich, Adam Dragland, Joey Garcia, Michael Carney, and Brenden Getzel bring decades of experience and fearless creativity to The Sound. Expect the unexpected.