Sam Moss is a musician based in Staunton, Virginia. His newest album, Swimming (2025), has been acclaimed by publications like Spin (best of '25 so far), Uncut, Bandcamp, and Aquarium Drunkard.

He has played hundreds of shows around the country and shared bills with Jake Xerxes Fussell, Joan Shelley, Diane Cluck, Doug Paisley, and others. He is also a woodworker.

“Swimming foregrounds his graceful guitar playing, his quietly intense vocals, and most of all his observant songwriting, all of which reveal new wisdom with each spin.” - SPIN

"Sublime... the results are so intimate and tactile that you might just feel them slip through your fingers." - Bandcamp

"Ten songs to be discovered, savored, and rediscovered" - Pop Matters

“Each song breathes marvelously, matching the searching, restless nature of Moss’s lyrics perfectly.” - Aquarium Drunkard

“To listen to Swimming, the new album by Sam Moss, is to be confronted by beautiful contradictions. Moss and his ensemble spin a gossamer web of instrumentation around Moss’ earthy voice, at once hopeful and a deliverer of weary wisdom.” - No Depression

Quinie is a Scottish singer who sings traditional song in Scots language. Influenced heavily by Scottish Traveller singer Lizzie Higgins and poet Marion Angus, her work explores tradition as something lived and evolving. She generally sings unaccompanied, using voice as a pipe-like instrument. Her work links folk and DIY traditions, combining care for the past with curiosity about the future, and explores connections between people, animals, ancestors, and land. Her latest album, Forefowk, Mind Me, was released on Upset The Rhythm in May 2025. It includes traditional songs, reworkings, and original pieces. It draws from Scots, Irish, and Gaelic sources and includes poetic settings, toasts, and improvisation. . “Quinie mines an overlooked rich seam of traditional Scottish folk song treasure and brings it to the surface with wondrous results.” The Wire

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