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2006 Performers

6:40 pm – 8:00 pm	The Slip
5:00 pm - 6:10 pm	Erin McKeown
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Tracy Grammer
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm	Alec K. Redfearn And The Eyesores
11:30 pm – 12:30 pm	Protium – fuel cell powered band

About the Artists

The Slip
Contemporary avante-rock trio The Slip formed when bassist Marc
Friedman and brothers Andrew and Brad Barr (Drums and Guitar/Vox, respectively) formed in Boston. In the five years following their last studio release, the band has also spent more and more of their time off the road in their home studios, gradually honing a new and innovative approach to recording and distilling an overall songwriting vision. Coming out of this, their heaviest state of growth and development in years, the band entered Q-Division Studios in March 2005 and began six months of utterly focused work with co-producer Mathew Ellard. The result is their soon-to-be-released, as-yet-untitled 4th studio album, which stands as the most cohesive and evocative work the band has put together thus far. The first single that has been released (on most digital services) –"Even Rats" – has already been featured in the extremely successful Playstation2 game Guitar Hero.

Erin McKeown
From elegant pop to balls-out rock, sweet electronics to witty swing, Erin McKeown has packed a ton of music into her young career. With 4 studio albums, 2 EPs, and numerous soundtracks and compilations to her credit, the 28-year-old songwriter and multi-instrumentalist hasn't stopped for a breather in the last 10 years. Along the way she has averaged 200 shows a year and garnered the praise of fans and critics alike. McKeown's newest release is "Live on KCRW", a 6 song EP featuring her TRiO performing songs from her most recent studio album, "We Will Become Like Birds."

Tracy Grammer
Tracy Grammer rose to acclaim as one half of the duo, Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer. Called "one of the fastest-rising acts in folk music" by the Boston Globe, the duo released three internationally acclaimed albums featuring Carter's award-winning postmodern, mythic Americana song craft; toured with Joan Baez as her backing band and spotlight artists; and earned a diverse and devoted following. Just as the duo seemed poised to receive much-deserved mainstream recognition, Carter died suddenly of a heart attack while touring with Grammer in July, 2002. He was 49. Three years later, Grammer has emerged from the darkness of tragedy, and the help of a few new friends, released her first full-length solo album, the beautifully textured FLOWER OF AVALON, named after a song Carter penned as a gift for Grammer in 1999. Much has been made of Grammer's virtuosic instrumental skills --especially on violin -- but it is her voice that takes center stage on FLOWER OF AVALON, and what a voice it is. Few singers today are able to produce such a clarity and sincerity of voice, devoid of forced affectation. Grammer's voice transports the listener along those paths with a confidence and graces that songwriter Carter openly celebrated, and obviously loved to write for. As anyone who has been fortunate to catch Grammer in live performance will tell you, vocal harmonies that make the hair on the back of your neck stand up have long been her specialty, and they are in abundance on FLOWER OF AVALON, helping to make it the #1 most-played folk album of the year!.

Alec K. Redfearn And The Eyesores
AKR and The Eyesores formed in 1997 originally as an outlet for Alec's singer/songwriter, but has since expanded into something far more ambitious and a lot harder to describe. Slow, simmering, noirish dirges, spastic no-wave tangos, repetitive rhythmic conundrums, Weimar-style cabaret songs, Drunken revelry, crippling depression, extreme self loathing, Catholic guilt, clanking, scraping and radio noise are some of the many facets that make up the Eyesores' sound. Always evolving and ever elusive, The Eyesores have consistently left their audiences equally enthralled and confused. The band has performed in various forms as a chamber trio or quartet with accordion and strings, as a rock trio of accordion, guitar and drums, and as a big band with strings, guitars, drums, electronics, brass, and hurdy-gurdies, and sometimes just Alec solo, singing and playing accordion. The band has also accompanied theatre and dance troupes such as the Everett Dance Theatre and has worked with Providence independent film director, Laura Colella. The Eyesores have released three CDs and one split 7 inch single. Current line-up includes:
Alec K. Redfearn- accordion and vocals Olivia Geiger- Violin
Domenick Panzarella- Electric guitar Matt McLaren- Drums
Ann Schattle - French horn Erica Schattle - bassoon
Margie Wienk -upright bass, cello, and vocals

Protium

Protium is a band unlike any other, powering all its electric guitars, amplifiers, and PA entirely with fuel cell electricity! The band was formed as part of Ponaganset High School’s Fuel Cell Education Initiative when a simple question arose: What would provide the most astounding demonstration of fuel cell power? The answer: Protium, a no compromises Rock and Roll band, powered solely by fuel cell energy; the first band of its kind in the world! The talented musicians of Protium include six students and a Science teacher from Ponaganset High, all cranking out Rock and Roll music with a mission: sustainable energy for a sustainable future. Protium has already performed for the 2003, 2004, and 2005 Fuel Cell Seminars in Miami, San Antonio, and Palm Springs, the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund’s 1st and 2nd Annual Fuel Cell Investors Summits, RI Earth Day Festival, and the NHA’s Hydrogen Expo 2004 in Hollywood, CA. With a unique blend of rock and roll, reggae, and rhythm and blues, Protium has the songs and sounds to keep the party "fuelin' and groovin.'"

Andrew Barr of The Slip cuts loose at the 2006 Festival