Hear songwriters from across Wyoming in a free one-night showcase of Cowboy State talent. The evening features Jackson-based artist Aaron Davis, Casper duo Pleasure People, and Pinedale’s The Boom and The Bust. These musicians are storytellers who embody the underlying ethos of Wyoming—authentic, familiar and epic. 

7:00 p.m. – 7:45 Aaron Davis with Seadar Rose & David Bundy of Screen Door Porch

8:00 – 8:45 Pleasure People

9:00 – 9:45 The Boom and The Bust

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Aaron Davis is a Wyoming-based, Kentucky native who is chiefly known as the co-founder of alt-country/alt-folk band Screen Door Porch, the eclectic quartet Aaron Davis & the Mystery Machine and as a studio engineer-producer-session player at his own recording studio. Recognizing Aaron’s eleven-album discography, he was one of two composers in Wyoming to be awarded a Performing Arts Music Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts—“a merit-based honor for an artist’s work in their field.” He’s also a freelance writer and photographer currently working with Buckrail, a founder of a juke joint blues band called Boondocks, he’s a curator and founder of the intimate concert series Songwriter’s Alley and makes records with folks in the log cabin space of Three Hearted Recording. 

Pleasure People: At times moody and emotional, at times downright eerie, mysterious and slightly subversive, Pleasure People is both difficult to categorize and immediately recognizable due to Nick Cantine’s unusual guitar tuning, cerebral lyrical content and Julia Rottman’s unconventional use of banjolele. Pleasure People can be labeled as altfolk, though you’ll find elements of Americana and bluegrass interspersed with quiet musings on family shadows, skid-mounted love and half-haunted houses.

The Boom and The Bust: Small-town Wyoming musicians Michelle Humber and Nate Curry quickly connected over songwriting when they met 15 years ago. Scratching out a living as a librarian and oil field worker by day, they fill their nights with songwriting, harmony and rearing their two daughters. Falling under the Americana blanket, their music intertwines the poetry inspired by Nate’s long drives in the Wind River Mountains and the twang Michelle comes by honestly, having been born and raised in the foothills of northwest Georgia. Recorded in an old Wyoming ranch house with longtime friend, drummer and producer Ryan Ptasnik, Embers is their first album, containing both new tunes and songs that have been burning for years.