Charli Adams

Hailing from Alabama, Charli Adams is a singer-songwriter who found her musical calling at a young age. Leaving high school to finish online in a coffee shop, Adamsʼ relocated to Nashville, Tennessee at 17 years old. Her makeshift college music history course was sifting through the dollar CD bin at her local record store, while immersing herself in the vibrant local scene. Testing out songs and honing her craft, she began recording her debut EP “Good At Being Young”. Her first release garnered recognition from none other than Taylor Swift, who handpicked Charli's self-penned track, "Backseat," to be featured on her personally curated Women's Day Playlist on Apple Music. This co-sign marked the beginning of Charli's rise in the industry. Charli released her critically-acclaimed debut album, "Bullseye," which earned high praise from respected publications such as EARMILK, DORK, The Fader, NPR, Billboard, and Line of Best Fit. Collaborations with renowned artists like Ruston Kelly, Novo Amor, and Nightly further solidified her reputation as an artist to watch. With an overflowing passion for songwriting, she has also penned songs for artists like Chloe Moriondo, Yot Club, Peach Pit, Valley & many more. Charli's musical journey might have started in her bedroom, but on the stage is where her music truly comes alive. With an unmatched ability to connect with her audience on a personal level, she quickly made a name for herself in the Nashville scene and beyond. Whether performing with her band or solo, Charli's undeniable stage presence revealed that the spotlight is her natural habitat. With a voice that resonates and a sound that captivates, Charli is an artist poised for greatness, enchanting hearts with her unique blend of haunting vocals and cinematic storytelling.

Fire Swimmer is the electronic pop solo project of Deni Hlavinka (of The Western Den). Decisive, impactful, yet soft around the edges, her music blurs the line between dark synth-driven electronica and tender alternative pop - creating a sound that is emphatic yet vulnerable. Lyrically, her music explores the spaces between doubt, introspective and the roaring explosion of self-actualization. Fire Swimmer is layered, immediate and visceral - the result of over a decade of experience as a multi-instrumentalist, singer, artist and producer. Fire Swimmer is both the tangled chaos of feeling in real-time — and the unraveling.

Melanie MacLaren’s deliberate, soul-stirring voice, wistful guitar playing, and keen ability to write about life as if life were simply writing itself is everything you could want from a modern folk musician. Melanie’s lyrics have been described as “haunting yet humorous” and possessing a “sentimental cynicism” that “oozes with Gen-Z relatability.” This duality shines through in all aspects of her music— she’s a classic finger-style guitar that grew up playing classical, but uses ambient beds and distorted trad instruments to punctuate her compositions. At her core, Melanie is a realist, with a gift for language that extracts beauty from even the darkest reality and a unique ability to blend a tongue-in-cheek sensibility with timeless folk style. She released her stunning debut EP “Kill My Time” in 2022 independently to enthusiastic critical reception before gaining the attention of Tone Tree Distribution in Nashville. Within a few months of the release, she had signed with Tone Tree, landed several coveted playlist spots on Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music, recorded and released new projects and began touring. In October of 2022 Melanie released a collaborative folk EP of duets “Tadpole Emporium” with songwriter Lorkin O’Reilly (DUG). In November, Melanie and Lorkin toured their project in the UK and Ireland with Alain McFadden of Ye Vagabonds, playing with artists like Ciaran Lavery and Joshua Burnside. Fresh off of her first tour Melanie released her second solo EP entitled “Tourist” through Tone Tree in April 2023. With tracks featured on multiple playlist placements across platforms (most notably Spotify Fresh Finds and Spotify’s Best of 2022 Fresh Folk Finds), the highly anticipated EP expanded on the sound she established with her first project— one that reaches beyond convention and effortlessly weaves the threads of past and present. In 2023 after the release of “Tourist” Melanie headlined her first US tour in the Northeast and Midwest at venues like like 3rd and Lindsley, The Basement, Mercury Lounge, Bowery Electric, The Middle East, Raccoon Motel to name a few, playing with other up and coming songwriters like Baerd, Paul Moody, Torri Weidinger, June Henry, and Quinn Devlin. She also opened for Jessica Lea Mayfield. In 2024 Melanie had the opening spot for Charlie Starr (Blackberry Smoke) on his acoustic tour in January and played to several sold out audiences. After touring extensively in 2023 and early 2024, Melanie realized certain songs especially captivated listeners live, so she released a live to tape EP entitled “Songs are Ghosts” in May 2024. Melanie is currently working on a new project, the first single of which “Heaven Is,” came out June 20th. Coming out of a period of life marred by grief, loss and illness, the project is an ode to seeing things as they actually are— without mythology, without manmade glory. Melanie delicately lifts the veil of poetry and interpretation away from death, loss and love and demythologizes everything from the American landscape, to hot dogs, to the Space Race, to the afterlife. Not one to shy away from life’s paradoxes and dualities of life, this project contains by far Melanie’s most high-spirited and anthemic music to date. Produced by Max Helgemo (who produced her exuberant 2023 cover of Loudon Wainwright III’s The Swimming Song) this project brings out Melanie’s inborn classic Americana sensibilities while staying true to her instinct for flipping conventions of genre and subject matter on their head.