It’s a party like no other, an ALBUM RELEASE PARTY at Ghost Flower Ranch!

Cousins Ryan Walters and Paul Justin Hollingsworth have spent more than a decade writing actual volumes of music together — not metaphorically. Blood, instruments, and two very different handwriting styles, all pointed at the same haunted map: fate, ghosts, woods, and time that doesn’t behave.

Out of the New Hampshire Seacoast they built a home on the edge of folk and bluegrass and called the weather blackgrass — delicate melody next to driving guitar, banjo and mandolin and ukulele doing work they weren’t asked to do. In 2017 percussionist Sean Joseph Haney stepped in and the thing locked. He plays like a songwriter who happens to own drums: color, tension, a march when the lyric needs one, and the rare trick of being both the floor and a spotlight.

A fan base that had already been waiting a decade helped them Kickstarter Volume II in 2018 and put it in the world, digital and vinyl, in 2019. That was the last full release. Now the catalog is moving again: a new album is coming, and another follows close behind. Curtis Barnes has taken the cello chair. The band is still a quartet, still unfinished on purpose, still writing like the woods are listening.

Innovation isn’t a slogan here. It’s just what happens when four people refuse to let the songs sit still.

STRAYHOUND brings their authentic unamericana—a two-piece string band with punk roots and a decade of busking and gathering songs and stories along the way. This duo makes its way to the Ghost Flower Ranch from the gutters of the Southwest and West Coast. Mason Alexander @mason.alexander.weems and Jack Maria Garza @semiferalism came of age in the DIY punk scene while doing community work and spent years busking and collecting songs and stories throughout the West. Their new project is the culmination of years of dirt-road living, thumbing rides, and performing across the US and beyond. On the fiddle, guitar, and banjo they weave into their originals and standards the influences of American traditional, blues, early jazz, organizing and labor tunes, and folk music from the Mojave to West Virginia to Budapest.

THE BANDIT QUEEN OF SORROWS stirs our hearts on our stage. Armed with her acoustic guitar, harmonica, foot drum, and a suitcase full of stories, she brings the stage to life with her raw, road-worn sound. A folk singer, a one-woman band, and a railroad rambling poet all in one—The Bandit Queen is a storyteller you don’t forget. She’s back this way with Strayhound. Get ready!