Julian Charles John Lennon is an English musician, photographer, and philanthropist. He is the son of Beatles member John Lennon and his first wife, Cynthia, and he is named after his paternal grandmother, Julia Lennon. Julian inspired three Beatles songs: "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" (1967), "Hey Jude" (1968) and "Good Night" (1968). His parents divorced in 1968 after his father had an affair with Yoko Ono.
Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer are a musical duo who perform folk, bluegrass and children’s music. They have performed with Pete Seeger, Theodore Bikel, Tom Paxton, Patsy Montana, Riders in the Sky and others. The Washington Area Music Association has recognized the duo with over 60 Wammie Awards for folk, bluegrass, and children’s music.
Greg Sczebel, known as SEBELL, is a two-time Juno Award-winning independent singer-songwriter originally from Salmon Arm, British Columbia, Canada. He is a two-time grand prize winner in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest, a winner in the Billboard Worldwide Song Competition and was a finalist in the International Songwriting Competition.
Madison Violet is a Juno-nominated Canadian music duo composed of singer-songwriters Brenley MacEachern and Lisa MacIsaac. The group has been notable for various folk and pop award nominations and wins.
Esther Renay Dean is an American singer, songwriter, music producer and actress. Dean has also written songs for many artists, with numerous Top 10 hits, including No. 1 hits for Rihanna and Katy Perry, earning the name "The Song Factory". At the 54th Annual Grammy Awards, Dean was nominated for Album of the Year as a producer on Rihanna's album Loud. Outside of music, she voiced two of the characters in the fourth film in the Ice Age franchise, Ice Age: Continental Drift, and also wrote a song for the movie, titled "We Are (Family)". Dean made her acting debut in the film Pitch Perfect (2012) as Cynthia-Rose Adams, a role she reprised for the sequels, Pitch Perfect 2 (2015) and Pitch Perfect 3 (2017).
Christopher Robert Volpe was an American songwriter and folk musician. Starting in 2006, he won more than twenty international songwriting awards including an Independent Music Award for Best Folk Album.
Joan Leibowitz is a Grammy-award winning musician best known for her work as a children's musical artist.
Cat Jahnke(Yong-Kee) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Her song "Apple" served as the theme song for the NBC web series Ctrl, while her "Happy Song" appeared in an episode of Degrassi: The Next Generation.
Kaitee Page, formerly known as Lunic, is a songwriter, singer, electronic musician, and multi-instrumentalist. A classically trained violist and violinist, Page fuses contemporary and classical instrumentation with electronic music. Originally from New York, Page is currently based in Guanacaste, Costa Rica.
Dave Gunning is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter born in Pictou County, Nova Scotia. Gunning credits the first live concert he ever observed, a 1981 double bill of John Allan Cameron and Stan Rogers, to be a major driving force in shaping the direction his life would take as a musician.
That show changed my life. I would not be writing and playing folk music if not for seeing that concert and every other John Allan performance in Pictou County.
Jonas Friddle is a Chicago-based singer, songwriter, arranger, and banjo player; he also plays guitar, fiddle, mandolin, and several other instruments. His compositions have won awards, including "Belle De Louisville," which won the John Lennon Songwriting Contest award for Song of the Year for 2012. Friddle says he composed the song on the banjo which helps give it its rolling feel, appropriate for a song about a steamboat. Then in 2014, his song "Man Was Made To Fly" from the 2013 album, Use Your Voice, won the "Folk" category in the Great American Song Contest. That album was also nominated as Album of the Year for the Independent Music Awards. His original songs have been described as "a mixture of rock and old-time, New Orleans trad and bluegrass, country and blues."
Chase Walker is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is the lead vocalist of his own California based outfit, the Chase Walker Band formed in 2012, Currently Chase Walker band has been touring with various rhythm sections. Chase currently attends Belmont University in Nashville where he is pursuing a duel major of Songwriting & Music Business.
Caitlin Donerly Linney, known professionally as Linney, is an American singer and songwriter. Her career began in 2011 with a kickstarter campaign.
Aoede is a folk pop artist and playwright based in San Francisco.
Calixto Gabriel Bravo Serrano, known professionally as Xcelencia, is a Puerto Rican songwriter and musician born in Caguas, Puerto Rico of both Puerto Rican and Cuban descent.
Ruth Hertz Weber aka Ruth Lopez-Yañez is a San Diego based composer, conductor, and pianist. She is a member of The Recording Academy.
Valentina Lombardi, known professionally as Valentina Blú, is an Italian-born singer, songwriter and music producer. Her song "Another Sky" won best World Beat song at the 15th edition of the Independent Music Awards (2016), and both the Grand Prize and Lennon Award at the John Lennon Songwriting Contest in the World Music category (2017).
Constanza Belén Herrero Parada, is an Australian-Chilean singer, songwriter, and actress. Constanza first gained recognition as a teenager after becoming a member of the MTV award winner band Six Pack performing at Viña del Mar International Song Festival under the artist name “Kota” and starring in the TV Series Karkú, which was broadcast by Nickelodeon. She won the John Lennon Songwriting Contest 2018 Grand Prize and Lennon Award with her original song “Me Voy”. In 2007 she released independently her first original songs in an EP called “Actúa Hoy” under the artist name “Kota”.
Jae Jin is an American musician, singer-songwriter, SAG-AFTRA actor and public speaker from Baltimore known for his soulful singing, award-winning songwriting, and sought-after public speaking/storytelling. He independently distributes his original music through AWAL and is a part of the Sinasoid Artist Guild.
Patricia Bahia is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. Her songs have aired on TV shows, The Fosters, Nashville, Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists, and Riverdale, among others. In 2015, she was nominated for two L.A. Music Critic Awards: Best Pop Rock Artist (Female) and Best CD (Female). Bahia is an ovarian cancer survivor. Her songs, Every Day is a Gift, Great Day to Be Alive, and Keep the Light On, inspired in part by her cancer experience, have garnered two Positive Music Awards, the West Coast Songwriters International Song Contest's Grand Prize, and a Peace Song Award.
