Pamela Means

• Folk
• Singer/Songwriter

Pamela Means is an Easthampton MA-based, multiple award-winning, singer-songwriter and jazz musician. Protest anthem writing, Biracial, Queer, Artist-Activist and, “one of the fiercest guitar players and politically-rooted musicians in the industry today,” (Curve Magazine) – who’s worn a hole in two of her guitars – with her “insanely brilliant” (Press Herald, Portland ME) and “stark, defiant songs.” (New York Times)

Nora Meier

• Folk
• Singer/Songwriter

Nora Meier is a diehard music fan, a frequent moviegoer, a daughter of two English majors, an Oregonian at heart, a verbal processor, a big reader, extremely stubborn, and always writing. She was raised on her dad’s curated mixtapes and epic vinyl collection, which cultivated her deep love for the format of The Album and an obsession with Bruce Springsteen. Her very own debut album, Outfield, was created in seven days during a full moon / lunar eclipse on a farm in Connecticut with the help of some of her favorite musicians. The album was produced and mixed by Charles Dahlke (The Brazen Youth) and mastered by Andrew Goldring (Olivia Barton, Katie Lynn Sharbaugh). Showcasing what Spectrum Culture calls, “A gently percolating but still laid-back brand of folk-pop,” Outfield was released on October 2nd, 2024. As a member of Club Passim’s Folk Collective, she currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts and tours regularly in the Northeast.

Phil Berman

Phil and the Flying Leap twists and re-imagines music across multiple genres of classic American song spanning Vaudeville to Nashville to Somerville and everywhere in-between.  Songwriter Phil Berman’s melodies and lyrics usher the Great American Songbook into the 21st century, while lush arrangements and virtuosic musicianship from violinist Rachel Panitch and bassist Forrest Pettengill offer vibrant live performances full of heart, joy, and rich vocals. The group released their new single Spring Again on the vernal equinox, 2026. Flanked by lush string arrangements, rhythmic percussion in 5/4, and an irresistible melodic line, the single can coax even the grumpiest winter isolationist into the pollen-streaked sunlight.

Beetsblog

beetsblog, the moniker of Taggie Coppins’s songwritings and broader musical collective, was initially conceptualized as a “kids show for adults’. Starting by writing song about community gardens and having your bed in the kitchen, soon she turned toward more psychedelic meditations on maintaining honest self communication, the possibly of a boundless capacity to hold love, and the possibility that multiple people could ever have a shared experience, among other things too difficult to express with words only.

The music grows stranger, more harmonically rich and melodically flexible, but the song’s disembodied pov still shares eyes with the clueless kid – one who has no idea (or some completely made up idea) of what’s going on and doesn’t care to. Curiosity, confusion, and wonder are the song’s navigators.

As a songwriter, bandleader, and diy producer, Taggie has recorded countless works and has brought 100s of them to the stage with ensembles ranging from 1-8 people. Beetsblog has shared bills with acts such as Kimya Dawson, Little Wings, Ruth Garbus, @, Lily Konigsberg, Babehoven, Alice Cohen, Frank Hurricane, Austyn Wohlers, Patrick Shiroshi, Erica Dawn Lyle, Chris Weisman, and countless other contemporary luminaries.

You can catch her playing along the east coast this summer on tour with Eliza Niemi and Hemlock.