JIM BARNARD is a singer-songwriter with strong contemporary folk and blues roots. His alluring melodies and engaging lyrics are wrapped in expressive vocals and a soulful, distinctive, finger-style guitar.

Jim’s warmth and humor on stage make an instant connection with any adult audience. His smooth-textured vocals and vibrant acoustic guitar artistry often draw comparisons from listeners to James Taylor or Charlie Rich. Lyrics that explore themes ranging from lost and found love to the foibles of the human condition have evoked audience thoughts of John Prine or Bruce Cockburn. From comic to cosmic, his repertoire is punctuated with performances that beg for an encore.

His debut CD, “Artificial Flowers”, released in 2013, was received with high acclaim. Jim’s bluesy composition, “Baby Please Baby Me” is featured on the Madison Songwriter’s compilation CD, “Made at Home”.

Jim’s music is woven from diverse influences that include Bob Dylan, James Taylor, Chris Smither, Randy Newman, Keb Mo, Bonnie Rait, Bruce Cockburn, Shawn Colvin, James McMurtry, John Prine, Leon Russel, Dave Van Ronk, and Ella Fitzgerald.

TIM COUGHLIN, JR. is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and recording artist from small town Wisconsin and Illinois, who has come to find his home in Madison, WI. Having been an active musician in various bands and projects across a wide range of genres since the age of sixteen, Coughlin’s solo music stands as a focused effort to show the world his own sound as it has developed over the last ten years, and on into the future. It is expressed as a varied blend of new and old, indie and roots, landing somewhere between influences like Gary Higgins and Conor Oberst.

In November 2014 he started work with engineer Will Bailey recording his first LP – “Dark Rooms” – from his home studio in Madison, WI. A follow-up to the debut “How?” EP released in early 2014, the album features the sort of introspective, moody folk heard on “How?” but with a more developed, experimental, approach and sound. Released in early 2015, “Dark Rooms” brings the project a step forward, and shows a fuller picture of things to come.

His live show is raw and improvisational while still remaining faithful to the sound heard on the recorded work. Occasionally featuring friends and musical co-conspirators he has met along the way, every show is unique in its own right. Tim Coughlin Jr. always promises a memorable experience for the listener to take home with them.

Sadly, Dakotah had to bow out and DANA PERRY will be the third performer.
DAKOTAH ROSE started singing as a 4-year-old at an upright piano in a living room. Almost twenty years later, it looks very similar. Dakotah has been playing piano, singing and song-writing all her life and picked up the guitar around the age of 12. She took piano lessons for 10 years, making her piano style heavily influenced by classical music. Her youngest musical influence was her father, who also wrote songs and was heavily influenced by folk music from the 60s era and Rock and Roll from the 70s. She was lucky enough to be introduced to the music of Joni Mitchell at the ripe age of 13, and followed the trend of looking up to other strong female musical leads like Regina Spektor, Amanda Palmer, Grace Slick and Fiona Apple. A strong believer in the power of femininity and woman roles in the music realm, she likes to experiment with her playing styles and her listening ear, believing that all things are inter-connected and all genres can learn from one another. Like all areas of music and life, she believes in expressions, not impressions, and that good, free and wild things in life come with openness and playfulness. Her efforts and intentions are to use music as a vessel to emulate this.