John Seay and Sage Snider return with a new batch of songs and some old favorites. They will be joined by Roots Café host Geoffrey Himes and Roots Café music director Willem Elsevier for the best in Maryland singing and songwriting.

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“Put Ansel Adams, John Prine and Ernest Hemingway into a stolen steam locomotive heading to Walden Pond by way of Texas Low Country and Fells Point while scratching songs into wooden walls with a bent nail and bark and you’d have John Seay’s tunes,” says David Morreale of Baltimore’s SNAFU Coffeehouse. “His playing and singing are deceptively simple, but the songs are deep deep deep and heartrendingly beautifully written and sung.” A Baltimore native, Seay is longtime fixture on the Mid-Atlantic acoustic music scene, with a well-earned reputation as a songwriter’s songwriter and master finger-style guitarist. His songs have been recorded by numerous artists, including country star Charly McClain and Tony Award Winner Lea Salonga (“Miss Saigon”). https://johnseay.bandcamp.com

Sage Snider is a singer-songwriter, fiddler, flatfooter, and playwright who has performed with Nashville’s Tom Mason and the Blue Buccaneers for the last four years. She also served as the Director of Cultural Engagement for the Braver Angels non-profit group and continues to support its creative programming as an advisor. Her Braver Angels performances include creating and touring an original show the length of the East Coast, leading an original theatrical production about the meaning of Gettysburg in today's divided America, and performing with Gangstagrass. She is comfortable in genres ranging from classical to bluegrass, rock, pop, pirate, and beyond. http://www.sagesnider.com