Cuddle Magic is a band and songwriting collective from Brooklyn and Philadelphia that performs lush, whimsical songs with wide-ranging instrumentation including double bass, percussion, vibraphone, trumpet, clarinet, keyboards, guitars, and many voices. Cuddle Magic balances folk timbres with exciting atonal harmonies, pop song-craft with firmly-planted rhythmic feet, and strawberry-rhubarb pie. Their third album Info Nympho is set to be released this fall.

Midtown Dickens is a forward thinking thinking folk group from Durham, North Carolina. Taking traditional folk instruments and manipulating them to create modern stories, the band evokes the stunning colors of Carolina tobacco fields and Appalachian mountain ranges. Midtown Dickens' new album "Home" is a gorgeous meditation on the themes of home (both literal and abstract), family (blood and chosen) and space (within us and about us). NPR Music calls it "the North Carolina band's most nuanced and beautifully produced album yet".