"If you don’t listen to bluegrass, we’re a bluegrass band. If you do listen to bluegrass, we’re definitely not a bluegrass band."

Olympia, Washington-based Briarfinch combine bluegrass, jazz, rock, classical, and Irish music into a tightly woven newgrass machine. Songwriters Cory Briar (mandolin) and Erin Finch (guitar) join forces, providing a variety of carefully constructed original tunes traversing love, identity, doubt, and wonder. Finch’s distinctive rhythmic guitar, a blend of intricate fingerpicking and Irish Bodhran-inspired triplets, breathes a wild sort of life into each tune. Briar’s intuitive sense for musical motifs and proclivity to off-the-beaten-path solos neatly compliments both his and Finch’s songwriting. The virtuosic Josh Grice (5-string violin) adds a technical edge to the band, approaching melody and improvisation with a classical precision. Finally, Tom Roalkvam’s (electric bass) incessant rhythm and groove create a driving feel to every song. Together, the four pack rooms of friends and fans, providing enlivening music full of talented composition, free spirited improvisation, and many surprising musical turns.

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Writnwood hails from the swamps, mountains, plains, and deserts of America's rich musical heritage.

When five like minded musicians got together to form a band, we knew we wanted to do things a little different. Writnwood plays new and original bluegrass that pushes it into other genres!

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Daggerhands coagulated in 2014 out of the remains of the Seattle indie rock collective The Quiet Ones. Songwriter John Totten formed the band with one reflection in mind- “I just wanted to play loud guitar and write good lyrics.” Their debut album Across America was praised by The Stranger as “worth celebrating” and by Seattle Weekly as an album that “threatens to destroy all it touches.” Totten got his wish- drawing comparisons to Dinosaur Jr. and Sonic Youth, the record is a nostalgic turn for the former Quiet Ones, now loud. “But we did our looking back. We’re on to the next thing now,” says Totten. After a pandemic sophomore release, Across the Water, Daggerhands is back- with their third album, Across the Sky, their most ambitious record to date, due summer 2026. Fred Biederman writes in the liner notes, “herein lies a treatise on desire.” From the Stranger: “But their greatest sense lies in that piercing sense that if you look away, they might just blow up.”