NPR Music calls Laura Heaberlin and Taylor Smith of Cricket Blue “master storytellers”, and the All Scene Eye says Cricket Blue “sets a new standard for fiction-folk.” In 2019, the duo released their first full-length album, Serotinalia, to widespread praise, and were voted “Best Folk Group” in Vermont’s Seven Daysie Awards. As a response to the interruption of live music in 2020, the duo spearheaded a series of elaborately-arranged covers of songs from the Over the Garden Wall soundtrack, which have since earned a small but enthusiastic international following. Heaberlin’s songwriting has been featured on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and Cricket Blue has been featured as a formal showcase artist at NERFA multiple times. They have played stages and festivals around the United States and Canada and are working on their second full-length album.
With her first album “Bridges and Rivers” in 2018, multi-instrumentalist Clémentine Dubost presented the culmination of long years of writing and composition. Largely inspired by Anglo-Saxon folk and its great North American figures (Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen or Simon and Garfunkel).
Her voice, expressive and velvety, is entirely at the service of her sensitive poetry. She questions the mysteries of humans, solitude, roots, departure, love, and even proximity to nature.
