Joe Pug & Willie Watson in Ann Arbor

Joe Pug is an American folk and Americana singer-songwriter born in Greenbelt, Maryland. He is known for the early EP Nation of Heat, the album Messenger and songs including “Hymn #101” and “Nation of Heat.” Joe Pug played Lollapalooza and Newport Folk Festival during the touring behind his early releases. His 2011 concert album Live at Lincoln Hall documented a Chicago set centered on his voice, guitar and harmonica.

Willie Watson is an American folk singer and multi-instrumentalist born in Watkins Glen, New York, in 1979. He was a founding member of Old Crow Medicine Show before recording the solo albums Folk Singer Vol. 1 and Folk Singer Vol. 2. He also played the Kid in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs and sang “When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings” with Tim Blake Nelson. During his years with Old Crow Medicine Show, he toured with the group and took part in its Grand Ole Opry debut in 2001. After leaving the band, he performed at the 2013 Another Day, Another Time concert at Town Hall in New York, then undertook solo tours supporting his Folk Singer records in clubs, theatres and festivals. His solo concerts center on voice, acoustic guitar and banjo, with sets drawn from traditional folk, blues and old-time songs as well as his own writing. He has performed at Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island and at San Francisco’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass.