Sera Cahoone in Seattle

Sera Cahoone is an American singer-songwriter and drummer, raised in Colorado and based in Seattle, whose music draws on folk and alt-country. She played drums in Carissa’s Wierd and the early lineup of Band of Horses before releasing her self-titled solo debut. Her subsequent records include Only as the Day Is Long, Deer Creek Canyon and From Where I Started. Sera Cahoone played concerts as a drummer before touring her own songs on vocals and guitar, both solo and with a backing band. In 2012, an NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert in Washington, D.C., documented material from Deer Creek Canyon in the broadcaster’s office.

Chris Pureka is an American folk singer-songwriter and guitarist known for intimate acoustic writing and a low, measured vocal delivery. Her catalogue includes the albums Driving North, Dryland, How I Learned to See in the Dark and Back in the Ring, as well as songs such as “31 and Falling” and “Wrecking Ball.” Chris Pureka has performed repeatedly at Club Passim in Cambridge and the Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton, venues closely associated with the New England singer-songwriter circuit. Her touring has also taken her to listening rooms farther across the United States, including The Ark in Ann Arbor.