John Craigie w/ Taylor Rae at Cedar Cultural Center

Portland, OR-based singer, songwriter, and producer John Craigie adapts moments of solitude into stories perfectly suited for old Americana fiction anthologies. Instead of leaving them on dog-eared pages, he projects them widescreen in flashes of simmering soul and folk eloquence. On his 2022 full-length album, Mermaid Salt, we witness revenge unfurled in flames, watch a landlocked mermaid’s escape, and fall asleep under a meteor shower.

Taylor Rae is a singer-songwriter who was born in Santa Cruz, California, and raised in the quaint town of Ben Lomond, nestled in the Santa Cruz mountains. Her music, often compared to that of Grace Potter, Joss Stone, and Maren Morris, earned her a spot in the Top 20 Americana Music Album Chart for her debut record, MAD TWENTIES. The single off the album, “Home on the Road”, remained in the Top 10 of the Americana Music Singles Chart for five consecutive weeks and the album remained in the Top 50 for 31 consecutive weeks.