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    <Name>No Depression Festival</Name>
<Desc><![CDATA[The 2009 show was great! Stay tuned for 2010 announcements.

Seattle Theatre Group (STG Presents), Live Nation, and The Lakeside Group present the first-ever No Depression Festival, sponsored by the pioneering and influential roots-music magazine and website. The festival will take place Saturday, July 11, 2009, at Marymoor Park in Redmond, Washington, just outside Seattle. The all-day event will feature Gillian Welch, Iron & Wine, Patterson Hood & The Screwtopians, Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter, Justin Townes Earle, Jessica Lea Mayfield, a Seattle roots-music all-star revue, and Zee Avi.]]></Desc>
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      <Address>6046 W Lake Sammamish Pkwy NE</Address>
      <City>Redmond</City>
      <State>WA</State>
      <Country>USA</Country>
    </Location>
    <Contact>
      <Email>jasonr@stgpresents.org</Email>
      <Phone>(206) 467-5510</Phone>
      <URL>http://community.nodepression.com/profiles/blogs/no-depression-festival-lineup</URL>
    </Contact>
    <Revision>12</Revision>
    <LastUpdate>2009-08-21 04:19:50 UTC</LastUpdate>
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      <Artist_ID>2</Artist_ID>
      <Name>Hot Club of Cowtown</Name>
      <URL>http://www.hotclubofcowtown.com</URL>
<Bio><![CDATA[The story begins with a classic musical travel adventure: an ad in the music section of New York City's Village Voice. In the mid-'90s Elana James was looking to join a "gigging band" when Whit Smith answered her ad. Though he had no shows on the books, Whit somehow convinced Elana to come down to his East Village apartment and rock out for an evening just to see what would happen. When she arrived, he opened the door in big furry slippers and the rest is history.

More than a decade later, the Hot Club of Cowtown has grown to be the most globe-trotting, hard-swinging Western Swing trio on the planet. From early days busking for tips in San Diego's Balboa Park, the band has grown and developed into a formidable international sensation. The Hot Club's ever-growing presence on the international festival scene has grown with its relentless touring over the years alongside the release of five critically acclaimed CDs on American Roots label HighTone Records. In August 2008 the Hot Club's sixth CD, "The Best of the Hot Club of Cowtown," a hand-picked, band-picked, twenty-song retrospective, was released by Shout!Factory.

After a two-year hiatus during 2005-2007 the band went its separate ways, reuniting in 2008 with a packed tour schedule and a new studio CD of original material slated for release in early 2009.

In the meantime, some things haven't changed. The band--Elana James on violin and vocals, Whit Smith on guitar and vocals, and Jake Erwin on bass and vocals--still swings harder than ever as it continues to develop it's unique, ever-evolving sound. This journey, which began with the roots of the Hot Jazz era, Americana music, vintage pop and folk music, continues to unfold into the new sound of the group's original songs.

In the United States, the Hot Club of Cowtown has been featured on All Things Considered, The Grand Ol' Opry, $40 Dollars a Day with Rachel Ray, Mountain Stage, A Prairie Home Companion, and numerous other radio and television programs. In the UK they have appeared extensively on BBC Radio with Bob Harris and Andy Kershaw, and on BBC TV's "Later" with Jools Holland, the "Live From Glastonbury Festival" broadcast, as well as throughout the UK at festivals, theatres, and clubs. Among the youngest members ever to be inducted into the Texas Western Swing Hall of Fame, in 2006 they also toured as musical ambassadors for the US State Department and were honored to be the first American band ever to tour in Azerbaijan. These days, tours with Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, the Mavericks and others keep the Hot Club of Cowtown busy dazzling new audiences both nationally and internationally throughout much of the year.]]></Bio>
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    <Artist>
      <Artist_ID>16</Artist_ID>
      <Name>Gillian Welch</Name>
      <URL>http://www.gillianwelch.com/</URL>
<Bio><![CDATA[Gillian Welch has been one of the most prominent names in American roots music ever since her 1996 debut album, Revival, was nominated for a Grammy in the Contemporary Folk category. She has released four albums as well as a live DVD, and was a key contributor to the multi-Grammy-winning soundtrack for O Brother, Where Art Thou? (and the associated live-performance album Down From The Mountain). She appeared on the cover of No Depression in Sept.-Oct. 2001. Performing with her longtime accompanist David Rawlings, Welch has been a major draw at roots-oriented music festivals for more than a decade.]]></Bio>
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<Itunes_Link><![CDATA[http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/search?WOURLEncoding=ISO8859_1&lang=1&output=lm&country=US&term=Gillian Welch]]></Itunes_Link>    </Artist>
    <Artist>
      <Artist_ID>17</Artist_ID>
      <Name>Iron &amp; Wine</Name>
      <URL>http://www.ironandwine.com/</URL>
<Bio><![CDATA[Iron & Wine, a.k.a. singer-songwriter Sam Beam, has bridged the gap between acoustic-roots and indie-rock audiences with a degree of both commercial and artistic success that few other artists have managed to approach in the past decade. Through three full-length albums on Sub Pop plus a handful of EPs (including a celebrated collaboration with the Arizona band Calexico), Iron & Wine has garnered a considerable following since his 2002 debut. Around The Well, a two-disc compilation of B-sides and rarities, is due out via Sub Pop on May 19. Beam, who was featured at length in No Depression in March-April 2004, will be performing a solo set.]]></Bio>
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    <Artist>
      <Artist_ID>18</Artist_ID>
      <Name>Patterson Hood &amp; The Screwtopians</Name>
      <URL>http://www.pattersonhood.com/</URL>
<Bio><![CDATA[Patterson Hood & The Screwtopians is the touring outfit that Drive-By Truckers frontman Patterson Hood has assembled to support his upcoming solo release Murdering Oscar (and other love songs), due out June 23. The Screwtopians include DBTs veterans John Neff (pedal steel) and Brad Morgan (drums), Will Johnson (guitar) and Scott Danbom (keyboards/fiddle) from Texas indie bands Centro-Matic and South San Gabriel, and Murdering Oscar co-producer David Barbe (bass), formerly of Bob Mould's band Sugar. This is the second solo release for Hood, who appeared with the Drive-By Truckers on the cover of No Depression in July-August 2003.]]></Bio>
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<Itunes_Link><![CDATA[http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/search?WOURLEncoding=ISO8859_1&lang=1&output=lm&country=US&term=Patterson Hood & The Screwtopians]]></Itunes_Link>    </Artist>
    <Artist>
      <Artist_ID>19</Artist_ID>
      <Name>Jesse Sykes &amp; The Sweet Hereafter</Name>
      <URL>http://www.jessesykes.com/</URL>
<Bio><![CDATA[Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter have been one of Seattle's foremost roots-music acts of the past decade, with three acclaimed albums (including two on noted indie label Barsuk Records). Joining singer-songwriter Sykes in the Sweet Hereafter are guitarist Phil Wandscher (who appeared with Whiskeytown on the cover of No Depression in July-August 1997), bassist Bill Herzog, and drummer Eric Eagle.]]></Bio>
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<Itunes_Link><![CDATA[http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/search?WOURLEncoding=ISO8859_1&lang=1&output=lm&country=US&term=Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter]]></Itunes_Link>    </Artist>
    <Artist>
      <Artist_ID>20</Artist_ID>
      <Name>Justin Townes Earle</Name>
      <URL>http://www.bloodshotrecords.com/artist/justin-townes-earle</URL>
<Bio><![CDATA[Justin Townes Earle recently released Midnight At The Movies, his second album for the renowned insurgent-country label Bloodshot Records (and his third disc overall). In 2008, Earle was nominated in the "Emerging Artist" category of the Americana Music Assocation Awards. Having been profiled in the March-April 2008 issue of No Depression, Earle was also written about recently on the ND website, and will be featured in the upcoming fall edition of the No Depression bookazine.]]></Bio>
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<Itunes_Link><![CDATA[http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/search?WOURLEncoding=ISO8859_1&lang=1&output=lm&country=US&term=Justin Townes Earle]]></Itunes_Link>    </Artist>
    <Artist>
      <Artist_ID>21</Artist_ID>
      <Name>Jessica Lea Mayfield</Name>
      <URL>http://www.myspace.com/jlmayfield</URL>
<Bio><![CDATA[Jessica Lea Mayfield released her full-length debut album in September 2008, at age 19. The disc, With Blasphemy So Heartfelt, was produced by Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys, who had featured Mayfield as a duet vocalist on a track from their 2007 album Attack And Release. Mayfield's solo disc quickly received widespread acclaim in both roots and indie circles, establishing her as a promising young singer-songwriter.]]></Bio>
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<Itunes_Link><![CDATA[http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/search?WOURLEncoding=ISO8859_1&lang=1&output=lm&country=US&term=Jessica Lea Mayfield]]></Itunes_Link>    </Artist>
    <Artist>
      <Artist_ID>22</Artist_ID>
      <Name>All-Star Seattle Revue </Name>
      <URL></URL>
<Bio><![CDATA[An all-star revue of Seattle roots musicians will play songs oft-associated with the genres that No Depression has covered over the past 14 years. The participants include Star Anna, Sera Cahoone, Ian Moore, Zoe Muth, Mark Pickerel, Kristen Ward, and members of the Maldives and North Twin, backed by a core band featuring Ty Ballie, Jeff Fielder, Erik Eagle and Rebecca Young.]]></Bio>
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<Itunes_Link><![CDATA[http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/search?WOURLEncoding=ISO8859_1&lang=1&output=lm&country=US&term=All-Star Seattle Revue ]]></Itunes_Link>    </Artist>
    <Artist>
      <Artist_ID>23</Artist_ID>
      <Name>Zee Avi</Name>
      <URL>http://www.zeeavi.com/</URL>
<Bio><![CDATA[Zee Avi hails from Malaysia and is a new singer-songwriter signee to Brushfire Records, which will issue her self-titled debut album on May 19. She came to the label's attention through a series of videos she posted to YouTube under the name KokoKaina.]]></Bio>
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<Itunes_Link><![CDATA[http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/search?WOURLEncoding=ISO8859_1&lang=1&output=lm&country=US&term=Zee Avi]]></Itunes_Link>    </Artist>
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      <Name>Main</Name>
      <Stage_ID>8</Stage_ID>
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