**RED MCADAM** Although he was born in the industrial heart of New Jersey, Red McAdam’s mother Maggie made damn sure to rear him on country and folk music. She served up a steady diet of celebrated songwriters and singers on their kitchen radio day after day, from classics like Patsy Cline and Ernest Tubb to burgeoning legends like Lucinda Williams and Brad Paisley. Red’s father Bartholomew, a lifelong bass player, took it from there, teaching him banjo, mandolin, bass, and guitar. A self-proclaimed ‘Western fraud,’ Red makes no effort to fit the country mold, but rather draws from the unique and largely unsung landscape of his world. Stranger-than-fiction episodes from his time on the road, preposterous characters with bizarre motives, and plain old bullshit mingle with vulnerable expressions of a tumultuous life and a threadbare heart. A first responder, passionate outdoorsman, recovering alcoholic, and heartbroken songwriter—Red earned whatever authenticity the country audience craves through his life, not place of birth. McAdam’s playful outsider country music presents an inventive vision of what the genre can be. His rich, risky blend of traditional honky-tonk and Western swing draws on indie rock, R&B, and beyond, reflecting a lifelong love of all music and disdain for genres and rules of any kind. A consummate road dog, he brings his frenetic, dynamic, and occasionally delirious performances to dives, dancehalls, clubs, and theaters across the country. Listeners will recognize the Lone Star eccentricities of Terry Allen and Guy Clark, forlorn folk sensibilities of Elizabeth Cotton and Karen Dalton, and the driving genre-bending of The Band and Bob Dylan. Over the past several years, he spent time working in National Parks and schools, bars and the backwoods, and most recently between emergency departments and ambulances across the country. After a spell hidden away in his high desert Arizona home, Red hit the road full tilt. In two barnstorming years, he and his band played 37 states over 13 tours, logging 90,000 miles and averaging over 200 shows a year. Red now lives outside of Austin in his 1976 Dodge Jamboree as the newest resident of the storied hill country and absolute greenest in a hallowed lineage of Texas songwriters. **ZARA ALEXANDRA** A singer-songwriter who grew up with old mountain ballads and got comfortable with her voice in Appalachian picking circles. She gets most of her inspiration from everyday people, “community champions” and the unsung everyday hero’s like single mothers and solemn farmers. Her early music really resembled her big family in the Blue Ridge Mountains and her immigrant father who always reminded her to look outside her world. From living and working in a bookstore to working on goat farms she’s traveled around before setting out west to work on ranches and has since settled on a farm and ranch in southern Colorado. "Music to me is community. It’s gathering around to tell a story, doesn’t mean you have to be good or important – just means that you’ve got a little something to say, maybe something to help you get by or maybe it’s to help your friend get by. Though, music has mostly helped me through all the big things in life that I needed help understanding; the guitar knew how to gently ask those things out. "Music and working outside seem to do the same thing for me, smooth out my mind and work its way through my hands. I feel so grateful to live on a farm and ranch everyday. The wild and the not so wild that are my neighbors wake me up every morning. And there’s something unmistakably honest about it all, pink skies, and early mornings, life that learns to walk before your eyes and the death that always reminds you that it’s all temporary and we're all just passing through. Makes me a me a very grateful witness." – Zara Alexandra **JAKE LUNA** Jake Luna is a classic in the making. With brooding voice that transcends generations, he isn’t chasing trends; he’s creating his own. Based in Denver, Colorado, Luna is redefining the edges of alternative country with a sound that combines spaghetti-western atmospheres, garage surf, and country – with a punk-rock ethos. His music captures the vacancy of the desert plains, the reverb-drenched shimmer of a distant mirage, and the stupor of heartbroken nights at the bartop. At a friend’s home studio, Luna recorded his unreleased record, Hard Times Don’t Pass Me By in 2025. Every track feels like a scene – wide open, dust-covered, and deeply human – a fusion of gritty realism and cinematic myth that is timeless and built to last. - Megan Birnstein, La Honda Records Presented by Hi-Dive. This is an 18+ event