Friday September 11th Bandits on the Run w/ Sam Sample \*\*\* Bandits on the Run are a musical trio from the Brooklyn-Queens border. Born from a chance encounter busking on the subway, Adrian Blake Enscoe, Sydney Shepherd, and Regina Strayhorn defy convention with an impressive trade-off of lead vocals and instruments. The Bandits marry acoustic, electric, and bass guitar sounds with cello, accordion, suitcases-turned-kickdrums, and (if you’re lucky) sometimes even a megaphone. The Bandit’s three-part harmonies have been heard filling iconic venues while opening for The Wood Brothers’ 2025 East Coast tour, on the main stages at Colorado’s Rocky Mount Folks Fest and Michigan’s Blissfest, and in a sold out residency at Manhattan’s Bowery Electric. Their songs have been featured by NPR’s Tiny Desk and The Moth Story Slam, as well as in Netflix’s Ask the StoryBots and the feature film The Same Storm. The Bandits tour nationally and internationally, with appearances at Cambridge Folk Festival, Floydfest, Summerfest Milwaukee, Americanafest, F1 Singapore Grand Prix, Mile of Music, and more. Their theatrical indie-folk lends itself quite well to storytelling and their work adapting text for a musical production of As You Like It later became their EP The Shakespeare Tapes. \*\*\* Sam Sample proves that hard work and vision can turn dreams to reality. Her self-coined AmeriRock sound blends Americana storytelling with the edge of indie and alternative rock. Self-funded through her 9-5, she invests every spare dollar and hour into her songwriting. Her debut album I’m Moving to the Moon, recorded between her NYC apartment and Bear Creek Studio with Grammy-nominated producer Ryan Hadlock (Zach Bryan, The Lumineers, Brandi Carlile, Vance Joy) and Taylor James Carroll (Waylon Wyatt, Wyatt Flores)—has surpassed 2.5 million streams across platforms and sparked sold-out shows. Rooted in her Georgia upbringing and sharpened by her Manhattan drive and UK 20s, Sam's lyrics weave in tales from her neuroscience background and are praised for their raw, reflective emotional depth. Sam has just wrapped her HOMECOMING headline tour of the American south and is gearing up for the release of her sophomore LP, "Look in the Mirror and Beg,” and first festival bill at Americanafest this fall. Presented by Songbyrd All ages