Mary Scholz with Tom Hampton

Mary Scholz

Mary Scholz’s stunning voice and evocative songwriting have made her a live circuit favorite for over a decade. With her unique brand of gritty folk-charm, the Philly born, LA based artist forges a personal connection with her audience every time she takes the stage. Her music, paints a panoramic, starry landscape, addressing how we process life internally, to how we respond as a community. 

Scholz's songs have been heard charting on Americana Radio, and the Billboard Compilation Chart. Her recent release of her dark Americana interpretation of Aerosmith's Janie's Got a Gun, is in support of Janie's Fund and Operation Mend. 

A dedicated activist, Mary can often be found writing songs about the times, and hosts a weekly activism live stream called On Wednesdays We Write Letters. The weekly event provides action items for making our voices heard during this wild and crazy time, and a space to come together and connect through it all. 

You can join her at noon on Wednesdays on Instagram @maryscholz 

"Scholz's music captures the spirit of the American experience, and resonates with sincerity and emotion. Her songs have a mesmerizing tone that carries listeners to a world of meditation and reflection, by fusing heartfelt words with melodious orchestration. Listeners are invited on a trip through the sorrow and joy of life by Scholz's distinctive voice, which is warm and vulnerable. Her songs, which explore themes of love, sorrow, and personal development, are a true representation of the human experience...mesmerizing audiences with her unbridled talent and unmistakable charisma. Mary Scholz is a formidable force in the Americana music industry, and her work is a tribute to the effectiveness of narrative storytelling and the universality of song." - Viberate

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Tom Hampton

Tom Hampton's years as a journeyman multi-instrumentalist and sideman are bookended by his origins as a singer and songwriter - he released his critically acclaimed debut "Our Mutual Angels" in 1997 before heeding the call as a session player based on his demonstrated adeptness on multiple instruments during those recordings. His path in the years that followed found him touring and recording with Poco, Craig Bickhardt, The Marshall Tucker Band, Robert Hazard, Dan May, Tracy Grammer and a multitude of acts who came to rely on his musical sensibilities.

Hampton was the last person to join the pioneering country-rock band Poco, but following the death of founder Rusty Young in 2021, Hampton joined with the surviving members to form Cimarron 615 - and found himself revisiting his songwriting roots.  Writing or co-writing three of the album's songs (including the title track), he found that he'd reopened a vein...and songs started pouring out.

The resulting album, "A Month Of Somedays", owes as much to Jason Isbell and John Moreland as it does to formative influences Jackson Browne and Stephen Stills - the songs are character studies - honest looks at life, regret, the passage of time that could only come from an abundance of mileage and experience.  The music wears his country-rock origins on its sleeve, but rides an undercurrent of red dirt Americana instrumentation and confessional singer/songwriter lyricism to form a unique, yet instantly familiar sonic landscape.

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