Marc Douglas Berardo and Louise Coombe

Marc Douglas Berardo and Louise Coombe swap songs at the Barn. . Marc Douglas Berardo is a thought-provoking songwriter and a skilled wooden-guitar player who uses humor and deft storytelling to rally an audience and lead them into a deep, sometimes spiritual experience. After over 35 years of performing in every conceivable situation and winning awards and recognition for his songs in a boatload of national festivals like Rocky Mountain Folks, Telluride, Kerrville New Folk, Suwanee and Wildflower as well as being voted “best interview and live performance feature” on Sirius/ XM Satellite Radio show The Village, Berardo has established himself as the real deal. A “lifer” that No Depression Magazine called: “sincere, fluid, charming, and above all gripping.” A few of the many highlights of 2025 include Berardo as the subject of a feature story by Jan Tomay in the legendary Ink Magazine, and a headline appearance at the 40th Tucson Folk Festival in Arizona, along with the fiery dobro player Abbie Gardner. Berardo’s highly regarded 2024 release “The Beauty of This Now” was recorded in Austin, Texas, and produced by Texas legends Ron Flynt and Walt Wilkins. John Apice of Americana Highways wrote: “There’s a seriousness to Marc’s compositions that’s not apparent in the slew of artists who seem to have a lot of nothing to say in an album’s worth of music…Marc is cut from the same cloth as James Taylor, early Elton John, or maybe Mark Twain… Website: marcdouglas.com Louise Coombe is "Like listening to Patty Griffin and Susan Tedeschi at the same time. Highlight of the 30A Songwriter Festival - Central Square Records, Seaside, Florida Louise Mosrie grew up in McEwen, TN, on a cattle farm - riding horses and writing poetry. She began writing songs after college while working in TV/radio in Knoxville. She moved back to the Nashville area in 2004 and began co-writing with country, bluegrass, and folk artists (Donna Ulisse, Mike Richardson) and writers. Louise had a major creative breakthrough in 2007 when she had a fortuitous co-writing session with famed Americana producer and writer, Ray Kennedy (Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams). They wrote the song, "Doubling Back", for a documentary film by IU professor Ron Osgood, called My Vietnam, Your Iraq, which was broadcast on PBS stations nationwide. Louise started writing songs about the South, what she knew, and where she grew up. In 2008, she began working on a new album, eventually to be called Home because she'd come full circle in her voice as a writer. The album was a mix of bluegrass, country, and folk, and as she weaved in lush stories and songs about southern life, she was even introduced once, as William Faulkner, with a guitar. With those songs, she entered some song contests connected to festivals and ended up winning top awards at Kerrville Folk Festival, Wildflower! Festival, Telluride Bluegrass Festival, and Falcon Ridge Folk Festival. Home debuted at #1 on the Folk DJ charts in January 2010 and went on to be one of the most played albums that year for that chart. Buoyed by a couple of thousand earnest fans, she began touring all over the Eastern seaboard, the South, and Texas. Audience members would tell her that they enjoyed the stories between the songs as much as the songs,s and her strong, expressive voice was described as like listening to Patty Griffin and Susan Tedeschi at the same time. Website: louisemosrie.com