KYLER ENGLAND
Listening to any Kyler England song, it’s easy to believe you’re hearing a classic in the making: gorgeous, organic pop music that speaks to your heart like a close friend. She has won numerous songwriting awards including the Unisong, Mid-Atlantic and North Carolina Songwriting Contests, and was named one of Music Connection magazine’s “Hot Unsigned Artists 2007” and “Best Alternative Rock Album” in the Indie Acoustic Project Awards. With a natural instinct for melody and lyrics, she crafts songs that are not only catchy but full of depth. Having studied classical music theory at North Carolina State University, and contemporary-pop and jazz at the renowned Berklee School of Music, England is a self-professed music geek, but her music studies extend far outside the classroom with extensive co-writing experience in Nashville and Los Angeles, where she currently resides, as well as “the road” being her most important teachers. For the past five years she has played over 150 shows a year, including the Toronto Film Festival and Bele Chere Festival, and has opened for such artists as Sting, Annie Lennox, Melissa Etheridge, and Vienna Teng. She’s released five records on her own Gypsy Rock Records and had songs featured on such TV shows as Guiding Light, Rollergirls and Zoey 101. www.kylerengland.com

SIOBHÁN QUINN
Versatile vocalist Siobhán Quinn writes and performs contemporary & traditional songs in folk, blues and adult contemporary styles. A Top Five Finalist in the prestigious Boston Folk Festival Songwriting Competition and a WAMMIE Winner for best Traditional Folk Vocalist, Siobhán is known as a dynamic singer of Chicago & New Orleans style electric blues also experienced with many other styles/genres of music, including vocal jazz, big band & swing, r&b, rock, pop; also classical, renaissance and art songs, as well as medieval madrigals in five languages. She has taught vocal master clinics, workshops and individual coaching sessions at the Kerrville Folk Festival, Rocky Mountain Folks Festival Song School, NE Regional Folk Alliance, Great American Masters Music Industry Workshop, the Summersongs & Wintersongs Songwriting retreat, and four previous years at Swannanoa. Siobhán also teaches and coaches individuals privately, leads master classes and provides consultations in voice. She has toured nationally and internationally, and is accompanied at Swannanoa by her music partner, husband and songwriter Michael Bowers. Together, they released Dreamers, Lovers & Outlaws in April of 2007 which promptly appeared in the top 20 radio list for FolkDJ and was nominated for all the top WAMMIE awards in the Contemporary Folk categories. www.dreamersloversandoutlaws.com