2025 Live Music & Entertainment
Nokken + The Grim
neofolk, post-industrial, folk music, theatrical, folk metal
Led by Nøkken, the shapeshifting waterhorse spirit and fiddler of Scandinavian legend, Nøkken + The Grim is a band of angry nature spirits performing anti-fascist pagan neofolk with acoustic instruments, industrial electronics, folk masks, ritual and hypnotic beats. They sing the forgotten songs of animals. Shifting between meditative spaces and ecstatic frenzies, Nøkken + The Grim creates a shared space for spiritual expression, drawing on animistic spirituality.
Gretchen McMahon
Band
Award winning Bard Gretchen McMahon is wicked sonic ambrosia. She blends equal parts Celtic Women vocals with Carlos Santana and Loreena McKinnett string prowess on guitar, Celtic Harp and mandolin, then serves it on a bed of Celtic/Gypsy/Jazz spiced with lyrics both sassy and achingly beautiful. Come experience her genre-bending style of five hundred years of music in five minutes, rooted in folk, world, jazz and Celtic sounds. Gretchen McMahon also performs as The Bard of Stagg, .and has shared the stage with Frenchy and The Punk, Kiva, Ishtar, Ginger Doss and Spiral Rhythms. . Military brat, world traveler and multi-instrumentalist/vocalist/songwriter Gretchen McMahon won the prestigious MC award at the Bardic competition held at the Chalk Man Pub during Pennsic 45 in 2016, and the silver medal in the Austin radio station KLBJ Guitar Wars. She has released 3 CDs and an EP as well as 2 CDs with her previous group, Brigit's Kiss. Gretchen McMahon has been featured on the Acoustic Cafe Radio Show and has provided music for stage, film and television. . Gretchen McMahon brings her tribute to musical craftsmanship and her riveting live performance to music festivals, concerts and private events across the U.S. Her touring highlights include main stage performances at The Maryland Faerie Festival, Mountain Mysteries Beltane and Mabon Festivals in Charlottesville, Virginia , The Simple Sounds Concert Series in Longhorn Caverns State Park as well as house concerts and Unity Church appearances
Thee Hobo Gobbelins
Troglodyte Jug Band ov thee Unseelie Court.
Thee Hobo Gobbelins is a movement from mythical antiquity towards magickal realities. Goblincore style, trainhopping punks, folk musicians & folklorists, edgerunner adventurers, all seeking freedom and liberty in moments across space and time. It is a style of folk music, a movement, it is friendship, comrades in slime, joyfully grating against forces of institutional control, as it ever was, and ever will be – Gobaluyah!
Thee Hobo Gobbelins manifests unseelie vibrations in the form of GOMG (GOblinMusicGang). GOMG come and go, usually with a rotating cast of ne’er-do-wells. As of 2025, the current GOBfather of Thee Hobo Gobbelins is Sir Blackthorn! The Goblin Bard. Blackthorn is based in Austin, Texas, and has assembled a 5-piece GOMG to bring Unseelie Energies into this dimension.
Charles Morehead
Psychic Caberet
In this intimate parlor performance, Charles Morehead will create the popular "psychic cabaret" of the Victorian era in a modern setting. Guests will experience mind reading, fortune telling, and learn the story of the Psychic Cabaret, and it's legacy.
This is a theatrical performance with an occult story and theme.
Charles Morehead is a psychic entertainer from Austin Texas. Having began his study of the occult at a young age, Charles had the unique opportunity to learn from a wide range of people and sources and develop his own approach to divination, witchcraft, and the occult. Charles Morehead takes what he has learned over the years and presents it in an entertaining display of the powers of empathy, intuition, and magic.