Eric Howk has been a point guard for countless acts on a global scale. Starting with major label success in the Seattle-based powerpop outfit The Lashes at the age of 19, he has since joined up with heavy hitters such as Dolour, Shelby Earl, Ruler, and many others, all of which led him to a spot with Portugal the Man, with whom he has appeared in over one thousand shows and recorded on multiple releases.

Eric is based in the woods outside of Portland, Oregon, with his wife Kassandra, two horses, two dogs, and no cats. He is currently touring in support of his first solo LP, titled Skyking.

Shonti Elder is an Alaskan fiddler and songwriter playing her music to lift your spirits; sweet and thoughtful songs ranging from silly to sad, expressing our shared experience. A voice that smiles.

She came to Alaska for a vacation and never moved back. “I love to play music that inspires people, or makes them dance. I’ve recorded three albums and play on a number of other Alaskan recordings. Music has led me to adventures touring the state, and beyond, rafting the Grand Canyon with fellow musicians, playing at a fiddle camp on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, and helping inmates to write lullabies for their children.”

For many years she’s produced a weekly acoustic radio program for Anchorage public radio KSKA. You can hear Traveling Music on www.AlaskaPublic.org on Saturday nights at 8:00, or anytime online at ShontiElder.com.

Hunter Prueger is a songwriter, composer, and saxophonist based in Austin and Anchorage. He is the songwriter and bandleader of the Austin-based experimental folk collective Middle Sattre (pronounced SAT-tree). Their debut album Tendencies is a heartfelt, chronological memoir of queer shame and the ongoing work of unlearning it.

Beyond Middle Sattre, Prueger composes contemporary classical music. His concert works—described by the New Yorker’s Alex Ross as “fascinating and also somewhat nerve-wracking”—draw from musique concrète and ambient electronic music, with a focus on textural layering, found sound, and new playing techniques.

As a saxophonist, Prueger was a member of Flying Carpet, a humanitarian traveling circus based in Mardin, Türkiye. He has also performed with Creekbed Carter Hogan, Cross Record, Little Mazarn, the Luther College Symphony Orchestra, and Harboursome.