BEN SHATTUCK is the author of Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau, which was a New Yorker Best Book of 2022, a New York Times Best Book of Summer, a New England Indie Bestseller, and was nominated for the Massachusetts Book Award. His second book, The History of Sound, was nominated for an Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and has been adapted for film. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and winner of the PEN Short Story Prize and a Pushcart Prize. He lives on the coast of Massachusetts, where he owns the oldest general store in America, built in 1793. 

CHRIS HARFORD is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and painter. The New Yorker describes him as operating “in the free zone, somewhere outside rock's usual categories. Harford has a foot in country, a hand in seventies rock, a toe in folk, and a finger in post-punk. With his gruff but plaintive voice and his fondness for muddied-up guitars, he sometimes recalls Neil Young.” According to National Public Radio, Harford’s music "has been described as 'beautiful, heart-rending and soulful,' as well as 'dark, rocking and dangerous.’" Attending Mass College of Art and Design in the 1980s, Harford was also a member of the Boston-based band THREE COLORS which included Hub Moore and saxophonist Dana Colley, who went on to be a member of the band Morphine.

TOVA MIRVIS is the author of the memoir The Book of Separation which was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice and excerpted in the New York Times Modern Love Column. She is also the author of four novels, We Would Never, Visible City, The Outside World and The Ladies Auxiliary which was a national bestseller. Her essays have appeared in many publications including The Washington Post, The Boston Globe Magazine, Real Simple, and Psychology Today, and her fiction has been broadcast on NPR. She lives in Newton, MA, with her family. 

TAŞ BAND TRIO is a three-piece Turkish band making what is widely known as Anatolian Rock. Taner Gülbaş on bağlama & vocals, Alp Çığman on bass & Şükrü Uluoğlu on keys, percussions & programming. The sound of TAŞ Band Trio is a marriage of quarter notes and the odd time signatures of traditional Makams (Turkish scales) with the western jazz and rock harmonies presented in lively tempos.