Bangers & Blunders:
Bangers & Blunders is a Colorado-based traditional Irish music duo. Shannon Muenchow and Graeme Danforth originally met at Irish sessions in the Denver area, and have since formed a musical connection based on their mutual admiration for the Irish music tradition. They bring uplifting trad. tunes to life with twin-fiddle melodic interplay and driving rhythms on fiddle and bouzouki.
Shannon and Graeme's debut album 'Tunes For The Porch' is a compilation of instrumental sets, including many of their favorite tunes. It represents a journey through the tradition of Irish dance music as they combine old standards with new compositions from musicians who are carrying the tradition forward in the present day. Ultimately, it's a culmination of their friendship and their shared love for traditional Irish instrumental folk music.
Katie Mintle:
Katie Mintle is a Colorado-born and raised indie folk singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.
She first fell in love with music at age 11 through Celtic traditions, beginning harp lessons and quickly taking her playing to the streets as a busker in Boulder. Music has always been part of her life, but singing and songwriting came into fuller focus in 2020 during lockdown, when she began exploring her voice more deeply and writing original material.
Since then, Katie has continued to develop a warm, intimate indie folk sound rooted in tradition, storytelling, and stripped-back instrumentation. Her music reflects a balance of old-world influence and modern folk sensibility, shaped by both her early traditional roots and her evolving songwriting voice
Nicolette Andres:
Nicolette Andres plays the violin and the Hardanger fiddle, a 9-stringed folk instrument from Norway. She has performed across the world and has composed original music for film scoring. She released her cdebut album, Hands, in April 2025, which features cittern player Graeme Danforth, her husband. The cittern is a lute-like instrument dating back to the Renaissance. Between these two instruments there are 19 strings.
Nicolette performs solo and collaborates with other artists. Along with her husband, she regularly plays with Irish session players in Boulder, Colorado. From 2017-2020 she was a member of the steampunk band Abney Park, where she toured internationally - visiting Russia twice.
Raised in Evergreen, CO, Nicolette now calls Boulder home. She began violin lessons at age 5, and attended the University of Puget Sound where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Music (2015). She first learned of the Hardanger fiddle after graduating college through a friend, and felt a strong pull towards it from this moment on. She started studying the Hardanger fiddle in 2020 on an instrument loaned to her by the Hardanger Fiddle Association of America.