VOMA Folk/Bluegrass Series Presents: Colin Cutler and Billie Feather with Johnstown’s Screech Owl

Colin Cutler is a Greensboro, North Carolina singer-songwriter, folk musician, poet, and storyteller toting a banjo and guitar. Whether solo or with his band, Hot Pepper Jam, he is a wide-ranging performer whose musical roots draw from the breadth of American folk music—from Appalachian old-time to blues to gospel to country to rock’n’roll to form what No Depression described as “one magnificent tapestry of roots music.” Billie Feather is a singer-songwriter, guitarist, banjoist, bassist who originally hails from Johnstown, PA. Her family moved during her elementary school years to North Carolina, where she found herself surrounded by the old traditional mountain music of the Appalachians to the Piedmont’s rich blues and jazz traditions. She was accepted into the prestigious music conservatory at The University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Classical Guitar Performance and remained there for her college studies. After graduating in 2006, Billie expanded her musical studies by learning the double bass, electric bass, banjo, and mandolin. Billie founded a private teaching studio in Winston-Salem, NC and began performing in several local bands which enabled her to tour throughout the United States and Europe.