The Instigators Presents

An Evening of Roots Music

8635 N. Lombard Street · Free Admission

Meredith Axelrod

"A versatile singer of early jazz and
pre-1930s American pop music. She
plays guitar, ukulele, cello, and
other instruments. She’s performed
with Dan Hicks, Maria Muldaur,
Jim Kweskin, Ramblin’ Jack Eliot,
Cindy Cashdollar, David Grisman,
Robert Crumb, the Cheap Suit
Serenaders, and Craig Ventresco."

Frank Fairfield

"A player of down-home, old time
folk music on fiddle, guitar, banjo,
he supported Fleet Foxes on their
2008 tour, and moved on to play
with such acts as Charlie Louvin,
Pokey Lafarge, Charlie Parr and
Blind Boy Paxton. He has also
become a popular act at the annual
Pickathon festival and appeared on
NPR's Morning Edition."