JUDE BROTHERS & HAMILTON BELK

JUDE BROTHERS is a folk derived singer-songwriter from Arkansas, with a penchant for whimsy and tender heartedness. Brothers’ distinct writing style is marked by congenial contrasts: passionate & playful, calculated & relaxed, approachable & quirky.

Their lyrics communicate a simultaneous existential dread and intoxicating thrill of living and loving, a practice in raw and shameless vulnerability shared through song. All of this is transmitted through nimble vocal frolicking- a shapeshifter voice crawling, leaping, pirouetting through a mystical landscape of their own creation.

…..Let’s say you are in a forest, and you don’t know how you got there. A strong voice lilts from an autumnal quiet to a riveting loud stream to sing you the spell of their story. Is it a mockingbird? The spirit of an ash tree? A mischievous, but benevolent forest sprite?

Nay! Tis but your new friend, Jud. Or Jude. Or Judith. With harp, guitar, and sometimes tenor banjo in tow, this freaky little Ozark bard comes bearing gifts- songs from somewhere between the real and the ethereal landscapes of their life.
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HAMILTON BELK is a multi-instrumentalist producer from the depths of Maine by way of the Carolinas. In 2013 Belk picked up the sad machine and a tig welder and took a deep dive into the world of steel. He spent his days working as an assistant for nail sculptor, John Bisbee, and his nights in a waterless shack, woodshedding steel guitar. His studio, Roughly Nowhere, was born. Belk toured in various alt-country and folk noir bands out of Maine before falling into Denver, Colorado’s re-burgeoning honky tonk scene. As of 2020 he’s back in New England, performing in bands like Cut Worms, the Yawns, Jeffrey Silverstein, Dead Gowns, and Wildflower.

Hamilton Belk’s songs are humble affirmations that paradox is the only way forward, born on the shards of time between tours and overdub sessions. His influences draw from the country-folk lexicon, slacker rock, years of recording parts for everything from Urdustani folk to petrosexual pop country, and the timeless, lonesome tears of the steel guitar.

Belk has contributed to records by Brigid Mae Power, Henry Jamison, Peter Broderick, Message to Bears, Dead Gowns, Aeseaes, and hundreds more. His work has been featured in the PMA Biennial, the Camden International Film Festival, and Meow Wolf’s Denver and Housoton locations, and American Idol.