Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss And Gillian Welch | en

Alison Krauss (born July 23, 1971) is an American bluegrass-country singer, songwriter and fiddler. Signed to Rounder Records as a 14-year-old fiddler from Champaign, Illinois, she has become the most recognized face in contemporary bluegrass, a critically acclaimed artist who has brought modern sophistication to the genre while respecting its traditions. Songfacts reports that in 2011 Krauss recorded her first ever number one country album in her home country with Paper Airplane. She has also sold upwards of 11 million records and garnered 2 Oscar nominations as well as 26 Grammy® Awards, the most for any female artist in Grammy®...

Melissa Welch is a 16 yr old girl who lives on the top of a hill in a very boring town in California. At 13, she was interested in creating sounds to play with just to pass the time. Later on, she began music projects with her sister, Stacy, and her boyfriend, James (General Musician). They played with more organic sounds like taps and sighs, and she got into playing with her voice. After becoming familiar with her sound, she started to make music alone in secret, and shyly let it flow out into public. Then, when she got some...

U.K. born Alison David came into the music industry from a dance fusion aspect, playing with bands such as Life's Addiction, Red Snapper, Speeka, Black Science Orchestra, Freeland and Bugz In the Attic. The solo release that put her name on the map was a remix of her song Dreams Come True by Afronaught. Her vocals range between jazz, soul and rock and always have a tangible emotion within them. Her solo music is hard to pigeonhole although her influences are undoubtably from afro american songbooks. .

Gillian Whitehead is a prominent New Zealand composer, born in 1941 in Hamilton. She studied under Peter Maxwell Davies and has subsequently produced a variety of music from solo to orchestral works. Particularly notable are her opera Outrageous Fortune and her collaborations with taonga puoro virtuoso Richard Nunns. .

"The Alison Project is a one-man project based out of Canada which came to life in mid-2005 when I started to build a modular synthesizer. The goal of The Alison Project is not to produce one genre of music, but rather to make ambient, drone, noise, and experimental music that is both dark and unsettling to listen to. Reminiscent of tracks from horror movies and horror-based videogames, The Alison Project creates atmosphere that triggers adrenaline and inspires dis-ease in those unfortunate enough to hear it." .