Marshall Crenshaw at Old Town School of Folk Music

Marshall Howard Crenshaw is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known for hit songs such as "Someday, Someway", a US top 40 hit in 1982, "Cynical Girl", and "Whenever You're on My Mind". He is also the co-author of one of the biggest radio hits of the 1990s, Gin Blossoms's "Til I Hear It from You". His music has roots in classic soul music and Buddy Holly, to whom Crenshaw was often compared in the early days of his career, and whom he portrayed in the 1987 film La Bamba.

Sarah Borges is a rock and roll musician based in the Boston area. She was signed to Sugar Hill Records. Her music has been described as "walking that fine line between punk and country". Her wide variety of influences are often noted. They range from Dolly Parton, Mahalia Jackson, X, Sid Vicious, and Merle Haggard to bubblegum pop. Borges grew up in Taunton, Massachusetts south of Boston, in the third generation of a Portuguese family. She was interested in musical theater as a youth and majored in it while a student at Emerson College in downtown Boston. Borges was married to guitarist Lyle Brewer, who is from the Boston area. Circa 2010-2013, Borges gave birth to a son.