Alan Babbit's debut CD - decades later. Flora Cash from Sweden

Very few musicians wait until they're almost 70 years old to release their debut album. Alan Babbitt is one of them.  He has been a musical dabbler at a very high level for most of his life while producing music, TV and art. He took up the clarinet in junior high, realized he could sing and switched to the guitar so he  could accompany his songs.  When he was hired as a TV producer/director at a PBS station in Las Vegas to create educational programs for kids he applied his musical talent to writing and performing tunes to help teach concepts – his first crack at songwriting. While a film and video maker to San Francisco he composed, arranged and produced music as a sideline. Eventually, that led to his debut album, NEW ROAD,  an eclectic mix of musical styles including folk, folk rock, jazz, and a new genre  he calls "Grump Rock."  Hopefully, the 2nd album won't take quite as long.

Flora Cash is a duo composed of Minnesotan Cole Randall and Swede Shpresa Lleshaj , now based in Stockholm, Sweden.  They met on Soundcloud in early 2012 and by the end of 2012, they had begun a collaboration with Swedish singer/songwriter and producer Daniel Westerlund (formerly of The Goner) and released their first EP, Mighty Fine EP,  and quickly built a fan base with sold out shows in Stockholm, a three-month ‘mini-tour’ of London and a second EP, Made It For You. The duo moved to Minneapolis in 2913 for a year, got married, took a road-trip-honeymoon to LA and then moved back to Stockholm  to release the  I Will Be There.  They signed to the Stockholm-based boutique label: Icons Creating Evil Art and have just released their latest album Nothing Lasts Forever (And It’s Fine).