Artist Information Biography Organic, soul-filled, and feminine folk.  Cabin Fever NW is the Bellingham-based duo Dianne Bochsler and Tara Wolfe, performing true Americana roots music.  Their straight-from-the-heart presentation of songs captures the spirit of traditional folk music. Great music, great lyrics, great storytelling. Their compositions reflect real life, including joy, loss, love, leaving home, great cars and the complexities of crime and punishment.  Their original works have received recognition by international media, including NPR's Car Talk which broadcast "Yellow Mustang", and SING OUT! Magazine which featured "Mary Alice". Recent winners of the "People's Choice Award" at the 2008 Winter Folk Festival in Florence, OR, performances by Cabin Fever NW have met exuberant audiences across the Pacific Northwest.  Always a crowd pleaser, their friendship and playful energy are contagious on stage.  "Fantastic!  You two sing with one voice, and it is the voice of pure love."  - Barry McGuire "Imagine Simon and Garfunkel singing with the Carter Family’s devotion."  - The Alternate Root .com  "You are the quintessential Hard Act to Follow!"  -C. Daniel Bolings "I love your music.  Every sound is exactly what should be there, your voices and instruments are the perfect blend for one another."    - Mack Bailey GIVE ME THAT KISS by Cabin Fever NW won first place in Gary Allen's Music City Beat Nashville Songwriting Contest. "Excellent!  You are my favorite personal choice of all my winners.  It's the simplicity of JJ Cale and the cleverness of Lennon/McCartney.  I went around humming "Give Me That Kiss" for days.  Your songs are great and the singing is Simon & Garfunkle tight.  You have a very natural and pleasing sound and I wouldn't change a thing.  It's the real deal with a lot of personality!"  -Gary Allen, The Music City Beat Performing mostly original songs, Cabin Fever NW also brings something new to hear to great standards like John Prine’s “Paradise” and Townes Van Zandt’s “White Freight Liner Blues”.  Dianne and Tara bumped into each other on their sons’ first day of pre-school in Bellingham, WA about a dozen years ago and have been inseparable ever since.    Their close harmonies reflect their close relationship, and give the listener the satisfaction so often sought from a performing duo - friendship and love expressed through music.  Originally from upstate New York, Dianne is a graduate of Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle.  She grew up singing and playing country music with her dad, songs  of Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, and Hank Williams.  Dianne has been on stage in the theater and as a performing musician for the past 30 years.  Her voice has been compared to Loretta Lynn and EmmyLou Harris - pure and refreshing as iced tea on a hot summer day.  Tara is a Canadian native who grew up in Ohio, longing for the mountains and prairies of Alberta where her mother's roots took them on family vacations.  She has been singing all her life, always looking for a new harmony line to add to every song.  Tara's voice has a delicious rich quality that is perfectly suited for folk songs, and adds an unusual musical depth to the duo.  Tara picked up the banjo a few years ago and never put it down. Their music is welcoming and accessible:  nothing slick, nothing synthetic, no artificial ingredients. Instrumentation Dianne Bochsler - Martin 000 Cutaway guitar and vocals Tara Wolfe - 1923 Whyte Laydie banjo and vocals Discography "The Door Is Always Open" is the third recording by Cabin Fever NW.  It features a generous portion of original songs, with a sprinkling of traditional favorites.  With innovative harmony and elegant guitar and banjo, this CD brings the best of new and old together and creates a modern interpretation of traditional sound.  The duo is joined on this recording by guitar master John Miller.  Prior releases from Cabin Fever NW include "Spring Thaw" (2004) a collection of 15 cover songs, with back-up from musicians such as John Reischman (mandolin), Laurel Bliss (resonator guitar) and Mike Schway (fiddle) and their self-titled four-song demo “Cabin Fever” (2003) which received an honorable mention from the Bellingham Herald as the year's best local recording. Links http://www.cabinfevernw.com