Livingston, Montana singer-songwriter Sean Devine and Boone, North Carolina folk and blues artist Brooks Forsyth will perform together, live on-stage, in a song swap format, for three concerts in south-central Montana and western Wyoming.
Montana native Sean Devine has traveled extensively around the U.S. and abroad, in a music career spanning three decades, releasing four full albums of original music, a EP and several singles. His fourth album, Here For It All, was recorded in south Texas with Cody Jinks’ recording and stage band, The Tone Deaf Hippies. The album spent 23 weeks in the Top 50 at Alt Country Radio, peaking at #12. His current project is a Montana-made album, recorded at home in Paradise Valley with a remote rig, featuring Cary Morin and Celeste Di Iorio, Kenny Williams (Montana Rose, Tessy Lou and The Shotgun Stars) on upright bass, Jon DeGroot (The Tallboys) on mandolin, and Eric Heywood (Sun Volt, The Pretenders) on pedal steel. Still in the tracking phase, this album will be released Spring ’24.
Hailing from the mountains of North Carolina, Brooks Forsyth is a musician of Appalachia and beyond. He began busking on street corners in his hometown of Boone, NC (also the hometown of legendary guitarist Doc Watson) and has since become a Nashville recording artist. Encompassing a variety of sounds burgeoning from Americana plus, he has a large repertoire of original songs, and a versatile guitar style consisting of both flat-picking and fingerpicking techniques.
Throughout the last seventeen years, Brooks has performed solo and with a variety of musical ensembles across the U.S.A. He has played alongside artists such as Doc Watson and Sierra Ferrell, and opened for Cristina Vane, Town Mountain, and Willi Carlisle. He has worked with producer Buzz Cason, film director Nigel Dick, and once two stepped in a Molly Tuttle music video. Brooks was also the lead songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist for the band The Major Sevens.
Brooks Forsyth
Brooks’ latest record Black Zipper was recorded at The Brass Clip in Nashville, TN with producer Parker Cason. Brooks currently has five solo albums available: Black Zipper (2023), Live at Sunbanks (2022), So Much Beyond Us (2018), On The Lam And Lonesome (2016) and Back In Cackalacky (2015), and one album with The Major Sevens, Goodbye Baby (2008).