Jaye D Marie is a singer, songwriter, musician, artist and show host based out of Nashville, TN. In 2016, after several years of teaching school in Canada, she moved to Nashville where she has been active in performing, songwriting and hosting singer/songwriter shows.

Jaye has recorded six albums of original songs, her most recent ‘ Coming Over The Border’ produced by Bob Huston in Nashville was released on March 18th, 2024. It features eleven new tunes that are a mixture of Country, Roots, Americana and Blues. Her previous albums include; ‘If Wishes Were Horses’ produced by Ernie Rowell , ‘The Gospel Singer’, and ‘If That Old Tree Could Talk’ produced by Kim Copeland , ‘Dreamin’ Blues and Barrooms’ produced by Miles Jackson and ‘Jota’ produced by Jeff Muller.

Jaye has performed at many shows and rounds in the Nashville area such as the Commodore in the Holiday Inn, Millenium Maxwell House, Preston Hotel, Renaissance and Aloft Hotels, The Bluebird, Alley Taps, Flatrock Coffee, Tea & More, Bad Axe Throwing, Tennessee Brew Works, Mozzarella Pizzeria, Jim Oliver’s Smoke House, Nashville Coffees, Authentic Coffee Club, Just Love Coffee Café, Big Al’s, Long Hollow Jamboree, Fox n’ Locke, Kimbro’s Pickin’ Parlour, Drifters, Bobby’s Idle Hour, The 404, Time Traveler’s Café, 12 Keys Saloon, The 212, Villager Tavern, Douglas Corner, Belcourt Taps, Springwater Supper Club, The Bowery Vault and The Copper Branch.

Since 2019 Jaye has hosted close to five hundred shows in Nashville where she has recruited performing as well as touring songwriters. She introduces the performers, runs the sound, and promotes and provides a welcoming atmosphere for all. She began her songwriter shows first at the Hotel Preston in 2018, then at Authentic Coffee Club in 2019, Nashville Coffees in 2019, 2020 and 2022, 12 Keys Saloon in 2022, Hotel Preston again in 2023 and since January of 2022 at Nashville’s downtown Copper Branch where she still performs weekly as well as hosting Songwriter shows. Jaye is also involved in helping a friend book singer/songwriters and do the flyers for his monthly writer shows at the West End Aloft Hotel in downtown Nashville. One of the highlights of Jaye’s musical endeavors is to now be performing a musical program three to five times a month to various nursing homes in Tennessee through Music for Seniors, Lighting up Lives with Live Music.

Jaye has written songs with hit songwriters, new writers and well established writer’s in both Canada and the United states. She has played keyboard and sang with bands, duo’s and solo, has accompanied fiddle players at several fiddle camps and has directed children, youth and adult choirs. She has a vast repertoire of both covers and original music and at one time had her own mobile Karaoke business when karaoke first started in Canada where, over a ten year period, she hosted close to a thousand shows.

In her teaching career Jaye not only taught all subjects in the general classroom from Kindergarten to Grade eight, but also taught music where she organized over a hundred school music assemblies in Canada. She has an ongoing commitment in education and presently teaches online on a part time basis. She has taught all ages from 4 to 80 and has done music not only in Canada and the US but also in Japan, South Korea and Poland.

Jaye is passionate about art especially creating cartoon characters and illustrations for children’s literature . She is presently working on a few picture books with one that will include a song and music with the lyrics and illustrations. Coming Soon! You can view her cartoon characters and coming picture books on her ‘Skatch A Toons’ page.

Scott Gilmore and Sarah Vitort are Fox and Bones—energetic offbeat folksters with a retro-tinged, soul-stirring, modern vintage bent. The indomitable duo has brought their optimistic Americana polish to international stages shared with the likes of Rayland Baxter, The Dead South, ZZ Ward, Fantastic Cat and ALO among others.

Fox and Bones’ fourth album titled “Long Time Honey” is a collaboration with esteemed songwriter Greg Holden and was awarded Best Folk/Americana Album of 2024 by the PNW Music Awards. Americana Highways (US) beamed Long Time Honey “should rightly be considered one of the best Americana albums of the year” and Naga Mag (Greece) lauded, “The much-loved vocals are so familiar and warm that you feel the love overflowing inside you”

Their hardworking artistic output has earned them first place at the 2023 Tucson Folk Festival songwriting contest and second place in the International Acoustic Music Awards, amongst other accolades. In between their rigorous tour schedule, the duo founded Portland’s Folk Festival: an annual celebration of folk and Americana music at the iconic Crystal Ballroom in their hometown of Portland, Oregon.