Waterbug Records is a small

independent record label An independent record label (or indie label) is a record label that operates without the funding or distribution of major record labels; they are a type of small- to medium-sized enterprise, or SME. The labels and artists are often represented ...

based in

Glen Ellyn, Illinois Glen Ellyn is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States. A suburb located due west of downtown Chicago, the village has a population of 28,846 as of the 2020 Census. History Glen Ellyn, like the neighboring town to the east, Lomba ...

specializing in singer-songwriters and traditional folk musicians who do original research. The label was founded as an artist cooperative label in 1992 by singer-songwriter

Andrew Calhoun Andrew Calhoun (born November 30, 1957, in New Haven, Connecticut, United States) is an American folk singer-songwriter based in the Chicago area. Career Calhoun was inspired to become a musician when his mother introduced him to some of her h ...

.Winters, Pamela Murray, "Linen Lites: Andrew Calhoun – Call Me 'Colquhoun'", '' Dirty Linen'', 112, June–July 2004, p.14-15"''Bound to Go'': Illuminating Legacy of African American Folk Tradition"
''All About Jazz'', May 23, 2008 Calhoun described the label in a column written for '' Sing Out!'': "Waterbug is largely an artists' co-op. All the artists own their recordings and publishing rights. Twenty artists contributed a song and part of the cost of manufacturing a label sampler, which each of us sell from the stage for $5. We are working cooperatively to help each other get heard."Calhoun, Andrew, "Hey Rube!: Success", '' Sing Out!'', 41:2 August–October 1996, p.110-111

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Geoff Bartley Geoff Bartley (born 1948) is an American acoustic guitarist and singer-songwriter whose musical style combines roots, blues, jazz, and traditional folk. He lives in the Boston area, where he can be found at The Can Tab Lounge in Cambridge, Mas ...

Randy Black Randy Black (born November 17, 1963) is a Canadian-born rock drummer known best for his stints as the drummer for Bif Naked, Annihilator, and Primal Fear. Although Black's actual acoustic drum configuration is not unique to the field of drummi ...

Chuck Brodsky Chuck Brodsky (born May 20, 1960, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American musician and singer-songwriter currently living in Asheville, North Carolina. He is particularly known for his often humorous and political lyrics, as well as his ...

* Jonathan Byrd *

Lui Collins Lui Collins (born 1950 in Barre (town), Vermont, Barre, Vermont) is a contemporary Folk music, folk singer-songwriter. She attended the University of Connecticut and played her first gigs as a student there. She began touring in the mid-1970s as ...

* Erin Corday *

Kat Eggleston Kat or KAT may refer to: People * Kat Alano (born 1985), Anglo-Filipino model, actress, and television presenter/VJ in the Philippines * Kat Ashley (c1502–1565), governess to Queen Elizabeth I * Kat Bjelland (born 1963), American musician * Ka ...

Bob Franke Bob Franke (born July 25, 1947, in Hamtramck, Michigan) is an American folk singer-songwriter. Biography He began his career in 1965, while a student at the University of Michigan, and performed at The Ark, a coffeehouse in Ann Arbor. After ...

* Annie Gallup *

Michael Jerling Michael Jerling is an American acoustic folk singer-songwriter. He was born in Illinois and attended college at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. His association with Fast Folk Musical Magazine in New York's Greenwich Village led to his song ...

Jenn Lindsay Jenn Lindsay (born October 18, 1978, in Amarillo, Texas) is an American social scientist, adjunct professor of Sociology and Communications, documentary filmmaker, video journalist and singer-songwriter currently based in Rome, Italy. Her work ...

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* Kate McDonnell * Sarah McQuaid * Anaïs Mitchell *

William Pint and Felicia Dale William Pint and Felicia Dale (often billed as Pint & Dale) are folk musicians based in Seattle. Known primarily for nautical music and sea chanties, they are among the best-known performers in that genre in the United States."Singalongs and ship ...

* Shinobu Sato *

Danny Schmidt Danny Schmidt (born October 7, 1970) is an American singer-songwriter based in Austin, Texas, where he now lives with his wife, fellow musician and singer-songwriter Carrie Elkin. Biography Schmidt was born in 1970 and grew up in Austin, Tex ...

Cosy Sheridan Cosy Sheridan (born December 11, 1964, in Concord, New Hampshire) is an American folk singer/songwriter. She first caught the attention of national folk audiences in 1992 when she won the songwriting contests at both the Kerrville Folk Festival an ...

* Devon Sproule *

Sons of the Never Wrong The Sons of the Never Wrong is a Chicago-based singer/songwriter folk music trio founded in 1992. Current band members are Bruce Roper, Deborah Maris Lader (since 1998), and Sue Demel. History After a chance meeting at a Guitar Center in Chicago ...

* Art Thieme * Sloan Wainwright * Dar Williams *

Hugh Blumenfeld Hugh Blumenfeld (born October 11, 1958) is an American folk musician and singer-songwriter from Connecticut. He was born in Jamaica, Queens, New York City, graduated with degrees in Biology and Humanities from M.I.T. in 1980, and got a master's ...

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