Rachael MacQuarrie (Saturday Marketplace summer)

Seattle-based artist Rachael MacQuarrie is a singer-songwriter combining pop sensibility with folk roots to tell intimate stories driven by evocative melodies. Growing up on Anderson Island, a tiny island in south Puget Sound inhabited more by trees than people, Rachael learned young to let nature animate her music, expressing themes of love, loss, and renewal through metaphors of the natural world. While exploring these complicated personal themes through songwriting, she seeks to keep empathy and self-awareness at the heart of every song. Rachael is currently gearing up to record an album of original songs, threading childhood memories through the never-ending process of growing up.

Eric Auckerman (Free Friday Concert)

Eric Auckerman is a roots Americana musician who draws influence and inspiration from John Prine, Johnny Cash, Bill Withers, Lou Rawls, Gordon Lightfoot, Lightening Hopkins Guy Clark and others. He has performed in Europe, Canada, the West Coast and in Nashville, his music has been described as “heavy mellow” as his songs offer a blend of Americana but with European sensibilities. His guitar playing has elements of second-guessing and risk-taking but whose roots are in American Blues and-finger style folk circa the late 60’s and early 70’s.

Manisha (Marketplace concert)

MANISHA is a jazz-pop artist and singer-songwriter. Filipino-Indian by heritage, Manisha grew up in Manila, Philippines then migrated to Washington, USA where–with the help of her high school’s theater and music technology department–she discovered she could pur- sue songwriting as a full time career. With an array of influences from Broadway Musicals to Taylor Swift to Jon Bellion to Frank Sinatra, MANISHA’s music gravitates towards storytelling lyrics over pop song forms with a flare of jazz.