Frogville Records
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Frogville Records is an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 independent record label
Independent record label
An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels. A great number of bands and musical acts begin on independent labels.-Overview:...

, based in Santa Fe
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Santa Fe is the capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico. It is the fourth-largest city in the state and is the seat of . Santa Fe had a population of 67,947 in the 2010 census...

, New Mexico
New Mexico
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. The label features bands and artists from New Mexico
New Mexico
New Mexico is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also usually considered one of the Mountain States. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth-most sparsely inhabited U.S...

, Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

, Colorado
Colorado
Colorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...

, Virginia
Virginia
The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...

, Kentucky
Kentucky
The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state, more specifically in the East South Central region. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth...

 and Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

 as well as several significant artists in the jam band
Jam band
-Ambiguity:By the late 1990s use of the term jam band also became ambiguous. An editorial at jamband.com suggested that any band of which a primary band such as Phish has done a cover of be included as jam band. The example was including New York post-punk band Talking Heads after Phish performed...

 circuit, such as ThaMuseMeant
ThaMuseMeant
ThaMuseMeant is an American folk-rock quartet. The band has had three permanent members since the beginning: Aimee Curl , Nathan Moore , and David Tiller . Prior to 2001 the band contained Jeff Sussman on percussion instead of Enion Pelta-Tiller on violin, who joined in 2003...

, Taarka
Taarka
Taarka is a Portland, Oregon-based musical group, originally formed in 2001 by the husband/wife team of David Tiller and Enion Pelta-Tiller . The group originally included Jarrod Kaplan and James Whiton bass. Since their departure Taarka has largely consisted of a rotating membership...

, and Surprise Me Mr. Davis
Surprise Me Mr. Davis
Surprise Me Mr. Davis is an electro-folk band consisting of singer-songwriter Nathan Moore and the members of avant-rock band The Slip. They formed in 2003 in Boston while Moore was visiting The Slip at their apartment and the Blizzard of 2003 hit...

, as well as unique rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 and blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

 acts like Goshen
Goshen (band)
Goshen is the ongoing musical project of artist/musician Grant Hayunga. Founded in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1994. The band is currently signed to Frogville Records.-History and discography:...

 and Hundred Year Flood
Hundred Year Flood
Hundred Year Flood is the fourth studio album by the progressive metal/rock band Magellan.-Track listing:The first song on the album is actually split into 13 individual tracks.# "The Great Goodnight" - 34:27# "Family Jewels" - 5:53...

, bluegrass
Bluegrass music
Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and a sub-genre of country music. It has mixed roots in Scottish, English, Welsh and Irish traditional music...

 bands Furnace Mountain and the Santa Fe All Stars and country
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 legend Bill Hearne of Bill and Bonnie Hearne fame on the folk
Folk music
Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....

 and country
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 circuit.

Artists

  • ThaMuseMeant
    ThaMuseMeant
    ThaMuseMeant is an American folk-rock quartet. The band has had three permanent members since the beginning: Aimee Curl , Nathan Moore , and David Tiller . Prior to 2001 the band contained Jeff Sussman on percussion instead of Enion Pelta-Tiller on violin, who joined in 2003...

  • Hundred Year Flood
  • Peacefield http://peacefieldtx.com/
  • Joe West
  • John Courage
  • the Strange
  • Paula Rhae McDonald
  • Broomdust Caravan
  • Goshen
    Goshen (band)
    Goshen is the ongoing musical project of artist/musician Grant Hayunga. Founded in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1994. The band is currently signed to Frogville Records.-History and discography:...

  • Nathan Moore
  • Boris McCutcheon and the Salt Licks
  • Bill Hearne
  • Bill Hearne's Roadhouse Revue
  • Surprise Me Mr. Davis
    Surprise Me Mr. Davis
    Surprise Me Mr. Davis is an electro-folk band consisting of singer-songwriter Nathan Moore and the members of avant-rock band The Slip. They formed in 2003 in Boston while Moore was visiting The Slip at their apartment and the Blizzard of 2003 hit...

  • Furnace Mountain w/ Aimee Curl
  • Taarka
    Taarka
    Taarka is a Portland, Oregon-based musical group, originally formed in 2001 by the husband/wife team of David Tiller and Enion Pelta-Tiller . The group originally included Jarrod Kaplan and James Whiton bass. Since their departure Taarka has largely consisted of a rotating membership...

  • Santa Fe All Stars
  • Sharon Gilchrist
  • Seth & Jacob
  • Blind James
  • Percy Boyd
  • Xoe Fitzgerald
  • Max Pelta
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