2026 JoeyFest Performers
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Ava Camille
Performer at JoeyFest MA 2019, 2020, & 2022; JoeyFest LA 2025; and JoeyFest DC 2024 & 2026.
Ava Camille, who now resides in LA, grew up in the Washington D.C. area, raised by an entrepreneur father and a writer mother. Her parents played a variety of music in the house – from Tina Turner to Emmylou Harris to Prince to Brazilian Bossa Nova. This eclectic mix of musicians inspired Ava, who now pairs her alluring, soulful vocals with a catchy pop energy. She draws from musical inspirations like Olivia Dean, Maggie Rogers, and Alicia Keys.
Ava is pursuing singing/songwriting with the ambition of making it her full-time career. She is currently in the process of releasing her debut EP, “Heartbreak Just Gets Harder”. Her writing is candid, charming, and thoughtful. Ava is unapologetically herself through her music and hopes to continue developing a quality we all share: dynamism. She of course sings of romantic love, but she openly uses music to process other themes in life as well - themes such as privilege, envy, learning to love oneself, and sometimes just wanting to be a disco ball. While Ava's songs are uniquely hers, they’ll make you feel understood and seen in more ways than one.
Ava Camille can be found on all streaming platforms.
Chris Cyrus of Slack Tide
Performer at JoeyFest MA 2023 & JoeyFest MA 2026
Heavily inspired by the Grateful Dead, Phish, and the 90’s ska movement, the Tide twists a signature sound as ever changing as the New England weather.
The band began in late 2015 while founder Chris Cyrus attended Berklee College of Music in Boston. The group was formed as a vehicle to experiment with improvisation and blending uncommon genres. The Tide quickly became popular in the city’s basement scene and shifted gears to refine their sound.
Post college, Cyrus moved back to his homestate of New Hampshire and brought the Slack Tide sound with him to new audiences, especially at Newmarket’s Stone Church where the Tide was granted the freedom to continue their experimentation and developed significant factors of their live performances. This led to beginning a presence in the music festival scene.
From dingy dorm rooms to festival main stages and everything in between, the Tide is rising fast.
