Cabin Fever NW
Cabin Fever NW is the female folk duo Dianne Bochsler and Tara Wolfe, performing Americana roots music. In true folk music tradition, their compositions reflect all aspects of the human spirit, including pain, joy, doubt, love and loss.
Tara and Dianne met in Bellingham, WA when their children were in pre-school in 1998 and have been close friends and neighbors ever since. Dianne is originally from upstate New York and has been singing as long as she can remember, inspired by her dad's love of the guitar. Tara is a Canadian native who grew up in Ohio, longing for the mountains and prairies of Alberta where her mother's family roots took her on summer vacations.
Both women have harmony singing in their genetic code; both feel strongly that making their own music is a great human joy that more people should experience today.
Their music is welcoming and real: nothing slick, nothing synthetic, no artificial ingredients. Rather the vocalists set the tempo and create the mood to make each song unfold.
“These women aren’t trying to write songs like someone else, though they have obviously been listening to a lot of fine bluegrass, old-time and folk musicians. Despite their respect for the best these traditions have to offer, they have had the courage to sing their own stories, and the honesty is never more than I can take, and always leaves me wanting more,” says producer Ginny Snowe.
“When Tara and Dianne sing their original songs, I have the feeling I’ve heard them all my life, but am just growing into them. They are both familiar and fresh at the same time, the instrumental arrangements elegant in their simplicity, the lyrics so often speaking to my condition. I either feel I’ve been there, or I am there, or I want to be there,” says Snowe.
Performances by Cabin Fever NW have met exuberant audiences across the Pacific Northwest. Their songs cover the range of human emotion, and their lyrics are infused with nostalgia and feeling. There is space in their music to bring your own voice and heart.