Waterbug Records is a small independent record label based in Glen Ellyn, Illinois specializing in singer-songwriters and traditional

folk music Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has b ...

ians who do original research. The label was founded as an artist

cooperative A cooperative (also known as co-operative, co-op, or coop) is "an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically-contro ...

label in 1992 by singer-songwriter Andrew Calhoun.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! ''Sing Out!'' was a quarterly journal of folk music and folk songs that was published from May 1950 through spring 2014. It was originally based in New York City, with a national circulation of approximately 10,000 by 1960. Background ''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", ''

'', 41:2 August–October 1996, p.110-111

Roster

* Geoff Bartley * Randy Black * Chuck Brodsky * Jonathan Byrd * Andrew Calhoun * Lui Collins * Erin Corday * Kat Eggleston * Bob Franke * Annie Gallup * Michael Jerling * Jenn Lindsay * Kate MacLeod * Kate McDonnell *

Sarah McQuaid Sarah McQuaid is a singer, songwriter, composer and multi-instrumentalist. She has recorded six solo albums: When Two Lovers Meet (self-released, 1997), I Won't Go Home ’Til Morning (self-released, 2008), The Plum Tree And The Rose (Waterbug Rec ...

Anaïs Mitchell Anaïs Mitchell (; born March 26, 1981) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and playwright. Mitchell has released eight studio albums, including '' Hadestown'' (2010), ''Young Man in America'' (2012),

* William Pint and Felicia Dale *

Shinobu Sato Shinobu Sato (born June 5, 1955), is a Japanese classical artist. Shinobu debuted in 1988 with the tape '' Red Dragonfly: World Music on Guitar'', which was released on audio CD in 1992. His second major album, ''Little Signs of Autumn'' was re ...

* Danny Schmidt * Cosy Sheridan *

Devon Sproule Devon Sproule (born 23 April 1982) is a folk and indie rock singer-songwriter and musician based in Charlottesville, Virginia. She shared the ASCAP Foundation Sammy Cahn Award for 2009 with Oren Lavie. She is married to fellow musician, and ...

* Sons of the Never Wrong *

Art Thieme Arthur Thieme (July 9, 1941 – May 26, 2015) was an American folk musician. He specialized in traditional songs and stories from the Upper Midwest, though he collected and performed cowboy songs from the West as well. He was assistant manager ...

Sloan Wainwright Sloan Wainwright (born 1957) is an American artist and member of the American independent music scene. Her musical style consists of a combination of folk, rock, jazz, and blues, an approach which owes itself to her time writing and performing i ...

Dar Williams Dorothy Snowden "Dar" Williams (born April 19, 1967) is an American pop folk singer-songwriter from Mount Kisco, New York. Hendrik Hertzberg of ''The New Yorker'' has described Williams as "one of America's very best singer-songwriters." She is ...

* Hugh Blumenfeld

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Waterbug Records
fficial site. {{Authority control Folk record labels American independent record labels Record labels established in 1992

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