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Michael Beauchamp-Cohen is a Michigan-bred songwriter, musician, and performer best known for his decade-plus collaboration with Laurel Premo in the roots duo Red Tail Ring. In both RTR and as a solo artist, Beauchamp-Cohen writes lyrically dense, unconventional folk songs that explore personal subjects made universal through the process of their transmission. In Beauchamp-Cohen’s music the introspective loneliness of a fall day morphs into a plea to rise above the present political bifurcation; a small moment alone in the forest spurs broader analysis on the emptiness of consumerism; personal insecurities hold up the mirror on small-town life. And at other times, the experience of being bedeviled by love is universally understood and cathartically unpacked in a crowd. 

Beauchamp-Cohen (-Cohen  legally added in 2015 to honor his beloved step-dad) has performed over 1,000 shows at a variety of festivals and venues while traveling on three continents since his solo debut in 2008. Past performances include the Wheatland Music Festival (Michigan), Port Fairy Folk Festival (Australia), Haapavesi Folk (Finland), Bluegrass Jamboree (Germany), and Red Wing Roots (Virginia). He has shared stages with peers such as May Erlewine, Joan Shelley, and The Steel Wheels, and luminaries Joel Mabus, John McCutcheon, and Michael Smith.
Past Venues/Festivals
The Ark (Ann Arbor, MI)
Club Passim (Cambridge, MA)
Old Town School of Folk Music (Chicago, IL)
The Green Note (London, UK)
Wheatland Music Festival (Remus, MI)
Boats & Bluegrass (Winona, MN)
Celtic Connections (Glasgow, UK)
Port Fairy Folk Festival (Port Fairy, AUS)
Haapavesi Folk (Finland)
Red Wing Roots Festival (Mt. Solon, VA)
Memoire et Racines (Joliette, QC, CAN)
Salmon Art Roots and Blues (Salmon Arm, BC, CAN)