Craig Gildner and The Blue Sky 5 – Capitol South
Western Affairs – Part 2
Aaron Tinjum and the Tangents – The Wild and Beyond
Nerftoss – Zucker
Constant Alarm – Privy to Your Pain
John Haller – HOS Composition
Judah – Let’s Lay Down?
Hurlebaus – Liminal
Flash Frequency – Vibration
Joey and the Waitress – What You Mean To Me
Matt Chaconas – Mech FM
Timothy Soller – Water and Light
Handsome Hound – Our Problems
Dirdy Redzz – Beat ya Feet
Luke Brindley – The Lark
No Tell Motel – Don’t Be Shy
Higher Hands – My Day (parts 1 & 2)
Roger Aldridge – A Ballad For T
The Internal Frontier – The Spell
Beau Finley – The Sky Is Falling

Beau Finley – Base Camp Departure
Jon Miller – Spinning
Georgie James – Places (Instrumental)
The Iris Bell – Shade
Aaron Agre – Cloud Empty (Selenelion) II
Tristan Welch – C.
Beauty Pill – The Western Prayer
Handsome Hound – Our Problems
Atoka Chase – Burn the Light (or Of Matriarchs and Alcohol)
Terracotta Blue – Hallow’s Eve
The Radiographers – Little Black Glove
Bossalingo – Manha de Carnaval
John W. Warren – The Frog Prince
Honey Pot Canoe – Reginald Fessenden
John Hogge – Shanai
Mathugh – I.X.X.I.
Dot Dash – Summer Lights
Buildings – For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
Calm and Crisis – Moving Parts
Aphids – Two

“I’ll write you songs in an open key,” the duo sings on their recent EP, I Guess We’re Doing Alright. “The notes will ring out into eternity.”

Daviss and Kelly, both 24, met while studying at Yale, where they sang in a capella groups. Neither majored in music — they mostly just played for fun — but they had formidable musical backgrounds: Daviss, a native Texan, played both violin and guitar, and Kelly, reared in South Carolina, had skills on saxophone, guitar and drums.

As their bond has deepened, so has their shared investment in music-making. “Music has become more and more a big part of our lives and our relationship,” Daviss says.

Handsome Hound’s EP isn’t all sunshine and rainbows, however. Track No. 5, “Hannah,” brings depth to their sound. Daviss says the song harks back to her childhood in the South, where social norms around gender were clearly drawn and reinforced.

The song channels the “feeling of wanting to push back on that, but not push back so much that you’re not yourself anymore,” Daviss says.

“Hey, hey, hey Hannah, don’t lose yourself tonight,” the song goes. “I know you wanna keep putting up a fight.”

Daviss and Kelly say they’re both feminists — and proud of it.

Handsome Hound jokes about their name and the dogs on the EP’s cover — “What I like to tell people on stage is that Claire is pretty handsome and I sort of look like a dog,” says Kelly — but their moniker has roots in history.

Cuchulain is an old Irish name, related to the mythological figure Hercules, Kelly says. But it literally means the “Hound of Culland,” Culland being a province on Old Northern Ireland. When Kelly’s peers mocked his name in the schoolyard, he complained to his dad.

“I’d be like, ‘Dad, why’d you guys give me this weird name?’” Kelly says, “and he was like, ‘Tell them it means Handsome Hound.’”

Handsome Hound plays April 30 at the Kingman Island Bluegrass and Folk Festival.