Hailing from the rust belts of Wisconsin, Matthew DeChant is a modern musician on the cutting edge of the current traditional folk/roots renaissance. Taking inspiration from modern trad-folk giants such as Lankum and Rhiannon Giddens, as well as genre-benders like the Dreadnoughts and Gogol Bordello, DeChant takes traditional songs from all over North America and Europe and interprets them in his own high-energy alternative style. Performing mainly on Irish bouzouki (a type of Irish folk guitar) and accordion, he plays traditional and original tunes as well as covers of folk classics.

Matthew is currently coming off the release of his newest album Transmutations, a mix of traditional and original songs written over the past several years. He has performed everywhere from street corners to college music festivals, and to quote the wise words of Goblin Band, strives to “make a space for new audiences to experience traditional music in a manner which is both riotously joyful and deeply sincere.”