10/01/2026 - Thursday Night Music at Dancing Fish - Nathaniel Talbot Trio
Nathaniel Talbot Trio
Thursday, October 1st, 2026
5:30 - 7:30pm
Join us for excellent live music and wine in community!
We're excited to welcome back the Nathaniel Talbot Trio to the Dancing Fish Barn stage. Nathaniel is a true talent and his Trio brings it to a new level. Originals you'll feel you've known for years along with incredible renditions of some of your favorites. This is going to be a great show.
Nathaniel is a guitarist and singer from Washington’s Whidbey Island, writes American roots music that combines the soulful edge of tradition with the Pacific Northwest’s legacy of freedom and innovation. He began learning piano at age 7, started his first punk band at 13 and quickly thereafter began steeping himself of the guitar-driven sounds of Bill Frisell, Kelly Joe Phelps, Elliott Smith and other Northwest heroes. Over the next 15 years Talbot honed an approach to songwriting and storytelling, driven by his complex fingerstyle guitar work, that has earned him a distinct place in the folk scene.
Talbot pushes our understanding of our selves through the intensite of his songfraft. It’s a busy life for songwriter and farmer Nathaniel Talbot, who runs a vegetable farm and seed company on Whidbey Island, in Washington State’s Puget Sound. When not out cultivating row crops on his solar-powered tractor, he’s inside cultivating songs that are rooted in the earth and American traditionalism. “Working in agriculture, while often physically and emotionally tiring, also provides the mental space and quietude for songs to be sown and nourished,” says Talbot. His sixth album, The Fabric and the Weave, released Oct 2021, marks his most personal and ambitious crop of songs to date.
Raised in the wooded foothills southeast of Portland, OR, the big firs and wide farmscapes of childhood made a life-long impression on Talbot’s songwriting. “The natural setting imprinted on my sense of self, and populated my brain with the imagery and storylines that would later manifest in my songwriting.” He began learning piano at age seven, started a punk rock band at thirteen, and quickly thereafter began steeping himself in guitar-driven sounds of Kelly Joe Phelps, Elliott Smith, Bill Frisell and other Pacific Northwest heroes. Over the next 15 years, Talbot honed an approach to songwriting and storytelling, driven by his complex fingerstyle guitar work, which earned him a distinct place in the northwest folk scene.
Talbot currently performs as a duo with Keegan Harshman on upright bass and as an electric trio with the addition of Mickey Grimm on drums. Despite the full band’s broader, more experimental sonic palette, the music never veers from the grounding force of Talbot’s clear voice, affecting storytelling and distinctive guitar lines.
Nathaniel Talbot's music has dirt under its fingernails, the product of decades of hard work and crafting – retuning, replanting, and retelling. The result is true American roots music that combines the soulful edge of tradition with the Pacific Northwest’s legacy of freedom and innovation.
"Challenging what folk music is capable of, Talbot's powerful, uplifting voice harnesses a country twang complemented by lush acoustic finger-picking and a violin that feels like it was birthed next to a babbling brook in the mountains." - Seattle Weekly
This event is by reservation only and includes a shared appetizer board served to your table. Please be aware that due to limited seating capacity in the Dancing Fish Barn, some patrons may be assigned to larger communal tables. Alternatively, if you have friends who are also attending this event, please let us know via text/phone (360.632.4190) or e-mail (info@dancingfishvineyards.com) in advance of the performance so we can seat you at the same table.
