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From Big Sky to the Big Dig, Montana-born Erin Bonnie has been sharing her take on classic country, western swing, and acoustic tales of wayward characters and love gone wrong in the Boston area for over a decade. Bonnie’s songwriting and style somehow manages to be simultaneously fresh and timeless. She might have graduated from the Berklee College of Music, but her repertoire has more in common with the Conservatory of Sawdust Floors and Lonely Roadside Bars. A multi-instrumentalist with a guitarist’s sense of what drives a song and a fiddler’s gift for melody. Vocally, there’s a little of Gillian Welch, but also a lot of Iris DeMent. It’s a nice mix. Her latest single “Roger,” released in 2024, is a character study set to a gentle acoustic shuffle interpolated with Bonnie’s own inventive fiddle playing. (Jay Jenne)