
Introducing
Them Badgers
The latest from Them Badgers
March 21, 2025
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Them Badgers is going on tour in Alaska with Azad Safavi. We'll be playing Trapper Creek fest on May 29th, and we're currently working on scheduling three weeks of touring in Denali, Palmer, Cooper Landing, Anchorage, Homer, Seward, and surrounding areas.
Do give Azad a listen! https://open.spotify.com/artist/3GubGOZvaCCffblcdF07zP
I'm very excited for this journey and an opportunity to meet up with old friends and make new ones. It will be good to return to Alaska.
In other news, I've got three professional videos filmed in New Orleans. The first if which is posted on YouTube, and the others will be coming out week by week. Among them is a new song never before released and rarely performed.
I spent three months in New Orleans over winter learning and playing new and old music, making friends and connections. I'm back in Olympia for now, with Alaska and California tours on the horizon before returning to Antarctica in August.

Bio
Part country and part punk, Them Badgers come from Olympia's traditions of American folk music and irrepressible queer activism. They've lived these songs, in all of their exuberance and sorrow, misadventure and hilarity, and have laughed twice as hard as they've cried.
You’re as likely to find them playing on a street corner as a ballroom. With powerful, gripping vocals, and some mean fiddle licks, they aim to connect with you and see you moved.
With a voice that defines them, songbird Kadan Spooner delivers both original tunes and old favorites while playing guitar, banjo, piano, or even the washboard. Writing songs, for them, is an expression of their deepest parts. They do not experience creating music as a choice, but rather to satisfy a hunger.
They have sung in prisons and on sidewalks, in churches and bars, with soldiers under siege, and in the coldest, driest continent on Earth.
They play songs about hard living, hope, and heartbreak, with the best of ‘em- and the worst.
Based in Olympia, Washington, they perform all over the PNW and anywhere life takes them.
Audrey Baker’s intuitive and well-practiced playing comes through years of study driven by a deep-seated passion for her craft. Audrey reinvigorates the old ways, building on her classical foundation with folk traditions from bluegrass, Americana, and jazz manouche.
She began her career as a touring musician in 2018 with the newgrass group Straw Hat Revival, discovering a new passion for improvisational playing and unleashing her voice through her instrument. Joining Them Badgers in 2021, this unapologetic fire has continued to intensify.
