The Wild Honey Collective formed in the summer of 2020 to perform original songs and traditional American folk music. Initially a “quarantine-era,” informal, acoustic back porch passion project, the project has expanded to include singers and songwriters Tommy McCord, Danielle Gyger, Timmy Rodriguez, Dan O’Brien, and Jack Schueler, pedal steel guitarist Adam Aymor and drummer Joel Kuiper (with a variety of “collective” collaborative projects in addition to the core band activity). The group issued The Wild Honey Collective: Volume 1 full-length debut album in January 2021, followed by the 12-track The Wild Honey Collective Volume 2 album (July 2022), the 7 track “mini-album” Chicory (September 2023), the 12-track Volume 3 (May 2024) – the 2024 “Roots Album of The Year” per the WYCE Jammies – and 6 song EP Solidago (September 2025), each building on the foundation of original and traditional music set by the debut album. Since first performing live in June 2021, The Wild Honey Collective has performed over 250 shows at a range of Michigan music festivals including Wheatland Music Festival, Smiling Acres, Forest Trail and Fallasburg Arts Festival, as well as venues spanning the tip of the Keweenaw peninsula to the coast of Maine. The Wild Honey Collective is ever-evolving and encompasses sounds of traditional string band music, rowdy country rock, psychedelia, classic pop and more to preserve and nurture the lineage of Cosmic American Music.