The WYOmericana Caravan’s rolling representation of Wyoming’s stellar songwriter scene will make a stop in Powell this week. As part of the caravan’s seven-show jaunt through the region, the musicians will perform at 7 p.m. Friday at the Powell High School Auditorium.

The seventh annual WYOmericana Caravan Tour features Sarah Sample (Sheridan; trio), Aaron Davis (Hoback; duo) and Abby Webster (Wilson; solo).

Artists will perform individual sets with the suspense of ad-libbed cross-band. The closing set includes all members of the tour on stage simultaneously, taking chances and blending talents — adding a camaraderie element absent from most modern day traveling shows.

Sample is an award-winning songwriter with a “raw, graceful voice,” wrote the Salt Lake City Weekly. Performing as a trio with guitarist Dylan Schorer and drummer Fred Serna, her songs weave a trail of stories through folk, Americana and country, garnering comparisons to Sheryl Crow, The Weepies and Bonnie Raitt.

Davis is chiefly known as co-founder of decade-long national touring act Screen Door Porch and his eclectic quartet Aaron Davis & the Mystery Machine. The multi-instrumentalist, engineer-producer and vocalist will stage a duo show on acoustic/resonator guitars, banjo, harmonica, and percussion along with longtime collaborator David Bundy (bass, harmony vocal).

Webster has quickly established herself as an artistic force in the regional music scene. The avant-garde lyricist’s songs are filled with metaphor and dark humor, though they are just as whimsical as they are visceral. Webster received a 2021 Performing Arts Fellowship in Music from the National Endowment for the Arts — a merit-based honor for an artist’s work in their field.

The WYOmericana philosophy is to propel Wyoming’s original music scene as an artist collective, exhibiting to the world that there’s a stellar creative spark in the country’s least populated state. Past tours have featured Jalan Crossland, Screen Door Porch, The Patti Fiasco, J Shogren Shanghai’d, Sneaky Pete & the Secret Weapons and others.

The talent pool of Wyoming songwriters is booming and rising up from every corner of the state, organizers say. The New York Times acknowledged this in 2013, observing WYOmericana’s songwriter scene in a full-page article, “Touring, the Wyoming Way.” In partnership with the Wyoming Arts Council, the storied artist collective is now rolling forward with a new lineup in the toughest touring environment of its history.

In an effort to make a deeper connection with both rural and urban communities on the 2021 tour, an all-ages songwriting master class, “Songcraft & Sense of Place: A WYOmericana Perspective,” will be offered for free and taught by the artists.

There will be limited venue capacities, mask requirements for venue staff, crew and musicians when not performing, among other precautions onstage and off. Concertgoers will also be encouraged to wear masks and gather responsibly with awareness for social distancing and safety measures in light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

For Friday’s concert, adult tickets are $10 and students/children are free. Tickets are available at the Cody and Powell Chambers of Commerce, online at www.parkcountyartscouncil.org or at the door.

Friday’s performance is sponsored locally by the Park County Arts Council, funded by grants from the Wyoming Arts Council — through funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Wyoming Legislature — and from donations.

For real time updates, visit the WYOmericana Facebook and Instagram pages, and www.WYOmericana.com. Other stops on the caravan, which began Oct. 27, have included Laramie and Fort Collins, Basalt and Denver, Colorado. It will wrap up Saturday at the Silver Dollar Showroom in Jackson.