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Cullah is the Milwaukee songwriter Radio Milwaukee calls “The Beck of Milwaukee.” Folk-electronic with a primal vocal carried down from the largest family band in American history. Seventeen open-source albums since 2006, 2023 WAMI Album of the Year for Firebird, and 10,000+ sync placements (The Expendables 4, Channel 4, major video games). Has opened for RJD2 and Method Man / Redman at The Rave, played Summerfest and Mile of Music, and toured Dublin, Barcelona, and Berlin. Cú Chulainn II preorder open at cullah.com/ccii.

Every April 27 since 2006, Cullah has released a new open-source album from his Milwaukee studio. Radio Milwaukee calls him “The Beck of Milwaukee.” His sound layers folk-acoustic textures into electronic production, anchored by a primal, generational vocal. His 2022 record Firebird won the 2023 WAMI Album of the Year; it’s one of seventeen full-lengths he’s released on this ritual date.

As a performer, Cullah has opened for RJD2 and Method Man / Redman at The Rave (Milwaukee), played Summerfest, Mile of Music (Appleton, WI), Chill on The Hill, Cactus Club, and Rockwood Music Hall (NYC), and toured internationally through Dublin, Barcelona, and Berlin. He performs solo, with The Comrades, and recorded a live session for Hear Here Presents, Milwaukee’s KEXP-style live program.

That voice has roots. Cullah’s grandfather Dick Wolff, orphaned young, played fiddle in bars in Erin, Wisconsin to make enough to eat that day. His mother Mary was one of seventeen children, eleven daughters all named Mary and six sons, who together formed The Wolff Family Band, the largest family band in American history. His storytelling carries that lineage, drawing on myth and Awen-rooted symbolism.

Cullah’s multi-disciplinary range extends into institutional work. Danse L’Intervention, a recent Medical College of Wisconsin Project Wonder commission, features Cullah as composer and lead performer in a multimedia piece re-enacting his mother Ginny McCullough’s stroke experience. Scored for the Brusubardis Family string ensemble and filmed at Froedtert Hospital, the work reframes Saint-Saëns’ Danse Macabre as a meditation on neurological recovery.

His music has been placed in over 10,000 productions including The Expendables 4 (Millennium Films), The North Face, The Modern Rogue, Channel 4 (Beaver Falls), and video games D.R.O.N.E The Game, Those Who Remain, and Car Mechanic Simulator. A pioneer of Creative Commons licensing and p2p distribution, he’s spent two decades building open-source infrastructure for independent artists.

His seventeenth album, Cú Chulainn, dropped April 27, 2025; Cú Chulainn II preorder opened April 2026 ahead of an April 27, 2027 release. The two-record cycle closes a multi-year arc backed by a growing Cullective of 270+ members across five campaigns and $47,000+ raised. Listen and back the next record at cullah.com.