Michael Curtis Hilde, also known as Mountainhood, (born October 18, 1981 in Northern California) is an American singer, songwriter, visual artist, and novelist.
[4] With posters painted by Hilde and visual artist Arik Roper, The Story outlined a new school made up of folk singers and drone groups where "each performer adds a bit to a running narrative during their set.
The California series took place at the Stork Club in Oakland, and followed in the footsteps of Hilde's San Siern Holyoake & Wood Festival at the Hotel Utah in San Francisco, May 2007, touted as "A Holy Sunday Gathering of the Brightest in New Folk Music from the Length of California".
[5] For Chapter XIII of The Story, Hilde organized the Arthurdesh festival to benefit the counterculture journal Arthur magazine[6] at Market Hotel.
[1] His first official release (as Almaden) appeared in Finland on the forest-folk imprint 267 Lattajjaa, bearing an album title of over fifty words ending in "Blessedhood".