Coltt Winter Lepley is an Appalachian folksinger/songwriter from Bedford, Pennsylvania. In 2025, Coltt released his highly anticipated and long-awaited debut project for streaming services which was produced by Al Torrence, and recorded with The Allegheny High (the band that plays with Charles Wesley Godwin) in Pittsburgh, PA. As a published poet, Coltt has been called “Bedford’s Poet Laureate,” and has his MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College. He’s also a retired race car driver, and current full-time vagabond playing songs he wrote himself across the country from Nashville’s Americanafest to Austin’s South By Southwest (SXSW). He’s also a graduate of Johnstown’s own University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown (UPJ).