The Lash from Lansing, Michigan combines folk instruments like fiddle, mandolin, banjo, and even pedal steel guitar, with bass and drums, and the result is like little else found on the music scene. Although their sound is still rooted in Celtic music, they're never afraid to head into new territory. Recent recordings have been described as Americana or Alt-Country, and some of the newest songs by The Lash could be called World Beat.
Lady Lamb the Beekeeper is the musical moniker of Aly Spaltro. Spaltro began her music career writing and recording songs in a DVD rental store in Brunswick, Maine, using the store as her studio after finishing her midnight shift at the cash register. She anonymously gave out free samples of her first demo CD under the name Lady Lamb The Beekeeper, and quickly gained local popularity.
Singer/songwriter Ian Matthew's first project following his departure from Fairport Convention.
With Thompson, Nicol, and Hutchings from Fairport Convention, plus drummer Gerry Conway (of Fotheringay, later to join Fairport) and pedal steel player Gordon Huntley, he recorded his first "solo" album, Matthews' Southern Comfort, whose sound was rooted in American country music and rockabilly; this was his first significant experience as a songwriter, although the band also covered the likes of Neil Young and Ian and Sylvia.
Justin Hayward (born David Justin Hayward, on 14 October 1946, in Swindon, England) is best known as the main singer, guitarist and composer with the Moody Blues. Having played with local bands in the Swindon area since the age of 13, Hayward's professional career began in 1964 when he joined Marty Wilde and his wife, Joyce, in the Wilde Three. While still only 17, and against Wilde's advice, Hayward signed a publishing contract with the skiffle artist and record producer, Lonnie Donegan.
Ross Clark - Vocals, Guitar, Ocean war. The Scarfs Go Missing =
David Cleary - Guitar, Ocean War
Fhearghas Lyon - Drums, Ocean War
Kevin Mackay - Bass, Ocean War
Forest Fire, from Brooklyn NY, is a 4-piece indie/folk/rock band featuring Mark Thresher, Myisha Battle, Adam Spittler, and Jeremiah Stewart, whose sound is best described as "homegrown hymns for those with no religion." Their first release, the Psychic Love Star EP, was released on Catbird Records in early 2007. *There is also a different band called Forest Fire. In the beginning it was the lightning-fast guitar work, M-80 drum solos and a simmering bass that kept the flames stoked for Forest Fire.
Burnt Tomorrow are an acoustic rock band with balls. We have been together since Jan 09 and show no signs of slowing down. If anyone needs to contact us about gig booking, ideas, or just to say hey, then feel free to e-mail us at any time at info@burnttomorrow.com
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The Raghu Dixit Project, founded by Raghupathy Dixit, is an open house for musicians and artistes from different genres to come together, collaborate and create a dynamic sound and expression. Though a gold medalist in Masters in Microbiology and a proficient Indian Classical Dancer (Vidwat in Bharatanatyam), Raghu is now known more as a self-taught guitarist-singer-composer-song writer-musician, based in Bangalore, India.
Vandaveer is the town-folk, digi-pop, solo song & dance routine committed to tape and stated for the record by one Mark Charles Heidinger, hereby referred to as Mark Charles. In recent seasons (and in future seasons, no doubt) this Mark Charles character traversed the mighty American highways spreading golden pop rock cheer and debauchery as principle singer, songwriter, hand-clapper, and chorus-yelper for The Apparitions.
Elvis Perkins (born February 9, 1976) is a folk-rock singer-songwriter. He is the son of actor Anthony Perkins (an Academy-award nominated screen actor best known for his role as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho), and a well known Elvis Presley aficionado, and photographer Berry Berenson, whose work appeared regularly in Life magazine. He was raised in Los Angeles, California and New York City. Perkins is a great-grandson of the fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli and a nephew of the actress Marisa Berenson. Perkins attended Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island.