http://www.mountainsprout.com/Mountain_Sprout/Home.html
Mountain Sprout is a highly energetic hillbilly music machine, spitting original tunes and blowing minds with original whitty lyrics and face melting musicianship. The Sprouts are a full time working band and play shows all year round for anyone who will listen. Whether it be Grayson VanSickle playing his machine gun banjo, singing out the novel of our lives or guitarist Adam Waggs, who yanks up the melody up by the ear and keeps you kickin'. With a smile on his face, Daniel Redmond pulls out cannon fire notes pounding the stand-up, dog house bass, and Blayne Thiebaux gives the crowd a spectacular show, burnin' rosin and bendin' air, exploding the fiddle while bursting into flames. Together, they are MOUNTAIN SPROUT.
http://bolokadaconde.blogspot.com/
This world beat, percussive group is led by one of the world’s foremost djimbe players - Bolokada Conde.
Herbert Wiser is a four-piece band comprising of Ryan Chamlin on keys, Josh Crowley lead vocals/guitar, Matt Bradford on bass, and Kyle Davis on drums. Their years of experience and expertise combine to create a unique rock sound.
http://milesnielsen.com/yawl/miles/Miles.html
Let it snap, let it roll, hand claps, drums crash, tele-tones and solos. Somewhere between a bar and the recording studio, Miles Nielsen’s stirs up his own pop rock brand of Beatles-eque Cosmic Americana. Pop rock arrangements and sunny melodies tucked between a long lost country folk steel guitar floating through speakers around crashing drums, bouncing bass lines and smooth as butter keys. Born in Rockford, IL, home of Cheap Trick and ‘Symbol’, power pop DNA runs through the veins of his songs and performances.
DJ SOLO is a Chicago based dj/producer/emcee, multi-media artist, and mad scientist! Currently making big waves in the dubstep/drumstep and bass music scene, SOLO continually raises the bar with turntablism and trick mixing techniques, high energy live performances, original bootlegs and remixes, and emcee skills both as a rapper and hype man for his fellow DJs.
As a rapper since the age of 7, and a musician/producer since the age of 13, SOLO has gone from of making bedroom boombox recordings, to producing original music for acts such as GZA, B-Real, Maroon 5, Matt & Kim, and Planet Asia, touring the world as an opening dj for DJ Muggs of Cypress Hill, Everlast from House of Pain, and GZA & Killah Priest from Wu-Tang Clan, and releasing an ongoing series of themed and eclectic mixtapes.
http://www.mainsqueezemusic.com/
The Main Squeeze is a raging funk experience from Bloomington, Indiana. They blend soulful vocals with high energy funk grooves and ripping solos that will leave you freshly squozen! The band just released their EP, “First Drops,” which can be downloaded for free on their website- http://mainsqueezemusic.com/media.html
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fresh-Hops/36410605562
Fresh Hops is a 7-piece band from the Tri-Town Area of North West Indiana, made up of Matt VanVlymen- Guitar/Vocals David VanVlymen- Bass, Brian Boros-Saxophone Stephan Cook-Violin/Vocals, Kevin Mardirosian-Drums, Joe Marcinek- Guitar/Keyboards/Vocals, Mikey Clark-Percussion/Vocals.
After three years of being together, their sound continues to evolve, as the fans and family continue to grow. Fresh Hops has created a love for the “live” show, incorporating the concept of “having fun” as the main idea. Each show is different, consisting of a mixture of creative originals, and catchy/crafty instrumental cover songs. Making each Fresh Hops show a new experience every time! To our loyal and loving fans, we are all in this together, so Thank You for your continuing support! See you at the next stop…
http://www.dirtfoot.com/fr_home.cfm
Dirtfoot – a Dose of Gypsy Punk Country Grumble boogie. “Here’s their deal: Imagine Nick Cave on a bed of rusty nails, the cover of “Gin and Juice” often mis-attributed to Phish (it was actually the Gourds), some old-timey “Dem Bones,” Old Crow Medicine show culture-clash, and that subtle fecal stench of Mr. Bungle skronk sax craziness: Get theses elements, let them stew in an oaken barrel for a number of years and out comes Shreveport, Louisiana’s Dirtfoot.” – Spencer, Synthesis.net
Whether performing on big stages at festivals, or playing intimate setting in pubs and the finer taverns all over the mid west & south, Dirtfoot puts on an uproarious show. The crowds come to take part in the fun and chaos, hollering to all the calls and responses, shaking their beancans, and getting down with the infectious grooves. There is only one Gypsy Punk Country Grumble Boogie band in the land… Dirtfoot.
http://www.facebook.com/savvychicago
Savvy is a Chicago-based Strangefunk band. Sometimes danceable, sometimes confusing, most often both, and always interesting. In short, Savvy tries to combine Daft Punk, King Crimson, and XTC into one tight package. In slightly longer, the band consists of several members of This Must be the Band, the only and best Chicago-based Talking Heads Tribute (probably one of the first well-known Strangefunk bands). Other notable members include Matt Walker (Smashing Pumpkins, Filter, Garbage, Liz Phair) and Alan Berliant (Mavis Staples).
Hailing from Toronto, the band combines live-instrumentation, turntablism and live sampling to not only reinterpret but also reinvent existing music of all genres right before your very eyes. With the remix culture these days being dominated by artists behind laptops, Keys N Krates are changing the game by bringing a refreshing live, hands-on approach, to the burgeoning scene of remixing. With the hard-hitting Adam Tune on the drums, World Champion DJ Jr-Flo behind the turntables, and the ever-soulful Matisse on keys, this Canadian trio is single handedly “Re-Inventing the Remix.”
http://chalicedubs.com/artists/positive-vibr8ions/
The bridge across the pond. Positive Vibr8ions combines Breezy straight out of East London with native Substr8 on the ones and twos. This team flexes any system it touches with modus operandi: building the massive. A fusion of US and UK sound, Positive Vibr8ions realizes the accessible side of Dubstep, while staying true to their roots.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/DEVIL-TRAIN/119918053698
This is a string band of American tradition…an alchemy of old time acoustic instruments, diverse and deeply rooted cultural legacies, seasoned players making a new sound for the times. This is Devil train.
James Ray (Minivan Blues Band, Al Kapone) – Acoustic Guitar
Clint Wagner (Banyan, Willy Waldman Project, Mashomatic, etc.) – Acoustic Guitar and Fiddle, Vocals
Randal Morton (Grass Fire) – Banjo {1975 national banjo champion }
Jonathan Ciaramitaro (Minivan Blues Band, Deering & Down, etc.) – Mandolin, Vocals, guitar
J.D. Westmoreland (Minivan Blues Band, Juego Listo, Delta Grass, Freeman Benefit etc.) – Upright Bass, Vocals
Graham Winchester – perc. (Mojo Possum, Copper Possum, ect)
Indianapolis, Indiana’s prog-funk ensemble, The Twin Cats, have been on the path to creating their own distinctive approach to fusion music since 2004 by blending influences from funk to prog rock, jazz and electronica. The Twin Cats style has been labeled as “Face melting funk in your face…melting it”.
The Twin Cats have been crushing dance floors at venues throughout the Midwest and have begun to take their show even farther. They have shared the stage with world renowned artist such as Charlie Hunter, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, The Greyboy All Stars, Rusted Root, Here Come The Mummies and Garaj Mahal and have made appearances at the Summer Camp, 10,000 lakes, F.U.N.K. fest and many others.
http://redeyedrooster.com/thehogslopstringband/
The Hog Slop String Band is a Nashville based old time string band comprised of seven energetic young musicians hailing from Georgia, Tennessee, California and North Carolina. Featuring Casy Meikle and Kevin Martin on fiddles, Graham Sherrill on banjo, Gabe Zorbanos on guitar, Robert Hardy (RH) Dyar Jr. on mandolin, Daniel Allen Frazier Jr. on washboard and Casey McBride on the washtub bass, these boys surely raise a ruckus.
Upon forming as a pickup square dance band in the summer of 2009, The Hog Slop String Band has since become one of the most sought after old time string bands of the Tennessee Valley area. Known for their outrageous facial hair and a rollicking repertoire heavily based on Georgia and Middle Tennessee fiddle tunes, these boys have provided entertainment for fashion shows, political conventions and whiskey distilleries as well as countless weddings, parties and soirees.
http://www.henhouseprowlers.com/
Chicago: a city known for its blues and its bluegrass. In the bluegrass history books, a pivotal stop, among others, along the road to success for the Monroe Brothers and, in more current times, noteworthy as home base for the long popular Special Consensus. And now, the Windy City serves as a critical intersection in the lives of five musicians, two who hail from Illinois and the others from as far and near as North Carolina, upstate New York and Missouri.
With a PBS series soundtrack already to its credit and a sophomore recording in the works, The Henhouse Prowlers have been barnstorming on to the red hot bluegrass scene since 2004. A couple of personnel shifts later, in 2007 the roughly thirty-something quintet made the commitment to go the distance, to be a full-time touring bluegrass band.
http://www.facebook.com/JaikWillisMusic?v=app_2405167945
Jaik Willis is an acoustic fireball. It is a high energy solo show featuring his soaring horn-like voice darting around a blistering broken-string approach to his acoustic flying V guitar, with original songs that are accessible, and message driven.
“Jaik Willis’ solo (Summer Camp 2010) performance, was the total package I had been craving all weekend as he delivered uncut soul to my ears his entire set. ”
-Greg Molitor, Music Marauders 2010
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Easy-Riders/265201041350
The Easy Riders come from the heart of the Midwest. Originating as a power trio, the band has come a long way in a short amount of time - transforming into a 5-piece youthful blues/rock band.
http://www.sparepartsmusic.com/
Fusing a mix of funk, rock, jazz, and more, Spare Parts is a Chicago based group rapidly gaining international acclaim. An eclectic list of influences ranging from Weather Report to The Beatles fuel the creative engines of Spare Parts, both live and in the studio. In addition to their successful weekly residence at Alive One Chicago, the band has played at festivals from Wakarusa and Summer Camp, to Festival de Jazz in Lima, Peru to name a few. Spare Parts is sought after in every type of market, pleasing the discerning ears of music aficionados and general listeners.
