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About: Plumb

Tiffany Arbuckle Lee (born March 9, 1975) is a Contemporary Christian singer-songwriter who uses the stage name “Plumb”. She has performed several different genres of music, including Alternative Rock and Christian Alternative rock and a few of her remixes have appeared on dance charts. She is known for her pensive lyrics and soprano voice.

1997 – 2000 (Band Years)

In 1997, Plumb released her self-titled debut album “Plumb”. In 1999, she released her second studio album “candycoatedwaterdrops”, which won the 2000 Gospel Music Association Dove Award for "Modern Rock Album of the Year". Two tracks from it were later covered by other artists; "Stranded" by Jennifer Paige and, in 2003, "Damaged" by Plummet.

Plumb was marketed as a band during the first three album releases on Essential Records. The band was named after the Suzanne Vega song "My Favorite Plum”.

2000 – Present (Solo Career)

Plumb wanted to leave the music industry after the 2000 album. Lee received a note from a girl a few hours before what she thought to be her final concert. The letter was about the Plumb song "Damaged" that Arbuckle Lee had written and recorded about a girl coping with being molested as a child. The note said "Whatever you do, I just want you to never forget that you have changed someone's life." The note inspired Arbuckle Lee to remain in the music industry.

In order to leave Essential Records, Plumb had to fulfill her contract obligations, and this led to “The Best of Plumb” record in 2000. She signed to Curb Records as a solo artist in 2003, releasing the album “Beautiful Lumps of Coal”. The lead single, called "Real", peaked at No. 41 in the UK Singles Chart.

Her album “Chaotic Resolve” entered the Billboard Top 200 album chart at No. 177 on March 9, 2006. "Better" reached No. 1 on the U.S. Christian airplay chart. The Bronleewe & Bose remix of her follow-up, "Cut", hit No. 1 on XM's dance hits channel BPM, and No. 5 on Billboard's Dance Charts Hot Dance Airplay.

Her third solo album, Blink, was released on October 9, 2007. "In My Arms", the first single from the album, was remixed by Kaskade, Scotty K, Bronleewe & Bose, Gomi, and Bimbo Jones and reached the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Dance Charts.

On May 19, 2009, she announced that she was recording a new album titled Beautiful History due out later in the year. The first single from Beautiful History, "Hang On", reached number one on US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play in 2009 and reached the top spot in Billboard's Hot Dance Airplay chart in 2010.

On December 20, 2012, she expressed a desire to rename her upcoming album from Faster Than a Bulletto Need You Now in honor of the victims and families of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

Discography:

Studio albums

1997 – Plumb
1999 – candycoatedwaterdrops
2003 – Beautiful Lumps of Coal
2006 – Chaotic Resolve
2007 – Blink
2013 – Need You Now

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About: Gary Procyshyn

GARY WAS BORN INTO A MUSICAL FAMILY AND HAS GROWN FROM AN ASPIRING FUSION GUITAR PLAYER (COMBINING JEFF BECK, EDDY VAN HALEN AND ERIC CLAPTON) AND HAS EMERGED AS A GENUINE SINGER/SONGWRITER/GUITAR PLAYER. HIS SONGS ARE STORYTELLER REALISM WITH STRONG METAPHORS AND LUSH MELODIC HARMONIES AND HIS INCREDIBLE TECHNICAL ABILITIES ON THE GUITAR ARE CLEVERLY HIDDEN WITHIN THE SONGS WITH FEEL AND PASSION.

HE WAS AWARDED THE LENNY BREAU MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP TO MUSICIANS INSTITUTE IN L.A. TO ATTEND A FULL YEAR AT GIT. THE AWARD CAME FROM GUITAR PLAYER MAGAZINE AND MUSICIANS INSTITUTE AND WAS FULL TUITION TO STUDY WITH MANY GREATS IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY.

HE PLAYED ORIGINAL MUSIC IN TORONTO AFTER GRADUATING FROM G.I.T. AND MOVED BACK TO WINNIPEG TO FOCUS ON HIS SOLO CAREER AS A SINGER SONGWRITER / GUITAR PLAYER / PRODUCER.

HE RECORDED HIS 1ST SINGER SONGWRITER CD "ONLY IF YOU'RE LISTENING" AND RECEIVED AN HONORABLE MENTION IN THE BILLBOARD WORLD SONG CONTEST AND AN HONORABLE MENTION IN THE INTERNATIONAL SONGWRITING COMPETITION IN LONDON ENGLAND FOR HIS SONG "LIKE A STONE". HIS VOCAL ABILITIES AND POTENTIAL AS A SONGWRITER WON PRAISE FROM LOCAL PRODUCER CHRIS BURKE-GAFFNEY ( CBG ARTIST DEVELOPMENT) AND NASHVILLE SONG PLUGGER SHERRIL BLACKMAN.

21 DAYS KICKED OFF THE WRITING FOR HIS CURRENT 2012 RELEASE "IN THE TIME THAT MATTERS" AND WON RUNNER UP IN THE OPEN/AOG CATEGORY OF THE INTERNATIONAL ACOUSTIC MUSIC AWARDS AND APPEARS ON VOLUME 6 OF THEIR GLOBAL COMPILATION CD. HIS VOCALS HAVE MATURED WITH HEART FELT UNIQUENESS AND DEPTH WITHOUT THE AID OF AUTO TUNE AND THE SOUL OF HIS MUSIC IS DIVERSE. THE NEW SONGS ARE BEAUTIFULLY COMPLIMENTED BY HIS OUTSTANDING GUITAR ABILITIES.

THE NEW ALBUM OF 15 SONGS IS AN ACOUSTIC ADVENTURE IN STYLE DIVERSITY WITH GUEST ARTISTS ENRICHING THE SONGS WITH FURTHER DEPTH. GARY'S GROWTH AS A SINGER SONGWRITER / GUITAR PLAYER / PRODUCER AND ENGINEER CAUGHT THE ATTENTION ONCE AGAIN OF CHRIS BURKE-GAFFNEY . CHRIS AND ARUN CHATURVEDI MIXED THE RELEASE WHICH WAS A GREAT HONOR FOR GARY FURTHER STRENGTHENING HIS CAREER AS AN ARTIST.

GARY IS CURRENTLY SHOWCASING HIS MUSICAL TALENTS LIVE WHILE PURSUING CO-WRITING, PUBLISHING AND PLACEMENT IN FILM/TV.

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About: J.P. Cormier

J.P. Cormier appears from the shadows at the side of the stage—an unsmiling mountain of a man in dark glasses—and stalks almost angrily to his seat in the spotlight. He picks up his instrument, adjusts his mic stand and asks the audience: “How’re ya now?” in a rumbling baritone.

Then he starts to tell his story.

His lyrics and melodies illicit every emotion you can muster as he paints picture after picture of loves lost, towns disbanded, fishermen killed by their trade and the most important moments of his own life. His voice is surprisingly sweet and soft-sounding, completely unexpected coming from his 6’4” frame.

He begins an instrumental on one of the five or six instruments he may have on stage with him and you realize that this man is not just a singer or a songwriter. As his fingers fly, with such speed and precision, upon each instrument in turn, you get another picture—one of pure joy and boundless energy; total spiritual abandon bordering in its execution on genius. It’s a word that is used to describe him again and again.

Then just as you think you’ve seen everything, he begins to speak to the audience. He’s more comfortable now. He’s getting over the shyness he feels when meeting new people. Now he feels he can connect safely. Opening up with a few one-liners, he moves on to amusing anecdotes and true tales from his own past. Some bring a roar of laughter from the audience that can be heard outside the theatre, others bring a tear to the eye. He’s home now, his banter is easy as he draws the crowd into each song and tune. The connection is complete and he is one with his audience. Even behind his dark glasses, you can tell that he too sheds a tear when his audience does.

J.P. has a profound effect on audiences, but those who know him know his heart far exceeds his stature. His acts of random kindness in and out of the music industry are legendary. There are many stories of the “big fella” going to play for someone on their deathbed, helping fledgling artists, or generally standing up for people who couldn’t do it for themselves. He spent two weeks in the theatre of war entertaining the NATO troops in Afghanistan and is always quick to do what he can for a good cause. Maritime artists like Dave Gunning, Darren McMullen, Douglas Cameron and many others have benefited from J.P.’s assistance and patient guidance. His charity work is endless, once raising 4 tons of food for Feed Nova Scotia. A man well aware of the plight of the needy, he celebrates his birthday each year with a fundraising concert for Christmas Daddies in Cape Breton.

Accolades for J.P. have come from far and near over the years. He’s been described as “the quintessential Maritime musician” and having “the ability to make the brilliant appear effortless”. His early years playing in Nashville and the southern states have earned him high praise from folks like long time pickin’ partner and collaborator Marty Stuart, who says, “He’s just incredible, one of the best players I’ve ever seen.” Country music legend Waylon Jennings has said, “I would be proud to share the stage with this man anywhere, anytime”, and J.P.’s greatest hero, Chet Atkins has honoured him as “…one of the most important guitarists of his generation.” Closer to home, former Governor General of Canada, Adrienne Clarkson proclaimed, “What you have to say as an artist is incredibly important and a treasure to our Nation” and Gordon Lightfoot reveals, “I have a great deal of respect for Mr. Cormier.”

J.P. takes it all in stride.

He still has his ritual three beers before the show, and prefers to be outside the venue where he can smoke and talk to folks as they enter. He’s either there or hanging out backstage with the fans and fellow musicians who show up and don’t feel there’s any reason why they can’t go right back stage and see him. There are no real walls around J.P. and he likes it that way. This may be why he’s stayed so far from the mainstream. He never wanted the barriers that great fame brings between an artist and their audience. The people who listen to J.P.’s music are his lifeline and his inspiration. One man’s simple story might inspire the next great J.P. song. Another’s may be about someone whose life has been changed by something that he wrote or played. He likes to hear about these things first-hand. But if the compliments get too heavy, he’ll just look uncomfortably at the ground and say, “I didn’t write nothin’, I just held the pen.”

With all of that said though, his modesty belies a long list of accomplishments. J.P.’s impressive body of work has earned him a vast and loyal fan base around the world and he has played extensively throughout Canada, Great Britain, Europe, and the USA. His songs have been number 1 hits on American and European radio and he’s won 12 East Coast Music Awards, 5 Music Nova Scotia Awards, and a Canadian Folk Music Award. His album, Another Morning, was nominated for a Juno in 1998 and has since sold nearly 100,000 copies. Performing countless times on television and radio, J.P. released 13 solo albums since 1995 and won more than 30 awards in 20 years of fiddle, guitar, banjo, and song-writing competitions.

In the 30 years since he made his first paycheck at a “Union” gig, going professional at the tender age of 13, he’s traveled hundreds of thousands of miles spending months at a time on the road. It’s no wonder he looks a little tired sometimes!

No matter what you call him–genius, recluse, friend, foe, outgoing, unapproachable, giving, kind, or thoughtful–there is so much more beneath the surface. Celebrated as a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, recording artist, teacher, collaborator, innovator, and award winner, J.P. Cormier’s talent is comparable to none. He’s praised in superlatives, but even these don’t do the man justice. The best way to get to know J.P. is to listen to his music. That is where his real heart lies. It is a world where everything is done fairly, no one wants, and there are no broken hearts allowed. In his song “The Messenger” he speaks not from himself but something much greater when he says:

“I am just the Messenger
I speak to every man
Every woman, every child
Who lives upon the land
My face is often hidden
Many do not wish to see
But when you’re in the mirror
Sometimes you look at me.”

J.P. Cormier is not to be missed. Stuff this good only comes around so often

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Discography:

Somewhere in the Back of My Heart (2012)

The Messenger – J.P. Cormier Sings (2008)
Noel – A J.P. Cormier Christmas (2008)
Take Five – A Banjo Collection (2006)
The Long River: A Personal Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot (2005)
Primary Color: The Owner’s Manual (2005)
Looking Back – Volume 1: The Instrumentals (2005)
Looking Back – Volume 2: The Songs (2005)
X8… a mandolin collection (2004)
Primary Color(2002)
Velvet Arm Golden Hand (2002)
Now That the Work Is Done (2001)
Heart & Soul (1999)
Another Morning (1997)
Return to the Cape (1995)

Albums That Are No Longer Available
Out Of The Blue (Out Of Print)
The Gift(Out Of Print)
Lord Of The Dance (Out Of Print)
When January Comes (Out Of Print)
The Fiddle Album (1991) CBC UG 1003

About: Dan Grigor

Dan Grigor, a 12-string virtuoso, has been playing guitar for more than 45 years. This season of his life has brought a new twist to his music. Tapping out melodies on the fret board with the right hand while chording with the left is a popular electric guitar technique. When taken to the acoustic 12-string, it requires an additional level of skill and talent, but as the finger ballet unfolds, it brings about a delightfully visual listening experience.

Refreshingly smart poetry accompanies the music and touches places in our hearts, our minds and our middles. Known for his wordplay and lyrical vocabulary, Grigor creates songs that say with few words the things we all feel. Then there’s the voice, the full, rich D-below-middle-C, back-of-the-room voice of experience. A voice familiar with love and life as well as pain and loss, the poetry articulates the beating of our hearts.

If you get a chance to see a live show, do it. The funny and incredibly talented Grigor entertains us by being himself. You feel as if you’ve made a new friend, or found an old one.

A prolific singer/songwriter, Dan Grigor has recently teamed with talented percussionist Ric Tortorete and bassist Mike Mountain for a captivating blues fusion experience. They are comfortable playing acoustic to provide captivating "small stage" entertainment guaranteed to make a dining experience or reception a truly special occasion, or plugging in and cranking it up to get feet tapping. Call For Info keeps the guests smiling and the glasses clinking without clashing with the flow of the environment, whether casual and boisterous or sophisticated fine dining.

Grigor has played and recorded with rock stars and for films and documentaries. He appears on several CDs including his own "Floating," available on his website, www.dangrigor.com.

Dan prefers Larrivee guitars, John Pearse strings and is also sponsored by and endorses JHAudio, Mey Chair Systems, and G7th Capo Company.

Dan also serves as the Publisher, Senior Writer and Videographer for BareFootMusicNews.com and its sister publications

Contact: press@dangrigor.com

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About: Heidi Browne

“BBC 6Music’s Tom Robinson has described ‘G.I.R.L.F.R.I.E.N.D’ as “a masterclass” in how to tell[…] a story - straight and direct, person to person, heart to heart.” FolkCast describes her music as “summery, sweet-n-sour, soulful and full of sass!”
Currently recording her second album, self-made woman and Oxford drop-out Heidi speaks three languages and plays several instruments. Her songs are ‘a string of pearls to the ears, nothing less!’ - Tom Robinson, 6Music

‘Based in Market Drayton, Heidi Emma Peach Brownehas been writing and gigging for ten years. Creativity and performance chops are like muscles – the more you use them, the stronger they get. People didn’t place this track in their favourite five because of its hifi production values or glossy arrangement; they loved it because the writing is sharp and direct and the vocal performance is absolutely f*cking immaculate. When most of us get up with a guitar to sing, we tend to concentrate on the playing and throw away the vocal into a nearby microphone almost as an afterthought. Whereas what the audience wants to hear is somebody telling them a story – straight and direct, person to person, heart to heart. Girlfriend is a masterclass in how to do just that – in a radiofriendly 2’39″ flat. Will we be including her on the BBC Introducing Mixtape next month? Damn straight.’ - Ruth Barnes, Amazing Radio

Contact: heidibrowne@hotmail.co.uk

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About: Tom Price-Stephens

After years of playing Beaches, BBQs and Bedrooms, the intimacy and honesty of those nights spent with friends is engrained in Tom's songwriting and performance, making rooms full of strangers feel instantly at home.

Tom Price-Stephens (TPS) is an acoustic singer-songwriter from South Wales, and has spent 2012 focusing on honing live performance before making his first record, TPS has played over 80 gigs so far this year and is still enjoying playing wherever people will listen.

"My name's Tom Price-Stephens.
I write songs and I sing them.
Sometimes I sing other peoples' songs.
Whenever people listen it makes me smile."

Contact: music@redtps.com

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About: Ciarán Brennan

Born 12th September 1983.. Yougest child of seven. Always a music lover and loved to sing as a kid.. Father and sister both played guitar. Influenced by all types of music and have many favourites suchas Oasis, Kasabian, The Strokes, Kings of Leon, Radiohead, the beatles, Stereophics, Christy Moore, Damien Rice, Jack Johnson, Paulo Nutini among hundreds of others.. I write about all and everything, Love, life, death, hopes, fears, and any other life situation i experience or think of.. hope you enjoy the music.. Either way I enjoy doing it ! 'Its better to burn out than fade away'.. Ciaran

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About: Carrie Rodriguez

At each stage of Carrie Rodriguez’s career—as a fiddler, singer, and songwriter—the Austin, Texas, native has learned the importance of letting go. That was certainly true when it came to recording her fifth solo album, Give Me All You Got, her first of largely original tunes in several years. “In the making of Love and Circumstance in 2008, I chose to sing other people’s songs,” Rodriguez explains. “I needed to take a step back from songwriting and think about the kinds of songs that feel important to sing. Doing that inspired me to write again.”

On Give Me All You Got, she says, “I’m laying out some extreme emotional highs and lows, which feels good. Take ‘Brooklyn’ [co-written with guitarist Luke Jacobs]. It’s very autobiographical, and I remember thinking, would I really want to share this? I decided, of course, why hold this back? It’s something that a lot of people can relate to—the acceptance of failure in a relationship, learning from it, and moving forward. ‘Brooklyn’ is also a song about taking a pause in order to really experience what you are feeling, something I find increasingly difficult in this modern era of constant communication and stimulation.”

Rodriguez, who came to attention a decade ago performing with singer-songwriter Chip Taylor, has established an impressive roster of touring, recording, and co-writing affiliations—with Lucinda Williams, Rickie Lee Jones, John Prine, Mary Gauthier, Alejandro Escovedo, guitarist Bill Frisell, and others. Although she has issued three albums under her own name and enjoyed major label support for 2008’s She Ain’t Me, the release of Give Me All You Got marks a giant step for Rodriguez. The album was recorded with her own band and produced by the renowned Lee Townsend, with whom she has worked closely in the past. And the songs—which she wrote, co-wrote, or handpicked from the repertoire of longtime collaborators—establish her musical identity more powerfully than ever before.

While Carrie’s father, David Rodriguez, was an accomplished songwriter, and took her on tour with him in Europe when she was a teen, song craft, like improvising on fiddle and singing, didn’t come automatically to Carrie. After sitting in on a sound check with her dad’s old Houston pal Lyle Lovett, she detoured from a degree as a classical violinist at Oberlin Conservatory and set herself on course to become a fiddler at the Berklee College of Music. There, her teacher, Matt Glaser, and her fellow students, including roommate Casey Driessen, helped her “find my groove and let go of that wall I had put up as a classical player.”

Another turning point came when Rodriguez met veteran songwriter Chip Taylor (“Wild Thing,” “Angel of the Morning”), who soon had Rodriguez touring and recording, and encouraged her to sing and write. “I’ve been a reluctant writer ever since I started, never quite feeling like I was supposed to be doing it,” Rodriguez confesses. “But I’m drawn to songs that are emotional and direct, and from working with Chip I learned that when you can just be open and not analyze too much, that’s when the truth comes out.”

After recording four studio albums with Taylor, Rodriguez made her solo debut in 2006 with Seven Angels on a Bicycle. “All of a sudden I found myself in this position of being called a singer-songwriter, which felt so strange,” she says. But she returns to that role quite comfortably on Give Me All You Got. The album includes songs by Taylor and Ben Kyle (with whom Rodriguez recorded the 2011 EP We Still Love Our Country), but its emotional core resides in originals drawn from Carrie’s personal experience. “I feel less afraid to write about what’s really happening, both to me and to people around me,” Rodriguez says. The song “Sad Joy,” for instance, arose from a conversation with Taylor about a loved one who was maintaining a “bright, beautiful attitude” while dealing with Lou Gehrig’s disease. “Chip and I were talking about how, when we are faced with those kinds of things, as sad and difficult as they are, they can also bring about a type of joy. The simple joy of people loving each other and holding each other up—in times of both celebration and in mourning. We started strumming some chords, and there it was, a song that lays out those raw emotions without being shy about it. Celebrating them, in fact.”

Give Me All You Got deals with a few dark themes, which is not surprising given that one of the first songwriters who inspired Rodriguez in her early teens was Leonard Cohen. “I listened to Leonard for a year and dwelled in the deep lowdown feelings he helped me feel,” she recalls. The sound of the new album, however, is “a little more infectious, rather than contemplative,” says producer Lee Townsend. “It still addresses Carrie’s roots in Americana, but also with a bit of a pop edge. I think it is her most mature record—every direction that is explored is distilled to an essential kind of expression.”

Townsend, known for his work with Bill Frisell, Loudon Wainwright III, Kelly Joe Phelps, Crooked Still, and many others, captured the band—Carrie on fiddle, tenor guitar, and vocals; Luke Jacobs and Hans Holzen on acoustic, electric, and lap steel guitars, mandolin, and vocals; Kyle Kegerreis on upright and electric bass; Eric Deutsch on piano, Rhodes, and Hammond B3; and Don Heffington on drums and percussion—essentially live in the studio. “The live energy of the band is central to this album,” he says.

“Ever since I first met and worked with Lee at a music festival in Germany, I have known he was the perfect producer for me,” Rodriguez says. “His approach to making an album is almost like a composer writing a symphony. He has the ability to group songs together and shape them so that the story they tell is a complete one, and even greater than the individual songs themselves. And like my favorite conductors, he manages to get the absolute best from each musician by making us all feel at ease and appreciated.”

With the release of Give Me All You Got, Rodriguez is ready to say the same thing about herself: “As a singer-songwriter, I feel like I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing. It’s a lifelong learning curve, and I hope I always stay as excited about it as I am now.”

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Carrie Rodriguez – Official Website

http://www.carrierodriguez.com/
Carrie Rodriguez - Reverbnation
http://www.reverbnation.com/carrierodriguez
Carrie Rodriguez - MySpace
http://www.myspace.com/carrieLrodriguez
Carrie Rodriguez - Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/carrierodriguez
Carrie Rodriguez - Twitter
https://twitter.com/carriemusictx
Videos!
Carrie Rodriguez - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/user/CarrieRodrigueztv
Buy Music!
Carrie Rodriguez – Official Store
http://www.carrierodriguez.com/album/we-still-love-our-country
Carrie Rodriguez - iTunes
https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/carrie-rodriguez/id10988517
Carrie Rodriguez - Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Carrie-Rodriguez/e/B00197HZZG/ref=ntt_mus_dp_pel
Carrie Rodriguez – Rhapsody
http://www.rhapsody.com/#artist/carrie-rodriguez?&_suid=1355344261748011905666908673223
Carrie Rodriguez – eMusic
http://www.emusic.com/listen/#/artist/carrie-rodriguez/12109073/
Carrie Rodriguez – Last FM
http://www.last.fm/music/Carrie+Rodriguez

About: The Black Cadillacs

The Black Cadillacs are a 6-piece rock and roll band, featuring 2 guitar players, bass, drums, keyboards and organ, and a stand-alone frontman. The Black Cadillacs have a diverse array of influences from classic bands like The Rolling Stones, The Who, and Pink Floyd to more modern bands like My Morning Jacket, The Black Keys, and Jack White. Over the last 3 years they have been working hard honing their sound and live performance, and have made a name for themselves in the region. Their second album, “Run”, was released under Young Giant Records on June 5th, 2012.

Band Members:

Will Horton - Vocals

Matthew Hyrka - Lead Guitar
Philip Anderson - Bass
John Phillips – Rhythm Guitar
Adam Bonomo - Drums
Kevin Hyfantis - Keyboards

Contact the band directly at:
blackcadillacsband@yahoo.com

Booking: Maddie Sullivan
maddiesullivan@weareyounggiant.com

The Black Cadillacs – Official Website

The Novel Ideas – Official Website

http://www.thenovelideas.com/
The Novel Ideas - Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/thenovelideas
The Novel Ideas - Twitter
https://twitter.com/thenovelideas
Videos!
The Novel Ideas - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/user/thenovelideas/videos?view=0
Buy Music!
The Novel Ideas - Bandcamp
http://thenovelideas.bandcamp.com/
The Novel Ideas – Official Store
http://thenovelideasstore.bigcartel.com/
The Novel Ideas - Soundcloud
http://soundcloud.com/thenovelideas/sets
The Novel Ideas – Last FM
http://www.last.fm/music/The+Novel+Ideas
The Novel Ideas - Noisetrade
http://noisetrade.com/thenovelideas

About: The Novel Ideas

The Novel Ideas are a folk rock outfit of friends from the great state of Massachusetts. They spent the past year recording their third album, "Home" in a barn in Jaffrey, NH.

Band:

Daniel - Guitar/Vocals

Danny - Pedal Steel/Guitar/Vocals
Will - Drums/Vocals
James - Bass/Vocals
Sarah - Vocals
Ezra- Trumpet

Contact: thenovelideas@gmail.com

Dimitri & Josephine – Official Website

http://www.dimitriandjosephine.com/
Dimitri & Josephine - Reverbnation
http://www.reverbnation.com/dimitriandjosephine
Dimitri & Josephine - MySpace
http://www.myspace.com/dimitriandjosephinemusic
Dimitri & Josephine – Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/dimitriandjosephine?sk=app_2405167945#!/dimitriandjosephine
Dimitri & Josephine - Twitter
https://twitter.com/Dimitri_and_Jo
Dimitri & Josephine - Soundcloud
http://soundcloud.com/dimitriandjosephine

About: Dimitri & Josephine

Dimitri & Josephine’s music encompasses a myriad of ideas, taking inspiration from Buddhist philosophies, Sufi poetry, Russian classical music, the folk glitter of XXI century and most importantly, the duo's personal life experiences.

Dimitri & Josephine have been working together under different names for the last 12 years. Their debut album as KINZAZA duo was released in the US and worldwide by Narada/Virgin/EMI in 2001. The album reached number 2 on the World/New Age/Ambient radio charts. Also, music videos shot by the duo won 7 platinum awards in Salt Lake City Aurora festival and climbed to 4 on Bravo TV.

Now they confidently return as Dimitri & Josephine with live shows and an upcoming album tentatively titled as "Cloud on a leash" and is currently preparing a world tour to include Europe, US and Russia.

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