Venue DI™ Artists
Ricky Skaggs
By
the ripe old age of ten, Ricky was one of the rare musicians to have
performed with the artists considered the triumvirate of
bluegrass...Bill Monroe, Flatt and Scruggs and the Stanley Brothers. 'I
met Bill Monroe when I was six and played onstage with him by request of
someone in the audience. That was the first installment into my life of
music...I got infected that night. Read More »
Donavon Frankenreiter
To
create his fifth full-length album Start Livin’, Hawaii-based
singer/guitarist/songwriter Donavon Frankenreiter holed up in a Southern
California studio for seven days with his longtime bassist
Matt Grundy—and no one else. The follow-up to 2010’s Glow, Start Livin’
is a nine-track selection of folk-infused songs that sweetly reflect the
simplicity of their recording. With its smooth showcasing of
Frankenreiter’s rich, honey-thick vocals and masterful guitar work,
Start Livin’ bears all the intimacy of an impromptu back-porch
performance and the tenderness of a treasured love letter. Read More »
The Devil Makes Three
With
a slightly punky perspective on vintage American blues, The Devil Makes
Three is a breath of fresh musical air on its eponymous Milan debut.
Laced with elements of ragtime, country, folk and rockabilly, the
critically praised, drummer-less trio – consisting of guitarist/frontman
Pete Bernhard, stand-up bassist Lucia Turino and guitarist Cooper
McBean – brings forth a genuine approach to acoustic music that is
deeply steeped in rhythm. Read More »
Mariachi El Bronx
Born
out of a desire to challenge themselves musically, Mariachi El Bronx is
the alter ego of Los Angeles punk band the Bronx. Conceived in 2006,
the idea came about when the Bronx were asked to play an acoustic set
and, rather than simply pare down their sound, they took their music in a
whole new direction, moving away from hardcore and exploring Latin
sounds. Read More »
Old Man Markley
An
amalgam of LA’s finest punk bands and seasoned bluegrass musicians, Old
Man Markley is creating music that defies boundaries. Founded in 2007
in the sunny San Fernando Valley, OMM cut its teeth playing countless
jams of bluegrass standards and covers of distinctly un-bluegrass songs
done bluegrass style. Read More »
The Smoking Flowers
Though
Scott Collins doesn’t say that going to Graceland to see Elvis Presley
in his coffin influenced his future as a musician, it’s hard to believe
it didn’t have an undeniable effect on his 3-year-old self. For Kim
Collins, her future career as a singer/songwriter may have been a bit
more predestined. For Kim, who grew up with a mother who was a singer
and guitarist in a folk band, The Travelers, in the sixties, it was
probably bred in the bone.
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Anne Harris Otis Taylor
Chicago-based
singer-songwriter and fiddle player Anne Harris has been crafting her
unique sound for over ten years and “continues to raise the bar on a
soulful blend of folk, pop, and roots rock on record, while her deft
instrumental abilities continue to resonate in concert.” [Illinois
Entertainer] In addition to her own projects, Harris is currently
touring internationally with multi-Blues Award winner, Otis Taylor,
where her fiddle and presence have become a signature element in his
band's innovative trance-blues offering. Read More »
Will Anderson
After
two solid years of touring behind them, the members of Mercury Records
recording artists Parachute entered the L.A. studio of producer John
Fields (Switchfoot, Jonas Brothers, Jimmy Eat World, Andrew W.K. and
Rooney) to record The Way It Was, the follow-up to their 2009 Top 40
debut, Losing Sleep. Read More »
Bob Minner
The
word “guitar” seems to be inseparable from guitarist, songwriter, &
producer Bob Minner. Having played guitar for 40 of his 46 years, you
could say that it has imbedded itself in the very core of his being. “I
have a picture of me at 20 months old with a plastic guitar in hand, so I
guess it was inevitable. I have always heard it in my head though, for
as long as I can remember” Bob says. Read More »
Bill Cooley
"In
what is surely one of the longest and musically richest partnerships in
Nashville, Bill Cooley has been playing guitar in Kathy Mattea's band
for 20 years." So writes the dean of Nashville's music critics, Robert
K. Oermann. Kirk Albrecht at minor7th.com describes Cooley as "... a
guitarists guitarist, like Vince Gill, who seems to be at home in most
any style." Read More »
Brittni Paiva
At
23 years of age, Brittni Paiva (pie –VAH) already a multi award-winning
instrumentalist is known for her stunning articulation of what she can
do on the ukulele going from slow and moving, to rapid-fire,
classical-ballet, to ancient Japan, translating forms of jazz, world
beat, pop, Flamenco and Latin, and filter these styles through her
4-string ukulele. Read More »
