Band Bio: Derek Burkins continues to capture praise and new listeners each time he takes the stage. With fluid guitar work, thoughtful lyrics, and an authentic and emotive voice, his music is drawn from both the contemporary singer/songwriter world as well as the country folk poets such as Guy Clark, John Prine, and Townes Van Zandt. Others have compared his voice and music to Richard Shindell and John Gorka. Derek was most recently a finalist in both the 2011 Vermont SolarFest Songwriting Competition and the 2011 Advance Music Singer/Songwriter Competition. He has spent the month of February writing songs as part of February Album Writing Month (FAWM) and will use many of those new songs to start recording an album for release this summer. To hear more, see video, or find out where Derek is playing next, please visit: www.derekburkins.com or http://fawm.org/fawmers/derekburkins/
Website: www.derekburkins.com
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TBA
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TALL TALL TREES is the assemblege of four musicians on a journey into the irregular. Hailing from four corners of the globe and brought together
by the downtown music scene in NYC, the band formed in 2008 to realize the music of jazz bassist turned banjo-playing songwriter, Mike Savino. The following year saw the release of a self-titled debut record on their own Good Neighbor Records. Recorded in the home studios of Savino, guitarist Kyle Sanna, and percussionist Mathias Kunzli, the twelve tracks on Tall Tall Trees are eclectic, touching on surf rock, indie folk, sentimental balladry, and afrobeat. The album met with critical success climbing the CMJ radio charts and receiving placements on MTV, History Channel, Animal Planet, and Lifetime. The addition of bassist Benjamin Campbell filled out the performing line-up and the band began to tour in support of the record.
Two years, many shows, and one highly successful Kickstarter campaign later, Tall Tall Trees is putting the finishing touches on its sophomore effort.
December 2010: The band began recording its second album on the night of a lunar eclipse, in a church nestled in the sticks of Woodstock, NY, and emerged two weeks later with a testament to the evolution in their electric banjo-driven sound. The result, Moment, is a departure from the quirky bounce of their self-titled debut and a journey into darker territory as songwriter Mike Savino explores more serious and personal matters in this set of lyrically driven songs. Produced entirely by the band, the album is a snapshot of musicians in peak creative form, crafting album as art in a one-off mp3 world.
Originally sparked by a camping trip into the Alaskan wilderness, the album tells the tale of a man searching for connection with his environment and the people around him. On the final night of their trip, exhausted and beaten nearly mute by the elements, the Tall Tall Trees sat around a campfire in a rocky, dried-out riverbed when the clouds parted, revealing the biggest moon they'd ever seen. One word was uttered.
Moment.
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Brett Deptula
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A singer/songwriter/guitarist from Upstate New York, TJay plays a mix of Rock, Jazz and Blues. Think Steely Dan meets Dave Matthews with a side of Stevie Ray Vaughan. He's had the honor of sharing the stage with The Doobie Brothers, Blues Traveler, Little Feat, The Neville Brothers, Leon Russell, Dave Mason, and more...
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Madonna Night
Vedora, Lily Sickles, Pooloop, Matt Perry, El dora, Joe Redding, Jenny Martin, Joe Adler and several more cover Madonna!
