Steve D'Angelo is a local singer-songwriter originally from Fort Myers, Florida.  Steve has lived in Farmington, MI with his wife Lynn and son Nate the last 9 years.  Steve has played throughout the Southeast and Midwest U.S. touring as a solo act, as well as the Big Nate Band.  Steve has played as a solo, duo, trio and band act at several venues throughout Metro Detroit and Ann Arbor, including the famed Arts, Beats, and Eats two years running.  As a singer-songwriter who started singing in churches and was classically trained in voice, Steve found it easier to carry a guitar than a piano to local venues as a singer-songwriter.  Some 20 years pass and four underground full-length demos later, Steve D'Angelo released his first full band studio recorded album, "Dangerous Words" under the alias Steve D'Angelo Band.  This featured the fierce violin and mandolin talents of local Ron Ellman, as well as Greg Stryker, a master guitarist and singer-songwriter who has toured world-wide with Eddie Money.  After releasing the album at the Hard Rock Cafe in Detroit (2013), Steve later met his current bandmates of a year including Michael Plouffe on saxaphones, Eric Childress II on drums, and Jonathane Leavelle on bass.  Steve's folk/pop/country sound evolved into an eclectic rhythm influenced by jazz, rock, and R&B.  The Big Nate Band first played the Jazz Cafe earlier this year in 2015.  Steve continues to grace the Jazz Cafe at Music Hall as a solo and band act.  The Big Nate Band will begin recording their first album together in the summer of 2015. 

 "Ted Nagy takes a well-rounded approach to his songwriting; he studied Jazz at Wayne State University as well as a Creative Writing and continues to combine the two in all of his endeavors. As guitarist, musical director, and producer for several musical projects of poet M.L. Liebler, Nagy has performed with notable artists such as
Arlo Guthrie, Ken Kesey, Luis Resto, John Sinclair, Country Joe McDonald. One of the founders of the Detroit International Jazz Festival, tonight Nagy will be performing his lyrically driven Americana solo work." I’ve recorded and produced a number of albums and other recordings including “Paper Ghost Raindance”, “Beneath The Grand Heaven”, “Live at Junkbaby Studios”, and have been featured on the Motown Ambassadors release of “Detroit City”, which can now be heard on http://eamtradio.com/

Artist, musician, singer/songwriter, Karianne Hollowell has a multifaceted approach to create. Various genres, sounds, stories, people, and imagery inspire her to make music, and since learning to play guitar by ear at age nine, and piano at five, she’s felt an overwhelming desire to artistically share her ideas. Based in Detroit, she also finds great inspiration from the city…in the juxtaposition of nature and industry, both trying to thrive simultaneously; concepts differ from her rural, Michigan hometown. 

She believes that we do not just play with our hands, or sing with our vocal chords; the physical manifestation of what we make comes from a much deeper part of who we are as beings, and this authentic expression has the potential to bring people together. Her yearning to connect people through her stories and experiences can be felt in her raw, honest songwriting and voice.

As a songwriter, Detroit's Mike Galbraith owes as much to the Replacements as he does Bob Dylan, to Nirvana as much as Neil Young, to Calvin & Hobbes as Ernest Hemingway. Simple truths and insightful storytelling mark modern tales, oft beset by booze and heartbreak—like any good songwriter does. He can be a wordy bastard but tricks people into listening anyhow with hooks and sad songs about women.