Al MacKinnon has been playing guitar and keyboards since the early sixties. He started writing his own music at the age of 14 and began playing music professionally when he was in high school. He has enjoyed a career of teaching and kept his music as his hobby and side-line, with only brief periods of being a full-time musician. Now a grandfather, he still enjoys writing songs and recording in his home studio, getting out from time to time to play with friends and/or to an audience.

We are LT Henry.

We come from Stanhope so all your threats are empty.

We are fueled by hard liquor and a desire to create.

Eric and Alex make most of the songs.
There are other honorary members that never seem to be around when we want to record, either because they joined the air force or are at rutgers or something else entirely.

We were formed in 2006 in a basement during a night of heavy drinking near music instruments. We started to jam and while it sounded kind of awful we were determined. Later that year we recorded Azariel. It would be our textbook song.

In 2007 we had enough music to throw together an album. Songs for the Criminally Insane, it was called. Because you'd have to be criminally insane to listen.

We never stopped recording, and by September of 2008 we had enough songs to release an EP (That Fight Turned Into a Gunfight EP) and a double album (Night Falls on Sussex County).

It's 2009 and we are working on a new album. I don't think we'll ever stop making music.

"When I was a kid I remember my mother saying it's OK to be a non-conformist. I thought that was somewhere between a capitalist and a communist..."

ARCTIC - the band and/or solo project of Marcus Martin - is all about duality. His childhood in Yellowknife, a small gold mining town in the Arctic region of Canada's Northwest Territories, was a stark contrast to his experiences in a private UK boarding school. He grew up in the land of lakes, trees, rocks and ice with true wilderness spirit and is equally at home sharing his ARCTIC adventures in any big city, where there are more people on one street than in his whole hometown.

Coming from the Tom Morello school of guitar texture, he has learned to challenge the listener by layering unique sounds usually found only in the electric guitar world. As a loop-based acoustic artist he tours with an 80 lb. effects pedalboard - not traveling light compared to most acoustic singer-songwriters.

His live set is where this duality takes flight, as he constructs each song before the audience, piece by piece. Influenced by both 70's progressive rock and conventional songwriters of the day, ARCTIC bridges a world of opposites together. He layers haunting melodies on top of his arrangements, improvising like a jazz artist, intertwining vocals and guitar into a chilled and airy soundscape.

"I think it's hard not to be an environmentalist, growing up on the land."

His environmental message is not watered down and mixed into his music: they are separate entities. His music is an introduction; it is the common ground between him and the listener. As many will attest, he does his best to meet everyone after his show to say hi. You never know where the conversation will go, but people always want to know more about the ARCTIC - both the region and the band.

Marcus is based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

•  Compliment

The project “zoop” and the album “Music On Hold” is the result of a work two Moscow’s musicians – bassist, composer “zoop” and saxophonist Mikhail “Syntheticsax” Morozov. Launched as a studio venture in 2004, the duo has been recently expanded to the format of a live-performing band which tends to force locks of the Moscow most bourgeois and snobbish jazzy clubs in the nearest future.

•  A whole lot of Jazzy...

Trike is a duo, comprising of Stephen Taylor and Xania Keane. Stephen plays keyboard, digital guitar, trombone and sings. Xania plays fiddle, glockenspiel, keyboard, sings, dances (Irish/Quebecois style) and raps.

Trike's style is Synth-pop, New Wave, with various other elements. They are audience-interactive, teaching people dance moves they make up. Their songs are catchy pop songs, high energy and dancey. Onstage, there is a great deal of theatricality and performance.

Their influences are: Pulp, The Cure, Talking Heads, Devo, The Cars, Belle and Sebastian, old Public Enemy, Magnetic Fields and Joy Division.

There is a lot of humour in the music, and the songs are pretty bouncy/happy, although there are also a lot of bittersweet emotions in the lyrics.

Addicted to performing, Trike has played almost forty shows since the beginning of September in Vancouver and Victoria, BC, Canada.

Trike also won $20,000 on "The Gong Show" (a contest which was on radio and television) with their instructive-dance song, The Trikey, which enabled them to go on tour to Europe in the Spring of 2008.

Their album, "The New Album" was number six on the charts of Kootenay Coop radio for three months.

Derek and the Wonderdogs were formed in the winter of 2007 for a brief one-off show, playing just one song. Formed just an hour prior to showtime, the musical chemistry quickly showed itself, and they quickly learned the song just in time for the performance. It all went well, and the musicians decided to make this more than a one-off thing. Since then, they have played at a number of events, namely their school's film festival, and their multiple Improv Night events, for which they have become the house band. They soon began to forge their own sound, a unique blend of heavy blues-rock, jazz-influenced jamming, and a 70s singer-songwriter writing sense. Soon to be playing around LI during the summer.

Public Address System is

Peter Morley: Guitar/Vocals
Haley Reap: Bass/Vocals/Keyboards
Peter Roland: Drums