MAD TOAST LIVE!

World-class jazz violinist Christian Howes joins Madrid-based pianist Federico Lechner in a special Mad Toast Live Concert event.  In August, 2009, Christian was ranked (for the third time) as the #2 violinist in the Downbeat Critics Poll “Rising Stars”. Says All About Jazz ,”as a jazz violinist he has no peer”.  The Minneapolis Tribune called Christian ”arguably the most intriguing young violinist in jazz”.

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First reaching national recognition through his powerhouse duo, Timbuk 3 (remember "Future's So Bright I've Got To Wear Shades"?, Pat, along with his friend, Jackson Browne, has established The Steel Bridge Songfest--now one of the country's  hot-spots for the best up-and-coming songwriters to work alongside some of music industry's top pros to create visionary new music and raise money and awareness to help save a remarkable Wisconsin landmark.

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First reaching national recognition through his powerhouse duo, Timbuk 3 (remember "Future's So Bright I've Got To Wear Shades"?, Pat, along with his friend, Jackson Browne, has established The Steel Bridge Songfest--now one of the country's  hot-spots for the best up-and-coming songwriters to work alongside some of music industry's top pros to create visionary new music and raise money and awareness to help save a remarkable Wisconsin landmark.

purgatoryhill.com

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Chicago-fueled (and now Colorado-located) nationally touring acoustic rock artist, Dave Tamkin maintains his own popular blog, Head Above Music, which was created as a free resource for musicians to find tips about gear, touring, travel, health and other important interests related to the working musician. Denver is where Chris Webb calls home and performs ferociously in the Metro area. A graduate of CU-Boulder’s School of Music Webb’s musical accomplishments include sharing marquees with Sister Hazel, Leftover Salmon, The Big Wu and The Samples.

chriswebbmusic.com

davetamkin.com

Chicago-fueled (and now Colorado-located) nationally touring acoustic rock artist, Dave Tamkin maintains his own popular blog, Head Above Music, which was created as a free resource for musicians to find tips about gear, touring, travel, health and other important interests related to the working musician. Denver is where Chris Webb calls home and performs ferociously in the Metro area. A graduate of CU-Boulder’s School of Music Webb’s musical accomplishments include sharing marquees with Sister Hazel, Leftover Salmon, The Big Wu and The Samples.

chriswebbmusic.com

davetamkin.com

Based in the Platteville, WI area, Okham’s Razor is the acoustic folk/rock duo of Roy Schroedl and Eric Fleming or Kevan Norin. Their four original CD's are a collaboration of the band's influences which range from Tom Petty, Chris Smither, John Mellencamp and the Black Crows to Hank Williams, Sr., Gene Autry, Jimmy Rogers, The Beatles, Jethro Tull, Dave Matthews & REM. Active in southern WI for many years, their vocal harmonies are top-shelf.

A songwriter whose catalog of hundreds of songs include folk, pop, musical theater, gospel, country, Big Band and other genres, Frank X. Sommers has also been a writer/producer in several different mediums, including theater, music and television. His musical theater adaptation of the Miramax movie "The Englishman Who went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain" was showcased in the Disney/ASCAP workshop program in New York.

Based in the Platteville, WI area, Okham’s Razor is the acoustic folk/rock duo of Roy Schroedl and Eric Fleming or Kevan Norin. Their four original CD's are a collaboration of the band's influences which range from Tom Petty, Chris Smither, John Mellencamp and the Black Crows to Hank Williams, Sr., Gene Autry, Jimmy Rogers, The Beatles, Jethro Tull, Dave Matthews & REM. Active in southern WI for many years, their vocal harmonies are top-shelf.

Lang-Croasdale, Becker and DeBroux have been creating beautiful new yet classic jazz sounds together for many years--often heard at the Orton Park Festival and other great Madison venues. Upright bass, keyboard, drums and vocals.  

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