MAD TOAST LIVE!

Violinist Randy Sabien and his String Jazz Quartet consisting of Mike Dowling, Jeff Eckels, Matt Turner and hosts, Chris Wagoner and Mary Gaines joining on violin and cello.  The Brink Lounge was packed for one of the greatest  Mad Toast Live shows to date.

http://www.randysabien.com/

Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT9kuwly-iU

Daylight in the Swamp is a contemporary bluegrass band based out of Madison,Wisconsin. The band members are a collection of some of the top musicians in the area. The various influences they bring to the group show the diversity of their backgrounds.

www.daylightintheswamp.webs.com/

Video

http://youtu.be/Lh41ncejY8c

Led by songwriter Jay Moran, local rock/folk band Emmetville brings their talents to the Mad Toast Live stage.

http://www.reverbnation.com/jaymoran

Intemperance Collective is a Balkan band "playing the folk dance music of Eastern Europe and beyond with intemperate zest" and caters to folk dancers.

"The band features folk-dance and Balkan music cognoscenti, along with smoking vocals, an exciting and varied repertoire, and . . . [gasp!] . . . an instrumentalist who jumped ship to play the tuppan."

intemperancecollective.blogspot.com

Artist, author, radio host and performer Gregg Williard reads his original cyber-punk fiction.   Check out his radio show on 89.9 WORT in Madison every 3rd and 4th Friday of the month from 11:00 to 12:00 midnight (just before Mad Toast Live!).

www.wort-fm.org/programming-music-mixed.php

Video Here   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY0OPnHMfhE

Evan Murdock, previously of the Lonesome Rogues and the Kentucky Waterfalls presents his newest band: Evan Murdock and the Imperfect Strangers, which includes members of the Cork n’Bottle String band, Count this Penny and North Country Drifters and Big Mouth Collective.

www.facebook.com/evanmurdockmusic

http://youtu.be/bbWB_tPJ964

3 wayward Kentucky Colonels (really!) forming a Madison, WI based super group of pickin', grinnin', and general insanity.  Featuring Col. Kirsten Earley, Col. Matt Earley and Col. Andy Moore from WI Public TV's "30-Minute Music Hour"

reverbnation.com/winndixie

Minneapolis songwriter Mother Banjo.

Her music combines the haunting sounds of traditional folk and gospel with contemporary alt-country and Americana hooks.  Poetic and rich, her songs are sad, sweet and full of the stories that inhabit the wide open prairies of the Midwest.

www.motherbanjo.com

The Weather Duo is the only post-contemporary chamber ensemble in Madison, WI, and possibly the world. To learn more, visit:

www.weatherduo.com

Check out the video here:  http://youtu.be/olp2FaD3wN0

Drawing on influences from Stevie Wonder to Bonnie Raitt, Gwen Stefani to Van Morrison, Ani Di Franco to James Brown, Whiskey Doll's brand of contemporary blues-rock features bold ensemble vocals and driving improvisational instrumentals

web.me.com/violinsanity/Site/Whiskey_Doll.html