Romagnolo thoroughbreds, discovered in the very first years of life a passion for singing. The first advice on how to properly deliver the voice receiving from his father, a professional singer in the'60s and'70s. After some experiences with different bands, 18 years starts to "study" with his first teacher Paola Fabris. In the same year gives life to "Just in Three", acoustic trio made up of three guitars and three voices, known to the public Ravenna. At only 19 years, after a hearing, becomes the voice of "Empty Tremor", a sextet of promising musicians in the area, with which it achieves in a few months the first album "Apocolokyntosys", published in Rising sun. The curiosity of listening to all kinds of music, from Rock to Jazz, from the Funky Soul and led him to discover or to reassess, artists and large items of every age like Al Green, Glenn Hughes, Stevie Wonder, Al Jarreau, Kenny Loggins , Marvin Gaye, from which assimilates a timbre typical "black" until real experimenters of the instrument-item as Demetrio Stratos and Bobby McFerrin. In 1996 he enrolled at D.A.M.S. Music of Bologna. Under the guidance teacher Luisa Cottifogli, which deals with the most "opera" of singing in 1998 participates in the "Festival of New Voices Castrocaro" coming in the final. Then, continuing the activity live a frenetic pace, attended several seminars held by experts from the most important voice in song, including his friend Franco Fussi, internationally renowned speech pathologist and deepens his personal knowledge on the texts and methods in the sector such as Serge Wilfart and Seth Riggs. - (Read more)

Starting out in 1998 as a drum and bass collective, Grimelock already has come a long way in music. In 2004 they discovered Plasticman on Nuit Blanche, and decided to play grime, dubstep and dark garage. The year after, they released 2 mixes, which received a good response. But it wasn't for last year, when dubstep saw it's growing point in Belgium, that the bookings started to arrive. They played together with Youngsta, Skream, ThinKing, Scan One, Kode9, Distance, Maximum, Chef, Geeneus, Plastician, Roll Deep, JME, Skepta,... 2006 brought the release of 2 other mixes (The 27 murderers and Doggy Style), now with own production. Not only were they working on own music, they also started a new party concept called Stainage. After already promoting successful parties together with Boups (Le Gazon, Nuit Blanche...), they created a strictly grime and dubstep evening with names like Plastician, D1, Geeneus, Youngsta, Riko Dan, Slimzee, Hatcha and Crazy D, but also gave their support to local dj's and producers. Their personal production, with tracks like The City, Brussels Target, Night Ridder, Ghost Town and Little Soldier, can be described as blending dark sub bass influenced music with grime beats. Bringing variation with some more uptempo beats in Pepper Jack, Test Your Mind and Kawal. - (Read more)

Born out of the intensely creative and artistic art rock and fusion movements of the seventies, Happy The Man is one of the most legendary progressive rock bands of all time. Although Happy The Man only released two official albums before breaking up, their impact was strong enough to durably endear the group to a cult following that has been growing ever since. And with the passing of the years, Happy The Man’s music has demonstrated a timeless quality which suggests that it was not only ahead of its time, it was also, in many ways, beyond this world. Now, twenty five years after parting ways, Happy The Man has returned with a new album, The Muse Awakens, and is ready once again to thrill their devoted fans worldwide. The new album picks up right where they left off, characterized by strong compositions with varying mood and intensity while creatively combining the quirky interplay of rhythms and melodies with lush atmospheric textures. Original members Stanley Whitaker (guitar) and Rick Kennell (bass) first met in Germany and soon returned to the US, enlisting Frank Wyatt (keyboards, saxes, flute), Kit Watkins (keyboards) and Mike Beck (drums) and proceeded to create two of the most deeply admired prog-rock albums of all time. Their Arista Records releases, Happy The Man (1977) and Crafty Hands (1978) (the latter of which Ron Riddle replaced Beck on drums) are among the most respected albums of all time among art-rock and fusion musicians. After breaking up in 1979 the members of Happy The Man pursued various other projects and it was during one of these side trips that guitarist Stanley Whitaker, beseiged by adoring Happy The Man fans at a festival in Mexico, decided to put the band back together. Whitaker, Kennell, and Wyatt had been befriended by keyboard whiz David Rosenthal (Billy Joel, Rainbow, Robert Palmer, Steve Vai) and he became the obvious choice to fill the very large shoes of Kit Watkins, who no longer wanted to play live. - (Read more)

Composer Petr Wajsar founded the HI-FI band in 2002. They have been playing in the current line up since 2004, when they also reached the semi-final of the Coca Cola Pop Star music competition. Hi-fi basically focus on electronic dance music and jazz, but their songs include many genres such as hip-hop, reggae, techno and drum´n´bass. Original lyrics in Czech and English often include wordplay, rap and beatbox. Apart from live instruments the band often uses electronics and drum-machines. Most of the repertoire are original songs, but jazz standards in dance and other arrangements can be included – depending on the venue. - (Read more)

Trumpet player Kelley Bolduc founded Hot Like Fire during her final year at Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. She met a student from Barbados and attended a performance of his where she won a round-trip ticket to the small Caribbean island. After falling in love with reggae and soca music she returned to Boston to start her own band, commencing as an eleven- piece group, with members hailing from different Caribbean islands and America. Over the past nineteen years Hot Like Fire has refined itself to a contemporary six-piece band. The band plays several nights a week during the summer months and has become the most sought after reggae party band throughout the New England area igniting audiences performance after performance. Hot Like Fire is a professional, established and well-managed, authentic reggae band. They perform for corporate events, backyard parties, music festivals, weddings, private events, cruises, colleges, ski resorts and clambakes...you name it. - (Read more)