Midnight Satire, a
duo with fiddle player Stephanie Ann and guitarist Christian Kady, started off
the evening. Kady broke a string near the end of the set. “We don’t know it’s important till it’s gone,”
he yelled between laughs. “It’s an important string!” the song they were going
to play for the encore, well, focused on the string that was broken and so, he
improvised a song instead. Judging by the audience reaction, Midnight Satire
received an A for effort. Kady mentioned
that the band is looking for a drummer. “They don’t have to be genius…if
someone auditions for 30 seconds and I like it, they’ll probably get the job.”
The Getbye is a folk rock trio comprised of Alex Taylor on percussion,
Kyle Smith on lead vocals and guitar and multi-instrumentalist Davy Pendry on
accordion, trombone and cello. At over 6 feet tall and topped with messy blond
dreadlocks, Pendry stands out in a crowd and even more so on a stage. They remain
popular after being nominated for and winning Orlando’s The Next Big Thing back
in 2010. Their popularity was made clear when more than half the restaurant left
after they finished their set.
Donning a leather jacket, a fedora, music-themed tattoos and
ear gauges, Nick Johnson doesn’t look like your typical banjo player. Johnson
wrote and recorded all the songs by himself before forming Sailor 1942 about 4
months ago. During the day, the members work together at a company that
manufactures banjos. By night, all 6 members become multi-instrumentalists. “If I hurt my right hand and I can’t play
banjo that night, someone else can play it and we can switch up.” After
learning guitar at age 12, he soon decided that music was something he could
get serious about. “Then I got expelled from high school, and I could focus my
attention on music completely!” Although the name of his employer was not
mentioned, he would like to thank the owners of the company for being a constant
source of encouragement and advice. His writing style is spontaneous,
consisting of writing down random lyrics and music arrangements on paper, then
combining the lyrics and music whenever they start making sense. However,
Johnson doesn’t want the band to be all about him. “Now, instead of me writing all the parts, we
all work together, which is both good and bad. Everyone wants to put their
piece in and I want everyone to be included. I wanna keep the morals and
meanings I originally had for the song, but not be a dictator about it.” Sailor
1942’s first music video is currently being recorded and titled “we’ve reverted to our 2005 waves.” Upcoming shows include a March 22nd
event at Odin’s Den, the April 13th Delandapalooza, and the April 20th
Rabbit Foot Records in Titusville.
Bellows, an experimental folk rock duo with Greyson Charnock
and Alex Stringfellow, is “The first
human band to leave the planet then return by choice.” During their psychedelic
performance, a drunk Christian Kady chimed in with some complimentary scream
action. Check out their website www.bandcalledbellows.com for more music.
Ending the night, Solo act Montgomery Drive bypassed the stage
completely and performed right in the middle of the gallery, sitting among the
ten or so people who were remaining. Montgomery Drive is Miami native Marshall
Rones, whose vocals were loud enough to make the use of a microphone completely
unnecessary. The show eventually turned into a jam session when Preston Hardwick,
an audio engineer for Booked Promotions, Christian Kady (Midnight Satire) and
Nick Johnson (Sailor 1942) joined in to provide further depth to the music. Rones
finished the night by singing a song in Japanese, one that he wrote while
touring Japan after the 2011 earthquake/tsunami.
More artist information
http://www.bookedpromotions.com/artists/acoustics/midnight-satire
https://www.facebook.com/TheGetbye
https://www.facebook.com/BellowsMusic
http://www.bookedpromotions.com/artists/acoustic/sailor-1942
https://www.facebook.com/MontgomeryDrive
location information:
The Taste Restaurant 717 W Smith St Orlando, FL 32804
www.tastecp.com
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