Hailing from Newburgh, NY – Ayo NiSh! is a multi-talented rising Performing Artist known as a Songwriter, DJ, Educator, and Social Entrepreneur. The originality of her stage presence can be felt by all age groups while expressing her unique art. Her debut single “D.T.O.D”, Different Type of Different, from her ” Overdue” project, incorporates her beliefs on self-love and empowerment. “Being different means staying true to yourself. Imagine if we all did that?” -Ayo NiSh!
Sam Meyerson lives and works in New York City. After receiving his Bachelors in Media, Society and the Arts at SUNY Purchase in 2005, he taught art to ages 8–18 throughout Philadelphia schools. Upon moving to NYC in 2009, he’s been an art teacher, sign painter, muralist & illustrator. Currently he continues his freelance art making, and teaches a college course in Lettering and Type Design.
His work on walls and on canvas convey the intersection of human interaction and the built and natural environment. Drawing from experiential awareness, the colors and humorous spirit of Sam Meyerson’s work translate the eccentricities of the environments in which we live.
I was born in White Plains, New York and at age 8 moved to Newburgh, New York where I continue
to reside to this day. I have been drawing since I was 4 or 5 years old and was fascinated by comic
books and cartoon animation. Both of my parents were from artistic backgrounds and gave me a
basic understanding of drawing shapes and using color. I was continuously drawing throughout my
childhood and into my teenage years, first copying cartoons and comics and later creating more free-
form, abstract work that was influenced by Grafitti Art and Surrealism. As I advanced and learned
more about other artists, I became influenced by Dondi White, Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, M.C. Esher,
Picasso, H.R. Giger, and Robert Crumb to name a few. I didn’t know I wanted to follow art as a career
until my senior year in high school. At that time it was clear that creating art was an essential part of
my everyday life and my notebooks were constantly filled with drawings. I made it a goal to attend
art school after graduation to better my understanding of art and design.
In 2005, I became a Parsons School of Design graduate in Fine Art Illustration. Throughout
the ten years after graduation, I freelanced for several clothing companies, worked as a Graphic
Designer at a print shop and a lighting fixture company and took on various odd jobs while
continuing to produce art, have shows, and explore a wide variety of mediums and subject matter. In
2010, I had an opportunity to take part in an Artist in Residency program in Bali, Indonesia for 3
months under the direction of an incredible artist, Dewa Nyoman Batuan, who specialized in Mandala
paintings. The experience of Balinese culture coupled with the teachings of an artist who had truly
mastered his craft, created a life changing impact on my creative process and pushed me to another
level of dedication and focus with regard to making work and exploring inspiration. Once I returned,
I completed an entire series of my own Mandala paintings and began to really delve into themes
about higher consciousness, evolution, and expansion.
In the years that followed, I created a number of series, perpetually finding new ways to
transform the recognizable into detailed, complex images that were rendered with the intention of
giving insight into other imagined planes of existence. The work was attempting to convey some
essence, some rooted feeling or perception of possibility, by combining the abstract with realism and
adding layers of intricacy that could be interpreted in a variety of ways. This practice of transforming
and pushing through into the unknown never failed to create ongoing inspiration for new works of
art (something that has remained true through the present day).
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Imagine if you could take loyalty, friendship, wit and humor, and combine it with laser beams, neon lights, robots, ninjas, and Sasquatch, to create a musical genre? PONTOON did just that.
These 3 oddly ordinary guys, bring the unconventional to the stage, in the form of
1 drum kit, 2 trombones,
4 synthesizers, 1 vocoder, lots of pedals and cords and wires, and quite often, live projections.
Their tracks are all originals and completely unplanned. Their songs are created as they collaborate during live sessions. A highly creative musical banter so to speak. Song titles present themselves during this process, as history, current and events, and plans for the future are woven together, allowing them to evolve as musicians, friends, and cavemen.
3 childhood friends, originally from Ramsey New Jersey, who began playing together in Brooklyn NY in 1999. They now call Beacon home.
They are everything that you’ve never expected. they are PONTOON.
Singer-songwriter, guitarist and mulit-instrumentalist Jeremy Bass’s latest release, The Greatest Fire (JungleStrutMusic, 2018), has been hailed as an “indie-pop/alternative masterpiece.” A previous set of crowd-funded twin EPs, Winter Bare and New York in Spring, won multiple awards, including the prestigious Lennon Award from the John Lennon Songwriting Contest, as well as a Mozart Award from the UK Songwriting Contest. He is the Music Director and bandleader for the OBIE award-winning The Secret City, and plays regularly in NYC, Los Angeles, and the Woodstock and Catskill areas.
A blend of powerhouse vocals, poetic lyrics, and melodies to soothe the soul… Logan Callahan is a musician who seeks to blur genre lines while performing, switching from radio pop to ’90s grunge covers in a single set. His original music seeks to accomplish this same feat by avoiding labels and letting every tone speak for itself. With influences ranging from Jeff Buckley to Chris Cornell and a hint of Prince, Callahan is sure to keep audiences on their toes.
Logan Callahan released his debut album, All My Mistakes, in January 2017 to reviews highlighting an “impassioned voice that has the weight of the world on its young shoulders” (Ioan Humphreys, Louder Than War) and “offering the listener a blanket in which to keep their legs warm whilst allowing the vaguely mournful, predominately acoustic guitar led, sounds to drip over the ears” (Tim Whale, Emerging Indie Bands Blog)
Logan Callahan has made in-show appearances on both Radio Woodstock’s Locally Grown and Massachusetts’ WTBR. Both performances saw Callahan adding an acoustic edge to his own material and selectively chosen cover songs from artists such as Jeff Buckley, Todd Rundgren, Queensryche, Godsmack and more. Logan Callahan was also voted as a winner of New York’s WRRV Hudson Valley Homegrown showcase for the 2017 Record Store Day held at Poughkeepsie NY’s Darkside Records.
Logan Callahan is currently working on material for his second album all the while broadening the moods and style of his music to give everyone something to enjoy.
Cloud is a singer-songwriter, electric guitarist who uses music as a way to process their wide-range of emotions and invites others to join. Her lyrics usually revolve around faith and violence, love and identity, frustrations and hopefulness.
The Mead Mountain Resonators – A brand new contemporary string band formed by multi-instrumentalists Conor Wenk (resonator, banjo, mandolin, guitar and vocals) Alex Turqman (bass, banjo, guitar, harmonica and vocals), and Dan McCabe (Guitar, Drums, and Vocals).
Playing a variety of musical styles, MMR embraces the richness of genres from mo-town to bluegrass yet push the envelope into rhythmic and modal complexity. Nostalgia has never felt more relevant with this dynamic group of young musicians.
The Foxfires are a four-piece Seagaze band from New York and New Jersey formed in 2013. Their sound is an oceanic indie rock blend of folk, shoegaze, surf rock, and indie pop with a positive message. The band has played on stages, both small and large with artists such as Michale Graves (Former Misfits frontman), Kurt Travis (Former Dance Gavin Dance frontman), Sparks the Rescue, Have Mercy, Pentimento, Rookie of the Year, and just this past June, they played at Pittsburgh Pride alongside Jennifer Hudson. The band has had their music licensed to NASCAR, Discovery Networks LLC (Discovery, Science Channel, Animal Planet, TLC, etc), MTV, Bring Your Own Board, and Roadtrip Nation in 2017 alone and their music has been featured on radio across the United States and in select parts of the UK. Festivals and events that they have played include Pittsburgh Pride, Newburgh Illuminated Festival, Jersey Shore Music Festival, The NYC Marathon (2016, 2017), Northside Festival, Groove on Grove (2016, 2017), ValleyFest, Haverstraw River Arts Fest, and the Millennium Music Conference (2017, 2018; both as a featured artist on the event’s compilation CD.) Singer Songwriter Cape May Conference, and the newly founded East Coast Music Conference. They recently performed at PVD Fest in Rhode Island and headlined PEX Summer Fest in June. They will be performing at O+ Fest in New York and Musikfest in Pennsylvania in August, and Electric City Music Conference in Pennsylvania in September, with many more special events and shows yet to be announced! Stay tuned!
Tim “Timmy” Mislock is a touring musician and ambient composer living in New York. He moved to the city by way of Northern Virginia in 2007 to try his hand in music. After working as an audio engineering intern at Headgear Studios while living at Death By Audio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Tim officially began his musical career.
He has written, recorded, and toured with Tegan & Sara, The Antlers, Holly Miranda, and many others. Last summer, after nearly 800 performances on Broadway and the First National Tour, Tim bid farewell to his role as Kryzystoff in the Tony Award winning musical, Hedwig and The Angry Inch. In September of 2017, he released a new solo record under his own name entitled Now Is The Last Best Time via ERACLEA Records. The album explores the emotions of the caretaker’s experience caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s Disease.
