BILLY DANKERT

Billy Dankert resides in Saint Paul and is best known as the drummer, singer and sometimes songwriter for Minnesota-based band the Gear Daddies. His solo material spans 30 years of songwriting and is rooted in rock and pop with an occasional detour into country cadences.

MATT CAFLISCH AND BAND

Caflisch is a word guy in the best tradition (a little closer to the spirit of Loudon Wainwright III than Leonard Cohen), while musically he would comfortably fit in just as easily with early Seventies singer-songwriters as late Seventies punk pop.  -Kevin Avery, author, Everything is an Afterthought: The Life and Writings of Paul Nelson