Musical Guests
The list of performers is starting to take shape.
Friday Night
Lojo Russo:
With raw energy Lojo Russo moves from sweet folk to roots rock without
missing a beat. On stage she combines her sense of music with a sense of
humor - sometimes outrageous, sometimes intense, always original.
Lojo started her music career playing bass for the infamous jam band, Cats
Laughing which included such SF/F luminaries as Adam Stemple, Steven KZ
Brust and Emma Bull.
Russo currently tours the Midwest, occasionally taking time out to play at a
CON or two.
Lojo's band history reflects her style of music - a little bit of everything.
She's played bass in a psychedelic jam band, mandolin in a Celtic group and
guitar in every kind of funk, folk, jazz, and jam combination you can imagine. Currently, she has been in a more roots-influenced state of mind. The likes of T-Bone Burnett, The Band, Tom Waits have been making their way into her music.
This conglomeration of genres doesn't set Lojo apart so much as it sets her out front of the mainstream singer/songwriter. No classic training means no rigid styling. She takes her music places she was not aware that she shouldn't go.
Lojo's Website
Adam Stemple:
Adam Stemple (Singer/Songwriter/Celtic/Folk/Rock/Etc)
Adam Stemple has been playing music since the age of 6, first cello, then piano, then guitar. He plays most weekends with his Irish group, The Tim Malloys, and spends his days writing novels (has 3 out right now) and playing & teaching poker.
Adam's Website
Orckes & Trolles:
Orckes & Trolles (est.1992) is a high-energy vocal and instrumental music group that performs at Renaissance festivals. During the holiday season, they sing in Victorian garb as the Top Hat Carolers.
Saturday
Chas Somdahl:
Chas Somdahl is well known to conventions across the Midwest as part of Riverfolk. He is also known as typically one of the last musicians playing in the late night music circles.
A musician of eclectic taste, he is equally at home in music circles and jam sessions ranging from filk to folk to blues to rock to bluegrass and more. He is often told he makes jams welcoming. He credits his own welcome into a Minn-StF jam a decade ago as a major contributor to his return
to music after a 14-year lapse.
Cheshire Moon:
Cheshire Moon is the fanciful collaboration of trickster bird Lizzie Crowe and crazed magician Eric Coleman. What began as a simple joining of two talents in song circles, and occasionally during the mad-hatter antics of Eric Coleman on stage, whipped and frothed into the most likely of pairs. Eric’s love of punk, folk and prog rock gives them an eerie, otherworldly sound, while Lizzie brings the voice of that otherworld to life in chorus and verse.
Together they bring about a torrent that is as playful as it is lightly
sinister, all wrapped up in a pretty little beribboned box. Do you dare to open
Bryan Baker:
Bryan Baker (aka Kaklick Martin in Second Life®) has been many kinds of geek in his life: Band and chorus geek, theatre geek, computer geek, D&D Geek, computer gamer geek, the list goes on. He's published 4 solo albums and one single. The latest album "Yeah, I'm a Geek" makes use of all that geeky-ness and wraps most of his geekiest songs in one neat package. Zombies and werewolves and Second Life®, oh my!
Bryan's Website
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