Join us on August 21, 2010, 5–10pm
Sounds of Summer
presented by the WFB Civic Foundation.
Location: Along Silver Spring, in front of Sendik's near Lake Drive.
Entertainment:
OPENING ACT: 5PM
McIntyre is a 7 time WAMI Award winner (Wisconsin Area Music Industry) - including 2005's Male Vocalist of the Year - and has been nominated at least once a year since 1999. In 2004, McIntyre became a finalist in the USA Songwriting competition. Since 1999, Ryan has had his music featured in television, film, and commercial work including songs aired on NBC, MTV, HBO, Disney Channel, and Discovery Channel. Between his prior work as the front man/songwriter for the critically acclaimed pop/rock quartet EXIT and his current run as a solo artist, Ryan has sold over 30,000 albums worldwide.
6:45PM - BRANDON JAMES was born in Southeastern Wisconsin in 1983 and began playing guitar at the age of 8. Listening to artists like the Beatles, Eagles, Byrds, the Allman Brothers Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Creedance Clearwater Revival, he was soon on stage with his first band, “Crossfire” at the age of 14. HEADLINER: 8:30pm PAUL CEBAR has steadfastly pursued a musical concatenation that is one part early R&B, another Pan-African Lilt, Afro-Cuban by way of New Orleans Slither, qualified by Mid-Western Soul and further distinguished by a gargantuan regard for spoken English.
After a short time and a few personnel changes, it became “Brandon James and Crossfire”. Their self-titled CD began generating much interest in Nashville, with Brandon and his father soon meeting with Joe Gallante and Renee Bell of RCA Records Nashville in 2000. One short year after “Brandon James and Crossfire” disbanded he took the stage with his best band to date, “Brandon James and the Bandits”, now known as “Brandon James Band”.
As for classifying his music, James is hesitant. "I'm not sure what genre to classify it in. Some people say country, kind of pop, kind of country, urban country; it's a little different." He'll also tell you that rock music has been a major influence on his full-length CD, "Labor of Love".