Seattle's Heels To The Hardwood brings the roots of Americana, blues, soul, and rock to a new horizon. With honest powerhouse vocal melodies, strong driving rhythms from bass and drums, striking guitar riffs, and the mesmerizing sound of the pedal steel, Heels To The Hardwood brings life back to rock and the stomp back into soul.

Craig played professionally for 4 years based out of San Diego, CA. During this time, he played both solo and as a duo at bars, restaurants, weddings, a recurring gig at Graton Casino in the San Francisco area, and a number of tours up and down the West Coast and out to the Midwest. Acoustic pop rock with contemporary pop covers and a plethora of other sing-a-longs and other popular tunes. His original music is more in the realm of acoustic indie-emo pop. With his stripped down versions of happy sounding sad songs from his band, Happy Heartbreak, his intention is to connect and feel. Always with a smile on his face, Craig Suede is a passionate musician and true entertainer, great for any event where fun is happening.

Fifteen Stitches is a hard rock band from the Washington South Sound. Their sound is defined by a blending of hard rock and more ambient tunes to create a rich sonic tapestry.

Seattle based singer/songwriter Tekla Waterfield lives in the wide-open realm of Americana Roots music, incorporating elements of folk, country, indie, Americana, rhythm and blues, and soul. Having spent many of her formative years as a soprano in chamber choirs, and as an alto in a college jazz ensemble, Tekla's vocals are at once smooth and angelic; emotive and raw. Her songwriting explores the dichotomies that exist between serious and fun, playful and sweet, light and dark, dipping around between the contrasting moods to create a diverse and rich sound. Her song structure influences come from many wonderful song composers including: The Velvet Underground, Gillian Welch, War On Drugs, The Cowboy Junkies, Wilco, Courtney Barnett, Frazey Ford, Bill Withers and more. Tekla lends her vocals to others for recordings and occasional live appearances including the Georgetown Orbitz, General Mojo's Key Project, Jeff Fielder, Wayne Horvitz, The Walkabouts and more, is an active member of Seattle's Bushwick Book Club, a group of artists who create work in response to literature, and is a frequent featured vocalist with the Seattle Rock Orchestra. Tekla performs both solo and with a full band, duo or trio.

Combining Americana, Rock and Pop, while blurring the lines of what is thought to be Country, and Alternative, Lost Dogma imbues a quiet gruffness that stirs faint echoes of Johnny Cash with the yearning of Townes VanZant and an energetic passion all their own. Equally influenced by classic American artists like Tom Petty, Gram Parsons as well as blues, modern folk and Bakersfield country, Lost Dogma typifies the bubbling undercurrent of Americana at its best. Their songs are unpretentious and heartfelt; sweeping, lush and haunting all in the same breath and all with an insistent beat and focused energy that let you know this is still a rock and roll band. Lost Dogma Toby C Brady - Vocals, Guitar, Banjo, Harmonica, Keyboards Ted Walker - Bass Lyle Ronglien - Lap Steel, Banjo, Guitar Radmilla - Fiddle

IvyLane is the musical combination of the skilled and eclectic Ivan Lee with the talented and effervescent Elaine Skeffington. With a growing fan base throughout the area, this Seattle area-based duo is a potent match of vocal and guitar talent resulting in not just the expected harmonies and repertoire, but also a consistently unique and engaging knack for re-arranging familiar tunes into IvyLane-itized versions. We're not a dance band but focus instead on tight harmonies, storytelling through lyrics, and a sense of humor, fun, & connection with our audiences. We adore the comfort of a familiar & loved song but also have a tendency to "put a spin" on classics in a way that you might not expect, but ideally will come to love! So when we suddenly launch into your favorite tune, hang on...even we can't be sure just where we'll end up ;-)

We're a trio that creates gritty, moody, melody-driven rock songs.

Four blue collar kids from Seattle, making the kind of music that put this city on the map. Loud, brash, punk-rock full of blistering guitar and rumbling rhythm. We made our bones playing booze-soaked parties and dark, crusty clubs, but the band has since started to gain a following throughout the UK and Europe. Fit for any stage, from full on amphitheater to a dank basement, we know how to fill the void in whatever room we rock.

In an era of overhyped, overhyphenated musical miscegenation, Stubborn Son plays it straight, digging into rock n’ roll so earthy it’s almost elemental. Birthright, the young Seattle trio’s debut album, recalls Little Richard’s quote “Rhythm and blues had a baby and somebody named it rock n’ roll.” Indeed, the Architect of Rock n’ Roll is part of Stubborn Son’s DNA. So are Led Zeppelin and Cream, the Black Keys and the White Stripes. Sensing a theme here? Coming together in early 2014, singer/guitarist Garrett Lamp, bassist Andrew Knapp and drummer Blair Daly discovered that their mutual musical interests led to the very core of rock. Knapp and Daly had known each other since they were kids in the Seattle suburb of Bellevue; Lamp, a Spokane native, fell in more recently with Knapp via Seattle’s fertile live music scene. Each musician’s slew of influences meshed like greased gears in Stubborn Son. In the winter of 2014, they convened at Jupiter Studios with producer Martin Feveyear (Kings of Leon, Mudhoney, Mark Lanegan), to record Birthright over an intense two-week span. The album’s ten songs rev so high because the fuel they run on is pure. Birthright is a testament to honest and passionate expression—turned up to 11. Take album opener “The Broken Heart Proof.” As the rhythm section kickstarts a martial backbeat, Lamp lays into his guitar like it’s a rocket heading to heaven and he’s hanging on for dear life. (And not just any guitar—along with “Thick as Blood” and “All Saints,” “Proof” is one of three tracks on Birthright where Lamp trades his Gibson for an acoustic slide resonator and all the righteous, silvery tone it imparts.) He sings about resilience: Just because you loved and lost doesn’t mean you’ll never love again. This, friends, is the Broken Heart Proof. From affirmation to accusation: Driven by Lamp’s hard-grinding riff and Knapp’s echoing background vocals, second song “Make Believe” points a finger at hypocrites and egotists. Later on, “Vixen” tells an archetypal tale of its titular character, eliciting the kind of full-body lust that’s as dangerous as it is magnetic. With its languid, sultry simmer, album closer “Make Your Heart Stop” warns of a similar sort of tenuous romance before erupting into a raucous finale. Each of these tunes is explosive but concise, Lamp balancing soulful vocals with aggressive guitar melodies while Knapp and Daly provide a thick-as-thunder rhythmic foundation. At nearly six minutes long, “Voices” is the album’s exceptional centerpiece, an epic of soul-searching and personal reckoning set to a ferocious rock n’ roll backdrop. Here the band blasts deep into instrumental territory, unraveling a slow-building groove that soundtracks a modern-day parable reminiscent of Robert Johnson’s meeting at the crossroads. “It’s time to go hunting for the devil…” Lamp intones, singing not of a biblical bad guy but the cynicism and self-doubt that haunt every one of us. The guys of Stubborn Son are after meaningful good times—the kind generated from going through a trying experience and coming out the other end better for it. Doing it together—meticulously in the studio or sweat-drenched and howling from the stage of a packed club—forces emotional honesty. Dedicated to delivering truth to their audience, Stubborn Son arrives at the place they were meant to be, Birthright in hand.

Seattle native band, Greet the Sea, emerged in late 2015 as the culmination of sonic expression between four friends. Blending sweeping soundscapes, drum-heavy grooves, anthemic crescendos, and grounded melodic vocals the quartet’s sound is akin to their region of rainy weather, lush earthy colors, and foggy coastal highways. After independently releasing their debut self-titled LP in November 2015, the group has performed live relentlessly across the Pacific Northwest, garnering a following while playing at iconic locations such as the Crocodile, Sunset Tavern, and Fisherman's Village Music Festival. Meanwhile, they’ve gained recognition with regular rotation across renowned radio stations like KEXP and “107.7 The End”. The band was featured by NadaMucho.com as one of “41 Seattle bands to watch in 2016” with additional blogs, publications, and digital outlets echoing a consensus on the group’s overall sound – "When I was a kid there were certain songs that, when played in the basement in a friend’s house, we could listen to over and over, encapsulated in our little dream song music world. The songs were expressive, emotive, swelling and reflective. That’s how I would describe 'Take Shelter' by Greet the Sea." – The Monarch Review Greet the Sea is currently performing live in support of their debut release, introducing new material, evolving their sound, and working towards a sophomore release.

Requisite means: A thing that is necessary for the achievement of a specified end. The "thing" is music, and the "specified end" is existing. This indie/pop/rock 4 piece brings solid songwriting that appeals to a diverse audience, combined with an emotive live show that keeps people hooked.

SGB is an Indie Soul band out of Seattle, WA. The band combines elements of soul, funk, and indie-rock to make a very eclectic, and smooth sound. Spencer Glenn moved to Seattle in 2014, with a background of writing laid back music and love songs. Before calling the Northwest home, he released two EPs and two albums, shared bills with grammy winners and charted pop stars, and played throughout the US and countries such as Brazil and South Korea. Despite achieving some solo success, he was still looking for a different sound. Searching for a more soulful, upbeat sound, he eventually moved to Seattle, and met bassist Aaron Patterson, who most definitely brought the soul. From there, they met the remainder of the band at local Seattle jam nights. The rest of the band consists of drummer, Kyle Kirkpatrick, who has a background in funk, jazz, EDM, and everything in between, Art Borders, who specializes in soul music, and Andrew Malone, who’s lead guitar brings out the indie rock feel. Driven by singer songwriter Spencer Glenn’s songs and tenor voice, the band takes the contemporary-structured tunes and puts each musician's individual spin on it, creating something unique that allows you to groove, dance, and once in awhile even lightly head bang.