JAMMIES Night of Contemporary Music

Hotwire
Brady Corcoran, Riley Donahue, Theo Farnum, Cole Morse

Do you think you’re treated differently when people find out how old you are?
Yes, because since we are smaller people, other people don’t expect as much from our music.

How did your first note sound?
Extremely mediocre.

Northern Lights
Cody Beale, Zasett, Nicole Gough, Martin Miles

If you had to pick three words to describe your band, what would they be?
Bad-ass, charismatic, awesome.

What inspires you to write songs?
We are inspired by the potential of music and where it can take us and where we can take music.

If a Tree Falls
Chris Adams, Keaton Boyle, Peter Duff, Michael Judy, Dirk Tiche

What have you had to sacrifice for your music?
Time, life of a mortal, dignity, ears.

What does a chance to play the stage at the Crest Theatre mean to you?
A big opportunity to rock the free world.

A Curbside Ending
Joseph Flores, Aaron Krimetz

What inspires you to write songs?
We write songs when things in life happen or something needs to be said.

Why do you play music?
It’s what we enjoy, and we’ve grown up in musical families. And it’s a good outlet for our creativity.

Dog Party
Gwendolyn Giles, Lucy Giles

What’s the best compliment you’ve been given about your music?
A very long compliment that didn’t have the cleanest words in it.

How did you come up with your band name?
We like dogs, and we like parties.

Sherman
Cashel Barnett, Derek Sup, Nathan Swedlow

Why do you play music?
Because we love to and have nothing better to do fourth period.

Do you think you’re treated differently when people find out how old you are?
Definitely, all the time. Especially with our facial hair.

Red Wire Army
Jordan Duboise, Erik Van Derheydt, Jim Newman, Daniel Robinson, Michael Wilson

What have you had to sacrifice for your music?
Time. We love writing and being around music. It’s our lives.

What does a chance to play the stage at the Crest Theatre mean to you?
Everything in the world.

Dead Scott
Brett Chance, Sage Cummins, Ty Lyman, Ryan Thalken

What have you had to sacrifice for your music?
Female companionship (the ladies).

Where in life do you want your music to take you?
We just want it to take us to a happy life, but financial stability would be nice, too.

The Berci Sisters
Sabrina Berci, Stefanie Berci

What is the best aspect of being a performer?
Being able to move a crowd/audience with emotion, to an idea they never heard or thought of before.

Where in life do you want your music to take you?
We each have different ideas for the future, but we’ll never stop being able to sing and worship God together, rain or shine, morning or night.

Josiah James

How has music changed your life?
It has molded my life into what it is. It’s what I do, everything. It’s what I think.

How did your first note sound?
Pretty bad, probably like a cat going through a blender with a dog.

The Squires
Ryan Ladd, Derek Rambo, Peter Romulus, Paul Tasaka

Do you think you’re treated differently when people find out how old you are?
Yes, most of the time. They think we suck before they hear us.

Where in life do you want your music to take you?
All the way.

The Glorious Fall
Vinson Cheung, Josh Guillen, Jordan Higgins, Jeff Hubbard, Davy Lan, Nick Robertson, Tom Yamamoto

Did any of the music your parents listened to have an impact on what you play now?
Not really. We play what we jokingly call “angry white-boy music.”

If you could open for any band in the world, past or present, who would that be and why?
Probably Europe, because they wrote “The Final Countdown,” and that is a really awesome song.