Here are a couple of shots from the Florida Music Festival in Orlando. It was a really fun show even though we got drenched by a colossal downpour before we went on stage. At least it finished raining before we went on.

That’s Melissa, Greg, Ryan, Matt, Jeremy, and my jeans under the keyboards.

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We just found out that we will be playing on the main festival stage on Thursday May 18! We’ll be opening for the Festival headliners Flogging Molly who are this Irish Folk/Punk band from L.A.

Here are a couple shots from the main stage last year.

The best thing for me from a playing perspective is that it’s outside and it’s the main stage so we’ll have great sound which always makes it so much more fun to play.

Thought I’d post one picture from a show with The OaKs last week.

The OaKs have a nice interview in Relevant Magazine that was just posted. You can read it here

The gig at the AKA went great! A fun time was had by all and things held together musically very well. Can’t wait for the next show in Lakeland on Dec 21 at Lillian’s.

That’s me with my accordion and Jeremy Siegel playing mandolin. Jeremy is also the bass player (the best I’ve played with!)

Rachel Schalm (vocals, bells, melodica and percussion) sat in for her sister Naomi who was off recording in the south pacific. Rachel is joining staff here working with MK’s. Naomi is just finishing her STINT with the travel team making great recordings for me to edit and mix!

Greg Willson just moved to Orlando 4 months ago to start his M.Div program at Reformed Theological Seminary. Little did he know that he’d be onstage with the OaKs so soon.

Matt Antolick = serious groove! Just so you know, Matt’s “day” job is drumming for Mo’Rockin the Moroccan band at Epcot and for the Irish band (along with Jeremy) at Universal. We have a pretty sweet rhythm section happening.

Ryan Costello leads us all. I think we’re all pretty glad to have the first one under our belts. If you’re in central Florida be sure to keep up to date with our live shows. Here’s our Myspace page that has the latest happenings

I’ve kind of kept it under wraps that I’m in a band. I’m pretty geeked (that is to say I’m right chuffed for all you England readers). Anyway, I’m playing keys as well as a bunch of other instruments with The OaKs. We’ve been getting good press coverage in several indy music blogs and getting a bit of college radio play as well.

Today there was a nice story in the Orlando Sentinel about the band and a show we have this week at the Anti Pop music festival here in Orlando. The story has a couple of factual errors (I don’t play harmonica!) but then every story has a couple of errors.

I’ll post some pictures from the show later this week if I get any.