Ellie Maxwell is an award-winning teenage singer from Manitoulin Island, Canada, and you’d swear her voice comes from the golden age of jazz – rich, powerful, full of nuance and life! Born in South Africa, growing up in Canada, Ellie made her public singing debut when she was 8 years old. She’s active on YouTube, Instagram and Facebook, where an appreciative and growing audience can’t get enough of her covers, original songs and music videos. Once heard, Ellie’s voice is impossible to forget.
Stoney Creek announces A Miner’s Life album, drops new single and video for “I Wish I Had A Lifeline”MARTINSBURG, W.Va. (June 18, 2021) – “This is going to put Stoney Creek Bluegrass Band on the map,” Annette Grady said on Aug. 28, 2020, when premiering the single “A Miner’s Life” on the Bluegrass Jamboree. “The song is wonderful. I am expecting it to do really great things for Stoney Creek Bluegrass Band.”Stoney Creek Bluegrass Band has announced the June 25 release of a new studio album, A Miner’s Life. The album builds on the momentum of its title track. The latest single from the full-length album is “I Wish I Had A Lifeline,” written by Mike Henderson. The song blends a Southern Gospel feel and vocal arrangement with Stoney Creek’s traditional bluegrass sound. Stoney Creek’s rendition includes lead vocals by Brett Smeltzer. A music video for the song is now available to accompany the radio single.During the fall of 2020, Stoney Creek’s recording of “A Miner’s Life” spent five weeks at No. 1 on the Roots Music Report’s Top 50 Bluegrass chart. The song spent six weeks at No. 1 on the Bluegrass Jamboree’s Top 15 chart. “A Miner’s Life” was featured on West Virginia Public Broadcasting’s Inside Appalachia program and was among the top played songs for 2020 on numerous bluegrass radio stations. By April 2021, “A Miner’s Life” reached No. 1 on the Fan Voted Chart, a rigorous process that includes passing through ten levels of voting.
Sydän Laulaa is Finnish and means “the heart sings”. A shaman told me once, that the only real way to sing is to sing from the heart. This is the idea on which Sydän Laulaa is built on. Some of my music is instrumental and it’s played from the heart. I started this as a solo project in 2020. Now there are also other people along. My intention from the beginning has been to create music that gives people relaxation, meditative state and spiritual wellbeing.The music comes from the heart. It has energy of the north, but elements also from different corners of the world. The song “the heart is dreaming” was born in a flow. I composed the theme one day and produced it the next day and that was it. It is one of my personal favourites of my own music and my most streamed song in SoundCloud.
RANDALL MARK is an award winning American songwriter influenced by acoustic folk and folk rock, listened to while growing up, long before becoming a musician. A relatively recent subscriber to his craft, Randall enlists singer KaytLynn Skai in several of his tracks. KaytLynn is a talented young vocalist. The two were introduced by chance and make a great team on the performance of the songs. You can hear or download Randall’s songs on several of the usual platforms.
Season’s Call was originally a 4-5 piece band from Los Angeles, CA. Now it’s currently my solo project I do as a passion project than a career at this point. I’ve been playing guitar for about 15 years and I took it upon myself to write my own music after playing in bands I didn’t have a great experience in. As a career, that’s where my passion for music started dying down dealing with all these unwritten rules so I now have the freedom to do music however I want and when I want. My influences comes from American, European, and Japanese artists. Music I believe should come from deep inside to express whatever we bottle up inside so it’s not about chasing fame and money at this point in my life.
Samuel Jared is an Alternative Indie/Pop Artist, with similarities to the likes of Passenger, Glen Hansard & Yusuf / Cat Stevens who started his music journey playing Drums in Rock School with other musicians including Beanie from Rudimental. Samuel played for a local MK Band & later performed as an acoustic singer/songwriter, producing his own sounds to giving listeners honesty with his lyrics, uplifting melodies & raw yet distinct voice! His new single “Foundation” has recently featured on BBC Music Introducing & it has been praised as a song to keep on repeat! Samuel was also previously aired on Vibe FM, Shiresounds & other various radio stations in the UK in early 2021 He has received promising feedback from radio producers & presenters with his music as of late! Foundation was recorded in Buckinghamshire at Echo Studios & also with Amii Dawes to which it was also polished up, mixed & mastered in her cosey Northampton home studio! Samuel has performed around the UK giving listeners a fresh take on cover songs & ofcourse sharing his original music for all to hear. Samuel’s music has been said to – “make you want to listen whilst going for a drive & can be visualised in the opening of a movie scene with his motivating yet thoughtful sound!” Have a listen to Samuel Jared’s Alternative Vibes playlist of his favoured local Artists & give his new single a Pre-Save to get it on your release radar for the 25th from his Instagram bio!
Eliza [pronounced “Eh-lee-zah”], is an original artist & composer from Southern California.Her music which has been described as “DARK ELECTRO-POP” is difficult to categorize. Her outer-space themed frolic “Satellite”, sounds like it could be the illegitimate love child of Lady Gaga & Justin Bieber! Yet the haunting melodies of songs like “Murder” & The Beat”, have a more moody & sophisticated tone, with a style more comparable to a movie soundtrack. Her compositions effortlessly blend Pop, Electronica & Trance, yet still provide radio-friendly infectious hooks that appeal to a large demographic.Eliza, has been cutting her musical teeth in the industry in various incarnations as a solo artist, a lead singer in cover & tribute bands, and as a session & sound-a-like artist under the name “Lizann”. As Lizann, her voice has been featured on various video games such as Activision’s GUITAR HERO 3, & Konami’s game ROCK REVOLUTION, and on TV commercials such as the Sandals Resorts ad singing “My Blue Heaven”.Yet there was another side of herself that she never revealed, UNTIL NOW…During her steady career as a vocal impressionist, Lizann had been secretly writing and compiling dozens of original songs. Not the big band classics or the power ballads that many of her fans had come to expect…not even close.These songs were altogether different. So much so, that Lizann felt her choice of musical direction as an original artist & composer would not be readily accepted by her die-hard “Lizann” fans. And for this reason, “ELIZA” was born.”Eliza was created out of necessity”, explains Lizann; “Eliza is the side of me I could never express as Lizann. She is artistic, dramatic, and uncontrollable. She is driven by the music. She is nocturnal, she is an advocate, a vigilante, and a crusader. And I’m only just beginning to know her!”Now, in conjunction with JCK MUSIC, “ELIZA” introduces her exciting new album titled: “ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN” poised for release later this year. It’s a collection of hypnotic & thumping tunes that are already creating a buzz in the clubs through trial releases. Stay tuned for more music to be posted here, and for show dates where you can catch performances by “Eliza”.
Dennis Winge has performed at Carnegie Hall, the L.A. F.A.M.E. Awards, Grassroots Festival, and many other prestigious venues over his 30+ years as a freelance guitarist.Having started to learn guitar at age 7 and bass at age 12, Dennis has studied with some of NYC’s finest jazz and rock guitarists including Ron Parmentier and Jack Wilkins. Winge played his first bar gig when he was 16, and has been a bandleader since his early 20s, when he headed the main campus function band “The Institutionalized” while attending Manhattan College. Later, he became the musical director for Ikonographics Videos, Inc.Some of the names he has played with in the rock world are Jon Cobert (who played with John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen); Cheetah Chrome (who played with the Dead Boys); Clifford Carter (who played with Paul Simon, James Taylor, Dolly Parton).In jazz he has worked with Bill Crow (who played with Stan Getz, Gerry Mulligan); Gene Bertoncini (who played with Buddy Rich, Tony Bennett); Shunzo Ohno (who played with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock); Bob Meyer (who played with Joe Lovano, John Abercrombie); David Budway (who played with Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts, Regina Carter).As for off-Broadway productions, Dennis has played in the pit on Les Miserables, All Shook Up, Footloose, 13, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, as well as portions of Rock of Ages, Wicked, Aida, All That Jazz, Jeckyl & Hyde, and In the Heights.
KittyDoomBoom is a new artist established in Spring early 2021. The project is a joint effort between artist ‘KittyDoomBoom’ and producer ‘SharkandSnail’. Musically, KDB can be best described as a synth-pop artist with heavy influence from 90’s dance and trance music, think artists like Alice Deejay, t.A.t.U, Ace of Base. KittyDoomBoom also takes inspiration from modern electronic artists such as Chvrches and ‘Pop-Goth’ bands such as Pvris and Pale Waves, injecting a dream-like state into her works that hypes the soul, onset with an infectious dance beat from ‘SharkandSnail’. In lyricality, KittyDoomBoom explores story-based ideas that draw you into her own little world.”