Vicci Martinez

Vicci Martinez:

I started playing music when I was 5, my folks got me some violin lessons. They were actually for my older sister Lina, but after her first lesson the teacher said her fingernails were too long and that she had to cut them in order to play. She decided never to go back, and since my folks had paid for a month’s worth of lessons, they gave them to me. Thank goodness for that. I feel that my classical training has helped me so much with my music today. Thanks to mom and dad for that one.

I didn’t start singing till I was 12, I sang in choir, and I guess this story goes back to that same sister. Lina went to the same middle school, had a great voice, so the choir teacher wanted to see if I could sing like my sis. It worked out, and that’s kinda why I do what I do. Right after that, I started with the guitar, and immediately began writing songs. Thanks to Lina for that.

Mike Miz:

Mike’s roots are in the Wyoming Valley of Northeastern Pennsylvania, where his music reflects the folk, rock, blues, blue grass and reggae base in which he was nurtured. Privileged to play out since the age of 15, he has had the pleasure to play on stage with such formable artist as Umphrey’s McGee, Don Preston (Frank Zappa and the Mothers), Chuck Garvey, Al Schnier, Vinnie Amico & Jim Loughlin (moe.), Charlie Hitchcock & Ben Combe (Particle), Marco Benevento, Jeff Pevar, Jason Hann (String Cheese Incident), Michael Glabicki (Rusted Root), Jen Z (Antigone Rising), Ryo Okumoto, Marc Ford (Black Crowes, Ben Harper), Willy Waldman, Tim Carbone (Railroad Earth, Phil and Friends), Scott Sawyer, Merl Saunders, Gordon Stone, Creed Bratton (the Grassroots, NBC’s The Office), George Wesley, and many more…