Description
AMERICAN NOMADS
American Nomads is a roots rock band based in Brooklyn, New York. Inspired by artists like Bruce Springsteen and The Band, they dive deep into the heart of American music with blends of Country, Rock, and Blues to cultivate their own unique contemporary style. Receiving national radio play, they reached #6 on the Billboard AC chart, as well as passed the first round of Grammy nominations for their song, A Revelation’s Gonna Come. Constantly pushing forward, their newest 10-song album, Hats Cleaned is produced by Joe Vitale, a longtime drummer and contributor of Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Eagles, and Joe Walsh.
Members of the band include Walter Kenul on lead vocals and keyboards, Susan Darmiento on lead and background vocals, Matt Schneider on lead vocals and guitars, Joseph Humann on harmonica and percussion, Joe Conoscenti on drums, Jay Rivera on bass and background vocals, and Andrew Friedman on pedal steel and guitars. American Nomads was founded by Walter Kenul and former guitarist Dante DeLemos, along with celebrated artist and lyricist Richard Humann.
RASHMI
Rashmi is excited to light up the stage at DROM with her distinct global pop sound with her amazing cohort Dan Kendall, R. Andrés and Anthony Cekay.
MAGIC, her new dynamic and diverse album of original songs and two covers shows the versatile artist’s vocal range, influences, and songwriting skills from Americana to EDM, from disco to drum & bass, from tender to fully charged, from Madonna to R.D. Burman.
Rashmi is an Akademia award-winning singer-songwriter and Queens Council On The Arts New Works Awardee.
KEN BUTLER
Ken Butler is an artist and musician whose Hybrid musical instruments, collage artworks, performances and other works explore the interaction and transformation of common and uncommon objects, altered images, and diverse sounds as function and form collide in the intersection of art and music. Butler is internationally recognized as an innovator of experimental musical instruments created from diverse materials including tools, sports equipment, and household objects. The idea of bricolage, essentially using whatever is “at hand”, is at the center of his art, encompassing a wide range of practice that combines assemblage art, live music, instrument design, performance art, theater, sculpture, installation, photography, film/video, graphic design, drawing, and collage.