A career that includes opening for major acts, teaching, and songwriting.
Don Cooper, who prefers to be called "Cooper," performs frequently in St. Augustine both as a solo act and in various groups such as the Thick and Thin String Band.
An all-female trio with a punk-rock attitude.
If audiences set out on a quest looking for a sound they've never heard before, they would be delighted to stumble across St. Augustine's Bedsweater, an all-female trio that is turning heads and hearts throughout the Ancient City. With their mix of ethereal and electric-driven sound, Bedsweater takes to the stage with a punk-rock attitude, blooming into an ensemble that can tug at the heart strings while at the same time exuding a level of confidence and comfortability that seems to come naturally to each member of the group.
St. Augustine’s Dust Fuss is a western dust trio that combines alternative folk, country western music, and indie rock to form a fierce lyrically driven sound.
St. Augustine, Florida's Dust Fuss is a trio of unexplainable phenomena, working outside the boundaries of musical norms and pushing the envelope of their live performance capabilities to the max. The name Dust Fuss was born from a conversation about band names, when the trio was attempting to define their overall sound and the word "dusty" was mentioned along with "western" and "desert." Thus, the name Dust Fuss, a clever take on an articulation of the band's overall vibe and sound.
St. Augustine punk rockers 86 Hope are a fireworks display of musical energy and heavily emotion sound.
It doesn't take audiences long to notice that St. Augustine's punk rock ensemble 86 Hope is as real as it gets. With a combined force of alternative up-tempo rhythm, a punk rock stage presence, precisely executed guitar techniques, and spot-on vocal harmonies, 86 Hope fires on all cylinders. The band sweats passion from their pores, laying their bleeding hearts before the crowd, making their stage presence one of ever-shifting dynamics and emotional realness. Their sound is like a quickened heartbeat; it always causes the body to move.
A mesh of punk, traveling music, folk, alt outlaw folk, and backwoods punk.
An energetic ensemble, Flood Reactor is an intense musical duo that sheds light on human existence, existentialism, and matters of the heart. Drawing from many genres, Flood Reactor takes an uncommon approach. It blends acoustic traveling music with track punk, alternative outlaw folk, and backwoods punk to form distinct, original tones that are unique to the ensemble.
With a sound described as “electronic voodoo lounge folk rock.”
It's easy to see why audiences are fascinated with St. Augustine's Ema Chiswell. A crystal-clear bottom-line artist, Chiswell shows her truest self in her original sound; soul and all. An ethereal blend of electronic, pop, rock, folk, alternative, and experimental genres, Chiswell pulls from influences of all kinds, but holds musical idols St. Vincent and Madeline Adams in the highest regard for their musical styling as well as their lyrical bodies of work.
A local, multi-talented musician offering a fresh take on southern comfort sound.
A southern grown soul, St. Augustine's Terri Gamble is a fresh take on southern comfort sound, threading the needle between the hard-hitting rock and roll and old-time country genres she's loved all of her life. Her sound comes with a heavy dose of southern charm and a side of hundred-year-old tangled oaks shaking in the Florida winds. A queen of her dominion, Gamble explores her musical territory daily, breaking the mold of your usual alternative country musician.
Down-home country/punk party ensemble inspiring foot stomping and dancing.
Breaking stages for ages, the foot-stomping, suspenders-wearing, rule-breaking Wobbly Toms are St. Augustine’s finest down-home country/punk party ensemble, sure to inspire dancing.
A progressive and introspective performer, St. Augustine’s MJbaker is a fast-rising star, breaking through the ceiling of traditional live performance. Her sound is as smooth as a river stone combining aspects of jazz, hip-hop, rhythm and blues, and soul.
MJbaker is easily one of St. Augustine, Florida's most progressive performers, influenced by all things non-traditional and using elements of jazz, blues, hip hop, rhythm and blues, and soul to create a completely original sound of elegance as well as attitude. Using a combination of both self-produced backing tracks as well as her live acoustic guitar, MJ creates a plethora of different sounds to choose from, making her as diverse as she is exquisite.
St. Augustine’s Katy Schirard is a vibrant, youthful explosion of charisma and musical passion, bringing to life rock and roll and love songs of the past and putting her own take on contemporary pop, rock, and country songs of the present.
A St. Augustine native, Katy Schirard is a perfect fit for audiences looking for a contemporary sound and wholesome vibe with the energy of James Brown. Katy finds her voice in popular tunes of a modern nature, as well as in the classic love songs of past decades. Her percussive guitar style is a ferocious example of her inner energy, which seeps out of her pores, an outpouring of passion. Her vocal sound is similar to that of Odetta and Adele, a hard-hitting cacophony of the soul's movement.
