With deep Texas roots and a long career fraught with many trials, Hadden Sayers has found his voice. Sayers’ self-described “rehab for the soul” took place in Southern Ohio while rebuilding a shack with a retired stonemason named Conrad McCorkle.
This seasoned singer/songwriter wields a smooth guitar and blues-grizzled voice bound to rejuvenate your soul as well. Sayers has found a pure combination of blues, country, rockin’ honky tonk, great guitar picking, and solid songwriting.
Hadden Sayers delivers his music with the weathered maturity of a man who, as he says, “has done things the right way, and not the easy way.”
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Hard Day’s Night
Hailing from the rock ‘n roll city of Cleveland, Ohio, Hard Day’s Night is rated among the top national Beatles tribute groups performing today, and is dedicated to the Beatles’ touring performance standard of playing without recordings or click tracks. The band performs songs from the 1962- 1966 era exactly as the Beatles themselves did: four musicians onstage, in character as John, Paul, George, and Ringo, wearing perfect stitch-for-stitch replications of the suits made famous by the Beatles, with authentic Vox, Hofner, Gretsch, Rickenbacker, and Ludwig instruments, playing those world-famous songs note-for-note. Hard Day’s Night has performed for thousands of Beatles fans in England and the United States, in one of the most authentic, all-live stage tributes to the Beatles seen anywhere today!
Hoodoo Soul Band
Started in 1995 as a side project for several seasoned veterans of
the Columbus music scene, the Hoo Doo Soul Band shows no signs of slowing down. Hoo Doo is well known for putting their own twist on the standards and introducing audiences to unfamiliar funky gems with style.
Face it, doing justice to a song made famous by Al Green or Earth, Wind and Fire is a daunting task, but the Hoodoo Soul Band manages to perform such classics with grace and plenty of joyful energy. The band has received Columbus Music Awards for both Best Cover Band and Best Live Performance. Whether the ensemble plays old R&B or some fine Latin rhythm, this is one of a handful of Columbus bands that manages to merge outstanding musicianship with all-out fun entertainment.
Jonalee White
Jonalee White’s bubbly personality, big smile, and contagious laugh can put anyone at ease. With the combination of a sultry country voice and mature writing styles, Jonalee boasts an energy and passion for country music that will draw you in, hold you tight, and bring you back for more.
Jonalee has had 5 Top 40 singles from the album “Sugar” and has acquired a significant fan base performing with such artists as Dierks Bentley, Charlie Daniels, and Taylor Swift all over the US. A finalist on both NBC’s Star Tomorrow and CMT Music City Madness, she also stars in her own Yallwire show, “Long Road to Nashville”. Jonalee and her band of six Columbus-based musicians, the Late Night Drivers, perform an upbeat show full of songs that will touch your heart as well as keep you dancing in the aisles!
Madrigal
As one of the most decorated and awarded singers and musicians in the world, Carlos Santana and his band Santana have won every major music award an artist can win, including 10 Grammys, 3 Latin Grammys, Billboard’s Lifetime Achievement Award and the Artist of the Century Award, a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, an early induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and Kennedy Center Honors. Carlos has been the visionary force behind artistry that transcends musical genres, generational, cultural and geographical boundaries. Santana has sold over 100 million albums worldwide and 100 million tickets to his concerts. Still current, producing and playing the CBS theme song for this year’s Super Bowl broadcast, Carlos Santana is considered one of the top five guitarists of all time! With his music and style one of the hardest to replicate, tribute shows have been non-existent…until now!
Delivered with a level of passion and soul equal to the legendary singer-guitarist, Madrigal, The Ultimate Carlos Santana Experience, pays tribute to an artist and band that has transcended five decades of chart-topping success and developed one of the largest die-hard fan bases in the world. With such a tough act to follow, Madrigal has pulled out all the stops. Their sincere devotion to replicating the musicianship, sound and full Santana concert experience, is filling venues and rocking people’s socks off! Madrigal’s attention to that signature blend of Latin-infused rock, jazz, blues, salsa, African rhythms, and the sonic charge of Santana’s guitar has led to sold out concerts.
The band’s frontman, renowned guitarist Jose Madrigal, is often mistaken for Carlos himself. The experience doesn’t stop there. Madrigal, The Ultimate Carlos Santana Experience is a complete festive package. Creating one of the world’s best-known musical signatures, Madrigal has over a half dozen professional musicians and vocalists that more than complete a show for the senses, each with their own distinctive talent. Every show provides a unique and high energy live music experience, featuring melodic blues-based guitar lines set against Latin percussion of timbales and congas, always leaving audiences wanting more!
McGuffey Lane
Formed in the early seventies, McGuffey Lane is a country rock staple throughout the Ohio Valley. From the early days as the featured house band at Zacharia’s Red Eye Saloon in Columbus to their current sold out annual Zacharia’s Reunions, this band has pleased a lot of faithful and new audiences in between.
They’ve released ten albums over the years with the most recent reaching #50 on the national country charts (Music Row Magazine). They’ve survived some turbulent times, but still keep rocking the house with rousing originals and classic country favorites. McGuffey Lane features a seven-member strong group of seasoned musicians and songwriters with an energetic stage presence that’ll keep your hands clappin’ and heels tappin’ wherever they perform. …continue reading