SRD is best defined as "Southern fried, in your face, alt-folk." No two songs really sound the same and the dynamic is broad. It is easy to hear the acoustic undertones in the songs no matter how loud or "dirty/gritty" they get.

Perry Acker is an Award Winning and Emerging Artist to watch in the beautiful Pacific Northwest!

2011 Album - Path to Freedom recorded with 7-Time Grammy Winning Producer Don Was.  Perry Acker’s Path to Freedom also featured Guest Artists & Harmonica Virtuoso -  Lee Oskar (WAR) on “Moon and the Tide” single.  Perry Acker has already opened for National Recording Artists – Vicci Martinez, Neil Citron (Grammy Winning Guitarist) & Paul Rodgers (Bad Company, Free)

However, it’s ultimately Perry Acker's live show that generates the most enthusiastic reviews.  Known for their dynamic live shows, Perry Acker returns the passion and melody for today’s music scene like the great bands of the 70’s (Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Supertramp, etc.) Their fan base has compared them as a modern day Beatles group for their clean image, pop hooks  and range of musical expression.  Perry Acker’s sound is best described by vocalist/guitarist Pete Johnson, “Pop rock, blues… Dave Matthews meets John Mayer with a little bit of Fleetwood Mac and Super Tramp. Put them all in a bucket and mix it around." 

Perry Acker has spent the last two years popularizing their unique sound and cranking out unforgettable music. In February 2011, the group’s hard work paid off when they won FORD’s National battle of the bands, Gimme The GIG competition. Due to that success, Perry Acker was chosen as the Winner by 7- Time Grammy Winning Producer Don Was. 

However, it’s ultimately Perry Acker's live show that generates the most enthusiastic reviews. 

“The group played an amazing set of melodic, pop, rock and jam music on the KISS FM Fisher Green Stage. Take The Beatles and The Grateful Dead, throw them in the mix and you have a beautiful sound that is perfect for a festival setting.” 

– Greg Roth, Examiner 

Perry Acker formed in Gig Harbor, Washington when vocalist/guitarist Pete Johnson, drummer Grady Lester and bassist Brandon Meade started making music together in high school. Several years later, Pete’s younger brother Mark Johnson joined them on the keyboard followed soon by guitarist Rick Powers. Named after Pete & Mark Johnson’s great-grandfather, Perry Acker was an accomplished Northwest landscape painter and artist. 

It’s your turn to see this amazing live band. Then you will learn why there is always a “buzz” surrounding the band – Perry Acker

Hailing from Portland, Oregon, Pigs on the Wing is a unique Pink Floyd tribute bringing the experience and energy of veteran members of the Northwest's underground original rock scene together in a refreshing, beautifully psychedelic take on the music of Pink Floyd.

Far from an attempt at Floyd-impersonation, POTW specializes in 70's era Floyd but is unapologetic in the interpretation and improvisation of the music in ways that the band believes any Pink Floyd fan will appreciate. Rather than obsessing over exact, note for note replication of Floyd albums or any sort of look-alike mimicry of band members, POTW rather seeks to capture the intense atmosphere and rock energy of Pink Floyd in as unpretentious a style as possible. The result is a show which is true to the original and yet also a refreshing take on the music and experience of Pink Floyd. The band features a collaborative and rotating roster composed of members of Oxcart and other NW musicians brought together by a common appreciation for Pink Floyd. The current lineup includes: Jason Baker (guitar, vocals); Matt Jones (keys, vocals); Eric Welder (bass); Alex Feletar (drums); David Lindenbaum (guitar, vocals); and Keeley St. Clair (backing vocals)..

 The word synergy means: Forces coming together to be greater in magnitude than the sum of their separate parts. We, the band SYNRGY, try to take this definition into the realm of the music we create, and our relationship with our audience.

    We formed in Flagstaff Arizona in Spring of 2007. After becoming one of the most locally recognized bands in the area, we decided to spread our wings into the bigger skies to the West. We relocated to Humboldt County California in Summer of 2008, to embrace the culture that only Northern California had to offer. As of May 2011, the band moved to Ashland Oregon where we currently reside when we are not on the road. 

With a backbone of Reggae, limbs and organs of Funk, Rock, Ska, and Rock-Steady, SYNRGY is a high energy treat for any live music lover. This Music demands movement from our audiences, which makes our shows an experience few forget. The conscious messages entwined in the songs aspire to inspire the minds of all who can perceive them. With your help, Synrgy is stronger. Join in with SYNRGY.

Otis Heat is a band that began as a the result of a near fatal car crash between band members in 2008, from which they were rescued by an illusive drifter named Otis Heat. 

Dave and Thom have been playing music together since 2005, when they were both working as biologists on the California Condor Reintroduction Project in a remote area of northern Arizona. Crow Wing came together organically over the next three years, with Ryan joining Dave and Thom after an impromptu jam session during a party in the desert. Andrew, an already well-known Flagstaff drummer, entered the picture in 2008 after volunteering to sit in on a live show with the trio. The uncommon musical chemistry between the four at that show was intoxicating, and they wasted no time in booking the next. The official formation of Crow Wing wasn’t far behind.

Whether performing solo, with members of Crow Wing, or as a duo with singer-songwriter and guitarist Mandy Fer, Dave has shared the stage with a wide variety of acclaimed musicians in the last two years, including 2008 Oscar winners Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova of The Swell Season (and stars of the movie “Once”), Jeffrey Foucault, Peter Mulvey, Willy Porter, Gregory Alan Isakov, Tony Furtado, David Lindley, the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Po'Girl, and bluegrass legend Del McCoury.

With tens of thousands of albums sold and hundreds of shows rocked, the word of mouth is spreading about Sweatshop Union's style of conscious lyrics, highly musical beats, and high energy live shows that far surpass the average hip hop concert. Campaigning to create awareness for their fourth album Water Street, Sweatshop are embarking on their most extensive phase of touring ever, hitting over 100 cities across North America in just over 4 months.

Sweatshop Union began as a collective of Vancouver-based artists pooling resources to release an album, transforming into a group in the process. The crew, made up of Kyprios, Dirty Circus, Pigeon Hole, and Innocent Bystanders, released their debut album Local 604 in late 2002 via indie label Battle Axe Records. In support of the album, they created three music videos and toured Canada with Jurassic 5 and Blackalicious, as well as then-labelmates Swollen Members and Abstract Rude. This was the beginning of a relentless touring schedule that has proven to be a key catalyst to solidifying their growing fan base and maintaining momentum.

IN NOVEMBER, 2011 Fruition released a new EP, It Won’t Be Long, the third album for the quintet based in Portland, Oregon. In seven original songs, Kellen Asebroek, Mimi Naja, and Jay Cobb Anderson conspire to blend raw, live energy with the strings of traditional folk-Americana. Supported by Keith Simon on upright bass, and Tyler Thompson on drums, Fruition succeeds with lyrical prowess, and harmonies as vibrant as they are heart-breaking.

Tracks like “Wastin’ Away,” and “Bent,” showcase an effortless swing from whiskey-rock to shoe-stomp, from ballad to anthem and everywhere between. This versatility has defined the band since it began in 2008, and hundreds of shows later, Fruition now plays to an ever-growing fan-base in more than a dozen states, to electrified audiences and frenzied dance-floors.

With a focus on the West Coast, Fruition has played most major venues in Portland (The Crystal Ballroom, The Roseland, The Wonder Ballroom, and the Doug Fir,) the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, the Mystic Theater in Petaluma, the Tractor Tavern in Seattle, and the Oregon Brewer’s Fest. The band headlined both late-night sets at Northwest String Summit in 2011.

Through the years they’ve had the privilege to play with the likes of Vince Herman and Andy Thorne (Left Over Salmon), Jeff Austin (Yonder Mountain String Band), Zach Gill and Dan Lebowitz (ALO & Jack Johnson), Daniel Stern, and Danny Barnes. They continue to share the stage with some good friends, like Hot Buttered Rum, Greensky Bluegrass, Elephant Revival, Watertower Bucket Boys, the Quick & Easy Boys, the Clumsy Lovers, and Dead Winter Carpenters, to name a few.

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It's been said that everything musical has been done before, but Buster Blue has found a place inhabited only by their own off-kilter creation. Buster Blue is a indie-infused, folk-driven band whose eclectic sound jumps from breezy folk pop to loud unhinged rock and sounds like it belongs in an illicit speakeasy retrofitted for the new millennium. The band's utilizes an arsenal of instruments that includes horns, banjo, accordion, chains, and a well-placed bucket. The backgrounds and upbringings of these five consummate performers bring color and diversity to their music which sets them apart in their intention to revisit the American musical roots tradition. The band's live sets are a seamless melding of the emotional arc of each of their songs that can either fit in a raucous bar or musical theater.

Buster Blue's sound and an ambitious album has landed them the opportunity to share the bill with bands such as Beats Antique, Margot and the Nuclear So & So's, Devil Makes Three, Jason Webley, Langhorne Slim among many others. Buster Blue has been invited to perform events to include the Rock'n'Bowla, an event supporting the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson Research, Gem State Jam, Capitol Hill Block Party, and Strawberry Music Festival.