Local Songwriters

I started playing acoustic guitar after I heard a cassette of Dylan playing "Crash on the Levee" while working at an all night burger stand on Mackinac Island.   In a few years ( thanks, Rollie Tussing III), I was playing my first solo acoustic show.   I organzied several charity concerts and raised over $13,000 for local Michigan charities and met some of the finest Michigan musicians a guy could ever hope to know.  I started writing my own songs, and  I finaled in a couple of songwriting contests.     I still think writing a good song is a very tall order.     Shortly after, I started a band called "Eric Kelly and the Dirty Johns"  and I was totally hooked on writing songs.    We opened for the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band at a small festival in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and I quickly decided i should sing in a good old fashioned rock-n-roll band.   That band was called "Dirt Road Logic" and we played with Shooter Jennings, LIttle Big Town, Lou Gramm, Lucero and the Yayhoos to name a few.    We worked hard and drank harder, but eventually, the ground fell out.   My next band, "Crooked Little Reasons", was put together for no other reason than to have fun playing music...and i still think it's some of the best music I've ever made.    Anyway...i'm back where i started, playing solo acoustic shows...and it feels pretty good.  In fact, I'd probably like to play for you.

Come hear the extraordinary sounds of The Ordinary Two! A duo from Cedaredge, CO whose creation has been a long time in the making. Guitarist Jim Disner, who has shared the stage with jazz greats like Stanley Jordan and Ron Miles, joins his wife, vocalist Tanya Disner, in laid-back, acoustic, indie-pop, with a lot of jazz flavor and sweet vocal harmonies.

Jim fell in love with Tanya when he first heard her sing. Theirs is a story of inspiring love and overcoming odds. Sultry vocals and fancy fretwork spin tales of life, love and the open road in a unique Alternative/Folk/Jazz blend of simultaneously humorous, inspiring, and mournful original songs - along with some unexpected covers. Together they harmonize like only soul-mates can.

DEan Bonzani grew up singing and performing. After an early period of puppetry, he appeared in his first musical in sixth grade, and spent his high school years onstage in musicals, one act plays, reader’s theater, dramatic interp, pantomime, and marionette productions. Voted “Most Talented” in his graduating class 0f 1980, he was awarded a scholarship to Northern Arizona University for theater. He also studied theater and music at Arizona State University, before settling in Flagstaff, where he began performing solo gigs as a singer/songwriter, and with his various ensembles. For many years, he hosted the notorious Thursday night open mic at the Mad Italian Public House, a scene that launched a number of popular underground Flagstaff musical acts, and whose mayhem and majesty will be forever embedded in the minds of the crowds who packed the place.

Roy and Brenda Broadbooks have joined together to create a musical duo featuring acoustic guitar, djembe drum and harmony vocals. They offer original music and a wide variety of classic cover tunes. Roy and Brenda bring a joyful presence to the stage as they deliver a soulful feel-good experience for the listener.