It’s a January Jersey jamfest with some of the state’s top folk artists including Brian McArdle and Wry Toast, Andy Goessling (from Railroad Earth) with Sara Milonovitch and Lindsey Horner, and special guest host Roger Deitz.

www.rogerdeitz.com
http://railroadearth.com/band/
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http://lindseyhorner.com/
www.brianmcardle.net 

Background:
Wry Toast plays high energy, country-rock music the way it used to be played. Catchy, melodic songs built to last, soaring three and four part harmony vocals, (all seven members sing) blazing fiddle, smokin’ mandolin, duel lead electric guitars all backed by thumping bass and thunderous drumming. In an over produced, watered down music world, the basics never fail. If you strip away the bells and whistles, it always comes down to the song and the musicians. Wry Toast is a diverse musical concoction informed by the best elements of the country-rock genre. First blend country, rock, rockabilly, bluegrass, western-swing, folk-pop, then, stir in healthy doses of musical influences such as the Eagles, Poco, New Riders, the Band, the Beatles, Bill Monroe, the Allman Brothers, James Taylor and Asleep at the Wheel and then turn the mixer on high and let the good times roll.

Multi-instrumentalist Andy Goessling is also part of the bands Railroad Earth and  The Secret Admirers, who played folk, swing, and other forms of Americana. Also formerly of the Blue Sparks From Hell, Andy was an early Bluegrass prodigy on just about every instrument known to man.

As one of the more widely read acoustic music journalists around, Roger Deitz has written about music for over thirty years, penning articles for notable magazines such as Sing Out!, Frets, Fast Folk, Acoustic Guitar, and Billboard .