Three-time NMA nominated artist/songwriter in previous years and just nominated for three more in 2025, Samantha Ava has been recording and releasing music for the past decade. Samantha has released six singles and an EP titled The Dig. The first official release, “Seventeen”, hit #1 on many indie charts including internationally, standing strong for several weeks. The Dig was produced by the exceptional Nashville-based producer, Shannon McArthur, who is well known for his work with bands such as Dashboard Confessional and Adam Duritz (Counting Crows). The songs “I Am The Night” and “Seventeen” were produced by Darren Magierowski and Jill Zimmerman (City And Colour, July Talk). Samantha is blazing trails through early 2025. Kicking off the year being featured in Nashville Voyager magazine highlighting and headlining her life journey in music. She has opened for Aaron Pritchett as well as opening for The James Barker Band in Niagara on the Lake. The year promises to be an incredible ride for Samantha, fans and her audiences.
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Evan Rotella has been playing music live for nearly a decade already and has been writing songs for almost that long. In 2020 he released a vinyl 45 of his song “(If I Was A) Rockstar” which featured well-known Pittsburgh musicians, guitarist Danny Gochnour and keyboardist, Joe Munroe. In 2021 Rotella released a CD of acoustic songs written when he was 12 to 14 years-old, entitled The Demo Tapes. For the last four years, he has honed his musical chops playing festivals, theatres, patios, bars, and parties across the Niagara Region. He’s also had the privilege of playing at the iconic Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey where Bruce Springsteen started his career. Evan has opened shows for Steven Page (Barenaked Ladies), The Wilderness, Miss Emily, Honeymoon Suite, Wheatus, Stephen Stanley, Willie Nile, Joe Grushecky, Bobby Mahoney & The Seventh Son, Joe D’Urso, Southside Johnny, and the great Steve Earle. He has played with Teenage Head’s Dave Rave, Rick Rose, Bobby Mahoney, Danny Gochnour (Houserockers), and Lowest of the Low’s Stephen Stanley. In September 2023, Evan released his debut album, Happy To Be Here, a collection of 10 original songs backed by an all-star line-up, and produced by Mark Rogers (LMT Connection) and Myles Rogers (Jin The Band).
Featuring special guest Dave Rave
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Songwriter Dave Rave, lead singer for noted Canadian punk band Teenage Head, and dubbed “Canada’s Nick Lowe”, has rocked the world from Hamilton, Ontario all the way to Russia. Rave can lay claim to being the first Canadian artist (The Dave Rave Group) signed to a Russian label (Melodiya). Teenage Head crashed onto the Canadian music scene with a couple of riotous appearances at the Last Pogo show at Toronto’s Horseshoe Tavern in 1978. At that city’s Ontario Place in the summer of 1980, Teenage Head was touring their gold breakthrough album, Frantic City. The event was over-sold and resulted in the Toronto Punk Rock Riot. That same summer, the band opened Heat Wave, the all-star punk/new wave festival at Mosport Park in Bowmanville, Ontario, in front of a crowd of 100,000. Along the way, Rave has worked with some of the music world’s elites including producer Daniel Lanois (U2, Peter Gabriel); alternative rocker Alex Chilton (Box Tops, Big Star); Paul Hyde (The Payola$), on a North American tour called The Grand Song Caravan in the early 2000s; and ECMA winners/Juno nominees The Trews, co-writing the band’s single, “I Can’t Say” with legendary producer, Jack Richardson (The Guess Who, Bob Seger). An enduring creative relationship with former bandmate Lauren Angelli has resulted in three Agnelli/Rave albums. In 2007 he released his second jazz-pop album, the Grammy short-listed, In the Blue of My Dreams, with Mark McCarron. In 2009, besides playing the Grey Cup and doing three tours of Europe, he worked with The Trews on the song “How’s Everything” for their Top 10 DVD.
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