Member Since: 4/11/2006
Band Website: http://www.nearfest.com
Band Members: Chad Hutchinson
Festival Coordinator
Robert LaDuca
Business Coordinator
Kevin Feeley
Production Manager
Dennis Haley
Keyboard Technician
Chris DeRose
Guitar/Bass Technician
Todd Guerrieri
Drum Technician
Paul Sears
Assistant Drum Technician
Jim Rezek
Assistant Keyboard Technician
Jim Robinson
Transportation
Ray Laboda
Transportation
Mike Emerson
Transportation
Chris Arters
Ticket Management/After-Show Ambassador
Brett Kull
Recording Engineer
Designatronix
Sound and Lights
Matthew Walker
Video Technician
Studio M
Photography/Videography
Michael Bennett
Program/T-Shirt Design
Michael Ostrich
Vendor and Hotel Liaison
Roger Dean
Logo Design
Influences: Progressive rock, symphonic rock, art rock, RIO, avant-garde, neo-progressive, chamber rock, space rock, ambient, electronic, experimental, post-rock, progressive metal
Sounds Like: NEARfest X
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, Liquid Tension Experiment, Fish, Peter Hammill, Echolyn, Synergy, Discipline, Radio Massacre International, KoenjiHyakkei, and Morglbl
NEARfest 2007
Magma, Hawkwind, Pure Reason Revolution, Magenta, Indukti, NeBeLNeST, La Maschera di Cera, IZZ, Robert Rich, and Bob Drake
NEARfest 2006
Keith Emerson, Ozric Tentacles, FM, Ange, Michael Manring, Richard Leo Johnson, Niacin, Riverside, KBB, and Guapo
Preshow: Hatfield and the North, The Tony Levin Band
NEARfest 2005
Le Orme, IQ, Present, Kenso, Steve Roach, Frogg Cafe, Wobbler, Matthew Parmenter, The Muffins, and Knight Area
Preshow: PFM, Proto-Kaw
NEARfest 2004
Strawbs, Univers Zero, Mike Keneally Band, Planet X, Richard Pinhas, Pallas,
Yezda Urfa, Sean Malone, Metamorfosi, and Hidria Spacefolk
Preshow: The Musical Box
NEARfest 2003
Camel, Magma, The Flower Kings, Anglagard, Tunnels, Alamaailman Vasarat,
High Wheel, Kraan, Glass Hammer, and Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
NEARfest 2002
Steve Hackett, Nektar, Echolyn, Caravan, Isildurs Bane, Miriodor, La Torre dell'Alchimista, Enchant, Gerard, and Spaced Out
NEARfest 2001
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, Porcupine Tree, Deus Ex Machina, After Crying, White Willow, Under the Sun, Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, California Guitar Trio with Tony Levin, Djam Karet, and The Underground Railroad
NEARfest 2000
Transatlantic, Happy the Man, Anekdoten, Par Lindh Project, Iluvatar, DFA,
North Star, Il Balletto di Bronzo, Thinking Plague, and Nexus
Preshow: Echolyn, Priam
NEARfest 1999
Spock's Beard, IQ, Solaris, Mastermind, Larry Fast, Scott McGill's Hand Farm, Alaska, Crucible, Ice Age, and Nathan Mahl
Record Label: NEARfest Records
Type of Label: Indie