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Best of New Hampshire Award Winner 2017, 2019 and 2023! Our Season Finale Show Features Some of Our Most Loved and Special Cold River Radio Show Guests! BRIAN MAES FAMILY- Madeline Maes (Daughter of Brian and Mary Beth Maes) is lead singer of the popular NorthShore band Shy. MaryBeth Maes is an outstanding and well known singer, who performs solo regularly in and around the Boston area. Brian Maes is a solo artist who wrote the 1991 RTZ Billboard chart #26 hit Until Your Love Comes Back Around. Brian and MaryBeth are both original members of the band Barry Goudreau's Engine Room which features Barry Goudreau, formerly of the rock group Boston. They are currently touring in support of thier 2nd record The Road. Madeline and MaryBeth currently sing together at Childrens Library shows around the North Shore for a grant based organization called The CFCE of the North Shore . More on Brian Maes... In 1984, Maes began his long-standing relationship with Barry Goudreau formerly of rock group Boston , when he successfully auditioned for the keyboardist/backing vocalist chair with Orion the Hunter. The band toured as the opening act for Aerosmith on the Back in the Saddle tour during the summer of 1984. After their first tour, Orion the Hunter disbanded. Maes and Goudreau made the decision to stay together and work on new material. In 1985, while still writing and recording with Barry Goudreau, Maes began collaborating with Peter Wolf, The J. Geils Band frontman, doing pre-production and arranging work in the recording studio for Wolf's solo record Come As You Are . Maes, Lawry, Stefanelli and Waldon all worked together in the studio recording the songs that would later be on this record and all received credit on the label. This collaboration between Wolf and Maes began a long-standing personal and professional relationship that would bring them together on numerable musical endeavors. It was during this time that Maes presented Wolf with the song Until Your Love Comes Back Around for consideration but Wolf passed on the song. Brian and Peter would come together again in 1993 to tour the United States and Japan in support of Peter's Long Line The band was then called Peter Wolf and the House Party 5 with Tim Archibald on bass, David Stefanelli on drums and backing vocals, Johnny A. on guitar, Doug Dube on Hammond B3 and backing vocals, Brian Maes on keys and backing vocals and Peter Wolf on lead vocals. Maes was also a member of RTZ. Engine Room recently performed alongside the Hollywood Vampires (Alice Cooper, Joe Perry, and Johnny Dep) For the Cold River Radio Christmas Show Brian brings along his immensely talented family to team up with the house band and celebrate one of their favorite times of year. Cassandre McKinleyBoston native, Cassandre McKinley, is a singer, recording artist, composer, producer, vocal coach and educator. As an artist and singer, she channels a vast spectrum of genres that include Soul, Jazz, Blues, R&B, Pop and Country and has unwittingly unified them into a singular sound that is primitively hers. McKinley’s consensual freedom from stylistic boundaries has become her signature approach to making music. She is simply presenting a rich and acutely diversified mix of music by way of a sublime voice and a veritable gift for storytelling. Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki-Bringing fresh energy to traditional Celtic music, Jordan is an award-winning New Hampshire-based fiddler/singer who has been performing professionally for over two decades. He has toured nationally with bands in various genres, performed across Ireland, and released multiple recordings of Celtic music that can be heard on radio stations in Ireland and Scotland as well as around New England. He is also an Emmy®-nominated composer who has written soundtracks for audiobooks and television and appeared as a guest on over 100 albums. His lifelong passion for history helps bring to life the traditional music around which he built his career. Liz and Dan Faiellabring to life the traditional music of their roots, with crisp vocals, mesmerizing fingerstyle guitar, lyrical fiddling, and exhilarating rhythmic drive. Their music calls to mind the convivial grange hall contradances of their youth in New Hampshire, while conveying a wistfulness for their ancestral Ireland. LOCAL SPOTLIGHT - Pierce Sarty8 year old Pierce is Son of Host and Producer Jonathan Sarty and President of Wild Mountain Dog Studio. Pierce will continue the tradition of performing his favorite Christmas Classic The Night Before Christmas. Author Elizabeth Hand -Elizabeth Hand is the bestselling author of 20 genre-spanning novels and five collections of short fiction and essays. Her work has received multiple Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy and Nebula Awards, among other honors, and several of her books have been New York Times and Washington Post Notable Books. Interviewing Author Special Guest J.G. Kelly-is the author of the Nighthawk crime series for Alison and Busby, and the Philip Dryden series for Penguin. He was born in 1957 and is the son of a Scotland Yard detective. He went to university in Sheffield, later training as a journalist and worked on the Bedfordshire Times, Yorkshire Evening Press and the Financial Times. His first book, The Water Clock, was shortlisted for the John Creasey Award and he has since won a CWA Dagger in the Library and the New Angle Prize for Literature. He lives in Ely, Cambridgeshire HostJonathan Sarty and His Fabulous Cold River Radio Band: David Mattacks on Drums (Jethro Tull, Fairport Convention), Todd Baker on Double Bass, Mike Sakash on Soprano Sax,and Joseph (Sonny) Barbato on Piano. www.coldriverradio.com
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