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The Beatles Unplugged - Don Christiano and Walt O'Brien Your Beatles favorites – unplugged featuring Don Christiano with help from his friend Walt O’Brien.

Alyssa Trahan Band Alyssa Trahan is able to blur genre lines with her modern pop production mixed with traditional country instrumentation. A jill-of-all-trades, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and audio engineer, Alyssa began making waves in Nashville as soon as she moved from her hometown of East Rochester, N.Y. in 2016.

Meg Williams Welcome Nashville-based guitarist, songwriter, and singer, Meg Williams back to the B-Side stage.

Davey O. Embarking on a decade-plus journey that has resulted in a collection of justly-earned, highly introspective songs, Davey crafts pure Americana that is not of the social and political consciousness, but drawn from the deep well of experience and human emotion – no hackneyed story lines, no insincere polish, just an unflinching poet’s look at life.

Steve Lyons Steve Lyons has been playing guitar, singing, and writing songs for over 50 years. Although well known for his work with bands such as Mitty and the Followers, The Legendary Dukes, The Enerjets, King Juke and more, he's returned to his solo roots in country and folk music. His repertoire consists of songs by John Sebastian, Bob Dylan, Lyle Lovett, John Hiatt, Johnny Cash, and many others, as well as several of his originals.

Cooper Scotti Cooper Scotti began playing guitar at a young age with early influences of jazz, blues and classic rock. His latest original pop tunes fuse finger picking guitar, jazz chord voicing with Hip Hop and Country vocal and lyrics. Cooper's live shows blend original music with popular cover songs.

Fornieri Brothers Band Long time veterans of the Rochester NY Music Scene, Joe and Pete Fornieri front this high-powered ensemble of Rock and Soul, with a bunch of blues thrown in for good measure.

Mike “CottonToe” Scrivens CottonToe engages audiences young and old with his soulful voice, singing stories of those less fortunate and those whom he’s crossed paths in his lifetime. Frank DeBase from CITY Newspaper described his debut cd DOWNTRODDEN BLUES as “eight songs that are bluesy, yes, but with other elements of singer-songwriter and warm Americana denim, wood, and wire.”

Paul Strowe Classic Rock Music from the late 50’s into the 80’s an extraordinary voice with three part harmonies plus great acoustic guitar work adds up to Paul Strowe.

Davey O "Davey O. crafts intimate, folk-and country-based slices of a life examined. With a journalist’s eye for detail and poet’s ear for the well-turned observation, he finds the universal in the particular, turning day-to-day minutiae into dusty paeans to the indomitability of the human spirit." - Jeff Miers, The Buffalo News