Rob Benedict
Rob Benedict is an actor best known for his roles in TV and films including "Felicity", "Supernatural" and the movie
Waiting...
Born and raised in Columbia, Missouri, Benedict received a degree in Performance Studies from Northwestern University. After graduating, his passion for theater lead him to performing in regional
theaters across the country, including the critically acclaimed South Coast Repertory Theater in Costa Mesa, California. In addition he developed a one-man show based on the life of James Dean
which he performed in Chicago and Los Angeles.
In Los Angeles he began performing in improv and sketch comedy shows. Soon he ventured into the world of stand-up comedy and hosted a monthly show called "Die Laughing" in which he performed with
the likes of Tig Navaro, Paul F. Tompkins and Zach Galifiankis.
After a handful of guest star roles in tv, he was cast as "Richard Coad" in the critically acclaimed series "Felicity", which ran for 4 years on the WB. Since then, Rob has acted in more than 50
episodes of television over his near 20 year career. He is known as the prophet "Chuck Shurley" in the CW series, "Supernatural" and the irreverent power agent "Jeremy Berger" in the buzz worthy
Starz comedy series "Head Case". Other regular roles include "Lucas Pegg" in the CBS sci-fi drama "Threshold", Sydney Bristow's partner "Brodien" in "Alias", and "Judah" in the NBC sit-com "Come
To Papa". Additional television credits include guest appearances on "The Mentalist", "NCIS: Los Angeles", "Shameless", "Psych", "Cold Case", "Law and Order: LA", "CSI: Crime Scene
Investigation", "Burn Notice", "House", "NCIS", "Medium", "Monk", "NYPD Blue", as well as recurring roles on "Touch", "Franklin and Bash", "Chicago Hope", "Birds of Prey" and "Buffy the Vampire
Slayer".
Film credits include starring opposite Jenna Fischer in A Little Help. Also Still Waiting, where he reprised his role as Calvin, the loveably insecure waiter in the sequel to the comedy Waiting.
Other notable film roles include State of Play with Russell Crowe, Kicking and Screaming with Will Ferrell, Sex and Death 101 with Winona Ryder, The First 20 Million is Always the Hardest with
Rosario Dawson, as well as Not Another Teen Movie, and Two Days with Paul Rudd.
He wrote, produced and starred in the independent short film The Sidekick, which made its debut at the 2013 Comic-Con in San Diego. He also wrote the shorts Lifetripper and the "Unauthorized
Hangover 2 Documentary", which was featured on the DVD of the Hangover 2.
When not acting, Benedict can be seen and heard as the front man of the LA based rock band Louden Swain.
Louden Swain
Rob Benedict - Lead Vocals & Guitar
Michael Borja - Bass & Vocals
Billy Moran - Guitars & Vocals
Stephen Norton - Drums & Vocals
Prior to their newest album Sky Alive, Louden Swain’s 2012 album Eskimo had solidified their reign as indie darlings in the Los Angeles music scene. The release of Eskimo - the band’s 4th studio record - yielded a year marked by an American and European tour, and included instant classic shows in New York, London, Chicago and Berlin. While videos for the singles “Eskimo” and “Gamma Ray” posted impressive numbers on YouTube, the song “Worlds Collide” was featured in the CW series “Supernatural”. Indie Rock Café said about the album “With that kind of talent helping them out, it’s nearly impossible not to end up with some great tracks”.
The four friends and longtime bandmates had a lot to be excited about. Lead singer Rob Benedict,
bass player Mike Borja and drummer Stephen Norton started the band in 1997. Early on the music catered to the time - they were a Green Day-esque garage rock band. The new millennium added
influences from Wilco and My Morning Jacket. But their core purpose never changed—make music that you enjoy. With the addition of lead guitar player Billy Moran in 2005, they were finally able to
not only make the music the wanted to, but with a new layer of sound that matched the epic visions they were hearing in their head. Those epic visions manifested themselves in A Brand New Hurt
(2007) and Eskimo.
But 2013 brought a new challenge that they would have to overcome. In October, lead singer Benedict (also an actor with an impressive resume including “Waiting...”,
“Kicking and Screaming”, “Supernatural”, and “Felicity” to name a few) unexpectedly suffered an ischemic stroke, caused by a tear in his carotid artery. This unlikely occurrence put not only
Rob’s future, but also the band’s, in question. But Rob started making a surprisingly quick recovery, fueled by practices with the band. At first he could play but had a hard time enunciating
lyrics, but they kept on. “It was the one thing I could do that felt good, and was good for me.” said Benedict. By January 2014, he was back to full health, much to the amazement of the doctors.
His “therapy” had produced 16 new Louden Swain songs that were ready to record.
The result is Sky Alive - Louden Swain’s 5th full length album – a 12 song symphony of pain and triumph. It is an album about not only surviving but also re-connecting with life. The band has never sounded so full and passionate. The album is the closest yet to capturing the energy and pulse of their live shows. As always, the lyrics have that biting wit, catchy choruses, and instantly memorable melodies which have become the Louden Swain signature. The band produced Sky Alive themselves, and the finishing touches were added by mixer Jon Kaplan (Parachute, Augustana, Gavin DeGraw) and mastering by Gavin Lurssen (Bruno Mars, Queens of the Stone Age, Sheryl Crow).
Their music is available on Itunes and Amazon.
Gil McKinney
Gil McKinney was born on February 5, 1979 in Houston, Texas, USA as Mark Gilbert McKinney. He is an actor and writer, known for Once Upon a Time, Supernatural and Friday Night Lights.
Amanda Wallace & Aaron Beaumont
As a professional pianist and songwriter, Aaron has toured the U.S. and Europe extensively, and his solo project has garnered
considerable attention, including radio play on KCRW. L.A. Weekly wrote that Aaron's work brings "a new life to the ancient music-hall/pop piano-man tradition, with clear-headed songs of
genuinely witty lyrical oomph and, most of all, a historically informed musical depth--all delivered with style, grace, wit and elan, of course."
The artist has undertaken several successful East Coast, West Coast, and European tours, backed by tour press, including TV appearances on networks such as KCRA Sacramento and Park City TV, radio, and continuous online viral promotion. .
Lisa Berry
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Lisa Berry is an accomplished Canadian stage and screen actor who has worked extensively across North America.
A fan favourite, Lisa is a constant presence in the film and television landscape with major recurring roles in popular television series Bad Blood as “Nellie Bullock”; Supernatural as “Billie”
(a.k.a “Death”); Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments as “Cleophas Garroway”; and Continuum as “Nolan”. Her TV credits also include Mr. D, Lost Girl, XXIII: The Series, 19-2, Against the
Wall, The Firm and Combat Hospital.
Lisa starred opposite Laurence Fishburne in the 2013 sci-fi thriller The Colony and as “Candace Cranston”, in Lionsgate’s 2017 reboot of The Power Rangers.
On stage, Lisa has performed in Soulpepper Theatre Company’s Father Comes Home from the Wars which earned her a 2017 Dora nomination, Chicago Shakespeare
Theatre’s Pericles (’14), and most recently in The Shaw Festival’s critically acclaimed production of An Octoroon.
She will next appear in the upcoming television thriller The Sisterhood.
Lisa was born and raised in Richmond Hill and trained at The Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts in Toronto. She is a strong advocate for self-care and is dedicated to using her platform to
promote conversations about mental health.
Jason Manns
As a singer/songwriter Jason has released his debut album in 2006 and not only plays in the US but has toured Europe multiple times. His original songs are placed in TV Shows in the US, one of those being theTV Hit-Series Supernatural.
As an actor he had leading roles in Indiefilms like "Cake" and character roles in films like "Rock Slyde". As a producer Jason has worked on various short films.
Jason resides in Los Angeles.
He released his second album "Soul", which he describes like that: "I am really excited about this album, there are some definite experiments on there that I'm curious to see how they go over. There are, of course,plenty of songs that sound like what most people would think of as "JasonManns songs" but there are a couple, maybe a few, that don't really sound like that... and I really like them! It's not a crazy departure. It's not electronic, no vocal, dance music or anything, but there is one rock song on there that is pretty fun, and kinda dark, and there's one with kind of an R&B influence... like I said, experimental!”
His next album "Move" was released in 2013 and is also a great success!
In December 2014, Jason released a Christmas Album with wonderful guest appearances of actors from Supernatural like Jensen Ackles, Jared Padalecki, Misha Collins, Rob Benedict and Richard Speight jr.. The associated release party for this album was held at the King King in Hollywood and was live streamed on Stageit with over 5000 viewers. The proceeds went to Random Acts, a charity organization of Misha Collins.
His music is available on Itunes, Amazon and cdbaby.
Paul Carella
Paul is a Scottish singer/songwriter. Self taught, Paul learned his trade as a musician playing in the pubs and clubs of Glasgow before moving to London in 2009 to further his music career. Since then Paul has released a second studio album, which was followed by a 10 date tour in Nashville, Tennessee. That was followed by a UK tour in which Paul supported Alan Price (The Animals) and award winning L.A singer/songwriter Steve Carlson. Paul has also worked with Alabama 3 and The Steve Cradock Band. Over the last 4 years, Paul's music has been played on independent radio stations in the UK and the US.
Since a young age, Paul has shown a hunger for music. Finding his first idol at the age of 4
in Elvis Presley, singing along and following Elvis, move for move in his parents living room. That hunger was stifled for many years by a crippling shyness, that Paul eventually broke through
and became the outgoing person he is today. Finding other influence in artists such as Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Bruce Springsteen and most recently Glen Hansard, Paul has matured into an artist of
the people, writing songs about day to day life, relationships, hardships, topics that the people can really relate to.
Paul signed with music management, Downtown Artists in
2013.
He’s playing shows in UK, Scotland and Germany since he joined The Final Wish and Hayden Lee at their gig in Germany in November 2014.
You can buy his album “Carella” and the new EP “Dead Town” on Itunes and Amazon.
Danny Kensy
Growing up in the not-so-small-now town of Mechanicsville, Virginia Danny pursed music at the age of 3. He studied piano and voice throughout school and started playing in his first band at
16. His love of piano runs deep and this is the instrument Danny decided would work best for him on stage since only a few country artists make the piano their staple instrument.
Danny has charted multiple songs, some #1s, on the MUSIC ROW CHART, CDX TRACTION TRUE INDIE CHART, CDX MAINSTREAM COUNTRY CHART & THE EACM CHART. He has performed with the heavy hitters
including Rascal Flatts, Brad Paisley, Dierks Bentley, Dan & Shay, Brothers Osborne, The Charlie Daniels Band, Travis Tritt, Randy Travis and so many more.
2022 Male Vocalist of the Year, 2021 Song of the Year and 2017 Rising Country Male Artist of the Year at The Josie Music Awards Danny continues to write, record and tour. He is signed with Rad Records Nashville and is a proud CMA & EACM member.
Blake Lewis
is an American singer-songwriter and beatboxer who was the runner-up on the sixth season of American Idol. His major label debut album A.D.D. (Audio Day Dream) was released on December 4, 2007 through 19 Recordings/Arista Records.[2] On October 30, 2007, his first single "Break Anotha" was released. The album landed on number ten on the U.S. Billboard 200 as its highest peak position with 97,500 copies sold in its debut, and has sold over 350,000 copies. After the release of his second single "How Many Words", which peaked at number eight on the U.S. Billboard Dance/Club Play Songs, Lewis was dropped by Arista Records. Lewis eventually signed with Tommy Boy Records.
His second album, Heartbreak on Vinyl, was released on October 6, 2009. The first single "Sad Song" was released on July 21, 2009. The album charted at number 135 on the U.S. Billboard Billboard 200, number twenty on the Billboard Independent Albums, and number seven on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Albums with over 4,000 copies sold in the first week.
His third album, Portrait of a Chameleon, was released on May 20, 2014. This was his first independent record and includes his hit single "Your Touch". Portrait Of A Chameleon was available for pre order on PledgeMusic before its release and included special extras such as posters and insiders on his album.
Hayden Lee
Hayden Lee is a Charlotte-based singer/songwriter whose edgy guitars and beguiling melodies create a sound different than any other alternative rock/pop artists currently out there. He has played at various venues in the Charlotte and Washington, D.C. areas over the last 8 years playing a mix of cover music and original songs both as a solo artist and with bands.
Starting in early high school watching his band, Bottom's Dream, play guitar and sing while he played drums, Hayden Lee began learning guitar and writing music. He played acoustic at several college events and was in Stairwells, an all-male a capella singing group, which helped hone his confidence as a singer and a performer.
Hayden began playing with Teaser, a cover band in Washington D.C, after college, where they introduced many of their original works into the sets. After moving to the Charlotte, NC area, Hayden began playing at several venues acoustically and continued to write music in pursuit of eventually releasing an album. In 2007 he teamed up with producer and guitarist, Ron B. Smoov, and drummer, Clayton “ClayFunk” Turnage, to produce his debut album, “House of the Lonely Souls”. This album combines driving guitars and head-bopping beats with melodic harmonies and thought-provoking lyrics. This mixture produces a sound that traverses the different music genres from alternative rock/pop to some funk and R&B.
Recently he has been to Germany with The Final Wish for a gig in November 2014 and he is playing in Charlotte, NC now and then.
You can buy his album “House of the Lonely Souls” and the new EP “Unplugged and Unaltered(ish)” on Itunes, Amazon and cdbaby.