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Suncatcher is Bogdan Cupcea, born in 1986, an electronic music artist from Târgu Lăpuş, Maramureş County, Romania. Always having an attraction to trance/progressive music, he started learning music production in 2003. His particular interest is in the romantic, or melodic-uplifting trance genre. His first debut single was in August, 2008, and he has received support from many important names in the trance scene, such as Above & Beyond, Daniel Kandi, Tiesto, Ferry Corsten, Armin van Buuren, Dj Shah, Signalrunners, Manuel Le Saux, ATB, among others. .

Catchers was an Irish indie pop band formed in 1993 and led by singer-songwriter Dale Grundle. The band consisted of Dale Grundle (vocals/guitar), Alice Lemon (vocals/keyboards), Peter Kelly (drums), Ger FitzGerald (bass, until 1995), Craig Carpenter (bass, 1996 onwards) and Jonathan Lord (lead guitar, 1998). Grundle and Lemon had known each other since their teens in Portstewart, Northern Ireland. In 2006, seven years after the end of Catchers, Grundle formed The Sleeping Years. Early demos were sent to various London based labels in 1994 and caught the attention of Setanta Records supremo, Keith Cullen. Their first release, a 7" called...

Cootie Stark is one of the last authentic Piedmont blues guitarist/singers alive today. He learned his songs at the feet of the originators of Piedmont Blues - Baby Tate, Pink Anderson, Walter Phelps, Peg Leg Sam and Blind Sammy Doolie. Cootie Stark has a repertoire of 100's of Blues and Gospel songs, making him one of the last direct links to a South long gone. "I've been playing guitar for 50 years," reports Stark, "I started beating on cans before I got a guitar and my mother told me I was singing since I was a baby." Although music was...

Charles Melvin ("Cootie") Williams (July 24, 1910 - September 15, 1985) was an American jazz and rhythm and blues trumpeter. He rose to prominence as a member of Duke Ellington's orchestra, with which he performed from 1929 to 1940. He also recorded his own sessions during this time, both freelance and with other Ellington sidemen. In 1940 he joined Benny Goodman's orchestra, then in 1941 formed his own orchestra, in which over the years he employed Charlie Parker, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Bud Powell, Eddie Vinson, and other important young players. He began to play more rhythm and blues in the...