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The Wild Honey Collective The Wild Honey Collective formed in the summer of 2020 to perform original songs and traditional American folk music. Initially a “quarantine-era,” informal, acoustic back porch passion project, the project has expanded to include singers and songwriters Tommy McCord, Danielle Gyger, Timmy Rodriguez, Dan O’Brien, and Jack Schueler, pedal steel guitarist Adam Aymor and drummer Joel Kuiper (with a variety of “collective” collaborative projects in addition to the core band activity). The group issued The Wild Honey Collective: Volume 1 full-length debut album in January 2021, followed by the 12-track The Wild Honey Collective Volume 2 album (July 2022), the 7 track “mini-album” Chicory (September 2023), the 12-track Volume 3 (May 2024) – the 2024 “Roots Album of The Year” per the WYCE Jammies – and 6 song EP Solidago (September 2025), each building on the foundation of original and traditional music set by the debut album. Since first performing live in June 2021, The Wild Honey Collective has performed over 250 shows at a range of Michigan music festivals including Wheatland Music Festival, Smiling Acres, Forest Trail and Fallasburg Arts Festival, as well as venues spanning the tip of the Keweenaw peninsula to the coast of Maine. The Wild Honey Collective is ever-evolving and encompasses sounds of traditional string band music, rowdy country rock, psychedelia, classic pop and more to preserve and nurture the lineage of Cosmic American Music.
Jeremy Porter
Jeremy Porter grew up in Marquette, a small city on the shore of Lake Superior in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where he was a founding member of one of the UP's first punk bands - The Regulars. After moving to the Detroit area in 1988, he would go on to join, form and front several bands including Chutes and Ladders, SlugBug, Clashback, Fidrych and The OffRamps.
Jeremy released and toured behind a solo album in 2010 called Party of One and formed Jeremy Porter and The Tucos the following year. The Tucos have released 4 LP/CDs, a live EP, several singles, and a 3-CD ten-year retrospective collection. They tour the US and Canada regularly and toured the UK in 2018. In 2024, Jeremy released Dynamite Alley on GTG Records, his first full-length solo album since 2010. Jeremy supplements the Tucos' schedule with solo shows when possible, pulling material from his entire career.
Jeremy has appeared as a guest and contributed gutiar, vocals and writing to releases by several bands including Watershed,Porchsleeper, Popular Creeps and Head Injury.
Reverend Guitars have designated Jeremy as a featured artist and he proudly plays their Pete Anderson Signature Model as his primary instrument live.
Jeremy is Co-Editor in Chief and contributes regularly to Pencil Storm - a Columbus, Ohio-based music, film, sports, and culture blog run by Colin Gawel of the band Watershed. Jeremy writes album reviews, show previews and reviews, memoriam articles, and other peices. Direct links to all of his contributions are HERE.
"Rock and Roll Restrooms - A Photographic Memoir" is a coffee table book of photographs compiled in dive bar bathrooms by Jeremy while on tour across the USA and Canada. Limited copies of the prototype pressings are available while the search for a publisher continues.
Brian Lisik
Akron-based singer-songwriter Brian Lisik has been recording and performing his brash, garage-rock inspired music throughout the country since the mid-1990s. His latest single, "Why I'm Here” was released last year on Cherokee Queen Records, and his most recent album, “Goodnight, Detroit” came out in limited-edition vinyl form on Record Store Day 2025.
Lisik’s two most recent studio albums, “Hotsy Totsy! Live” and “Nu Wreckard” were each named among of the top releases of 2022 by the Canton Repository. Nationally, American Songwriter placed the song “Monk,” from “Hotsy Totsy!” in its Top 24 songs of the year list in 2022.
In 2021, Lisik’s single “Looking for You,” from the album “Gudbye Stoopid Whirled,” was one of the Top 20 most played songs on 91.3/90.3 The Summit in Akron/Struthers.
Described by WKSU-FM FolkAlley.com as “the epitome of coffee house cool,” the Seattle Post-Intelligencer called his music "a rough and tumble garage-y sound soaked deep in an ocean of chunky guitars.”
No Depression said Lisik creates “a winning formula of catchy phrasing, jangly guitar riffs and great pop hooks,” while renowned pop music writer Lee Zimmerman heralded “Lisik writes songs that resonate almost immediately…sharp, smart and full of edgy intensity…bold, assertive and flush with full tilt rock ‘n’ roll.”
Lisik’s music has also been featured in publications including The Huffington Post, Billboard, Elmore, Americana Highways, Goldmine, DittyTV, and the Bob Cesca Show, and he has shared bills with acts including Tim Easton, Patrick Sweany, Waylon Payne, Wade Bowen, Ass Ponys, Jesse Malin, Chris Knight, Tommy Womack, Nicole Atkins, Two Cow Garage, The Chamber Strings, Eddie Money, and Roger McGuinn.
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Easton Union
Get to the show early for Dinner and Drink in The Rialto Living Room - Opening at 5:00pm!
Doors: 7:00pm / Showtime: 7:30pm
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1000 Kenmore Blvd, Akron, OH, United States, Ohio 44314
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