Dave Schindele

Dave Schindele is a wonderful, uplifting songwriter and performer. His songs have a quality that can change you for the better. I know they have changed me! RB

" LOVE "Riding On Hope", and (big time) "BUT I DO" You're amazing. What fun to discover GOOD music in this way." says Tina Lear,

http://www.daveschindele.com/

Jim Schwall started playing several different kinds of music on several different instruments while in elementary school.  By the time he finished high school, he was primarily playing various kinds of traditional folk music, including bluegrass and country blues, on the guitar.  Gradually, originals, usually based on traditional styles, replaced the traditional tunes and Jim has continued to play solo gigs all his life.  In college, Jim met harmonica and piano player Corky Siegel, added a pickup to his Gibson guitar, and they started the Siegel-Schwall Band, performing for about ten years and releasing over a dozen record albums on the Vanguard and Wooden Nickel labels.  After Siegel-Schwall disbanded in 1974, Jim continued to play in several versions of the Jim Schwall Band while going back to college, eventually completing a doctorate in music composition, becoming a professor of music, and teaching composition in universities.  More recently, Jim has been teaching in high schools and doing social service work, running a program housing the mentally ill who had become homeless.  Siegel-Schwall started playing reunion concerts in 1988, releasing a live album in 1989 and a studio album in 2005, both on Alligator Records.

Now retired from the social services, Jim divides his time between the two non-human loves of his life - cameras and guitars.  He's a lifelong photographer and shows his pre-silver prints several times a year.  The guitar part consists of occasional Siegel-Schwall gigs, playing lead guitar for Marques Bovre’s SoDangYang, fronting the dance-friendly party band Bar Time Lovers, playing bass with the Cajun Strangers, jamming with guitarist/singer Andy Ewen in the current version of the Jim Schwall Band, and his life-long favorite activity, playing his own songs, a couple traditional tunes, and occasionally songs written by friends like Bill Morrissey and Loudon Wainwright, on acoustic 6- and 12-string guitars.  In 2007 he released “Getting Old,” a solo CD recorded live in Madison area coffeehouses, on Uvulittle Records. Listen to Jim on Myspace

Rich Baumann

Rich Baumann has been a performing artist for thirty years. He began as fiddle player in several bands. He has been a solo performer since 1986 performing in more than a dozen states and in Canada.  Rich plays guitar, fiddle, banjo, and piano and a few other things.

Rich Baumann founded The Million Closets Project in January of 2007. We have now taken $29,000 worth of donated musical instruments and distributed them on the Gulf Coast to deserving individuals and schools. We are now collecting for Joplin.