Mike Szenysyn

Mike is a professional guitarist and vocalist; guitar instructor; songwriter; music publisher, church Music Director, and occasional pianist/keyboardist.

Mike has performed for over 35 years as a guitarist in rock bands, musical theatre orchestra pits, churches, and solo; in genres including classical guitar, blues, modern crossover country, jazz/standards, and all rock styles - from southern and classic rock to shred to droptune metal and anything in between.

As a vocalist, Mike performs such varied styles as edgy rocker, standards crooner, and church cantor. Mike is a private guitar instructor in the West Milford area.

www.toadroadmusic.com

Almost Jazz

Our style varies from jazz standards to current day popular music. Almost Jazz has band members Ernie Pellegrino on Drums-Percussion, Paul Foschino on Guitar, and Rich Hererra on Bass & Guitar. We also feature the wonderful alto vocals of Paula Auteri. Paula allows us to broaden our repertoire to include such Jazz standards as: "At Last" - Etta James, "Fever" - Michael Buble`, "Moondance" - Van Morrison, "Fly me to the Moon" - Sinatra, and "Summertime" - Billie Holiday.

We've recently added some current  titles such as; "I Don't Know Why" - Nora Jones, "If I Ain't Got You" - Alicia keys, "Sway" - Michael Buble` and "Gravity" from John Mayer to name a few.

Each year we look forward to the Photo & Art Show. This allows us to share our passion for music in an environment filled with beautiful artistic talent.

http://almostjazz.webs.com/

The Montebello MountainEars

Rusty Strings

The Rusty Strings are a Ringwood-based group of 7 who have enjoyed making music together for nearly 20 years. Playing traditional and contemporary country music with vocal harmonies and unique guitar leads, they have performed at private and community events including the Annual Ringwood Hunger Walk to benefit the Center for Food Action, the Ringwood Library's 10th Anniversary Celebration, and Cupsaw Lake's Fantastic Fridays.

The Rusty Strings members are: Estelle Ahrens (vocals, guitar), Mike Cariello (vocals, guitar), Dawn Hartman Chiu (lead vocals, bass guitar, keyboard), Ron Chiu (vocals, guitar), Karen Hartman (vocals, guitar), Marguerite Karner (drums), and Joe Molloy (lead guitar).

The Kerssens

The Kerssens, Eric, and his sons, 16 year old Patrick, and 13 year old Alex, look forward to playing at the St. Catherine's Art Show once again. Eric has been playing accordion since the age of 6, while his son Patrick started piano lessons at age 10. Patrick, a sophomore at West Milford High School, also plays trumpet in the West Milford Highlander Band, and occasionally will take a turn at the drums. Alex, started piano lessons at age 7, and along with piano, also plays guitar, ukelele, alto and tenor sax, and has recently decided to try the bagpipes! Both boys enjoy playing a blend of, rock, rhythm and blues, and blues with their band, The Statement, and have recently toyed with the idea of a jazz trio or quartet.

Roger Astudillo

Roger has toured Europe and North America as a member of the British group Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders touring with the 4 Seasons, Tommy James and The Hermits. Roger's original music group DeWaves played CBGB's and Max's Kansas City with The Talking Heads and Blondie.

Steve Brown

Steve is an Award Winning Guitarist, Singer, Songwriter, Producer, and Musical Director with over 20 years professional experience. He's a founding member of the million selling MCA Records Rock Group TRIXTER.

His debut album, TRIXTER, released in May 1990, spent 54 weeks on Billboards Top 200 Album Charts and peaked at # 28 in February 1991. It was RIAA Certified Gold in February 1991 and sold over 1 million worldwide.

Steve wrote three Top 100 Billboard Singles:

• “Give It To Me Good” peaked at # 65 for 9 weeks.

• “One In A Million” peaked at # 75 for 8 weeks

• “Surrender” 10 weeks peaked at # 72 for 10 weeks

The three singles above were also # 1 MTV Videos. Steve was offered Guitar Player slot for Shania Twain's Come On Over tour in 1998.

Hailey De Almeida

Hailey is a 17 year-old singer/songwriter from Wanaque NJ. Under the name "Every Hello", her acoustic/pop solo-project, Hailey has performed at tons of venues across NJ, and performed with bands including Stereo Skyline, The Scene Aesthetic, Plug In Stereo, and Romance On a Rocketship. She has self-recorded and released her very own Demo CD called "Demotastic - EP" which can be purchased on iTunes.

Emily Piziak

Emily is a Ringwood resident who plays classical guitar. Emily was the winner of the 2007 ASATA Solo Competition at the Walter Engle Festival of Young Performers.

Bob McKay

Affectionately known as the AXEMAN, Bob has lived in Ringwood for over 10 years. Bob made his debut as a performer in 2002 as part of the local band: "The Ringwood Noise Ordinance" - RNO, which appeared in local eateries like Rhodes (now PRIME 15). RNO evolved into AREA 57, where Bob contributes as a vocalist and plays rhythm and lead guitar. Bob studies voice with Deborah Zuke Smith of West Milford and is pleased to entertain you Friday night at the Coffeehouse, upstairs!

Area 57

Rockin' Ringwood and Upper Passaic County since early 2010, Area 57's mission is to ensure that the hills are alive with the sounds of good-time classic rock (but always in full compliance with their Prime Directive, the Ringwood Noise Ordinance).

The Band is comprised of Armando ("The Owl") Chapelliquen - drums, percussion; Jim ("3 Strings") Dempsey - bass, guitar; Bob ("The Axeman") McKay - guitars, harmonica, vocals; Bill ("Wild Bill") McLaughlin - guitars, vocals; Dave ("Rev. Thumbs") Reilly - keyboard, vocals, percussion; Maryclaire ("MC") Reilly – vocals, percussion; and Charlie "Wall of Sound" Garrison – production and recording.

Although the Band’s members currently hail from Ringwood and Wayne, they trace their origins to such diverse locales as Brooklyn, Long Island, the Jersey Shore, New England, Peru and Wanaque. This will be the Band’s third appearance at the Art Show, and the second stop of their 2012 “Not the End of the World” Tour!

Deanna Amarosa

Deanna Amarosa is a 7th Grade student at St. Catherine of Bologna School . She is thrilled to be performing at the St. Catherine of Bologna Art Show for the third consecutive year. A student of piano for the last eight years, Deanna is currently studying the Alto Saxophone. Besides devoting herself to her music, Deanna is also a thespian. In the summers, she has been performing on stage for the St. Catherine’s Performing Arts Guild in their musical productions since 2005.

Elisabeth Nosal

Elisabeth Nosal, nee Keil, has been a resident of RIngwood all of her life. She attended the Ringwood schools including St. Catherine of Bologna. She began her piano studies at the age of 3&1/2. Mrs. Nosal also attended the Juilliard pre-college division and later received her BM at Manhattan School of Music. She performed at several international music seminars in the cities of Weimar,Germany, Salzburg, Austria, and Fontainbleau, France. Mrs. Nosal has been teaching piano to children for 20 years and in 2003, founded the Ringwood School of Music.

BCinBergen Band

Bruce "BC in Bergen" Callari is a singer/songwriter from Bergen County, NJ. He also plays Electric and Bass guitar with the Another Time Band in clubs around northern NJ.

BC's experience is wide ranging. In the early years he played and sang mostly for his own amusement. As he improved his musicianship he began playing for pay. His first professional work was as a Bass Guitarist and he still gets called for sideman jobs regularly.

Showcasing on Bass with such bands as "The Boy and Company, Bobby Rex and the Royal Tease, The Sheepdogs, Jersey Joe and the Heat, Projects, and No Apparent Reason, allowed him to expand his musical foundation and play some of the notable clubs in the NY/NJ scene. These stints lead to the first incarnation of the BC band to showcase his original material.

www.bcinbergen.com

Cavern 2 Rooftop

Cavern 2 Rooftop Members Steve Ruse, Sr., Steve Ruse, Jr. and Daniel Ruse join us this year with a tribute to the Beatles.

It's A Family Thing. This is a tale of a father and his two sons, their mutual love of a band from Liverpool, and a wife and mother who is happy to "let it be."

http://www.youtube.com/user/Cavern2Rooftop#p/a/u/2/dPMvmQdR5PM

Retrofitz
with Jeff and Annmarie Guenther

Paul Foschino

Paul’s been playing guitar for over 40 years, decided at a young age to learn guitar after seeing the Beatles play on the Ed Sullivan Show. Major influences over the years were great guitar players like Eric Clapton, Santana, and Jimmy Page, but more recently Jazz artists like Pat Metheny, Wes Montgomery, George Benson and Lee Ritenour have been the biggest influences on his playing.

He has an extensive collection of acoustic, electric and jazz guitars built around one simple philosophy; “Love one woman but many Guitars”. Paul plays in several bands, including Almost Jazz, SideBar and Mojo Work’n Blues to raise money for various charities; St Catherine's fund raising events, Save the Children of Haiti and local charities (Meals on Wheels).