Band

Matt CrowningMATT CROWNING: Drums & Percussion

As a per­former, ses­sion player, instruc­tor, and clin­i­cian, Matt Crown­ing is more than a “drummer’s drum­mer.” He is a “musician’s drum­mer” that brings a wealth of tal­ent, expe­ri­ence, and style to each sit­u­a­tion. With a diverse per­for­mance back­ground that ranges from Coun­try to Pop and Alter­na­tive to Big Band, plus Jazz and R&B, Matt under­stands and appre­ci­ates each artist. His work includes per­for­mances with Alex Bach, Vanilla Monk, Matt Farr, Alexx Calise, LifeChurch.TV, Inter Vision, Ker­rie Roberts, and, most currently, Matt is per­form­ing with Coun­try artist, Amber Leigh on tour and in the stu­dio. These shows include sup­port act per­for­mances with The Wreck­ers, Kenny Ches­ney, Trace Adkins, Fer­gie, Lady Ante­bel­lum, Cow­boy Troy, Glo­ri­ana and many others.

Matt Crown­ing proudly endorses Evans Drum­heads, Vic Firth Drum Sticks, Pure­Sound Per­cus­sion, Future Son­ics, Kick­Port, HQ Per­cus­sion, Drum­Fun, and HillBillyBrand.com artist apparel.

More infor­ma­tion about Matt, visit him on the web: http://www.mattcrowning.com on Face­book: http://www.facebook.com/matthew.crowning or on Twit­ter: http://twitter.com/mattcrowning.

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Randy JamesRANDY JAMES: Acoustic Guitar

Randy James — who hap­pens to be Amber’s dad, has been play­ing music all of his life. He is orig­i­nally from South Dakota, where he fronted his Jr. High rock band, “The Nowhere­men,” named after a Bea­t­les tune. Randy played bass, sang, and was highly influ­enced by Mr. Paul McCart­ney. Randy’s fam­ily then moved to Detroit Michi­gan when he was a fresh­man in high school. It was in Detroit where Randy received a musi­cal mix­ture of Motown, Ted Nugent, Bob Seger, Iggy Pop, and later on, acoustic music such as Crosby, Stills, and Nash, Cat Stevens, and James Tay­lor. He then added the acoustic gui­tar into his arse­nal in his col­lege years. After grad­u­at­ing from East­ern Michi­gan Uni­ver­sity, Randy taught Broad­cast Arts pro­gram in Royal Oak, Michi­gan, while play­ing bass in a funk/disco band for three years. He also recorded an album with Detroit rocker, Bob Boyle. Randy then got the itch to hit the road. He packed up his 1960 Fender Jazz bass, an acoustic gui­tar, and a suit­case in his old Ford Mus­tang and moved to Boca Raton, FL, where he’s been resid­ing ever since. Over 30 years ago, Randy, and then duo part­ner Mar­i­lyn Max started play­ing in Del­ray Beach, FL at a famous beach-side club called BOSTON’S ON THE BEACH. Randy has been at Bostons ever since. A new part­ner was intro­duced to Boston’s 15 years ago. 11 year old Amber Leigh hit the stage with her dad and has been play­ing ever since. Randy pro­duced, wrote and recorded Amber’s first 3 CD’s. Randy is also a pro­fes­sional edu­ca­tor, hav­ing designed and built the Tele­vi­sion facil­i­ties at Span­ish River High School in Boca Raton. He has been teach­ing Broad­cast Media for the past 28 years. Randy is also a cer­ti­fied Per­sonal trainer, a licensed Mas­ter Scuba Instruc­tor, loves run­ning marathons and spends many hours in the gym.  Randy resides in beau­ti­ful Boca Raton, FL.  He shares his home with his lovely wife, Jacque­line, their two dogs, and tuxedo cat. Randy col­lects, loves, and plays the “King of the Flat-tops,” the GIBSON J-200 acoustic guitar.

 

Sean RadfordSEAN RADFORD, Elec­tric Guitar

Born in Seat­tle to a fam­ily of accom­plished pro­fes­sional musi­cians that goes back sev­eral gen­er­a­tions, Sean Rad­ford received his first gui­tar at the age of five and never looked back. He learned to play gospel and blues at church as a young boy, and was wow­ing audi­ences with his chops before he was in his teens. By the time he fin­ished high school he had already received endorse­ments from many gui­tar and ampli­fier com­pa­nies and toured and recorded with his own bands as well as with other local artists. A stu­dent of all things musi­cal, he stud­ied Span­ish gui­tar and jazz in col­lege before mov­ing to Europe to focus on per­form­ing. Even­tu­ally, he returned to the United States and after play­ing gui­tar with some of the Seat­tle area’s top acts and becom­ing an in-demand gui­tar teacher, he relo­cated to Florida to make a fresh start after many years of pay­ing dues in the music indus­try. When he is not writ­ing, record­ing, or per­form­ing, he enjoys teach­ing pri­vate gui­tar and man­dolin lessons through Rad­ford Guitar.


Ralph Cinelli - BassRalph Cinelli : Bass

AKA – Rockin’ Ralph –A grad­u­ate from Uni­ver­sity of Buf­falo with a BA in Music and an MA in Math, he plays a vari­ety of styles from jazz to rock, but prefers the New Coun­try scene. He’s noted  for a qual­ity sound, while dis­play­ing a con­tin­u­ous rock­ing motion. This guy can’t hold still.  He met up with Big Daddy “Randy James”  20+  years ago, and has been his bass player du jour ever since. Rockin’ Ralph goes back to the days of early Amber, when Mom “Jackie James” would take her to a gig. Then, the 6 year old Amber would come up on stage and sing or play a new song that Dad had just taught her. The band has gone through many changes, and Rockin’ has been there for ‘em all.

Holland Ryan - Sound Engineer

HOLLAND RYAN: Sound Engineer

I have loved music my entire life and have always wanted to be involved with it. Whether I’m behind a mix­ing con­sole or play­ing on stage, I find great joy in mak­ing the most of each per­for­mance. I have been play­ing gui­tar since the age of six and have per­formed in Jazz, Swing, Rock, Alter­na­tive, Coun­try and Punk bands. As a native Florid­ian, I have attended FAU, PBCC and BCC where I trained in Jazz The­ory and Arrange­ment, Pho­tog­ra­phy and Graphic Arts. In my spare time, I enjoy cook­ing, bak­ing, fish­ing and boating.

I have been run­ning sound pro­fes­sion­ally for 14 years. For the past eleven years I have been work­ing as the Head Sound Engi­neer for a Per­form­ing Arts Cen­ter in South Florida. Addi­tion­ally, I have main­tained part-time employ­ment with sev­eral sound and pro­duc­tion com­pa­nies in the area over the last twelve years. Most recently I have been tour­ing and record­ing with Amber Leigh and her band! We’re very excited to be back in the stu­dio and record­ing new music for you all to enjoy!

As a sound engi­neer I have worked with amaz­ing peo­ple and per­form­ers. Some of the most mem­o­rable were:
Amber Leigh, Calle Ocho 2011, Tay­lor Swift, Clint Black, The Wreck­ers, Collin Raye, Eddie Money, Etta James, Jonny Lang, Buddy Guy, Gin Blos­soms, Blues Trav­eler, Sis­ter Hazel, Los Lonely Boys, The Resolvers, Lit­tle Feat, Three Dog Night, Lit­tle River Band and Joey Gilmore.

Broad­way Stars: Sut­ton Fos­ter, Shoshanna Bean, Adam Pas­cal, Christina Andreas, John Tracy Egan, Sam Har­ris, Lucie Arnaz, John Gabriel, Chita Rivera, Chris­tine Eber­sole, Rita Gard­ner, Pat Boone, Jason Graae, Liz Call­away, Sandy Dun­can and John Davidson.

Stage Per­for­mances: Kathy Grif­fin, Joel Grey, Rose­mary Clooney, Neil Sedaka, Kenny Rogers, Frank Sina­tra Jr., Mar­vin Ham­lisch, Robert Goulet, Linda Eder, Chuck Man­gione, Moscow Stars on Ice “Broad­way Nut­cracker”, St. Peters­burg stars on ice “Nut­cracker”, The 10 Tenors, Man­hat­tan Rhythm Kings and New Christy Minstrels.

Out­door Ben­e­fits: Davis Cup, Chris Evert Celebrity Ten­nis Event Fea­tur­ing: Pres­i­dent George H.W. Bush, Chris Evert , Chevy Chase, Gavin Ross­dale, Matthew Perry, Jon Lovitz, Bud Collins, Jimmy Con­nors, Mary Joe Fer­nan­dez, Tommy Haas, Luke Jensen, Mur­phy Jensen, Mar­tina Navratilova , Jana Novotna , John McEn­roe, Andy Mill, Mary Pierce, Andy Rod­dick, Aran­txa Sanchez Vic­ario, Mon­ica Seles, Ser­ena Williams, Venus Williams, Bud Collins, Linda Evans, Buddy Hack­ett, Stone Phillips, Michael Rapa­port, Brooke Shields, Alan Thicke, Anna Kournikova, Jef­frey Dono­van and Matt Lauer.