Jason Dennie and John Latini

 

Jason Dennie is primarily known as a solo acoustic guitarist.  The music isn't all
fingerstyle guitar, or flatpicking...it isn't all folk (as we know it to be), and uses ideas that reach out into jazz, blues, bluegrass, Celtic, rock & roll, and country to create a unique and energetic voice on acoustic guitar. In 2000 he won the Gamble Rogers Fingerstyle Guitar Championship. His most recent CD "Just Enough," is produced by Pete Huttlinger and featuring performances by Sam Bush on mandolin, among others.

Jason is also a talent vocalist and mandolin player. He can often be seen performing locally with the Milroys and Annie and Rod Capps. He finished a new CD, All the Dark Things, with Noah Hunt (vocalist for the Kenny Wayne Shepard Band).



John Latini is the winner of the 2008 and 2009 Detroit Blues Challenge.  Describing John Latini’s performances in a single adjective is an impossible task. He’s a talented singer/songwriter, an outstanding musician, and a consummate Barnum & Bailey-style entertainer, but most of all, Latini is a musical chameleon. Whether he’s singing one of the old jazz standards from the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s, leading a folky sing-along, belting out the blues, or quoting from the classic rock catalog, his unique style makes every song his own. His delivery can be packed with emotion, mischievous or silly, but it is always heartfelt. He’ll make you laugh, he’ll make you sing, he may even make you dance! One thing is for certain, when John Latini performs, the audience always wants more.