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Martin Zellar born June 14, 1963, is a Minnesota based singer-songwriter best known as frontman of the country-tinged rock band the Gear Daddies.... While still in high school, Zellar formed his first band, Fallout, with childhood friend and bassist Nick Ciola. Zellar and Ciola have played together for more than 30 years. Upon graduation, Zellar moved to the Twin Cities and in 1984 joined Ciola, guitarist Randy Broughton, and drummer and fellow songwriter James "Billy" Dankert as the Gear Daddies. The band enjoyed much local and some national success, and released three albums. They officially broke up in 1992, but began playing enthusiastically attended reunion shows a few years later. In 1994 the prolific songwriter began making albums and touring with a band that would become known as Martin Zellar and The Hardways, including at various times Nick Ciola, Scott Wenum, Dan Neale, Adam Levy, Noah Levy,Jon Duncan, Marc Retish, Patrick Tanner and Randy Broughton. In the late '90s, Zellar began performing with a Neil Diamond tribute band that remains popular into the present. Neil! includes musicians Ali Gray, Patrick Tanner, Scott Wenum, Nick Ciola, and another guitaurist.
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Charlie Parr is an American country blues musician, born in Austin, Minnesota, United States. He started his music career in Duluth, Minnesota. His... influences include Charlie Patton, Bukka White, Reverend Gary Davis, and Dave Van Ronk. He plays a National resonator guitar, a fretless open-back banjo, and a 12-string guitar in the Piedmont blues style. He is married with two children. As of May 2008, the song "1922" has been featured in an Australian and New Zealand Vodafone television advertisement. As a consequence Parr's album, 1922, was re-released in Australia on the Level 2 record label in Melbourne. In 2009, Parr toured Australia with Paul Kelly. Parr played at the 2011 Pickathon Music Festival in Oregon.
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Marc Anderson is an American percussionist who has toured and recorded with Steve Tibbetts since 1977. He has also toured and/or recorded with... artists such as Lorie Line, Bradley Joseph, Butch Morris, Tony Moreno, Don Cherry, Peter Ostroushko, Claudia Schmidt, Dave Moore, Greg Brown, Max Roach, Taj Mahal, Minnesota Orchestra, Robert Fripp, David Sylvian, Choying Drolma, and Altan. He is an adjunct professor in the Anthropology department at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota and leads an African drum ensemble and co-teaches an African Cultures class. He has twice received the Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grants and McKnight Foundation Fellowships and has also been awarded a State Arts Board Grant and a West Bank School of Music Composers Grant. He has received four Minnesota Music Awards in various categories and was once nominated for Minnesota Artist of the Year.
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Josh Braaten is an American actor. He grew up in Blooming Prairie, Minnesota and graduated from Blooming Prairie High in 1995. He graduated in 1999... from Winona State University where he performed on stage in productions such as Shakespeare's Macbeth, playing the titular character opposite of Anthony Rydberg, Samantha Sweeney, and The Reverend Adam Posegate. He currently resides in North Hollywood, California. Braaten was in TV shows such as CSI: Miami, That 80's Show, Spin City, Boston Legal, Psych, The Ex List and The Mentalist . He was in films such as Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd, The Frequency of Claire, and Big Shot: Confessions of a Campus Bookie. He is probably best known for his role in the 2008 film Semi-Pro, as the Flint Tropics player, Twiggy Munson. He is going to play the role of Derek in the upcoming film Overnight.
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