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CJ got his start in music playing Trumpet with the No Nonsense Brass Band in high school. After studying Music Production & Engineering at Berklee College of Music, he went on to pick up a few other instruments and fell even more in love with performing. He is the self-proclaimed band guitar technician. He got an angled bell on his trumpet so he didn't need to fix his bad posture
Nick's passion for the performing arts has led him to many different avenues including directing, singing, playing guitar, and playing sax with the No Nonsense Brass Band. His velvet voice & sultry sax solos help put the Soul in our Coaster. He is currently studying Arts Management at UW Stevens Point. Legend says if he ever stops dancing, he will explode
Keaton Galezio is a trombonist from Slinger, WI and brings with him a vast experience in music. Holding degrees in music education and performance from UW-Stevens Point, Keaton has performed with many different groups throughout Central and Southeast Wisconsin in almost every genre of music. He wields the power of Zeus in his right elbow but he's too humble to admit it
Jake Clemetson is an adept pop & funk saxophonist from West Bend, Wisconsin. He began 11 years ago with his school band, falling in love with the versatility & sound of the saxophone.. all the way from soprano to bass sax. Before joining Soulercoaster, he performed alongside Nick and CJ in the No Nonsense Brass Band. He's got a spine of titanium to hold these saxes up
Jakob Dufner is a multi-instrumentalist from the Milwaukee area, playing drums, piano and guitar. He is also the bassist for a Milwaukee area-punk group called Man Alive. He is inspired by players like Flea, Dirk Lance, Victor Wooten, Charles Berthoud, and Joe Dart. He's in the band to pay back his debt to the overlords
Amael, from a small island at the south-east of Puerto Rico called Vieques, fell in love with music while in high school. Most of what he has learned has been self-taught, and all learned by ear; making him able to fluently play with different bands of many different genres including blues, rock, calypso, reggae and funk. For years, he has also been on a noble quest in search of “The Pick Of Destiny” but has had no luck so far.
David is a versatile trumpet player specializing in many different genres. He graduated from Northern Illinois University with a degree in trumpet performance. He plays in many different groups, including Chicago based funk band Metrofern. He somehow always ends up behind a pillar at our shows
(a.k.a. “Franco”) Multi-instrumentalist Eric Frank has performed on club, theater and festival stages throughout the American West and Midwest since the early 2000’s. As drummer to Milwaukee-born Gypsy Kitchen, and later as keyboardist to Chinese Fingertrap (and composer for both), Frank aided in crafting Wisconsin’s jam-scene, even co-creating the multi-day music festival, Operation Adaptation. Now married and father of two young boys, he can still run really fast.