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Combining elements of both rock and folk music, along with disturbingly personal sentiments, dark humor, and a voice able to channel both the falsetto highs of Neil Young and the wavering raspy low tones of Leonard Cohen, Toronto's Hayden Desser has spent the last 15 years creating uniquely affecting music. The critically acclaimed musician first appeared in the early '90s armed with only his four-track tape recorder, his unexpectedly low vocal range, and an extremely detuned guitar.

Here Lies Affliction are a 5 Piece metal band hailing from north west London. With their own twist of metal, they have created their own sound and energetic live show to make them stand out in the future uprising uk metal scene. Influences such as All Shall Perish, Despised Icon, Ion Dissonance, Whitechapel, Pantera, Hatebreed, Dying Fetus, Burning Skies, Full Blown Chaos, Shattered Realm, Suffocation, and Knuckledust. Check them out at the myspace www.myspace.com/hereliesaffliction

Carla Cook is a Grammy-nominated jazz vocalist. A Detroit, Michigan native, music seized hold of Cook at an early age. As a student at Cass Technical High School she played string bass in the school orchestra, studied piano and voice on weekends, and sang in her church’s choir. An elder brother introduced her to jazz, Cook chose voice as her instrument of choice, and she became a disciple of jazz icon Eddie Jefferson, founder of a singing technique called ‘vocalese’ where a singer sings lyrics to a famous instrumental solo.