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Sheboygan A’s Host Bella Cain May 3

Posted: April 21, 2014

Take a talented young drummer with a dream, add a little experience, and expose him to country music and WAMI! WAMI! you have Country Band of the Year and New Group of the Year. And if he keeps dreaming you have, well, read on…

Starting on the drums at age seven, highly decorated as a high school musician, awarded a music scholarship and honored by the Wisconsin Area Music Industry, Rob Harvey started his “band career” with the Exit South band and moved on from that to start his first project, WAMI-winning The Bottom Line. After that our dreaming drummer launched a new group named Chasin Mason.

It was an instant success. “Chasin” took off in Southern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois and paved the way for Harvey to share the stage with, open for, and even perform with such greats as Tim McGraw, Rascal Flatts, Keith Urban, Faith Hill, Brooks and Dunn, Tanya Tucker, Terri Clark, Martina McBride, Billy Dean and others.

It was with Chasin Mason that Harvey was nominated for Drummer of the Year by WAMI. A well-deserved nomination as Harvey sat behind the skins and the pedals in Nashville recordings, at the Grand Ole Opry, and performed before thousands at such events as Summerfest, Country Thunder, Country USA, Wisconsin State Fair, Taste of Chicago, Bradley Center, All-State Arena and the Chicago Country Music Fest and appeared in several Radio and TV gigs.

Despite those successes, Harvey was still challenged. The dream was incomplete. He decided to act on it and began assembling musicians, who he believed were the best in the area. With them, he built and is now leading a young, high-energy, driving, rocking, non-stop country band that delivers an explosive performance at every show ?. Enter Bella Cain!

Bella Cain is Harvey’s second project to be named Country Group of the Year by WAMI. Fans will see Bella Cain with such national acts as Chris Cagle, Keith Anderson, Justin Moore, Colt Ford, Big and Rich, Dierks Bentley, Lady Antebellum, Alabama and Phil Vasser among others. And they can be seen performing at every major venue, club, and bar, outside music festival, summer concert series and fair throughout Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan and Indiana.

With a “Big” guitar sound, Bella Cain brings 5-part harmonies, fiddle, piano, banjo, mandolin, a rock solid rhythm section and male/female vocals to the stage delivering a full and dramatic sound unmatched regionally.

Harvey learned just weeks ago that Bella Cain was nominated for WAMI’s 2014 Country Group of the Year.

“We do things right and the word is getting out. We have a great sponsor in Coors Light and that’s enabled us to extend our playing dates and get in front of a wider range of promoters and fans. It’s taken off. We’ve played in front of as many as 6, 7,000 people,” Harvey said.

“We’re looking forward to the opportunity to make more fans in Sheboygan,” Harvey said.

Harvey will navigate Bella Cain’s new tour bus to Sheboygan to play a Sheboygan Athletic Club benefit at the Lakers Ice Center on Saturday night, May 3. Tickets for the 8-11 p.m. non-stop, no break show sell for $5 in advance and $7 at the door. They are available at Q Mart Stores or through the club website (click here). Citgo Petroleum and Larry’s Distributing are working with the ball club as show sponsors.

The bus is taking the long way to Sheboygan as the band will play five days in Austin, TX, before unloading the instruments, sound equipment and new, state-of-the art laser/light show at the Ice Center. The band played at the Sheboygan County Fair last summer and Antonio’s in Plymouth earlier this year.

Bella Cain performs the hottest new Country Music on radio today as well as age-old favorites and this year has added original material written by band members Brandon Miles and Jud Brown in conjunction with established singer/song writers in Nashville.

Bella Cain is:

Rob Harvey, founder, leader, drums and vocals. Harvey was a 7-time Illinois State solo-ensemble winner and member of Illinois’ All-State Band. He started playing all varieties of music professionally at age 17 in bars, clubs and honky-tonks in Wisconsin and Illinois. He earned a music scholarship and then joined Exit South before assembling popular, award-winning bands The Bottom Line, Chasin Mason and now Bella Cain.

Brandon Miles, lead vocals, acoustic guitar. Raised in a musical family, Miles was first taught basic chords and strumming patterns at age 10 by his father, a lifelong musician, who wanted at least one of his three children to pick up the guitar and play. He was turned on to country after attending his first Kenny Chesney concert and has been hooked ever since. Among his other influences are Garth Brooks and James Taylor.

Fred Krubel, guitar, banjo. Bella Cain’s newest member, Krubel was exposed to the sounds of Jimi Hendrix and Muddy Waters at a young age and started to jam on his guitar as a teenager. After playing with high school groups, writing, recording and personal study, he attend Columbia College Chicago to study jazz. When not with Bella Cain, he records and performs with his jazz fusion projects General Zod, Tresmos and Stereo Genius with some of Chicago’s finest musicians.

Greg Gonzalez, bass. Greg doesn’t like to talk about himself. He simply states that he enjoys playing his bass, singing and performing with Bella Cain.

Jackie Bucher, lead vocal, fiddle. On stage at an early age and a violin player since the third grade, Bucher joined a band, learned the “fiddle” and transferred her classical training into the sawing of Charlie Daniels’ hits. A WAMI nominee, she has played with and in front of many national acts. When not on stage Bucher is a fourth grade teacher who enjoys spending time with her husband and daughter.

Judson Brown, guitar, piano. Brown studied jazz at Columbia College Chicago where he developed an ear for harmony and an appreciation for music theory. But the lack of opportunity in jazz led him to seek a different musical path and he was introduced to country through the music of Brad Paisley which he found technically advanced and popular. He played lead guitar for Southern Exposure before joining Bella Cain. Outside Bella Cain, Judson remains active as an acoustic performer.

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