2024 Rock Solid House Concert Silent Auction
Bidding opens Sat, November 9th in person at Rock Solid 2024!
AJ & The Woods
Starting Bid: $2,000
Founded on the sweet nostalgia of delta blues, AJ & The Woods elevates roots rock to a new height. Their sultry sound features striking female vocals and intricate guitar melodies which organically blends passionate folk, rock, and blues music. Home grown in Ohio and voted Best Folk Artist at the 2023 Cleveland Music Awards, AJ & The Woods brings you one of the most unique and articulate sounds to date.
Apostle Jones
Starting Bid: $4,000
“Soul, gospel, blues and rock in a delicious gumbo! Great vocal and instrumental treat to groove. dance and feel good!!!!!” – Carol Rodriguez
Best of Cleveland Best Band (2023) award for Cleveland Scene Magazine, the Reader’s Pick for Best Music Artist (Best of CLE, Cleveland Magazine 2023) and Best Blues Band award winner (Cleveland Music Awards).
Austin Walkin' Cane
Starting Bid: $800
Damn Fine Blues! Original & classic delta blues featuring slide guitar and soulful vocals. A blues gumbo repertoire that can conjure up the ghosts of highway 61 & the delta blues experience. Austin Walkin’ Cane is a blues singer, songwriter and slide guitarist that performs acoustic solo, duo & electric band sets. Austin Walkin’ Cane has toured Australia, Nepal, Colombia, France, Germany, England, Wales, and the US, from New Orleans, Louisiana to Juneau, Alaska with only a guitar & suitcase in hand.
Brent Kirby & Andy Leach
Starting Bid: $800
One of the Plain Dealer’s “25 Acts to Watch”
Brent Kirby’s music has been called “Main Character” music, which is reflective of the personal emotion and collective perspective he offers in his songs. His soulful voice is both unique and soothing, colored with weathered age and experience.
In 2022, Brent was voted “Best Folk” by the Cleveland Music Awards and nominated for “Best Songwriter” by the Cleveland Scene. Kirby was especially proud of the “Best Folk” award, saying “I try hard to be a good example, and treat people with respect”.
John McGrail
Starting Bid: $600
Cleveland based singer songwriter John McGrail has been writing music for over 40 years and performing for over 35 of those years. His tastes are wide as is exemplified by the variety of artist with whom he has shared a stage. He has performed with or opened for Ellis Paul, the Irish group The Chieftains, East LA Tex-Mex group Las Cafeteras, The Cowboy Junkies, New Age artist Larkin, native American songwriter Bill Miller and political folk songwriter Dan Bern amongst others.
Categorized as a folk musician, he accepts that and on some level even agrees but his influences range far beyond that and they all contribute to the ‘folk’ music that he creates.
Kid Tigrrr
Starting Bid: $800
Jenna Fournier, who performs under the name Kid Tigrrr, is an American indie singer-songwriter best known for her surreal and whimsical visual art and for fronting Niights, an alternative rock outfit defined by elements of dream-pop and shoegaze.
LoConti
Starting Bid: $4,500
LoConti is a rock band from Cleveland, Ohio, that came together in late 2022. With a sound rooted in rock, funk, jazz, and distortion, they’ve quickly made a name for themselves with energetic live sets that push their songs in fresh directions.
Named “Best New Artist 2023” by the Cleveland Music Awards and “Best Band 2024” by Cleveland Scene, LoConti released their debut album, Cherry Red, in June 2023. They’re now celebrating their latest EP, Tonight, featuring singles like “Turpentine” and “I Don’t Think So.”
The band features Henry LoConti (guitar/vocals), Michael LoConti (drums), Eric Sconyers (saxophone), Erin Donovan (vocals), Jonah Benchek (keys/organ), Trevor Carmichael (guitar), and Nate Yingling (bass).
Maura Rogers & The Bellows
Starting Bid: $3,000
“One of Cleveland’s best live acts.” —Jeff Niesel, Scene Magazine
The passionate vocals and prolific songwriting of Maura Rogers are supported by powerful harmonies, a dynamic rhythm section, and intricate arrangements with driving accordion and guitar leads. Expect energy and emotion and walk away feeling something profound. MR&B are modern twist on Americana, with tastes of folk and classic rock. The Bellows are Meredith Pangrace on accordion/vocals, Quinn Stefanos on bass/vocals, Jeff Babinski on drums/vocals, and Al Moses on lead guitar.
Mikey Silas Trio
Starting Bid: $800
Mikey Silas is the frontman of APOSTLE JONES, a fearless CLEVELAND based band, on an electric, style-bending mission: powerful vocals, virtuoso guitar riffs and raw soul to inspire! Silas was voted one of Cleveland Magazine’s 2024 Most Interesting People and Cleveland Scene’s Best of Cleveland 2023 Best Male Singer-Songwriter.
Mourning [A] BLKstar
Starting Bid: $5,000
Multi-generational, gender, genre non-conforming amalgam of Black culture, Mourning [A] BLKstar, is dedicated to sharing stories and songs of America’s unfolding apocalypse. Their music melds live instrumentation with hip-hop production creating sonic frequencies that illuminate the African Diaspora. Founded in Cleveland, the US-based Afrofuturist collective continues touring their music globally across Europe and the US, playing festivals from Crossing Border in Berlin with Lonnie Holley to Big Ears Festival and Le Guess Who? in Utrecht.
Sunshine Daydream
Starting Bid: $3,000
Sunshine Daydream is an Ohio based Grateful Dead tribute band, known for their authentic and high-energy performances that transport audiences back to the golden age of rock and roll. With a lineup that includes some of the most talented musicians in the region, the band has gained a reputation for their faithful interpretations of the Dead’s classic songs and their ability to channel their own signature improvisational style.
Wave Rowanne
Starting Bid: $800
Wave Magnetik (producer and trumpeter) and Rowanne Atallah (Lebanese performing artist) have joined musical forces creating melodic infectious dance music symbolizing unity in diversity. Combining Rowanne’s middle eastern roots and Wave’s jazz background, they have given birth to a new electronic dance music era called “Hayete.”