Music Friday With Patrick O'heffernan

On Music Friday This Week: Ivar Pall Jonsson, Salme Dahlstrom

On Music Friday This Week: Ret Smith; Jessie Smith

On Music Friday This Week: Eliza Rickman, Cold Blood Club

On Music Friday This Week: Dark Beauty, Joy Collins

On Music Friday This Week: Dona Oxford, Corinne West with Pam Delgato, Jeri Jones

On Music Friday This Week: Grayce, David Batts and Miranda

On Music Friday This Week: Maggie, Bella Gaia

On Music Friday This Week: Michael Harris, Roses and Revolutions

On Music Friday This Week: Jill Jack, Poopie

On Music Friday This Week: Justin Dzuban, Polaris Rose

On Music Friday This Week: Undermine and Billy Kay

On Music Friday This Week: Claudia Schmidt has traversed North American and Europe in venues ranging from intimate clubs to 4,000 seat theatres, and 25,000 festival stages. She has recorded fourteen albums of folk,blues, and jazz on 12-string guitar and mountain dulcimer playing. Scarlet Roads is on the road constantly with their dynamic R&B/Rock that keeps fans dancing. Formed at Hollywood's Musician's Institute, this six member band rocks like seasoned music veterans although their average age is 24. They are now recording original songs with Grammy-Award winning producer Bob Cutarella for a new album to be released early 2014.

On Music Friday This Week: Eric Zayne is a soul infused pop-rock musician and record producer who blends electronics to create a sound that is edgy and unique. Zayne started his career at 13 by playing in multiple bands in Montreal. His first major gig was a five year tour across Asia where he played keyboards, guitar and sang in a funk band. He is now in Los Angeles focused on pop alternative and great rock, like his break out hit, "Maneater". EXIST ELSEWHERE is an emerging rock band quickly gaining traction nationally with positive lyrics and lush instrumentation. Led by Noah Benardout, they raised over $20,000 on their IndieGogo campaign to complete and promote their debut EP "413," released last August 2013. Their single, "Can’t Fall" was featured in a national Pantene commercial featuring Zooey Deschanel. Exist Elsewhere are the first ambassadors for the BE UPSTANDING campaign for NVEEE against bullying and about to start on the REACH 2014 tour.

On Music Friday This Week: Singer/songwriter Karen Dezelle combines honest narratives with soft, soothing vocals, creating vulnerability with wide appeal. Karen has lived all over the world and it shows in her deft blending of beats and melodies. Inspired by artists such as Jewel and Joni Mitchell, Karen', emotionally-complex lyrics are offset by a minimalist song structure and innocent vocals in a moving sound, both calming and exciting. She has a new singel out and we will play it and learn where it came from. Los Angeles based indie-soul band Memoir fuses elements of rock, blues and jazz for a genre-defying sound that is equal parts vintage soul and contemporary pop. The band was formed was formed in 2013 by spouses Zed Kelley (guitar) and Dena Deadly (vocals), who joined with Garner to write hit singles for Cee-Lo Green, Will-I-Am and Jonas Brothers, among others. Their music has been featured in television shows and films like Failure to Launch, "The Lying Game" and the theme song for "Vanderpump

On Music Friday This Week: Dona Oxford is one of my favorite high-powered female musicians. In fact, she is one of my favorite musicians, male or female, of any power. Her skill on the keyboard is unmatched. Her songs and lyrics always on point, and her vocals energize audiences like no one else can. Her live shows have been blowing the roof off of venues from Los Angeles to London and she is here on Music Friday Live! If you don't know her, check out the video on the Music Friday website. Regular listeners to Music Friday Live! will recall last month when we tried to interview Claudia Schmidt and found her digging snow out from under a car that was trapped. She was on a cell phone and not in a good place for the scheduled interview, both geographically and otherwise. So we rescheduled for this Friday and, weather permitting, Claudia will join us, sans snow but with her songs from her latest album. She is talented, funny, opinionated and a greata guest!

On Music Friday This Week: Michael Addison is a songwriter that fearlessly explores all aspects of human emotion and how it responds to music and the melodic human voice. His acoustic guitar carries the ebb and flow of vocals that sometimes whisper and sometimes soar, but always make a connection. Addison has four albums under his belt, including the critically acclaimed rock album "Blinding Shadows" that was released in late 2012. Michael will release his fifth EP, "Resisting Fate" on April 15. We welcome him to MusicFridayLive! this week. Twenty-five year old Charlotte Sometimes has a resume that very few aritsts her age can beven approach. She was a The Voice finalist, has released five albums and innovated a way for her fans to select songs for her latest EP, and plays "kick-ass" live concerts. Her music ranges from angst-laden pop-blues to bare bones romantic ballads. Every song is precisely crafted, demonstrating the lessons she learned from her The Voice coach, country star Blake Shelton.

On Music Friday This Week: Irene Diaz opens in Segment 1. She is a twenty-six-year-old, LA –based singer/songwriter trained in classical piano and steeped in blues and jazz. Inspired by artists such as Nina Simone, Ella, Fiona Apple, with tones reminiscent of Eva Cassidy Irene just released her debut EP, I Love You Madly. We will play cuts from it, including the stunning single, "Crazy Love" which will haunt your mind and hypnotize your ears in a riptide of emotion. In segment 2, singer/songwriter Karen Dezelle combines honest narratives with soft, soothing vocals, creating vulnerability with wide appeal. Karen has lived all over the world and it shows in her deft blending of beats and melodies. Inspired by artists such as Jewel and Joni Mitchell, Karen', emotionally-complex lyrics are offset by a minimalist song structure and innocent vocals in a moving sound, both calming and exciting.

On Music Friday This Week: Born in Southern Ontario, Marshall Dane grazed on a rich fix of music, from the country sounds of his preacher dad, to the pop music of his mum through his own musical discoveries from John Denver to Michael Jackson. He has taken those influences and created what I call, high energy down and dirty country rock - an infectious blend of country and rock inflected with a watermelon-sized helping of hope, love and salvation, Marshall's new album, One Of These Days will be featured on his guest spot 3/7/14 James Clay Garrison was raised with a guitar in Spain and became a virtuoso guitarist at an early age, recording his first album at 15. Already an experienced performer by the late 80's, he toured the US, Europe and Asia with various bands, perfecting his chops and building a network of musicians that would serve him well over the years. He moved to Los Angeles when he received an offer from Eddie Van Halen to record and the WB label and went on to work with artists like Ray Ch