OVATION ARTISTS

Over the past decade BREAKING BENJAMIN has achieved worldwide success through their chart-topping music, their electrifying live performances and in the process amassed a sizeable and diehard fan base (over 5.7 million likes on Facebook, 220,000+ followers on Twitter.) And, it’s the fans that ultimately fuels Burnley.

Dave hails from the East Coast, born and raised in the Boston, Massachusetts area. At age 11 he put his first band together. In addition to singing and guitar playing talents, versatility must be one of Dave’s most valuable assets. He’s been associated with a wide spectrum of personalities and styles. Be it Left Wing, Right Wing, or West Wing, Dave’s congeniality carries him thru with a smile. Dave and REO Speedwagon tour every year. Often with their good friends: the band STYX.

Eric McFadden has toured the world with funk icon George Clinton (Parliament/Funkadelic), rock legend Eric Burdon (The Animals), as well as the new supergroup, T.E.N. alongside Thomas Pridgen (Mars Volta) and Norwood Fisher (Fishbone). Most recently, Eric has also been collaborating with Fishbone frontman, Angelo Moore, on a project called Tasty Face and can been seen on the road with his dear friend and New Orleans mainstay, Anders Osborne. He’s recorded several independently produced albums, many of which are regarded as underground masterworks by fans and critics alike. Eric’s 2011 release, “Bluebird on Fire”, received much acclaim, including a 5-star review in Crossroads Magazine.

One of only about five musicians worldwide to tackle the double-neck guitar in earnest, Ian fluidly combines a variety of self-invented playing techniques necessitated by his multi-layered compositions, which, taken together, have begun to establish the instrument's musical validity perhaps more so than the work of any other artist. While audiences consistently remark on the fascinating visual aspects of watching Ian play, his unusual methods are simply byproducts of the rich, heartfelt, and powerfully uplifting music that he writes and plays.

Hailed by Rolling Stone as “a genre unto herself,” composer and guitarist Kaki King is a true iconoclast. Over the past 10 years the Brooklyn-based artist has released six extraordinarily diverse and distinctive albums, performed with such icons as Foo Fighters, Timbaland, and The Mountain Goats, contributed to a variety of film and TV soundtracks including Golden Globe-nominated work on Sean Penn’s Into The Wild, and played to an increasingly fervent following of music lovers on innumerable world tours.

Kevin Cronin is best-known as the lead singer and songwriter for the multi-platinum band REO Speedwagon, but don't make the mistake of calling him a rock star. Cronin describes himself as a "hard working musician," who still tours most of the year with REO, but his resume also includes published author, motivational speaker, TV personality and, which he'd insist is the most important of all his roles, husband to wife Lisa and father to four children. Kevin's latest idea is to combine music and talk into a single, hybrid presentation, using his songs to illustrate his life philosophy and vice versa.

Melissa Etheridge’s recording career began with the 1988 release of her critically-acclaimed eponymous RIAA double-platinum debut album. For several years, Melissa’s popularity built around such memorable songs as “Bring Me Some Water” (from her debut), “No Souvenirs” (from Brave And Crazy) and “Ain't It Heavy” (from Never Enough), for which she won her first Grammy for Best Female Rock Vocal. Her astounding success led Etheridge to receive the Songwriter of the Year honor at the ASCAP Pop Awards. She has also been honored with a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Mike Massé is an internationally acclaimed artist and arranger known for his performances on his YouTube Channel. He has performed live as a vocalist with the band Boston, appeared in a national television commercial for Google, and can be seen performing at public and private events around the country and the world, including sold-out shows in the U.S. and Europe. Legends of rock, including Toto, Boston, Sarah McLachlan, Asia, and others have expressed love and gratitude for his renditions of their songs. Toto cites his cover of “Africa” as their favorite cover, which has over 10 million of views and counting.

International pop star Rachel Platten broke through in 2015 with her 3x platinum hit single “Fight Song.” Her 2nd platinum selling single "Stand By You" reached #1 at Adult Pop Radio, and her current single “Better Place” is proving to be yet another hit single as it approaches Top 15 at Adult Pop radio. Rachel recently won a Daytime Emmy for her performance of “Fight Song” on ABC’s Good Morning America, she took home the award for “Best Lyrics” at the iHeartRadio Music Awards, and just landed her first Billboard Music Awards nomination in the “Top Selling Song” category.

Over the course of his 30-year career in Bon Jovi and as a solo artist, guitarist/songwriter Richie Sambora has sold over 130 million albums worldwide and co-written over 20 Top 40 hits. Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame & the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Sambora is also an ardent philanthropist. Working with the DW Music Foundation, Sambora pledged royalties from the sales of Signature Series Elite Double Neck guitar to the non-profit organization Notes for Notes which builds, equips, and staffs free after-school recording studios in Boys & Girls Clubs.

Sean McKee is an EMMY nominated composer and multi-instrumentalist. In 2016 Steve Vai signed him to the Favored Nations label, and released the single "Air Traffic Control" that McKee wrote with Ike Willis from Frank Zappa's band, under the band name ZAP. His current project is with 2017 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Grammy-winning singer/songwriter Jon Anderson from YES. Together they are writing an ambitious, exotic and surreal double concept album featuring instrumentation from around the world, as well as a virtual reality visual interactive companion.