SHORTY RESIDE IN CINCINNATI ,OHIO WITH HER FAMILY AT THE AGE OF 13 SHORTY FOUND SHE HAD THE GOD GIVEN TALENT TO PLAY DRUMS AND SING! 

 SHORTY,HAS PLAYED WITH MANY LEGANDS, BOBBY RUSH, RUFUS THOMAS, BB, KING, IKE AND TINA.AL GREEN. MARK PENDER AND SHIRLEY KING. SHORTY HAS TOURED ITALY, PAIRS, AND ENGLAND AND THE UNITED STATES. SHORTY ALSO HAS A VERY STRONG VOICE, PEOPLE COMPARE HER TO TRACY CHAPMAN, BUT ALSO CAN LURE YOU INTO HEAVEN WITH A VERY SOFT BALLADS. SHORTY IS THE BACK BONE TO THE RYTHMN SECTION ALONG WITH B

 MIKE DOUGHTY RESIDES WITH HIS WIFE DEBERA IN ATHENS OHIO.

MIKE STARTED BEATING ON POTS AND PANS AT THE AGE OF 4, HE WAS ALWAYS OVER WELMED BY DESI ARNEZ AND BOBALOO. MIKE STARTED PLAYING VIOLIN AT THE AGE OF 10 YEARS OLD. IN 1960 HE AND HIS FAMILY MOVED TO ATHENS OHIO. MIKE WAS IN 7TH GRADE, HE BECAME INVOLED IN THE ALBANY HIGH SCHOOL MARCHING  BAND, IN ALBANY OHIO. HE WAS THERE DRUMMER. AT THE AGE OF 15 HE MET HIS FRIEND MIKE PRICE, WHO HAD JUST MOVED FROM TOLEDO OHIO, MIKE PRICE WAS ONLY 12. MIKE PRICE AT THE AGE OF 12 WAS ALREADY A VERY TALENTED GUITAR PLAYER. MIKE PRICE STARTED WORKING WITH MIKE DOUGHTY TEACHING HIM CHORDS AND RYTHMN. THEY EVENTUALLY FORMED A GROUP CALLED THE TERMITES. THEY PLAYED HIGH SCHOOL FUNCTIONS AND NEIGHBORHOOD NITE CLUBS. WHEN MIKE GRADUATED FROM HIGH SCHOOL HE JOINED THE US NAVY. HE SERVERD ABOARD THE USS. VALLEY FORGE LPH-8. MIKE IMMEDIATELY ASSEMBLED A GROUP AND PLAYED THE VA HOSPITALS IN JAPAN, THEY ALSO PLAYED IN LOCAL BARS IN JAPAN,AND THE PHILLIPINE ISLANDS. THEY ALSO PLAYED MANY SHIP FUNCTIONS. AFTER MILITARY MIKE WENT BACK TO COLUMBUS OHIO. HE PLAYED WITH A GROUP CALLED GAYLE MCDONALD AND THE WANTED MEN, THE WANTED MEN OPENED SHOWS FOR MERELE HAGGARD AND GEORGE  JONES.  IN 1980 MIKE MOVED BACK TO ATHENS OHIO, HOOKED BACK UP WITH HIS FRIEND MIKE PRICE. THE 2 MIKES PUT ANOTHER GROUP KNOWN AS THE DILLENGER. THE DILLENGER GROUP TOURED WEST VIRGINIA, KENTUCKY, AND OHIO, THEY PLAYED ALL TOP 40 COUNTRY AND TOP 40 ROCK ALONG WITH CLASSIC ROCK. THE MUSIC TOOK A BIG CHANGE IN THE 1980'S, THE DILLENGER BAND BECAME  BUTCH-WAX AND THE CADILLACS, PLAYING THE 50'S DO WOP AND THE MUSIC OF THE 60 REVOULATION. THE 1990'S CAME AND THE BAND MADE ANOTHER HUGE CHANGE, THIS TIME STEVIE RAY VAUGHN, AND THE BLUES, THEY CHANGED THEIR NAME TO THE R AND B STATION. IN 2001 THE BAND PLAYED AS OPENING ACT FOR SHIRLEY KING DAUGHTER OF BB. KING. THEY IMMEDIATELY BECAME HER STAGE AND TOURING BAND. THEY TOURED THROUGH OUT THE US AND CANADA, MIKE WAS ALSO SHIRLEY KINGS BOOKING AGENT DURING THIS PERIOD. 2005 MIKE LEFT SHIRLEY AND TOOK HIS BAND ON THE ROAD UNDER THEIR OWN NAME, THEY WENT TO CHEROKEE IOWA WHER MIKE MET UP WITH MARK PENDER OF THE LATE NIGHT WITH CONAN O'BRIEN SHOW. MARK AND MIKE BECAME FRIENDS, IN 2007 MIKE CALLED MARK PENDER IN NEW YORK AND ASK HIM TO PLAY A WINTER FESTIVAL THAT HE WAS PUTTING TOGETHER  IN ATHENS OHIO. IT BECAME KNOW AS THE ATHENS WINTER JAZZ AND BLUES FESTIVAL, MARK PENDER AND MIKES  BAND ALSO PUT A SCHOOL WORK SHOP TOGETHER AND GAVE THE STUDENTS A CHANCE TO PLAY WITH THEM AT THE FINALI CONCERT CLOSING. SINCE THEN MARK AND MIKE HAS KEPT IN TOUCH, IN 2008 MARK BROUGHT, MIKE AND HIS BAND IN TO NEW YORK TO PLAY THE CUTTING ROOM. THEY HAVE JUST RECENTLEY PLAYED THE FAT FISH BLUE IN CLEVELAND OHIO AS HEAD-LINERS, AND HAVE SERVERAL GIGS SCHEDULED FOR 20 

MIKE PRICE: WAS BORN MICHAEL WAYNE PRICE IN TOLEDO OHIO. HE STARTED PLAYING AT A VERY YOUNG AGE BECAUSE HIS OLDER BROTHER BILL PRICE WAS ALREASY  AN ACCOMPLISHED MUSICIAN. MIKE AT 10 YEARS OLD PLAYED THE YMCA WITH ANOTHER UP COMING STAR BY THE NAME OF LITTLE STEVIE WONDER. MIKE AT THAT TIME HAD A HORN BAND THAT PLAYED ALL THE LOCAL SKATING RINKS AND FAMILY FUNCTIONS.WHEN MIKE WAS 13 HE MOVED TO LANGSVILLE OHIO. MIKE WENT TO A JUNIOR HIGH SOCK HOP, THIS IS WHER HE MET HSI FRIEND MIKE DOUGHTY, THEY IMMEDIATELY BECAME FRIENDS AND PUT TOGETHER A GROUP THAT PLAYED HIGH SCHOOL FUNCTIONS AND NIGHT CLUBS. IN 1965 MIKE DOUGHTY JOINED THE MILITARY, MIKE PRICE WAS ASK TO PLY WITH THE SCEPTORS AN OHIO UNIVERSITY  GROUP PLAYING MOTOWN-SOUL, HE BECAME SO POUPLAR IN THE AREA THE LOCAL CLUB 33 PUT THE BOYS ON A SALARY. MIKE AND THE SCEPTORS MADE MORE MONEY A WEEK THEN MOST GROWN-UPS. MIKE ALSO HAD A CHANCE TO MEET JOHNNY PAY CHECK, HE PLAYED SERVAL GIGS WHITH JOHNNY BUT DECIDED NOT TO GO ON THE ROAD AS HE WAS STILL IN HIGH SCHOOL. IN THE LATE 60'S MIKE PRICE AND MIKE DOUGHTY GOT BACK TOGETHER  AND HAVE BEEN PLAYING MUIC OFF AND ON EVER SINCE. MIKE WAS ALSO IN A VERY WELL KNOW GROUP KNOWN AS THE GHOST RIDERS. MIKE PRICE IS A COUSIN OF THE WELL KNOWN GUITARIST ROY CLARK. MIKE AND HIS WIFE KATHY STILL LIVE ON THE OLD FAMILY HOMESTEAD IN LANGSVILLE, MIKE HAS 3 GROWN CHILDREN AND 5 GRAND CHI

OUR FRIEND MARK THE (LOVE MAN) PENDER

 Shirley King and The R&B Station  at The Maplewood 2007

 In rear: Mike Doughty,Pat Costello, Mark Pender,Kathy Farmer, and Big Bubba. In front Sharell Andrews and Shorty Star. Photo taken Jan 28 2009 at The Athens country Winter Jazz and Blues Festival

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SHARELL  HAS A POWERFUL YOUNG ARETHA FRANKLIN VOICE. SHE WAS BORN AND RAISED IN SAVANNAH GEORIGA NOW RESIDING WITH HER HUSBAND AND SON IN NELSONVILLE OHIO.,WORKING AT OHIO UNIVERSITY AS A NETWORK ADMINSTRATOR. AFTER APPEARING ON AMERICAN IDOL,SHARELL STARTED HER DREAM WITH GLOBAL STAR TALENT INC. SHE WAS SIGNED IMMEDIATEL BY GLOBAL STARR RECORDS IN MARCH 2005. THIS LED TO HER DEBUT CD : I BELIEVE: WHICH RECEIVED GREAT REVIEWS. SHE HAS OPENED FOR FANTASIA, KIMBERLY LOCK.SKYE SWEETNAM, AND ARRON CARTER TO JUST NAME A FEW.SHE HAS ALSO HEADLINED MANY FESTIVALS AND FAIRS. SHARELL IS CURRENTLY PREFORMING WITH THE R&B STATION FROM ATHENS, OHIO. SHE LENDS HER SOULFUL VOICE TO THIS BLUES BAND AND HAS BEEN PLAYING MANY VENUES THROUGH OUT OHIO, MICHIGAN. SHE RECENTLY WAS A PART OF THE ATHENS WINTER JAZZ AND BLUES FESTIVAL WHERE SHE NOT ONLY OPEED BUT SHARED STAGE WIT MARK PENDER FROM THE LATE NIGHT WITH CONAN O'BRIEN SHOW. SHE HAS ALSO HEADLINED WITH SHIRLEY KING DAGHTER OF THE GREAT BLUES LEGAND BB. KING. SHE IS DELIGHTED TO BE PLAYING WITH THE R&B STATION WHICH IS A VERY DIVERSED BAND. SHE IS VERY EXCITED ABOUT WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS.

BIO AND PICTURE  O DAVID MCCULSKEY SINGER AND GUITAR PLAYER TO COME.

Mark Pender Music In THe Schools Concert. Stuarts Opera House Jan 28 2009