I’ll start out at 6:00 with a set of my songs.
Then we will hear from our featured songwriters:
LeAnn Stutler
LeAnn Stutler is a country singer-songwriter originally from Crown Point, Indiana. In May 2019, LeAnn Stutler graduated from Columbia College Chicago with her Bachelor of Music Degree, concentrating in Contemporary, Urban, and Popular Music. During her stay at Columbia Leann worked with Darryl Jones, Rolling Stones bassist, who co-produced one of her songs in the studio there.
Leann started gigging when she was 16 years old. July 2025 will be 12 years of doing this, and she’s loving it just as much (if not more!) than the first time she played a real gig.
LeAnn has played in church bands, rock bands, country bands, impromptu string bands, and now she’s on the solo acoustic circuit.
LeAnn released her first full-length album in November 2019, titled Keeps Getting Better. Her follow-up EP, Welcome to the Circle, was released in January 2022. Both projects are centered on songs of personal growth, overcoming life’s obstacles, and looking for the people and places that offer acceptance in life.
Her music can be found online at Spotify, Apple Music, and all of the usual streaming platforms. Leann has CD copies of her work for sale at live shows – including here tonight. You can see more about her music and follow her performance schedule by visiting leannstutlermusic on Facebook and Instagram.
Don Srebro
Don writes inventive songs of relationships, love and stories about life. Don uses his fine tenor voice and lively guitar style to tell his engaging stories. He also has some great new songs to add to his songbook which he will be sharing with us at this event. Don’s new songs are taking some departures from his earlier work and makes for quite a variety of styles and subject matter within his sets.
James Gedda
James Gedda is an up-and-coming Country and Americana singer-songwriter with a booming voice and a plainspoken honesty in his lyrics.
The Crown Point, IN native has drawn comparisons to the likes of Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard with his earthy baritone, and he regularly covers such classics, but what drives him is writing songs and telling stories with modern sensibilities.
James has performed in such historic venues as The Bluebird Cafe in Nashville, and regularly sings all over Northwest Indiana and the Chicago area. Recently, James has been expanding his touring range to include 98 shows in 34 cities in the mid-west region.
In March 2019, he released his debut EP Thick as Thieves to great success. In February 2020, he released his sophomore Ep, Bad Things Happen: Dynaline Sessions Vol. 1, a collection of original songs ranging from indignant folk tunes to heart-on-the-sleeve love songs. James Gedda is not an artist to miss if you're a fan of infectious melodies and affecting stories.
You can hear his music on all streaming platforms where you won’t be the only one listening.
On Spotify alone he proudly can claim these numbers for 2024.
940 listeners - 3.15K streams – totaling 179 hours in 58 countries.
As most of us can attest to – We only wish Spotify paid better!
Janet Disteldorf – of The Whips – Janet writes humorous, serious and seriously humorous commentary on life and love. We are so pleased to have Janet back after a hiatus taken from the stage due to an injury.
Janet is a multi-instrumentalist. She usually plays at the piano for accompanying her original songs at these type events.
Janet also plays a schedule of public dates with the country/pop band The Whips in which she is the bassist and steel guitar player. Most of the engagements for The Whips are in the Frankfort/New Lenox area in Illinois.
You can find her whereabouts and music at the
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Matthew “MG” Bailey
Starting as a one-man band 12 years ago, MG has been performing regionally as well as nationally in venues ranging from backyard parties to Chicago classics like Metro. MG brings a full sound and unique approach that can catch an audience off guard in the best way. Lots of laughs and crowd interaction.
MG has toured all around the USA as a one-man-band. He also has regular appearances in local venues and private events. Be sure to look for his playing schedule at mgbailey.com and view video and his playing schedule on Instagram.
You can listen to many of his recordings of his original music on Apple Play and Spotify. You can also see more about MG by visiting his website - mgbailey.com
His latest release “Sideshow” features full band recordings of MG’s latest releases accompanied by himself on all tracks – in true 1-man-band style.
See MG after his set for copies of his CD and other merchandise he sells to support his career as a musician.
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