<h4><a href="https://youtu.be/Op0aXaoR_TQ" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/Op0aXaoR_TQ</a></h4> “A group that you most definitely need to know…arena-filling, vibrant, soaring Americana goodness.”<h4>-Vents Magazine</h4>&nbsp;Jon Tyler Wiley is a seasoned touring/ session musician who has performed with a diverse range of acts such as Sister Hazel, Stephen Kellogg, and Ron Holloway. As a performing teaching instructor with the MusiCorps program, he has performed on stages such as The Grand Ole Opry, The Kennedy Center and PBS’s a Capital Fourth with artists like Paul Schaffer, Aloe Blacc, John Stamos, and Trace Atkins.&nbsp;He has performed all over the world as a member of the Americana band Melodime and is a frequent collaborator of country songwriter Kevin MaC.&nbsp;After Wiley wrote and recorded his debut solo album, performing all of the instruments himself, he assembled a band of his close friends to bring the music to life. The band the Virginia Choir is made up of a seasoned musicians who have performed with Keller Williams, Curtis Grimes, and The Dirty River Boys, as well as jazz ensembles and pit orchestras around the Northern Virginia area. The diverse band, made up of Eddie Dickerson (fiddle, guitar), Thomas Johnson (keyboards), and husband-and-wife rhythm section Brian ‘Piper’ Barbre (drums) and Joanna Smith (bass), is becoming known for energetic live performances and masterful musicianship. Their first single, “Laura Lee”,” was released on March 19th of 2021. Their single, ‘Strong,’ became available on April 9th, with Skope Magazine calling it “Delightful”, and a “poignant yet upbeat…feel-good single.” The band released four singles throughout 2021. Wiley’s full length solo album, “The Longing,”was released to critical acclaim on February 25th of 2022. Additional singles “Drive All Night”, “I Saw Her in the Sky,” and live versions of “Strong” and “Whiskey” were also released in the summer and fall of 2022. A cover of “She’s Leaving Home” by the Beatles was released in the winter.&nbsp;In the band’s young career it has already performed at festivals like the Rock Boat, Wisconsin’s Mile of Music (in 2021 and 2022), Texas’s Texified Jamfest and Florida’s Rock by the Sea with artists such as American Authors, Switchfoot, and Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness. It has been seen at venues such as The Hamilton and Union Stage in Washington DC, as well as The National in Richmond. They have opened for bands like Sister Hazel, famed guitarist Ariel Posen and New York Rock and Roll poet Willie Nile. In the fall of 2020, it released a Christmas song as a part of Rock by the Sea’s 11th annual charity Christmas album, a cover of “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day.” In the midst of COVID-19 restrictions they sold out famed Northern Virginia venue Jammin’ Java in March of 2021. They opened for Carbon Leaf in the winter of 2021 and toured with midwest alt-rock legends Red Wanting Blue in January of 2022. The band is preparing the release of “Music for the End of the World,” it’s sophomore LP, due in 2023, which will accompany tours with Newski and Meaghan Farrell. Listen to the unreleased first single, “The Ending of the End,”&nbsp;<a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-711428807/sets/the-ending-of-the-end-private" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;<a href="https://jontylerwiley.com/" target="_blank">https://jontylerwiley.com</a> Megan Slankard <img src="https://blackoakartists.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Megan-Slankard-photo-by-Laura-Kudritzki-2-512x512.jpg"> https://youtu.be/ZSlQI5G0vG0 SAN FRANCISCO INDIE-ROCKER nerd Megan Slankard and her band The Wreckage have independently sold over 40,000 copies of five self-released albums and are currently planning the release of a brand-new album project in October 2022. The record, which was Co-Produced with Nashville producer Alex Wong, (Delta Rae, Vienna Teng, Elizabeth &amp; The Catapult,) will showcase new sides of Megan's music, balancing delightfully belligerent rock and roll with cinematic soundscapes of orchestral instruments and robot harmonies. Before the pandemic brought everything to a halt, Megan performed 100-150 shows a year across the country including, more recently, a 50-show Guitar Center tour with BOSE, a bio-coastal songwriter tour with Alex Wong, and a 30-date, cross-country tour with Toad the Wet Sprocket. Her songwriting has received national and international recognition: she was a finalist in 2021 (and 2018) and 2nd place winner in 2020 in the Unsigned Only Competition, a finalist in 2020, 2019, and 2017 in the International Songwriting Competition, a finalist in 2019 in the International Acoustic Music Awards, and a finalist in 2019 in the USA Songwriting Competition. Megan won first place in 2017 in the Unsigned Only Music Competition (AAA Category) for a punk song she wrote, recorded, and performed herself in her kitchen, smack dab in the middle of San Francisco. (Sorry neighbors.) Megan's adventures have also included singing duets with Pat Monahan and Train, speaking at a TedX event, performing with Darius Rucker, Lukas Nelson, Macklemore, Ben Rector, Charles Kelley (of Lady A) at AT&amp;T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, co-writing, performing, and producing a song for San Francisco's KFOG's Breast Cancer Research charity drive (featuring guest singers Hozier, Florence Welch, Steve Earle, Grace Potter and more,) playing electric guitar on Jimmy Kimmel Live, singing the National Anthem dressed as Princess Leia at Oracle Park for the San Francisco Giants (and six other times, dressed as herself), singing for Glen Keane's animated short "Duet" for Google's Spotlight Stories, touring with Dire Straits co-founder David Knopfler throughout Europe, and even participating on two episodes of TLC's reality makeover series, What NOT to Wear (she really had no idea.)