From Rockness Music founder Michael Napolitano comes Michael & The Rockness Monsters. This energized, fully rocking band knows how to engage the kids and parents. Well crafted showmanship follows the creative lyrics with interactive props and crowd participation. The stage disappears and everyone embarks on a creative voyage together. With songs about pirates, octopuses, rocking out and living life to its fullest, their concerts entertain providing a light, high energy fun experience for all to enjoy. All ages are welcome to these energetic parties! See why New York Family Magazine said Michael & The Rockness Monsters is "inspiring the next generation of music lovers”.

Making music, all shapes and sizes for many years. Some political, some ridiculous. You decide which is which.

Daniel Nester is an essayist, freelance writer, poet, writing professor, erstwhile literary journal editor, reading series curator, podcaster, and Queen superfan.

He is the author most recently of the memoir Shader: 99 Notes on Car Washes, Making Out in Church, Grief, and Other Unlearnable Subjects. His other books include How to Be Inappropriate, a collection of humorous nonfiction; The Incredible Sestina Anthology, which he edited; The History of My World Tonight, a book of poems; and God Save My Queen: A Tribute and God Save My Queen II: The Show Must Go On, his first two books, which are collections on his obsession with the rock band Queen.

As a journalist and essayist, his writing has appeared in a variety of places, such as American Poetry Review, Salon, New York Times, Buzzfeed, The Atlantic online, and the Poetry Foundation website. His work has been anthologized in Lost and Found, The Best American Poetry, The Best Creative Nonfiction, Third Rail: The Poetry of Rock and Roll, and Now Write! Nonfiction.

His poems have appeared in such journals as Love’s Executive Order, Coconut, Shampoo, Barrow Street, Crazyhorse, Open City, Spoon River Poetry Review, and other places. He is the former editor of the online journals Unpleasant Event Schedule and La Petite Zine and worked as Assistant Web Editor for Sestinas for McSweeney’s Internet Tendency.

He is an associate professor of English at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY.

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