Stetson is an up-and-coming hard rock band from Pleasanton, California. A four-piece outfit, Stetson features bassist Sashank Sreedar, drummer Ryan Lee, guitarist Aaron Wong, and is fronted guitarist/singer Matt Stetson. In less than two years of existence, the band has already graduated from playing sets at local wine festivals and street fairs to appearances at such venues as Walnut Creek’s Red House and historic San Francisco venues DNA Lounge and Bottom of the Hill. Stetson has also created and released a demo EP of four original songs, recorded at the home of guitarist Aaron Wong. These four talented, enthusiastic young musicians are hard at work creating more original songs to play live, with a number of covers to complement live sets, including “Enter Sandman” and Green Day’s “Welcome to Paradise.” While taking notes from the spheres of both progressive and classic rock, the band cites Alter Bridge and Metallica as primary influences. With an energetic live presence, ambitious songwriting, and well-rounded talents, the sky is the limit for the young quartet Stetson.

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Ken Butler is an artist and musician whose Hybrid musical instruments, performances, installations, and other works explore the interaction and transformation of common and uncommon objects, altered images, sounds and silence. His works have been featured in numerous exhibitions and performances throughout the USA, Canada, and Europe including The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Mass MoCA, and The Kitchen, The Brooklyn Museum, The Queens Museum, Lincoln Center and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City as well as in South America, Thailand, and Japan. His works have been reviewed in The New York Times, The Village Voice, Artforum, Smithsonian, and Sculpture Magazine and have been featured on PBS, CNN, MTV, and NBC, including a live appearance on The Tonight Show. Awards include fellowships from the Oregon Arts Commission, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Pollack/Krasner Foundation. Ken Butler studied viola as a child and maintained an interest in music while studying visual arts in France, at Colorado College, and Portland State University where he completed his MFA in painting in 1977. He has performed with John Zorn, Laurie Anderson, Butch Morris, The Soldier String Quartet, Matt Darriau's Paradox Trio, The Tonight Show Band, and The Master Gnawa musicians of Morocco. His CD, Voices of Anxious Objects is on Zorn’s Tzadik label.

Works by Ken Butler are represented in public and private collections in Portland, Seattle, Vail, Los Angeles, Toronto, Montreal, Washington, and New York City including the permanent collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 


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