I have been collecting guitars since I was 10 years old. Years later, I decided to sell dozens of those guitars in order to buy two 1960's Gibsons. When those Gibson's were stolen from a venue in 2008, I decided to never buy a guitar again. From then on I would only build & play choppers.


(chop-er) noun

* a CHOPPER is a custom configuration, "chopped up" from the factory model into custom configurations.

WBUR is Boston’s NPR news station and the home of nationally syndicated programs, including On Point, Here & Now, Only A Game and Car Talk, which reach millions of listeners each week on NPR stations across the United States and online. WBUR provides listeners with thorough coverage of local, national and international news from NPR, Public Radio International and the BBC, in addition to its own locally produced content. WBUR has a dedicated newsroom reporting original, local content throughout the day, as well as Radio Boston, a daily news magazine examining issues, news, people and places through a distinctly Boston lens.

The Startenders serve as both musical director and house band for the Solstice Circus. The band is made up of a deep roster of professional musicians whom are longstanding fixtures within the Boston / Cambridge / Somerville and Lowell music scenes.  While you'll always catch them playing on a solstice, the band turns up in various other locales throughout the northeast playing their unique brand of songs - both original compositions and re imagined classics.

The Startenders are available for weddings and private functions but be warned, they are anything but your typical wedding band.  Lots of bands say that...  few really mean it.  If you dislike severely fun and wild engagements wherein your guests leave disheveled and with scratchy voices and you DO like parties that lean towards the more timid and reserved affair, well then The Startenders are probably not for you.

Will Dailey's sound has been described as a venn diagram of multiple genres with a rich vintage vibe channeled through his authentic, wry and energetic performances. All inspiring famed rock journalist Dan Aquilante to call him “the real deal”. Dailey's albums are met with stellar reviews, top 20 on the national Billboard Heat Seeker chart twice and he’s won 8 Boston Music Awards including Album of the Year, Artist of the year for his album National Throat that he released after leaving Universal Records to start his own label. "Make Another Me", the first single from is new album, comes out September 27th. 
He has shared the stage and studio with Eddie Vedder, Willie Nelson, Roger McGuinn, Kay Hanley, G Love, Steve Earle, and Tanya Donelly. In June of 2013 he was featured on a Stephen King/John Mellencamp project produced by T Bone Burnett called Ghost Brothers Of Darkland County and, in that same year, also released an original song he wrote inspired by Jack Kerouac's Tristessa.  Dailey has played at Farm Aid four times alongside Neil Young, Willie Nelson, Dave Matthews and John Mellencamp. His latest album, Golden Walker, was released summer of 2018 and hit #1 on Billboards Northeast Heat seekers. The Boston Herald called the album: “A new peak” and named it an album of 2018. In 2021 Dailey set out to play 100 shows across America, sharing stages with Brandi Carlile, Sharon Van Etten and Pearl Jam.
In summer of 2022 Dailey released his single “Easy to Be Around” with a 68 second surprise attached to it. The single slides into a second song that lists the full credits from the instrumentalists to the cover artist and all the audio engineers in between. In 2023 Dailey embarked on another project called The 10 Dollar Song: A concept where a new composition called "Cover of Clouds" was available exclusively on his merch table, never to be released physically or on digital platforms, during a 25 date spring tour.  People pay what they want to listen to it once on a disc-man and headphones. Then write their thoughts in a book that travels with the song. In an era of music history that’s ruled by algorithms, the double-single of sorts could be considered a risk, but Will Dailey disrupts industry norms - not the other way around.

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