Kaleidoscope

A Cedarville University graduate, Jesse DeConto grew up experiencing both sacred and secular music and began playing with his family as a young adult.  In an interview with Kaleidoscope host Juliet Fromholt, DeConto talks about his musical roots and performing with his siblings in The Pinkerton Raid. 

The Pinkerton Raid will perform at Ghostlight Coffee in Dayton's South Park neighborhood on April 6th.  The band will also be in Cincinnati at Sitwell's Coffee House on April 5th and will open for Denison Witmer on April 13th at Columbus' Rumba Cafe.

Starving in the Belly of the Whale recently completed recording their 4th full length album, The Foolish Fellow.  The album will be released on Record Store Day, April 20th, and the band will celebrate the release with a show at Blind Bob's on April 27th. 

Ricky Terrell from Starving in the Belly of the Whale made a return visit to Kaleidoscope to talk about The Foolish Fellow and perform live along with Denny Cottle and the Repeating Arms, who will provide support at the album release show.

Nick Dellaposta performs regularly with his father's blue band, but in 2012, he decided to also start working on his own project and formed To No End.  The band recently released its debut album, Curio and is gearing up to begin performing locally later this year and for the release of a brand new music video on March 21st.

To No End visited the WYSO studios to perform live and talked about putting together Curio and their upcoming music video.

The members of the Repeating Arms had toyed around with the idea of forming a band many years ago, but within the last year they began getting together to play together and developed their sound into something more acoustic and string-based.  The band recently completed their debut EP and visited the WYSO studio to share both live and recorded material and talk about their plans for the rest of the year.

The Repeating Arms will celebrate the release of their debut EP, on Saturday, March 16th at Canal Street Tavern.  They'll be joined onstage by The New Old-Fashioned ad Kris N.

Playing the accordion runs in the Makofka family, but it took a 60th birthday present for his father for Steve Makofka to take up the instrument.  Already an accomplished vocalist, pianist and guitar player, Makofka found that the accordion has opened several new musical doors and exposed him to many different players within the Dayton music scene.

Steve Makofka visited the WYSO studios to perform live accompanied by Todd the Fox and spoke about his musical journey so far and where he'd like to head.