Michael Dias

Michael is primarily a guitarist and then a singer. He has been playing for over 15 years and has been singing and performing with bands since early 2003. He is currently the front man of the band 'Mad Orange Fireworks', backing guitarist and vocalist for 'Thermal and a Quarter', a solo artist, singer/songwriter and also a music teacher at Taaqademy. He has currently written over 30 songs, most of which are actively performed by his band, and are quite known in the Bangalore music circuit. Influences: Sting, John Mayer, Bon Jovi, Mark Knopfler, Jamiroquoi, Steely Dan, Phish and so on.

Sidd Coutto

Sidd Coutto is a songwriter, singer, drummer, guitar player and producer. He's formed, performed, written and recorded with several indie bands over the past decade and a half, namely Zero, Helga's Fun Castle and Tough on Tobacco and also performs and records as a solo artiste.

He plays drums for Ankur Tewari and the Ghalat Family and Vir Das' Alien Chutney as well. Sidd is currently recording his second solo album, the second Tough on Tobacco album and the first Punk Ass Orifus album. In his spare time he writes music, acts and sings for films, advertising and TV.

Solder

Siddarth Abraham, Sylvester Pradeep, Akhilesh Kumar, Joel Rozario and Samson Phillip got together by forces which they now like to call destiny or whatever you term it these days, and started making music almost randomly, and Bangalore saw a band that played their music "Live and Loud" and contributing their two bits to the independent music movement on India.

With a line up at equilibrium and a defined sound, the gigs and the competitions (runners up, Strawberry Fields 2009, Bangalore Winners of Yamaha Asian Beats 2010, Bangalore, Winners of Channel V Launchpad 2011, Runners up of Chennai Live Band Hunt) kept coming and with it Solder has developed a solid reputation in the music scene across the country.

Vedanth Bharadwaj

Vedanth Bharadwaj has been pursuing music as a full time career for the last eight years. He has formally learnt Carnatic classical music for over fifteen years from Sri Neyveli Santhanagopalan and currently under the tutelage of Sri Ramamoorthy Rao for advanced Carnatic and Hindustani vocal training for the last eight years. He is a qualified guitarist from the Trinity College of Music, London.

Vedanth makes music for films, documentaries, advertisements, albums, theater and dance productions, etc. Vedanth has produced and released his first album called Maati Kahe, which is a compilation of songs from the Bhakti Movement written by mystic saints such as Kabir, Namdev, Mirabai, Tulasidas, Surdas, Purandaradas and Gurunanak. Has recently produced and released his second album Suno Bhai – poems of Kabir in collaboration with singer BindhuMalini.

Vedanth has recorded and designed sound for "This and the Other", "Blue Divine" and "Tharunam" - music albums by renowned pianist Anil Srinivasan and Carnatic vocalist Sikkil Gurucharan; "Flame of the Forest" - music album by Chitraveena Ravikiran, Anil Srinivasan and BS Purushotam; "Eternal Light" by Lalgudi GJR Krishnan and Anil Srinivasan; Anita Ratnam's "Faces", "Framing Five" and "Ma3ka".

With his unique style of singing Indian Classical and folk music and accompanying himself on his guitar, Vedanth has given concerts at prestigious venues such as the Playhouse Company South Africa, Singapore, Ladakh Music Confluence 2010, TED Conference 2011, Congo Square Jazz Festival in Kolkata 2010, Chennai Sangamam 2012, Coimbatore Vizha 2011, Fireflies Festival 2011, TEDx Chennai 2012, and several more.

Vedanth is a Post Graduate in Psychology and an MBA in Corporate Communication.

Alisha Pais

Alisha Pais is a singer songwriter from Mumbai, who taps into acoustic folk rock, contemporary, and alternative genres. She has performed all over the country and has also played music festivals like York Live, Nh7, SunBurn and Ragasthan. With the guitar as her weapon of choice she plans to conquer cities far and wide.

Anand Vijaysimha

Anand is a Bangalore boy who started with his music and singing since he was a child. He was earlier performing with the band he started, Drones from the Turbine, before venturing into a solo performance career. His music is being described as acoustic Indie Rock. Anand believes in the versatility and experimentation in music which shows in his compositions. He has quickly notched up an impressive repertoire of original tunes from his band days and during his solo career.

Siddharth Basrur

Siddharth Basrur is a singer-songwriter from Mumbai who has been a part of the Indian independent scene for over a decade now and has collaborated with various artists and bands spanning a variety of genres ranging from punk and alternative rock to acoustic and metal.

He is currently the front-man for Mumbai based band, Goddess Gagged and is currently in the process of recording his debut solo album, Chasing Rain. With the help of close friends, Jishnu Guha (ex-The SOS, Electric House), Adil Kurwa (ex-The SOS, Electric House, Colour Compound) and Zain Calcuttawala (ex-Spook). His sound is a lot more defined and full, compared to the regular singer-songwriter material that he has been playing live for the last couple of years.

Raman Mahadevan

Raman Mahadevan broke into the music circuit in Mumbai since the year 2000. He started performing for Shankar Mahadevan and Shankar/Ehsaan/Loy since 2003. He has given his voice to some critically and commercially successful film numbers in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil and Marathi. Raman also works on advertising jingles as well as collaborates on indie music with various bands and artists. Raman also has a solo album to his credit, Ramanasia.

Jirka Mucha

RJiri Murcha has been in the music scene for the past 16 year, touring all across the Czech. Jiri plays their own work, on the guitar-oriented songs, with emphasis on polyphonic vocals. In the mid 90 's,he began to engage in various musical genres. He was fascinated by ethnic music of various peoples, African-American music, soul, jazz, but also classical music, but most of all classical music of India. After years of experimenting with different genres, Jiri began his work to promote abroad. Jiri Mucha has had several concerts in Germany, Austria, Holland and France. He has worked closely with various musicians in bollywood, composing and arranging for movies. Currently he is back in Czech working on his second album.