Entertainers (Nashville, TN)

Sam Leatherwood became involved in the Dueling Piano Concept in the early days of sing-along where he performed at Alley Cats in the West End District of Dallas, Texas. Sam started his management career as Director of Entertainment for Howl at the Moon Saloon in 1991. During his ten years with that company, Sam opened twelve clubs in the United States as well as two other locations in Holland with Crazy Pianos. Through his travels with Howl at the Moon, Sam once again landed back in Texas on the San Antonio Riverwalk in 1995. There he partnered with G.M. Meredyth Muller to create and manage the most successful club in the company's history.

In May of 2001, Sam assembled the opening team for the Big Bang St. Louis. Together with partner and co-founder Meredyth Muller, and a group of talented entertainers and managers, Sam opened the first Big Bang Bar. Following the success of the St. Louis club, Sam and Meredyth opened locations in Tempe, Arizona and Nashville, Tennessee. Sam continues to oversee the entertainment management in the existing locations, and also actively works on the growth and expansion of the company. As an owner/operator as well as an entertainer, Sam's natural passion for the Dueling Piano Concept underlies his ongoing commitment to the quality of The Big Bang entertainment experience as well as the energy and attitude of the exceptional people who work there.

The natural charisma and undeniable mystique of Paul Megee is often discussed in coffee houses and fringe chat rooms, and can be traced back to his history on the road with Hunter S. Thompson and Jerzy Kazinski. Paul's musical style is peppered with influnces of Beck and Beasties, while his stage presence and persona is often quite Fellini-esque.

As an accomplished singer, pianist, bassist, drummer and guitarist, Paul adds a multi-dimensional element to the musical performances that are sometimes puntuated by a spontaneous kazoo solo. His favorite line in all of pop music comes from the Prince song "Raspberry Beret", in which the artist declares "My boss is Mr. Megee".

Kevin Reeves' musical journey has been an amalgamation of many styles, each day bringing new forms of artistic expression. As the son of a young member of the U.S. Coast Guard, his family moved numerous times allowing Kevin to experience different cultural communities. From the down-home country music of Alabama, to the many forms of Hip hop originating in California, Kevin assimilated these musical styles and incorporated them into his arsenal of musical ideas.

at 6 months, he was diagnosed with Optic Nerve Atrophy, a condition, which caused him to be totally blind. This visual impairment did not negatively affect his young life. Kevin's early childhood was met with total inclusion into the sighted world around him and daily filled with the music of Billy Joel, Earth, Wind, and Fire, Grover Washington Jr. and the Electric Light Orchestra.

Throughout elementary school, he tried to take up piano as an academic instrument but to no avail. He was too free spirited to exert the discipline needed for learning written pieces. Instead, he spent his time working with his keyboard and the family's upright piano exploring his musical world for himself.

Toward the end of his Junior High career, he began to take an interest in choral music and began his classical vocal training that he continued off and on until the completion of his college career. He also once again attempted to take piano lessons, coming under the tutelage of jazzer Dean Solan, who brought to Kevin's musical journey the influences of jazz and blues. Kevin soon learned the basic theoretical concepts behind these styles, later building on them as his musical ability increased.

Throughout high school and college, Reeves began to study audio production, sound re-enforcement, as well as pop songwriting and electronic music composition. He graduated in the fall of 03 from Greenville College with a B.A. in Contemporary music industry studies with an emphases in vocal performance.

He currently lives in Nashville, where he works at The Big Bang, as well as operating a small studio during the day, writing and recording his own albums, as well as the music of others.

Geoff has been with the Big Bang since it opened back in 2001. Geoff began dueling piano work back in 1995.
Geoff also was on the opening team of the Dutch dueling piano bar, Crazy Pianos originally in Rotterdam.
Geoff Smith was born in 1972 and is also an independent artist based out of Nashville TN.
His massively catchy power pop styles are reminiscent of the Beatles, Ben Folds and Squeeze.
More stuff about Geoff can be found at his website
www.thegeoffsmith.com

Geoff has gotten a bit of name for himself in the online new media circles and gets recognized for his jingles heard on Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code Podcast, This Week in Tech, GeekBrief.tv, Radio Lingua Network, Tips from The Top Floor, ScreenCasts Online and the successful www.iYule.tv

Geoff began composing jingles and theme songs for podcasters back in 2005 and has written hundreds and hundreds and the list keeps growing.

Geoff is also the keyboard player for the Nashville based power pop band, Codaphonic as well as the bassist and lead singer with Chicago based Police Tribute Band, One World.

Geoff is also partner and producer of www.ringtonefeeder.com, a new an innovative iPhone ringtone service.

Geoff Smith has been an active supporter and composer for the Songs of Love Foundation since 2006. Songs of Love Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing personalized songs for chronically and terminally ill children and young adults.
Learn more at www.songsoflove.org

Danny, grew up in Atlanta, GA and has played piano by ear since the age of three. As he grew older and wiser, Danny began picking up any instrument that seemed to get the chicks - and also trombone. After struggling for 4 months as a chin model, Danny decided to accept his mandible malformities and try his luck with a band. They agreed to play only instruments that got the chicks and hit the road. They moved to Austin, Texas and after a couple of anti-climactic record deals, the band broke up over an argument about who stole the Danny's eyeliner. The next day the drummer had pink-eye - just like Danny.

Danny began playing at a dueling piano bar in Austin followed by Dallas, San Antonio, Fort Walton Beach, Florida etc. No one ever stole his eyeliner again. In early 2007 he moved to Nashville to play at the Big Bang. His current band "Ameritrash" can be found on Myspace. Ameritrash CD's are on sale with a free high five with every purchase. Danny aspires to learn "Don't Stop Believing" in a minimum of 7 different languages and is petitioning it's publishing company to rename the song "Just a Small Town Girl."

For more info check out
www.ameritrash.net

Eddie is also a great guy