Scotch Hollow began when Mark Verbeck met Carley Martin while they were both attending Berklee College of Music. The music he made on guitar, slide and ukulele was a perfect match for her full range vocals. Their mutual love for the blues, traditional country and roots music brought them together to form the successful Scotch Hollow. After graduation they toured regionally and played in Nashville for a couple years. When the wind blew them north in 2008, they temporarily switched their name and direction with the funk rock band named Bandit Runner. After a short run, Mark unfortunately came down with a severe case of tendonitis that put the brakes on all musical pursuits for the next 2 years. Determined to not be thrown off course, Mark, using various apps on his Ipad, continued writing music and eventually found himself with a whole catalogue of new music. After he was majority of the way healed, Mark contacted his friend and former band mate Albert Dingnus to start arranging his songs for physical instruments. To their surprise, music seemed to flow out of them like water from a faucet and the beginning of the New Scotch Hollow started to develop. After allot of hard work, practice, and gigs; Mark, Carley, and Albert found themselves with a new band, sound, and a fresh new EP that would show the world who Scotch Hollow exactly was.

El Drifte has been writing, recording, and performing the ass kickin’est music in the world for over 20 years. Starting as a bar band singer in his home town of Minneapolis, he then moved his show to the warm temperate climate of Austin for a period of 10 years where he cut his punk rock and honky tonk chops with the cream of the Texas crop. Spending the best part of the 1990’s travelling the country as singer, co founder, co writer, and rhythm guitar player of the now infamous Fallopian Plummers, El Drifte made a name for himself under his former moniker of Elvis Eastwood.

Now, back home in Minneapolis, the El Drifte era officially begins! Hold on to your hats, friends, it’s going to be a wild ride!

Performing today’s Top 40’s as well as reviving #1 hits of the Old West with triple-threat harmonies, pop beats, and a little twang, Whistling Dixies is a female- fronted powerhouse in Chicago’s Country Music scene.

As previous members of one of the city’s most prestigious cover groups, this rebranded band will knock your socks off to trade for dancing boots with their perfect instrumentation, incredible vocals, and electrifying performances.

Come see for yourself!…We aint just Whistlin Dixie.