NIPP: VINCE HERMAN & BILL MCKAY OF LEFTOVER SALMON WITH THE CANINE UNIT

VINCE HERMAN & BILL MCKAY OF LEFTOVER SALMON WITH THE CANINE UNIT

	Bio
Vince Herman Lead Vocals; Gibberish If you have ever spent any time with Vince you know that one web page is certainly not enough to capture his true persona. Vince has the unique ability to play nearly any song you could possibly request on guitar and if he doesn’t know the lyrics he will spontaneously combine rhyming lines that are as good and sometimes funnier than the original tune. His genuine love for music and people has awaken many a festavarian across our nation. Vince was raised the youngest in a family of nine near the steel mills of Pittsburgh, PA. His grandfather spent 30 years working in “40 inch coal”. Vince enrolled at the University of West Virginia and had many out-of-classroom hysterical experiences. He graduated with honors from the National Hysterical Society and later moved his own chapter to Boulder, Colorado. In 1989, Vince started a band called the Salmon Heads and by 1990, Vince combined forces with Drew from Left Hand String Band to create Leftover Salmon. Vince and his cronies have been integral in spreading the significance of festivals and the art of anahuacing as a significant part of the American heritage experience. Bill grew up in Westchester County, New York, where he sang in the church choir as a young lad and began studying classical piano at around the age of 8. Throughout high school, he pursued training in jazz theory, and played in a number of bands covering rock, blues, and folk as well as beginning to write and compose. In the summer of 1987, he moved to Colorado, where he bought a beat-up 1957 Hammond L-100 and a Leslie speaker cabinet. Throughout college, he sang and played organ and keyboards in different rock and blues bands, as well as devoting time to solo piano performance and composition, the study of Native American, East Indian, African, and other world musics, and investigating electronic music. He also worked with the modern dance department as an accompanist and composer, and wrote and played the soundtrack for a friend’s film project. Following college, he spent five years touring with the Colorado rock/soul/boogie outfit Band du Jour, playing, writing, and singing, and more than five years as the keyboardist and primary vocalist for the Derek Trucks Band. During that time, he had the pleasure of playing with many wonderful musicians including Gov’t Mule, the Tony Furtado Band, Jimmy Herring, and Leo Nocentelli, and has shared the stage with Susan Tedeschi, Gregg Allman, and others. Bill’s influences range from keyboardists such as Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, and Jimmy Smith to vocalists such as Bobby Bland, Freddie King, and Aretha Franklin, to the great horn players, as well as funk and traditional American roots music-folk, and bluegrass. Bill has written and played throughout his life with his brother John, a highly talented singer/guitarist/songwriter, in the Wiley Cotton Band, and continues to do so whenever possible, pursuing an ever-evolving search for new and old musical journeys.

Bio

Vince Herman
Lead Vocals; Gibberish

If you have ever spent any time with Vince you know that one web page is certainly not enough to capture his true persona. Vince has the unique ability to play nearly any song you could possibly request on guitar and if he doesn’t know the lyrics he will spontaneously combine rhyming lines that are as good and sometimes funnier than the original tune. His genuine love for music and people has awaken many a festavarian across our nation.

Vince was raised the youngest in a family of nine near the steel mills of Pittsburgh, PA. His grandfather spent 30 years working in “40 inch coal”. Vince enrolled at the University of West Virginia and had many out-of-classroom hysterical experiences. He graduated with honors from the National Hysterical Society and later moved his own chapter to Boulder, Colorado.

In 1989, Vince started a band called the Salmon Heads and by 1990, Vince combined forces with Drew from Left Hand String Band to create Leftover Salmon. Vince and his cronies have been integral in spreading the significance of festivals and the art of anahuacing as a significant part of the American heritage experience.

Bill grew up in Westchester County, New York, where he sang in the church choir as a young lad and began studying classical piano at around the age of 8. Throughout high school, he pursued training in jazz theory, and played in a number of bands covering rock, blues, and folk as well as beginning to write and compose.

In the summer of 1987, he moved to Colorado, where he bought a beat-up 1957 Hammond L-100 and a Leslie speaker cabinet. Throughout college, he sang and played organ and keyboards in different rock and blues bands, as well as devoting time to solo piano performance and composition, the study of Native American, East Indian, African, and other world musics, and investigating electronic music. He also worked with the modern dance department as an accompanist and composer, and wrote and played the soundtrack for a friend’s film project.

Following college, he spent five years touring with the Colorado rock/soul/boogie outfit Band du Jour, playing, writing, and singing, and more than five years as the keyboardist and primary vocalist for the Derek Trucks Band. During that time, he had the pleasure of playing with many wonderful musicians including Gov’t Mule, the Tony Furtado Band, Jimmy Herring, and Leo Nocentelli, and has shared the stage with Susan Tedeschi, Gregg Allman, and others.

Bill’s influences range from keyboardists such as Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, and Jimmy Smith to vocalists such as Bobby Bland, Freddie King, and Aretha Franklin, to the great horn players, as well as funk and traditional American roots music-folk, and bluegrass.

Bill has written and played throughout his life with his brother John, a highly talented singer/guitarist/songwriter, in the Wiley Cotton Band, and continues to do so whenever possible, pursuing an ever-evolving search for new and old musical journeys.