Salute to Our Military

The excitement of planning this 21st Birthday Bash has been intense from the onset but now it feels like we just broke open the Big Pinata. Besides being our 21st Birthday for the Porcupine Press Publication with the focus being to honor vets and active military, we settled on the theme, "Salute to Our Military" and reached out and found the best band we could to headline this weekend event. Dan Lawson's history in music speaks for its self but many don't know why he is about excited as we are, that his band will be playing at the Bash, It is the mix of a biker event and a support to the military that will bring him to play, since he himself is a Disabled American Veteran. We have known Dan for years and when we contacted him about our event he could not wait to jump onboard.

MEET DAN LAWSON

Growing up in a small Maryland town at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, Dan was always around great family musicians, his Uncle Roy Parks was guitarist with Country Music Great "Tex Ritter" that's where he got the "calling." Dan does not just play guitar, his guitar tells a story of passion and soul! Dan's music is a vast mix of Rock, Blues, Jazz, and Funk. He allows the music to speak for itself! Dan is also a frequent performer at all the Major Blues Festivals through out North America such as The Ottawa Blues Festival and the Mont-Tremblant Blues Festival in Montreal Canada. Dan also has performed at "The Legendry Buffalo Chip" in Sturgis, South Dakota with the likes of, Kid Rock, Joe Walsh, Lynyard Skynyrd, George Thorogood, Blue Oyster Cult, and Alice Cooper, Kenny Wayne Sheppard, Toby Keith, and Papa Roach. The Dan lawson Band is always a crowd favorite during Sturgis and Daytona Bike Weeks. Dan also performed the National Anthem for former Presidential candidate John McCain.

From an early age the heart of the blues was embedded in Dan. At the age of 16 and with tremendous talent, Dan would sneak into clubs in order to perform with Boston Blues greats such as James Montgomery and Weepin Willie to name a few. He has shared the stage with rock legands such as Mark Farner, John Mayall, Mark Mendoza of Twisted Sister, Matt "Guitar" Murphy formerly of the Blues Brothers, Mike "Tunes" Antunes of the Beaver Brown Band, Chris "Whipper" Layton of "Double Trouble", The 4 Tops, Jr. Walker's All-Stars, The Contours, Bad Company, Styx, R.E.O. Speedwagon, Charlie Farren, Danny Klien of the J. Geils band, Lou Gramm of Foreigner, Rick Derringer, John Waite, Jack Blades, Vanilla Fudge, Blue Oyster Cult, Molly Hatchett, John Cafferty, Edgar Winters, Eddie Money, ZZ Top, .38 Special, John Kay, Steppenwolf and Rodger, Charlie, mack and brain of Foghat.