20 Front Street

Steve Taylor graduated from Boston’s prestigious Berklee College of Music with a degree in Songwriting. After college, Steve returned home to Michigan and became a fixture in the Detroit music scene while earning a Master’s Degree in Music Theory from Wayne State University. Blending soulful music and intimate lyrics, Steve Taylor performs all over Michigan as a solo acoustic artist and with his band, The Steve Taylor Three. Their latest album “Temporary Heart” was released in 2024 all of their five albums is available on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube, or wherever finer music is streamed. The band’s single, “Raining on Christmas”, won the Detroit Music Award for “Outstanding Country Recording” in 2023. “Temporary Heart” won the Michigan Music Award for Best American Album in 2025.

For the last 30 years Jo has been a master of the slash career… one part performing songwriter and one part psychotherapist. Jo became both at exactly the same time and cannot imagine one without the other. Whether recreating old classics or performing her original songs in her deeply confessional and comic styles, Jo’s music stands original while always reflecting her love of American roots music. Her eclectic writing and performance fuses elements of various modern and traditional folk music, Delta and electric blues, roots rock, classic and alt-country, garage rock, surf and swing. She has been called the “United States of Americana.” And she will move between light-hearted and funny, through dark corners, and well into sincere gratitude. She has performed on many stages including NPR’s “A Prairie Home Companion” and the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage. She is the founding member of the all-women old-time band Uncle Earl, and she presently performs with the all-women group, Stella! as well as her own group, Jo Serrapere & the LaFawndas. Jo is very excited to bring to the 20 Front Street songs from her most recent CD releases, “The Beautiful Ones Vol. 1 & 2.”

“I might take a train, I might take a plane, but if I have to walk, I know I'm gonna see Jo Serrapere again. Like anybody else who might make you laugh and cry in the same song, she's too good to pass up.”

— Dave Marsh, music critic, author of Born to Run: The Bruce Springsteen Story and former editor of Creem & Rolling Stone magazines.

Jason Harper has been a singer/songwriter and performer since he was a just a teenager. With much of his family originally hailing from Tennessee, but himself growing up in Detroit, Harper has developed a very unique musical style that pulls from multiple influences. Growing up listening to gospel, country, Motown, and rock n roll, Harper’s vocal approach and stylings have a quality that make him a consistently sought after performer.

After stepping away from creating, Harper has decided to move back into the song writing arena and perform those songs for his growing audience, with a mature approach that highlights his unique background.

www.JasonHarperEntertainment.com

Ilyse grew up on the west side of the state and spent her high school and college days playing open mic nights around Kalamazoo and attending every live concert she could! Unfortunately life got in the way for her and she put down her guitar for almost 20 years until she was knocking at 40 and decided to reconnect with her youth! What started out as fumbling through cover songs on short Instagram reels has become a renewed appreciation for the power of music and songwriting! When she's not trying to re-learn guitar and find her voice, Ilyse is a busy wife, homeschooling mom of three and a hormone coach!