Andrew Oye (born May 10, 1974) is an award-winning composer from British Columbia, Canada. He has had his music featured in shows such as Transformers 3, The Superbowl, Californication, Dexter, Lost, CSI, The Office, Sons Of Anarchy, Hotel Transylvania 2, Hawaii Five O, Pretty Little Liars, and countless others. He has also collaborated with notable musicians and actors like Barry Pepper, Ryan Hoyle of Collective Soul fame, and the late great T Lavitz of Dixie Dregs fame.
Since 2006 Oye has been writing production music for various publishers in the US and Canada. He recently opened his own production library DirectComposer.Com. To date Oye has composed over 2000 pieces of music that have been used in thousands of productions throughout Canada, USA, Australia, Asia and Europe. If you watch some of the hottest shows on TV, you have likely heard the music of Andrew Oye.
Andy G Jones has played with Van Morrison, James Ingram, Lamont Dozier, Cliff Richard, Queen (Brian May and Roger Taylor), The BBC Radio Big Band, Patti Austin, Hamish Stuart (Average White Band), Lalo Schifrin (Hollywood film composer – Bullitt, Mission Impossible), Hank Marvin, Grady Tate, Agnetha from ABBA, Dudley Moore, Sarah Brightman, Petula Clark, Smooth Jazz star Richard Smith, Chris Standring, Jerry Lewis (The Nutty Professor, King of Comedy), Katherine Jenkins and Darcey Bussell, (See the live DVD from the O2 Arena – ‘Viva LA Diva’ and the South Bank Show on the show in which Andy was heavily featured) and has toured with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Since leaving Van Morrison, Andy has been in Cliff Richard’s band and played at the Queen’s Jubilee Concert which also featured Stevie Wonder, Elton John and Paul McCartney. He has just returned from Australia where he played on a live Cliff Richard DVD at the Sydney Opera House. Andy is guitarist/MD for Patti Revell and also plays in Noel McCalla\’s acoustic trio.
Ben Haggard is Merle’s youngest son and lead guitarist in Merle’s band, The Strangers. Ben began playing with the strangers at the age of 15 and continues to tour with the band at the currently age of 21. Ben ’s largest influences include Roy Nichols, Reggie Young, James Burton, Grady Martin and of course his father, Merle. Recently, Ben made his first public debut on ”Working Man’s Poet – A Tribute To Merle Haggard” where he along with other various artists released songs in honor of is father, the legends son released two songs titled ”Mama Tried” and “Sing Me Back Home” available now on iTunes!
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