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Steve Damstra
I played my first real gig at the seventh grade dance with a band I formed with my best friend, John Andrews. We used to call girls up on the telephone and sing to them, because we were too nervous to sing to them in person.
I played in several rock bands through my High School years, playing mostly school dances and a couple of “Battle of the Bands” in which we never won…LOL! I was attending Kendall College of Art and Design when I found what would become my true musical love, the acoustic guitar. Teaming up with John again, we formed an acoustic duo named “Cades Cove” which later morphed into a fairly successful regional band named Horsefeather. We played all over Michigan and Wisconsin and toured out west as well, playing clubs and festivals. Horsefeather was one of the first and only bands at the time with an album of all original songs that was played extensively on WLAV FM in Grand Rapids, MI.
After Horsefeather broke up I joined a country show band called Foxfire which only lasted about nine months and then went on to join another fairly successful local band called Dirk Rivers, which toured the mid-west and came in second in the state at the state Wrangler Country Star Search finals.
After about four years with Dirk Rivers, I took part in reforming th