Band

Kenny Forgione – Guitar and Vocals

Kenny is the founding member and leader of the popular New York group Wonderous Stories. He is also the co-producer of the very popular “Concert for Bangladesh re-visited” featuring an all-star band including national act names as they recreate , almost annually, George Harrison’s famous “Concert for Bangladesh”.  Kenny has sung the National Anthem at major sporting events, including championship boxing. He was on a television program with his children’s show “Talespinners” for more than a year in the late 90’s. In regional theatre he has appeared in “Jesus Christ Superstar”, “Pump boys and Dinettes” and “Tommy”. He has also been in numerous duos and trios and has appeared solo for a number of years.

 

Kevin McCann – Guitar, Keys, and Vocals

Kevin McCann is a noted New York guitarist and performer who has worked with well-known performers including Maureen McGovern, Phil Ramone, and Larry Kert, to name a few. He is an original member of Wonderous Stories, whom he has worked with since their inception in the early nineties. Kevin is proud to be working with the very talented musicians of the AM/FM Time Machine.

 

Janet Montalbo – Vocals

Janet grew up in New Jersey just across the river from Manhattan. She spent the majority of her younger years around NYC auditioning and working with various cover bands and some recording studio work and some jingle work in the NYC area and up and down the east coast. Her first somewhat successful original band was “JJ & THE FLAMES” a power trio behind Janet up front as lead vocalist. Also worked in NY with a pop trio known as “Chic n Martini” playing mostly original music. Original songs can be found on Apple Music & Spotify. She currently lives on Long Island and performs and writes songs with an original band called “THE OTHER SHOE”, a great local popular band on Long Island. Songs can be found on Apple Music and Spotify. Also currently working with “The 60s Invasion”, a 60s concept band and FM, a successful local Steely Dan tribute band. She recently performed at the latest Bangladesh Concert at the Space in Westbury with the wonderful Kenny Forgione and his amazing group of musicians and Vocalists.

 

Ed Ryan – Vocals

Ed is an Entertainer’s Entertainer. A multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter and former stand-up comic with a background in theater, Ed is armed with a powerful voice, a quick wit, and an unparalleled stage presence. For the past few decades, this Long Island native has performed in virtually every aspect of entertainment, including touring bands, original recordings, voice-overs, jingles, stand-up comedy, theater, radio, television, and cruise ships, as well as a popular performer of Irish music. Ed is a natural entertainer, and is comfortable on any size stage, from solo acoustic club shows to his recent stadium shows with Trans-Siberian Orchestra.

 

Andrew Lubman – Keyboards and Vocals/Musical Director

Andrew has worked as a session musician, sound designer and composer whose music can be heard across broadcast and broadband media. Over the past 10 years, he has put many hours into crafting detail-oriented re-creations of classic Beatles songs, playing and singing all the parts himself. Videos of those songs can be seen on YouTube under the name AllYouNeedIsLub. In addition to livestream performances under that name on both YouTube and Facebook, he can also be seen playing live with bands The Blast, Liverpool Shuffle, Live and Let Die, and of course The Incredible AM/FM Time Machine.

 

Eddie Profet, Jr. – Bass Guitar and Vocals

Eddie was born in Manhattan and raised in Bayside, New York. He played trumpet from the fifth grade through high school and started playing guitar at 17. He has been gigging steady since 1991, which is when he switched over to bass guitar. He currently plays with/subs for seven bands, including national act The Doobie Others. Self-taught, he is currently working on his third CD of original music which he hopes to release this summer.

 

Ricky Martinez – Drums and Vocals

Ricky has worked with The Hippiefest 2011 Tour, The Carl Roa Band, The Peter Gusmano Project, recording artist Ethan Miexsell, Ellen Kaye, Wonderous Stories, and of course, The Incredible AM/FM Time Machine. He was the drummer for the Sesame Street television show on PBS for sixteen years and you can hear him on The Sesame Street Box CD Set (and any other Sesame Street CD and DVD since 1994) and “Eternity” and “Lord of the Strings”, Carl Roa’s latest effort. He also played for the TV shows “Bump in the Night” and Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” which also generated CD’s featuring him. Along with Broadway shows “Metro”, “Miss Saigon”, Jelly’s Last Jam” and “Caroline or Change”, he has also had the pleasure of working with Celine Dion, Diana Krall, Celia Cruz, Gregory Hines, Neil Sedaka, Savion Glover, Donna Summer, Bill Irwin, Tony Bennett, Little Richard, Yomo Toro, Skitch Henderson, and Marilyn Michaels.