Ryan Montbleau Band Joins 525 Roster

525 Worldwide is excited to announce the addition of the Ryan Montbleau Band to its artist management roster.

Ryan Montbleau's songs reveal the eye of a novelist and the lyricism of a poet. Having begun his career playing small New England venues as a solo artist with an infectious, percussive guitar style and soul-fired vocals, Ryan has evolved into the front man for the Ryan Montbleau Band, which spins a tapestry of folk, Americana, r&b, country, gypsy jazz and psychedelia. The band is powered by Matt Gianarros (acoustic upright bass, electric bass, vocals), Laurence Scudder (viola, vocals), Jason Cohen (keys) and James Cohen (drums).

Click the player to listen to 'Maybe Today' from the band's most recent self-release, 2007's Patience on Friday.



Closing out 2008 with two back-to-back sold out nights at Boston's Paradise Rock Club, the band is poised to export that success to other markets. Over the last five years, the band has kept up a blistering pace of over 200 shows a year. Playing from coast-to-coast, in Canada and through the Caribbean, they've built a dedicated fanbase along the way--the band's Top 6 Achive.org live recordings have been downloaded over 100,000 times and they've streamed over 1 million song plays from their MySpace page. When the band's first group album One Fine Color was self-released in 2006, the CD quickly sold 10,000 copies.

The band is shooting to get back into the studio in 2009 to record the follow-up to Patience--it's just a matter of finding the time. "My touring’s not going to slow down any time soon," vows Montbleau. "My favorite thing in the world is looking out from the stage and seeing smiling faces."

Click here to read a recent show preview that appeared in The Washington Post in advance of the band's sold-out Iota show in January, one night before their sold-out World Cafe Live show in Philadelphia.