Ryan Dempsey

This weekend in Albany, Ophelia's on Broadway welcomes Ryan Dempsey and Frends for two musical nights of jam-packed jam band members. The Twiddle keyboardist will be leading a cavalcade of stars on Friday, April 19 and Saturday, April 20. …

Back in 2015 I took a closer look at Twiddle, who I had seen previously as a small-font band at music festivals around the Northeast. Nothing had stuck out just yet, beyond a surprise version of the "Duck Tales" theme song at The Big Up in…

In January of 2015, Vermont based jam quartet Twiddle launched a Kickstarter for Plump Chapters One and Two. With their fan’s help, the band set out to launch two separate chapters. Fifteen months after Chapter One’s December 2015 release,…

The 7th annual Werk Out Music and Arts Festival at Legend Valley Music Venue and Campground was stacked for success with a powerhouse line-up.  Taking place in Thornville, Ohio, August 4-6,  it was more than just the music that fueled the…

Vermont's favorite band, Twiddle, will be hosting Tumbledown as a part of Burlington's yearly summer Maritime Festival at the waterfront in Burlington, July 29th-30th. I had the pleasure of interviewing Ryan Dempsey, keyboardist of Twiddle,…

Take the fastest rising jamband in recent years, add in a hot prog-rock band boiling over with talent, a classically trained pianist performing the music of Phish and The Grateful Dead, and a cross-genre reggae singer and you have the…

Tim Merrill of Sugar Foot Photography sat down with Ryan Dempsey, keys player for Vermont's hottest "three dimensional" rock band, to talk Twiddle tour, influences, favorite bands, and even a bit of politics. Check out the video interview…

Over three sold out nights in Burlington this New Year’s weekend, Twiddle played into the past, present and future of their musical catalog and continued to prove why they are one of the most talked about bands in the jam scene. The packed…

Becoming a highly successful jam band is not an easy task. Very few smart, thought-provoking, improvisational rooted groups have found themselves on the path to becoming a top-tier act in the music industry. In a musical world where bands…