Veteran North Texas musician Ed Rogers has been entertaining audiences for well over a decade with his unique musical blend. He uses a fluid concept of genre to interpret the songs of friends and influences, and explore the connections between blues, rock, country and folk music.

Ed began his performance career in the music hotbed of Austin, Texas in the late 1990’s. After migrating to Fort Worth, he spent years playing with an outlaw band of songwriters and guitar pickers called the Gypsy Troubadours. Rogers went on to release “Misery and Gold” in 2003 and began performing solo and with the Ed Rogers Band, sharing the stage with Texas music luminaries like Steve Fromholz, Bruce Robison and Shake Russell.

In the mid-2000s, Ed returned to his childhood musical roots and began playing drums for No Class, a band formed from a loose association of songwriters, pickers and friends that hung out at a Fort Worth live music pub called MacHenry's. The band name came from founding member Steve Long's day time gig as a high school teacher as they would only books gigs when there was "no class" the next day.

In 2010, Ed joined forces with sultry songstress Christa Russell to form Blue Sky Bandits, an Americana melting pot of twangy country and low down blues. The band mixes their original songs with stylish interpretations of artists like Lucinda Williams, Delbert McClinton, Shelby Lynne and the Mavericks. The duo continue to wow audiences with their vocal aerobatics and high-energy performances.

In November, 2011, Ed was invited to join the matthew show as lead guitarist. The band is the brainchild of Matthew Broyles, an amazing singer/songwriter who has garnered much acclaim in both the real world, and in the online world of Second Life. Described as pop from the nerd lunchbox, Matthew's rich, warm vocals, wry sense of humour and offbeat lyric choices make the matthew show an act that both lulls the ear and amuses the mind.