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The Auctioneers The Auctioneers are a five-piece band from New York, consisting of singer Sollis, guitarist Erik Broberg, drummer Donovan Pyle, organist Ryan Alexander Gregg and bassist Chris “The Monster” Kapica. The current line-up of the group comes from all over the country, including NYC, Florida, Massachusetts and Michigan.

The band’s origins stretch back nearly a decade, when Sollis and Broberg met in college in Florida and began writing songs together, which continued on and off for the next several years. Later on, Broberg went to another music school and met up with Gregg, where they played in a band together near Miami. Eventually, as the members moved back to NYC, Pyle (trained at Berklee School of Music) came on board through a manager’s recommendation. The most recent member of the band, bassist Chris Kapica who is a Juilliard graduate, joined the band after responding to an ad on Craigslist.

Once in New York, the group had various names, such as The Black Francis, Evolutionary Brotherhood and Blood Street.

Once The Auctioneers became the name, the group went to Detroit and started working with producer Aaron Julison to record their first album. Julison is a member of Kid Rock’s band and a producer for one of Broberg’s old groups. The group released a self-titled debut EP, and more so their full-length record.

www.theauctioneersmusic.com/