In any modern conversation, you might hear the term cloud used as a reference to a location where objects are stored: videos, files, pics, passwords, and data. The cloud has come to represent some hazy encrypted vault where technological giants hold the keys and where access is only granted to the few. However, Josh Rose grew up knowing a different concept of clouds and spent days wandering under them, wondering with them, and pulling songs from their gaseous atmosphere. After eschewing football coaching early, Josh blew the dust off of his guitar and began to play shows throughout the Midwest for seventeen years and has amassed four studio albums, including foreverland, released in 2023. Along the way, Josh has opened for G Love and Special Sauce, Ziggy Marley, and even Styx. Josh Rose’s wistful songs allow all curious listeners to extract what they can from the cloud, to open the floodgates, and to share in the beauty of music, earth, humanity, and air. Every one of his songs is an accessible cloud: unique, beautiful, and ephemeral.

Joined by the exquisite stylings of vocalist/instrumentalist Sierra Cassidy (i.am.james), bassist Mark Hugger, keyboardist Chris Ranney, and percussionist Brian Morrill (Troll for Trout, Mid-Life Crisis), Josh Rose and the Founding Fathers offer music that resonates and melds with the listener long after the last note fades.