Halley DeVestern

Halley DeVestern is a blues-rock singer, guitarist and songwriter from Brooklyn, NY. She is known for her original work with the Halley DeVestern Band (previously known as Halley and the Highboys) and the blues band Hot Button All-Stars, and for touring with Big Brother and the Holding Company. She also holds a BFA in acting from the Boston University School of Fine Arts. She works for the Harry Fox Agency in their Synch department as an Index Agent.

Since founding her band in 1996, DeVestern has been positively featured in Good Times, Seventeen and Billboard Magazines. Some of DeVestern's band members have been bassist Jon Sobel, drummers David Mills, Ray Crespo and Rodney Howard, guitarists Jeffrey Lee Campbell and Jimi Crespo (who worked with Aerosmith and Bonnie Bramlett), and keyboardists Jeff Kazee and Rima Fand. (Drummer David Mills and Jon Sobel now also play with Whisperado.) She toured as lead vocalist (performing the Janis Joplin songs and others) with Big Brother and the Holding Company in 1998, and appeared with them most recently at the Starwood Festival in 1999. She has also opened for a number of artists, including Joan Jett, Jimmie Vaughan, Bonnie Bramlett, Government Mule, Son Seals, Johnny Winter, Antigone Rising, and Little Buster .

DeVestern reached the Top Ten Editor's Picks of RollingStone.com, appeared on CBS This Morning, and has been featured on Rochester radio station WCMF's Brother Wease Show. She was selected to be featured on a MIDEM 2000/InterTrust Interative CD-ROM along with Christina Aguilera, Blink 182 and Diana Krall. Her single, "I'll Light Myself On Fire," is featured on the gURL.com site, and on the "gURL.Compilation".

Discography
* Sugar Free (1997) Bagel&Rat Records
* Live at the Towpath Inn (2000) Indiegrrl/Bagel&Rat Records
* Superhero Killer (2003) Bagel&Rat Records
* CMJ Certain Damage #109
* MIDEM / Intertrust DRM CD-ROM (2000)
* Indiegrrl Compilation CD Volume 1 (1999)
* Great Blue Heron Festival Compilation (1999)

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