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Half Ton Band has been on the Grand Rapids scene since 2001. The band took a brief hiatus, missed it, and came back in 2022.

The songs are originals and obscure covers, bent into one sound. The influences are three-chord, four-on-the-floor and guitar-driven: proof that a song does not have to be complicated to feel alive.

Since the return the band has played The Elevation Room at The Intersection, Founders Brewing Co., Legacy Park Amphitheater in Ada and, most recently, Acrisure Amphitheater. It has shared the stage with Brian Vander Ark of The Verve Pipe and with Domestic Problems.

Lively shows, friendly crowds and a lot of guitars. Come for the songs, stay because nobody on stage is taking it too seriously.

Half Ton Band at The Elevation Room at The Intersection, seen from behind the drum kit: the band faces the camera, with the crowd behind them under the house lights

The Elevation Room at The Intersection, Grand Rapids, Michigan / Photo: JEJ3 Films

Eight players

Eight people on one stage having a very good time. It tends to spread.

  • Deanna Green

    Lead vocals

  • Tim Werkema

    Rhythm guitar, lead vocals

  • Dave Hamady

    Lead guitar

  • Chad Clemens

    Drums

  • Rob Campbell

    Keys and vocals

  • Chase Kushak

    Rhythm guitar

  • Brad Stevenson

    Bass guitar

  • Joe Rosasco

    Aux percussion

Half Ton Band in a selfie taken from the stage at Legacy Park Amphitheater, grinning, with the lawn crowd behind them, arms in the air
Legacy Park Amphitheater, Ada, Michigan

The drums

Chad's kit has a name: Roz and the Campfire Bird Kit.

Chad Clemens's drum kit set up on a stage: a bass drum, one rack tom and one floor tom with shells of torched, striped pine staves, and three cymbals
Built at Outlaw Drums, Sylvester, Georgia

Chad Clemens plays a one-up, one-down four-piece kit he helped build at Outlaw Drums in Sylvester, Georgia. Its shells are staves of reclaimed southern yellow pine, torched and lacquered by hand.

Outlaw Drums makes every drum from old wood, out of barns, gyms and fallen trees. Chad is an endorsed Outlaw Drums artist.

Outlaw Drums

Booking a venue or event?

The press kit has the rest on one page: photos, video, stage needs and the booking inquiry.

Places played

  • Acrisure AmphitheaterGrand Rapids, Michigan
  • Legacy Park AmphitheaterAda, Michigan
  • Founders Brewing Co.Grand Rapids, Michigan
  • The Elevation Room at The IntersectionGrand Rapids, Michigan
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