A graduate of the University of Maine, Anderson Lynne Mar has been involved in various aspects of the music industry since 1993, as a promoter, producer, performer, radio broadcaster, nightclub DJ, and festival organizer. Outside of SOR, Anderson is the founder and CEO of Dark Sky Productions, which holds contracts with 8 different venues in the Greater Boston area and produces 4-6 concerts per month. Past exploits include lead vocal duties with Upstate NY grunge outfit Solace (1993-1994), gothic-metal band Gallows Hill (1998-2005), and co-organizing The New England Punk, Goth, and Metal Festival (2007-2005). Anderson, a rare female tenor, is currently the frontman of horror-punk group Sans Nomenclature, whose sound is described as "The Misfits mated with The Dresden Dolls". Also responsible for routing many artists from the Projekt and Metropolis Records label through Boston on their national tours, Anderson & Dark Sky Productions hosted Projektfest '11 at The Middle East on 11/12/2011, featuring headlining acts Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Weep, and Voltaire.

Bassam Habal grew up in the 70s in Gainesville Florida where he fell in love with the great funk and disco music of the era. Little did he know that one day he would end up playing many of the tunes from his roller skating youth. He took up bass at age 14, inspired by John Paul Jones' great bass line on "Ramble on" by Led Zeppelin. At a bass lesson about two years later, Bassam asked his instructor to show him how to play the rhythm guitar part to Van Morrison's "Domino." It was from this point on that Bassam began playing guitar. His first gig in high school was senior year playing at a dance with a band called "The American Dream." The proceeds from the event were forced to be donated to the school and somewhere on a plaque in the high school library may exist a record of this "donation."

Around the mid 90s, Bassam started a Grateful Dead cover band called Electric Hummus which still exists today under the name Playin' Dead. Electric Hummus in its early years were known to grace Holyoke Center in Cambridge with their wild and woolly tribute. After leaving Playin Dead, Bassam started another Grateful Dead style band called the Psychedelic Conspiracy. The Psychedelic Conspiracy played many a local venue before its untimely demise in the early 2000s. Always eager to form new project, Bassam became a co-founding member of the local soul band The Chicken Slacks Soul Revue, wanting to immerse himself in the soul music that influenced many of the great sixties bands like the Beatles, The Who and the Rolling Stones. Bassam left the Chicken Slacks in '08 and started a classic hard rock tribute band called Nadz. Nadz primary mission, other than playing many of the hard rock classics that Bassam loved from his youth, was to bring the fun back into rock and roll which he felt went out the window in the 90s when band's began taking themselves way too seriously. Just recently he joined the show band Party on the Sun returning once again to play some of the roller skating classics of his youth as well as some contemporary works.

Bassam has been a fan of the School of Rock since his the first time he saw the School of Rock All-Stars do a tribute to Frank Zappa in New York sometime in the early 2000s featuring Zappa Alumunus Napoleon Murphy Brock. He also traveled several times after this to New York to see the All-Stars play. It was indeed through a visit to the New York chapter through a friend of his that taught at the New York branch that Bassam was told of the opening of the Boston School. After much persistence, Bassam became a proud member of the school. Bassam has also been a dj on WMBR radio for 15+ years doing a show called the Lost and Found. Bassam adopted the stage name "Mighty Slim" due to his svelte build. Through the radio and through the school, Bassam hopes to pass his love of what he considers great music to others.

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Jason may be best known for his work as bass player for Mortuus Ortus. Jason also performs with fellow faculty members Anderson Mar, and Reene Solano as lead guitar player for Sans Nomenclature. Jason has been playing the guitar since the age of 14. In his early 20s He moved to Long Island, NY. where he studied Jazz music and audio engineering at Five Towns College. Upon returning to his home in NH some seven years later, Jason joined forces with a friend of his mother's and formed Rootes, a folk rock duo featuring him on what He likes to call "lead bass". Since his time with Rootes, Skulls has played bass for other local rockers Set In Stone, and Electric Mummy. Jason now finds himself living in and being a part of the Boston music scene, and is a valued faculty member of SOR.

Renee Solano has been teaching drums to students of all ages since 2003. She studied both jazz and classical music and received her AS in Music from Cabrillo College. She received her BA in Social Science with Education Concentration from Ashford University. She is currently on staff at School Of Rock Boston as a drum teacher and facilitates ensemble rock classes in the Be In Your Own Band program.

Renee's current band, Sans Nomenclature, includes fellow SOR staff members Anderson Mar and Jason Freitas. Sans Nomenclature has opened for many national headliners, including Bella Morte, Ego Likeness, and Black Tape For A Blue Girl. Renee writes songs and contributes to songwriting in the band. She has been a member of or subbed for many bands on both the west and east coasts, including The Talking Mule, LD and Blues Redemption, By Ear, Emmy Cerra and Mongrel.

Justin Hancock grew up in the South Shore region of Massachusetts and played the saxophone for about 8 years before realizing that the guitar would become his main instrument. His parents raised him on artists like John Lennon, Harry Nilsson, Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, The Who, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, and The Beatles, which instilled a passion for music in him at a very young age. After high school Justin attended Westfield State University as a music major for one year before transferring to Berklee College of Music in 2006. During his time at Berklee, Justin formed a funk band with some friends and fellow students called The Actual Proof. TAP were fortunate enough to share the stage with world-renowned drummer Stanton Moore, record with Timo Shanko (current bassist of G. Love & Special Sauce), tour the west coast in the summer of 2007, and play the very first concert held at Berklee’s Café 939, which was featured on an episode of the popular New England television show, Chronicle.

After graduating from Berklee in 2009, Justin began playing guitar with singer/songwriter, Ann Driscoll, and also formed an original rock band called Ok Captain. As Ann’s guitarist he had the opportunity to perform at the 2010 SXSW festival in Austin, TX, and at Live! Music Festival in Cairo, Egypt. In addition to teaching at SOR, he is currently the guitarist and songwriter for the popular Boston-based band, Hayley Jane and the Primates. The Primates released their first album, Color Me, in May 2012, and continue to tour the Northeast and beyond.