Bio

As a mighty duet, Dawn and Levi Custer, share a lifetime love for music. Dawn began her career in the 90’s. Playing flute, rhythm guitar and singing in groups such as Token Idea, Blackwolf, and Blue and making multiple guest appearances on the festival scene from 1994 through 2006, Dawn carved her trademark trills through crowds of thousands.

-Levi Custer was a kid who could only play to the beat of his own drum. Expressing his animation through sound, he began composing music at the age of 7. Writing melodies and lyrics for his performances at Penn Alps, Levi left each instructor impressed by his creative drive and complex compositions. At the age of 15, he felt he was ready to show the world what he had to offer when local producer Jimmy Nash approached him to play keys on the Rocky Horror Picture show. Despite his young age he kept up with the adult musicians around him. Levi has provided some of the groups’ juiciest music to date with Lizardman, On Hold and Stream of Consciousness.

-After Rocky Horror finished Jason Cooke (AKA Antron or Tron Funkmaster), Nash’s friend and bandmate from local funk band Two Scoops, joined Pronoia as bassist and began rehearsing with them. Tron, originally from Baltimore, has been playing bass guitar since age 13, has studied at Musicians Institute in Hollywood, CA, and is proficient at most musical styles but his passion is Funk. He has recently picked up playing the cajon as well, standing in as percussionist for smaller gigs. He has been described as “the funkiest bass player in Cumberland, MD”! The group is currently compiling an Antron Original, “Chaka”

-It wasn’t long before Nash, having heard the unique potential of their original material, offered up his services as producer to the band. Contributing his sound alchemy experience, a shift to producing the material was made, culminating in the completion of the dance hit version of “Coo.” Having recently dissolved his main project, Playing For Pennies, and on hietus from his longterm studio project, PrahDukt, Nash asked to join Pronoia as a permanent member, playing guitar and singing whenever needed. The band absorbs Nash’s influence in every song performed.

Finally, the group’s sound was brought together as a complete and truly reccognizable thing with the addition of Anthony (Tony D.) Diflavis on drums. Hailing from Philadelphia PA, Anthony has gained reccognition on the festival scene for his work in Mixing Numbers With Sound. He has also played with Zillion Dollar Combo, Full Throttle, SOL, Xavier Wormwood, Attika, and Happy Hour. His addition to the group provided the final ingredient required to make Pronoia what it has strived to be.

Through shutdowns and quarantines and reopenings, the group worked together to sculpt the sound we have today, preparing for the enormous celebration to follow. Clever lyrics, dancy rhythms and intriguing instrumentals echo as a result.