West Lafayette: New Element

New Element is categorized as a “unique blend” of Irish/American/Celtic/Rock played with a contemporary & driving feel. The group has been playing in the Chicagoland area for nearly a decade and is having tremendous success from their performances and recording efforts. Their uniqueness derives not only from their musical skills but also from their high energy stage show. Their sound and personality are very warm and unique as New Element takes its audiences on a must see “musical roller-coaster”. New Element is a top draw at every engagement they perform at, including the Taste of Chicago, Fado Irish Pub (Chicago), Navy Pier, Chicago Celtic Festival, Indianapolis Irish Festival, Jack Desmond’s Irish Pub (Chicago Ridge, IL), Quigley’s Irish Pub (Naperville, IL), Shannon’s Landing (Lansing, IL), Galway Tribes, Frankfort, IL, Valparaiso/ Porter County Gaelic Festival, T.J. Maloney’s (Merrillville, IN) and many other town festivals, clubs, and private events.
New Element has sold over 9000 combined copies of their CDs to date. The group released its newest CD titled “All Four One” (Jan. 2006), which explores the contemporary Celtic sounds that are instrumentally driven along with a few originals written by Mike Horgash and Dan Soto. This effort has been recently reviewed and rated in the Top Ten for 2006 of Chicagoland / Northwest Indiana independent labeled artists. 
On many occasions you can also hear the band deliver their own creative versions of many popular artists combining roots rock, contemporary Irish, bluegrass, & Americana, as these lads fuse musical styles as if they were all meant to be their own.

 We had New Element for the first time last month, and they were awesome--they rocked the house, had fun--basically just the kind of band we like.