Allan Dean
Allan Dean( born April 29, 1938) is an American trumpeter who has spent much of his career working as a chamber music player in the United States.
Mr. Dean's career is particularly well established in the New York musical scene—primarily because of his long involvement with the New York Brass Quintet.
While in New York City, he was a prolific commercial trumpeter, recording jingles for everything from ABC Nightly News to the Olympics.
He is also a founding member of Summit Brass, and currently plays with the Saint Louis Brass Quintet.
His arrangements are often featured on recordings with these ensembles.
Dean was also involved in the period instrument revival in the 1960s and'70s in the United States.
He was one of the first American trumpeters to master the natural trumpet and the cornetto.
He was a charter member of Calliope( Renaissance band), the groundbreaking period instrument group, which is no longer active.
Mr. Dean has taught at the Eastman School of Music, Indiana University, and the North Carolina School of the Arts.
He currently teaches at the Yale School of Music in New Haven, Connecticut and is on faculty at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival in Norfolk, Connecticut.
Absent Friends (band)
Absent Friends were an ARIA Award winning band from Sydney.
The band was relatively short lived, forming in 1989 and disbanding in 1990.
It featured a number of notable Australian musicians including Sean Kelly( Models, The Dukes), Andrew Duffield, James Valentine( both also ex-Models), Garry Gary Beers( INXS), Geoffrey Stapleton( GANGgajang) and Wendy Matthews.
Venery
Venery has two unrelated meanings, both from Latin:
Cellarful of Noise
Cellarful of Noise was a 1980s rock band featuring Mark Avsec and Kevin Valentine, both members of Donnie Iris and the Cruisers.
They released two albums.
They also had one song hit the" Billboard" Hot 100," Samantha( What You Gonna Do?)," which peaked at# 69 in April 1988.
They named themselves after Beatles manager Brian Epstein's biography of the same name.
DracoVirgo
DracoVirgo is a Japanese band, and formed in 2017.
2001–02 UEFA Champions League second group stage
Eight winners and eight runners- up from the first group stage were drawn into four groups of four teams, each containing two group winners and two runners- up.
Teams from the same country or from the same first round group could not be drawn together.
The top two teams in each group advanced to the quarter- finals.
Twelve Gauge Valentine
Twelve Gauge Valentine is an American post- hardcore band from Bastrop and Monroe, Louisiana, with their debut album" Shock Value" released on October 3, 2006.
The band was initially supported by the Sound Vs.
Silence label, with whom they released their debut EP," Exclamationaire".
They have toured with bands, such as Haste the Day, From Autumn to Ashes, It Dies Today, Alesana, War of Ages, Demise of Eros, Maylene and the Sons of Disaster, Inhale Exhale, Anam Cara, Vanna, Once Nothing, Gwen Stacy, Society's Finest, The Handshake Murders, and Memphis May Fire.
Shock Value (Twelve Gauge Valentine album)
Shock Value is the only album made by the metalcore band, Twelve Gauge Valentine.
This is the only production to not feature guitarist Josh Gross.
Calliope (Renaissance band)
Calliope is a New York City- based band which plays Renaissance music and modern music using early musical instruments, such as the sackbut, shawm, viol, and the hurdy- gurdy.
Calliope won the Naumburg Chamber Music Award in 1975.
The band performed at the 1977 U.S. Presidential inauguration and later contributed to the soundtrack for R O Blechman's 1978 PBS holiday special" Simple Gifts".
The band released three albums:" Calliope Dances: A Renaissance Revel"( Nonesuch, 1982);" Calliope Festival"( Nonesuch, 1984); and" Diversions"( Summit, 1990).
The band recorded Peter Schickele's composition" Bestiary" in 1984.
Cellarful of Noise
Cellarful of Noise was a 1980s rock band featuring Mark Avsec and Kevin Valentine, both members of Donnie Iris and the Cruisers.
They released two albums.
They also had one song hit the" Billboard" Hot 100," Samantha( What You Gonna Do?)," which peaked at# 69 in April 1988.
They named themselves after Beatles manager Brian Epstein's biography of the same name.

Question: Are Twelve Gauge Valentine and Calliope (Renaissance band) both from the same country?
Answer: yes