Fly Paper

With soulful vocals, fiercely elegant guitars and a high energy rhythm section, FlyPaper never fail to amaze and inspire crowds throughout the country with their original songs.  Micaela Kingslight's voice is often compared to Fiona Apple and KT Tunstall. Her guitar playing carries on the traditions of Jimi Hendrix, David Gilmore, and Jimmy Page.  Ashley Ickes brings the thunder of John Bonham and the elegance of Mitch Mitchell together in a unique fusion of jazz and rock drumming.  While bassist Joe Chamberlin fills the spaces between with a modern rock style grounded in classic rock sensibilities. New saxophonist/keyboardist Marty McLean, brings a new dimension to FlyPaper's sound, putting the sax back into rock, one note at a time.  The four piece band fuses elements of rock, folk, and blues into an unforgettable musical experience.

2012 has been a great year for Fly Paper. The band was featured in the "On the Rise" section of Relix Magazine's March 2012 issue, and completed a 2nd national tour with 26 shows across the United States. Including stops in Denver, Portland, and Los Angeles. Fly Paper played the famed Triple Door in Seattle and a sold out show at the Treehouse in Bainbridge Island, Washington. They appeared at the 2012 Wild Mountain Faire Music Festival in Northern California, The 4th Annual Hoodilidoo Music Festival in Southern Michigan, and opened for Stray Cat Lee Rocker and Styx at the 2012 Deadwood Jam in Deadwood, South Dakota.

Fly Paper released a new fan-funded CD, "Live at the Globe Theater", on August 31st, 2012. A fan-funded DVD of the show will be released in the fall, as the band begin tracking a follow up to their self-titled debut. They plan to release their new studio album in late spring of 2013 in time for next summer's national tour, and to do shorter tours to the southern and eastern United States with continued touring across Michigan and the midwest.  Fly Paper continue to increase their fan base while searching for a record label to help distribute their music to a national and global audience.

FlyPaper released their fan-funded, self-produced debut CD on July 29th, 2011 to a record crowd at the Old Dog Tavern in Kalamazoo, MI. The first pressing has almost sold out and the CD is entering its second pressing. The CD release show was the first of a 14 show Summer tour,and the band helped to set an attendance record at the venue that night. The self-booked tour took them through Chicago, Des Moines, Omaha, Denver, and all the way to the legendary Whiskey A-Go-Go in West Hollywood, CA. From there, FlyPaper headed North to the Seattle area, for a near capacity show at the Admiral Theatre in Bremerton, WA. Shows in Montana, South Dakota, and Wisconsin brought them back home .

Radio play:

Fly Paper is officially and currently being played on radio stations including/podcasts: WYCE FM 88.1 Grand Rapids MI , Fearless Radio Chicago, Off the Chart Radio.Co.UK, WCBF FM, Fredonia NY, INDIE104.com Payson AZ, 89.1 WIDR FM Kalamazoo MI, WMUK 102.1FM Kalamazoo, ALOOGA.DE Germany, OWDVX 89.9FM in Clinton TN, 102.9FM in Knoxville TN, womensradio.com, jango.com, valslist.com, WSND 88.9FM South Bend IN, and many others throughout the United States and abroad.

Born into a musical family, Micaela Kingslight grew up on tour surrounded by musicians and music. At the age of five, she recorded her first songs at a professional recording studio in Taos, New Mexico. By age nine, she was performing concerts in Austin, Texas with the Austin Girl's Choir. After relocating to Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1994, Micaela's interest in the guitar soon became a passion. Thr...ough her first few lessons, she realized playing the guitar came naturally, and was soon writing her own songs. As early as age 17, she was performing at local venues and concerts in, and around Kalamazoo. Since then, Micaela has performed at hundreds of venues throughout the United States, and has collaborated with an array of diverse groups. Micaela currently teaches guitar at Kalamazoo College, Crescendo Academy of Music, and the Kalamazoo Academy of Rock. Micaela has also recently worked with Music Plant Records as a studio musician in Chicago,IL with electronic artists Todd Miner and Georgie Porgie. Her vocals are featured on their 2011 single "Feel the Music".

In 2008, Micaela was awarded the Emerging Artist Grant from the Gilmore Foundation in order to record her first solo album "Still." The album was released in October 2009, following a summer North American tour. In May of 2010, Micaela was awarded 1st place in the 2010 Indiegrrl International Songwriting Contest for her song "Aurora" and Headlined the 2010 Indiegrrl Music Conference in Knoxville TN. Micaela put together the Micaela Kingslight Band featuring drummer Ashley Ickes and bassist Joe Chamberlin. The three piece band became FlyPaper in early 2011, after discovering that Micaela's songs had evolved through the contributions of the other members.

Joe Chamberlin was born in South Bend,Indiana. Having spent a number of years being classically trained on violin and clarinet, he realized rock music never featured either instrument prominently. So, at the age of 13, he took on a newspaper route and saved enough to buy his first electric guitar. This led to lead guitar positions in several local rock bands,and eventually to the formation of the Electric Soulmobile, which was Joe's first band as both Lead Guitarist and Lead Vocalist,and whose sets consisted mostly of material penned by the guitarist. The band relocated to Northern California in 1999 and shortly disbanded due to personnel problems. Joe found musical solace in forming experimental blues rock band Magic Theater in 2001. After 2 full length CD's,and four years of touring the west coast with various incarnations of  Magic Theater, Joe returned to the Midwest forming The Bones Brothers. The band found some regional success before having to change its name to The Call Letters and going on semi-hiatus in 2008. In 2009, Joe appeared on Micaela Kingslight's solo album "Still". He created and performed bass parts for 4 songs,and also spent time mixing and helping to produce the CD as well. This collaboration led to him becoming the Micaela Kingslight Band's full time bassist and band business liaison. Playing New Song basses and D'Addario strings Joe Chamberlin pays tribute to John Paul Jones, Billy Cox, and Flea by creating a modern rock sound based in classic rock sensibilities.

Ashley Ickes was born and raised in Kalamazoo, MI. She began playing the drums at age ten and studied mostly classical percussion. In high school she began studying the drum set more seriously and took a liking to jazz. In 2007 she was accepted into Western Michigan University and is presently a student in the jazz studies program. While at Western she has performed in various groups including the University Symphonic Band, University Orchestra, Gold Company II, the Jazz Lab Band, Jazz Orchestra, and the Advanced Jazz Combo. She intends to graduate in December of 2011. Ashley has been teaching private lessons for eight years. She has a number of private students currently and works as a teacher at a local music store as well as a local middle school. Ashley has also performed in many local musical productions and played an entire summer at the acclaimed Barn Theater in Augusta, MI. Ashley is a very versatile drummer and is proficient in many different styles including rock, jazz, funk, R&B, electronic, Afro-Cuban, and Brazilian music among others. Ashley's current projects include Fly Paper, 4 Play, a classic rock cover band, and plethaura, an electronic trio of acoustic drums, guitar, synthesizer, and voice.