The River Company

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The River Company
Left to right: Alex Scharr, Bradley Dale, Travis Scharr, Jamie Favors
Background information
Origin	Ocean Springs, Mississippi
Genre(s)	Rock Psychedelic rock Acoustic rock
Years active	2002 – present
Label(s)	Ocean Springs Music (Independent)
Website	Official site
Members
Alex Scharr Travis Scharr Jamie Favors Bradley Dale

The River Company is a rock band based out of Ocean Springs, Mississippi. The band has been around for the past four years under various names, most recently Cerberus. This group has played many notable events over the past four years including the Peter Anderson Festival in Ocean Springs, the Ocean Springs Fourth of July celebration, the Biloxi Crawfish Festival, Summer Fair, and the Ocean Springs Music Festival. The band has also performed under the name The Un'Beatle'bles as a Beatles tribute band to raise money for the music room and studio that they adopted at the Mary C. O'Keefe Cultural Center in Ocean Springs.

On April 28, 2007, The River Company opened for Kansas (band) at the Biloxi Crawfish Festival in Biloxi, Mississippi.^[1]^[2]

1 Work in the Community (As The River Company and The Un'Beatle'bles)
2 Band members
3 External links and Sources
4 References

[edit] Work in the Community (As The River Company and The Un'Beatle'bles)

The members of the band were also responsible for the creation of the Annual Ocean Springs Music Festival. The band is the official sponsor of the Scharr-Ello Music Studio at the Mary C. O'Keefe Cultural Center in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, and together with the other members of the band and the community have raised in excess of $60,000 for the creation of a community music studio for recording and teaching. Travis and Alex Scharr and Bradley Dale were recognized by the Mississippi State Legislature for their contributions to the community in 2004 and had a day dedicated in their honor by the City of Ocean Springs that same November.