Pam Camp (Lead Vocals)

I learned to sing in church at an early age and went on to front such bands as; The Pam Camp Band (classic rock), EZ Money (country), The Reed/Knight Trio (country/americana) and Slidewinder (blues). I worked as a demo artist for over ten years with Star Traks, a nationally known soundtracks company.

In the mid 1990's, I appeared on The Nashville Network’s “The Charlie Daniels Talent Round-up”. After 13 weeks of competition and out of thousands of contestants from the US and Canada, I won the Grand Prize of $25,000 and was named Best Female Vocalist. The Pam Camp Band was inducted into the Fort Smith Old Town Musician’s Hall of Fame in February of 2006. In November of 2006 I had the honor of being the opening act for country music legend Lonestar, entertaining a crowd of over 7,000 on the campus green at The University of Arkansas Fort Smith for the celebration of the investiture of Chancellor Paul Beran.

I am a member of the Miss University of Arkansas Fort Smith Pageant Singers, a member of the Channel 5 Youth Talent Contest Committee and I am a worship leader on the Praise and Worship team at Woodlands United Methodist Church.

In memory of my Mother, I founded the annual “Females Rock the Fort!” benefit concert promoting local and regional female artists and helping to raise awareness of cancer prevention. I serve as the Entertainment Chair for the North Sebastian County Relay for Life and have performed for the National Ovarian Cancer Coalition, Susan B. Komen Paint the Park Pink and National Cancer Survivors Day.

Steve Lockridge (Guitar, Vocals)

I started playing guitar in late 1983 after seeing Steve Lukather on the Toto IV tour. I was absolutely blown away by his over-the-top energy, lightning fast playing, great sense of melody, and incredible tone. By listening to everything I could get my hands on with Steve Lukather on it, my playing progressed rapidly.

By early 1985, I was asked to play with some of the best musicians in my area. One member of that band, Anthony Sallee, went on to play professionally with Whiteheart, Michael W. Smith, Phil Keaggy, John Elefante, and several other artists as a studio bassist. Another member of that band was Kirk Gaither who I am still playing with today. Playing with guys that were better than me improved my playing even more.

In 1991, the band Nehemiah was formed by myself, keyboardist Bill Rebsamen, and drummer Kirk Gaither. Nehemiah released it's first album, "Dangerous", in 1993. It was brilliantly engineered by our long-time friend and former lead singer Chuck Law. Nehemiah became a regional success and attracted the ear of several industry people. Mark Clay, bassist from Nehemiah from 1992 to 1994, was recruited into a professional gig and has now been the bassist for the legendary Christian group, Newsong, for several years. In 2005, Nehemiah gracefully retired.

I honestly don't know what I have done to deserve to play with the guys in Bordertown but I am very honored. Everyone in Bordertown is like family. They are very good musicians and singers and I am having a blast! For more information go to www.stevelockridge.com.

Bill Rebsamen (Keyboards, Vocals)

The key to my musical upbringing was diversity. While growing up there was always a piano and organ at home. I'd go from one to the other (they were in two separate rooms). The organ was like this cheesy Kimball Swinger but it had probably 2 dozen various rhythm settings. I made up songs to each setting! My earliest memory of music comes from the jukebox at my dad's restaurant. I loved Glen Campbell and Jim Croce... then I discovered Elton John. My older cousin, Bob Murphree, gave me the Yellowbrick Road album one Christmas - It was all over with after that, I was on the piano constantly. Soon after that a family all the way from England moved in next door. The oldest boy introduced me to Rick Wakeman's Journey to the Center of the Earth album.

My cousin Bob noticed how enthralled he was with synthesizers and soon gave me a copy of ELP's Brain Salad Surgery. This was pretty heavy stuff for a 12 year old... But I couldn't get enough... next thing I know I had albums by Yes, Kansas, Rainbow, Genesis - anything with keyboards, even ABBA!

My love for performing live music comes from a diverse background of local musical influences.

I played in my first gigging band when I was in the 9th grade. It was 1978, I was at Sigler Music playing a Rolling Stones song on a Fender Rhodes and Eric Dickinson asked me to join his band Funk Administration (a popular Fort Smith band during the late 1970's). I didn't even own a keyboard at the time so Eric and Monte Wilson used to borrow the Fender Rhodes from Sigler! That experience fueled my love for performing live. I was 14 and hooked.

After that I was serious about playing keyboards and while in my first year of High School, joined the Westark Jazz band under the instruction of Henry Rinne. Henry instilled musical discipline in me with loving sayings like "QUIT PLAYING THAT GOBBLEDYGOOP OVER THERE AND LEARN SOME STINKIN' SCALES!" Henry didn't beat around the bush much! He also told me never to come to his class stoned.... I didn't any more after that! I soon learned Pentatonic scales and 13th chords and thought I ruled the world! That was until Henry played me some Chick Corea... that kind of brought me back down to Earth a little... I needed some more practice... LOTS!. Fusion Jazz music became as common as hard rock in my car stereo - a trait that shows in my playing to this day. The Jazz band was great. At that time I met and played with drummer James Abell and guitarists Tom Ware, Perry Israel and Ted Hall. I think Jim and I put some gray hairs on Henry.

One day at Westark while woodshedding jazz charts on the grand piano in the music room, in walks a lady with her 8 year old son carrying a saxophone nearly as big as he was. It was David Renko. We jammed together and it was like Wow! This kid can really play... I'd better try harder to keep up! I kept in touch with the Renkos and within a year or two he joined the very first incarnation of David and the Immatures. That was a GREAT experience for me - I will always be indebted to that family. Dick and Suzanne were great. There was a certain authenticity there and it drew great players like Charlie Hyatt, Gary Hutchison, and Jai Lambert. I was playing with cats that were way out of my league - and I was 16 years old experiencing playing out in the bars!

I attended college at the Kansas City Art Institute and continued to play in bar bands and performed live solo keyboard shows on campus.

When I returned to Fort Smith in the late 80's Il was tired of playing Top 40 and oldies and mentioned to my friend Vinson Williams that I wanted to play in a band that focused on original music. Vinson introduced me to guitarist Steve Lockridge and drummer Kirk Gaither. They had a Christian Rock band that performed original music and I thought "Heck... I used to go to church... sounds great to me!" These guys became my best friends for life and have been with me through the most difficult of times.

Steve, Kirk, and I played in several Fort Smith area bands and in 1990, founded the Christian Rock band Nehemiah. Nehemiah recorded an album of original music and performed live around the Mid-South for nearly 15 years. The guys became busy with families and jobs and soon put aside the band to join local church Praise and Worship bands.

A Pro Tools user since 2002, I began spending most of my time in my home studio. I returned to my love for progressive rock music and in 2004, I had the opportunity to appear on an international compilation album series called CPR. The CPR albums enlist both indie prog rock artists and new songs from various well known artists like Kerry Livgren from Kansas, Rick Wakeman from Yes, Neal Morse from Spock's Beard (with Mike Portnoy from Dream Theater) and guitarist Phil Keaggy. With the help of Kirk Gaither on drums, Bentonville singer Chuck Law (90 Lb Wrench), and French prog rock guitarist David Wallimann (Glass Hammer), I formed the Internet-based band Young Earth and produced the 10-minute long prog rock song entitled One True God which appeared on CPR Volume 2.

In 2006 I began playing live and local again with guitarist Linnie Hice and drummer Bruce Fowler. It was just a breath of fresh air... we just showed up and played whatever... it was magic!

Linnie got me interested in playing out live again and I have since sat in with old friends like Gary Hutchison and new friends John Magness and Grant Pierson. Fort Smith has a wonderful diversity of musical talent and our band Bordertown is thrilled to be part of this musical community.

Bordertown was formed at an impromptu jam session during a 2008 Christmas party in my living room. Bordertown represents a wide genre of music and a love for performing live.

Mitch Hughes (Bass, Vocals)

I started playing bass the summer after the 9th grade when I was 14 years old. I had a friend who played guitar so I picked up the bass. We mainly played as a garage band just for fun. Later on in high school, we formed a band called Dragon. We wore matching Jimi Hendrix style t-shirts. We looked ridiculous. :) Dragon played in our high school talent show and blew everyone away. I played with other friends at other events. Needless to say, I was hooked on the bass.

Over time I played with several local bands - The Shift, G.T. Hood, Watchmen, The E.T. Praise Band, and countless backyard jam sessions. Some with one of my favorite guitarists, Gary Hutchison.

I am extremely honored to play with the other guys in Bordertown and I am ready to kick it.

Kirk Gaither (Drums, Vocals)

I have been playing the drums since I was 13 years old. I play some keyboards and also sing. I really love all kinds of music and have a passion to play and sing. I guess you can say that music is a good friend of mine...it's always been there for me and always knows just how I feel. I have learned that if God calls you to be a musician you have to experience the bad times as well as the good in order to be able to portray your feelings into your music. How can you make someone feel something in your music....if you've never felt it yourself? If you've never been hurt...or excited...how can you know how to make others feel that emotion?