Rockwell Church is a folk-rock band composed of Joti Rockwell and Nathan Church Hubbard. After being nominated for seven Washington Area Music Awards and having a song placed on Aware Records's Aware 3 compilation, the band signed to Compass Records. The band toured nationally opening for Marc Cohn and Taj Mahal, [1] and built a solid following playing the college circuit, [2] including sold-out shows in Boston. [3]
Joti Rockwell is currently a professor of music theory at Pomona College, [4] while Nathan Church Hubbard is the Head of Commerce at Twitter, following his previous position as the CEO of Ticketmaster. [5]
They still play occasional shows in the DC area [6] [7] and released some new recordings via Nathan's SoundCloud page in 2013. [8]
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