The Morning Light was an American

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band based in

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, United States. The group was signed to

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History

The Morning Light formed in 2006 after the breakup of local group Transition. Transition's bassist, Harrison Wargo, formed a band with singer Bobby Garver, soon after adding Transition's former guitarist, Matt Colussy. Nick Baxter also joined on drums and Andrew McDonald on bass. The group toured throughout most of 2007 with Wargo and Garver as dual lead vocalists. In December 2007, the band signed to

. In February 2008, the band began recording their debut album with producer

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. They released their debut EP, ''The Sounds of Love'' in March 2008. Following its release the group toured with All Time Low and appeared at

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. In June and August 2008, the band performed on the

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. Their self-titled full-length album was released September 23, 2008 and hit #27 on the

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Heatseekers chart. The album featured upbeat tunes with prominent piano and vocal harmonies, and garnered comparisons to

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and

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. In September and October 2008, the band went on a cross-country US tour with

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. Wargo left the group in January 2009. Harrison Wargo now is making music solo and just released his first album titled "Speckled". Even though the band promised a new release, they broke up in October 2009. Andy has returned to school at Penn State and Matt went on to work with Maryland-based pop punk band All Time Low, with everybody else possibly moving on to other projects. The band released a final song, "Colors", which would have appeared on the new release, on their Myspace.

Members

* Bobby Garver -

Vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

* Matt Colussy -

Guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

* Nick Baxter -

Drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

* Andrew McDonald -

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* Harrison Wargo - Keyboards, vocals, songwriter * Jason Mitsch - Bass guitar, bass

Discography

* ''The Sounds of Love'' EP (

, March 2008) * ''The Morning Light'' (

, September 2008)

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