Teddy Kumpel has been a sought after guitar slinger for artists including Rickie Lee Jones, Feist, Marshall Crenshaw and Chris Barron of the Spin Doctors and films such as Temple Grandin, Anchorman and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, as well as a respected producer/mixer in NY's fertile indie rock scene and an EMI published songwriter. Anna F’s album, ‘For Real’, which Teddy co-produced, engineered and played guitar on, won Best Pop rock album and Artist of the Year at the Amadeus Awards in Austria. Teddy also sang backgrounds for Nine Inch Nails and continues to hone his vocals in his original project the Teddy K Orchestra. InThe Hand Band Teddy is the anti-front man, leading a bunch of misfits to the edge of a cliff just to see what happens.