Each year hundreds of musicians perform live in the intimate confines of the Magnolia Avenue Studios of 88.1 KDHX.

Work hard, make music that you care about and hope that it finds and resonates with the people that need to hear it. From an artistic standpoint, that's all a young band like Santah can hope to do.

Each month, this site features numerous photography pieces based on the work of the intrepid members of KDHX's pool of volunteer photographers.

Young and ambitious with the chops to match their swollen hearts, Chicago's Santah creates richly textured rock songs with delicate, resonant emotion.

Over the past two years Chicago's Santah has quickly grown from a ragged group of undergrads to a nationally touring band whose debut self-released record was picked up by a minor label and subsequently received significant positive press.

Friday night at the Firebird featured Champagne-Urbana native, Elsinore and St. Louis' own Scarlet Tanager.

Even though the door was closed to the Firebird when I arrived Friday night, I could hear the excitement as St. Louis' Scarlet Tanager took the stage.

The calm before the storm made for an easy ride to the Firebird on Sunday night, off Olive in downtown St. Louis. The opening band, Santah, five musicians who met in Champaign, Ill., delayed its start time, hoping for more bodies to populate the venue.