Oliver Hazard

We are Oliver Hazard - Mike, Griff and Dev - from Waterville, Ohio. Devin works

maintenance for the public school system in Toledo; Griff is a terrible salesman,

formerly selling copy machines; and I (Mike) work as an instructor for Outward

Bound California, just outside of San Francisco. We grew up together and recently

reconnected when I came home to visit my family. We wrote and recorded our

first album in three weeks, and we are so excited to share our music and our

world with you all.

Most of you have never heard of Waterville, Ohio. It’s an old canal town, just

south of Lake Erie. If you blink, you’ll miss it. We live next door to a Chinese

restaurant run by Henry and Pearl, serving the best (only) hot sake in town; we

wrote a song about them. Music has given us the opportunity to speak our minds

in a place where certain ideas aren’t always accepted. We can’t wait to meet you

all and hear your stories as we begin to tell ours.