Well, my name is Tyler Hentschel and I play music. I was born and raised in the laid-back town of Roseburg, Oregon. In this town, I have made the cover of the weekly entertainment section of the paper. I have also been voted the "local favorite band/artist" and have played just about every local venue imaginable. I have also played at music festivals like "Tom Fest" and "Cornerstone". Even though I was not a scheduled artist at "Cornerstone," I played 2 sets and sold over 30 CDs before my second set without having a merch table. I have toured the west coast and have done some national dates as well. I plan to tour more extensively in the near future.

The whole thing started for me in high school. I got my first guitar my freshman year and started playing in bands as soon as I could. I played in a variety of punk and hard-core bands (and yes even a rap-core group). But, through it all, I was writing songs on my acoustic guitar. I started looking for a singer who could do my songs without changing them. But it didnt happen, so I decided to just do it myself. I never considered myself a singer, and when I first started, I wasnt! My junior year I played at a school assembly in front of a couple hundred people. I did three of my songs, and looking back, that was the boldest thing I have done up to that point because I was terrible! I soon started opening local punk shows and forcing myself to improve.

It was after my junior year that I decided to call myself "insomniac folklore" instead of "the Tyler Hentschel band." Why? Well, I no longer had a full-time band behind me for one, and I also thought it was less egotistical to have a band name other than mine. (Whether or not it is more egotistical for an individual to have his real name as opposed to a band name has been debated for some time and a conclusion has not yet been reached.) After I graduated, I put out a CD of songs that I recorded during high school (and yes it is kind of embarrassing) but it sold a lot better than I expected. I ended up making 120 copies of it and sold them all.

A year later, I was at Tom Fest and had managed to get an open spot on one of the stages. My set was ok, but seeing all of those bands in one place inspired me. I had a merch table where I was selling homemade well everything! CDs, t-shirts, stickers, etc. It was then that I decided I needed to step things up a notch. In the year following Tom Fest I: got real stickers and t-shirts made, put out a new CD, got a ". com", did my first tour with "Kat Jones" and "Map" and decided that this is really what I want to do with my life.

June of 2003, I traveled America for a month. I did some concert dates and was well received. the whole trip went perfect, I felt that God took care of me. I had the time of my life.

Later in the fall of 2003 I did a mid west tour playing dozens of dates for various coffee houses, parties and bars. I met my wife Britta in Chicago and now we tour together. She is an artist with an amazing heart for God. She is now a very essential part of insomniac folklore. She has been awesome helping with booking, sales and moral support to no end.

The past few years have been amazing and now I have a bunch of new songs that I cant wait to get out there! I feel ready to take over the world HAHAHA! Or at least put things up another notch.