{"id":413,"date":"2026-07-05T20:41:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T00:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.progstock.com\/2026\/?page_id=413"},"modified":"2026-07-06T12:27:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T16:27:42","slug":"edisons-children","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.progstock.com\/2026\/sponsors-exhibitors\/2026-exhibitors\/edisons-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Edison&#8217;s Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_418\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-418\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-418 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.progstock.com\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/edisons-children-a-light-in-ethereal-night-cover-700x700.png\" alt=\"Edison's Children - A Light in Ethereal Night - Cover\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.progstock.com\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/edisons-children-a-light-in-ethereal-night-cover-700x700.png 700w, https:\/\/www.progstock.com\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/edisons-children-a-light-in-ethereal-night-cover-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.progstock.com\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/edisons-children-a-light-in-ethereal-night-cover-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.progstock.com\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/edisons-children-a-light-in-ethereal-night-cover.png 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-418\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edison&#8217;s Children &#8211; A Light in Ethereal Night &#8211; Cover<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Arial-16pxFFFFFFn\">Edison&#8217;s Children is sci-fi focused neo-prog rock band known for it&#8217;s &#8220;epic concept&#8217; albums and eye-catching artwork. The band combines the songwriting talents and musicianship of:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"text-big\">Pete Trewavas (Marillion, Transatlantic, Kino)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"text-big\">Eric Blackwood (Special FX Tech)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"text-big\">Rick Armstrong (Steve Rothery &amp; Friends, R&amp;D, Lonely Robot, Son of Neil Armstrong)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"text-big\">with:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"text-big\">Henry Rogers (Inglorious, Touchstone, DeeExpus, Mostly Autumn) Drums<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"text-big\">Wendy Darling Blackwood (Photography, Album Artwork, Backing Vox)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"Arial-16pxFFFFFFn\">Lisa Wetton (United Progressive Fraternity, Widow of John Wetton)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"Arial-16pxFFFFFFn\">Between their formation in 2007 and 2015, they\u00a0released three albums, two EPs, and one &#8220;making of&#8221; CD. They even had a song\u00a0<em>A Million Miles Away (I Wish I Had A Time Machine)<\/em>\u00a0from their debut album<em>\u00a0In The Last Waking Moments<\/em>\u00a0sit on the FMQB Top 40 for 10 weeks in 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Arial-16pxFFFFFFn\">After a 4-year hiatus due to a series of medical issues that befell Blackwood, the band returned with their 4th album\u00a0<em>The Disturbance Fields\u00a0<\/em>in 2019, as well as a key performance on Florida&#8217;s Space Coast with the Alan Parsons Project celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Arial-16pxFFFFFFn\">The band returned to writing and recording in 2023 to begin work\u00a0<em>A Light In Ethereal Night<\/em>, due out in late 2026. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"Arial-16pxFFFFFFn\">Eric Blackwell and Rick Armstrong will present the album in two sessions hosted by Robert Schindler in Bob Moog Foundation Plaza on Friday, October 9 at 2:00pm and Saturday, October 10 at 2:30pm. This will allow our Patrons and Prog-Ducers to attend their assigned Eddie Jobson Special Event and to attend the listening party on the opposite day.<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Edison&#8217;s Children is sci-fi focused neo-prog rock band known for it&#8217;s &#8220;epic concept&#8217; albums and eye-catching artwork. The band combines the songwriting talents and musicianship of: Pete Trewavas (Marillion, Transatlantic, Kino) Eric Blackwood (Special FX Tech) Rick Armstrong (Steve Rothery &amp; Friends, R&amp;D, Lonely Robot, Son of Neil Armstrong) with: Henry Rogers (Inglorious, Touchstone,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":77,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-413","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.progstock.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.progstock.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.progstock.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.progstock.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.progstock.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.progstock.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424,"href":"https:\/\/www.progstock.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/413\/revisions\/424"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.progstock.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.progstock.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}