The Axe That Chopped The Cherry Tree was a band that formed in 2005 by students attending the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Colorado that aimed to do one thing: Give glory to God by playing amazing music. As mentioned on their MySpace profile, “The glory will never be ours.”

Keyboardist and second vocalist Jay J Matott, an abstract art enthusiast whose manic stage antics were recorded by many a fan’s camera.