Kathy Vargo (Detroit sales director, Billboard Magazine/Billboard.com, marketing director, Detroit Music Awards, & ad agency veteran) and seasoned Detroit publicist (and award-winning bass player) Dana Forrester joined forces in 2008 to create Metro Detroit’s hottest events, publicity and promotions company – On the Rocks Detroit. Separately this dynamic duo has hosted massively successful events in Detroit, New York, Los Angeles, Austin, and Cleveland, along with spearheading national and regional publicity and marketing campaigns. Together our clients comprise the top echelon of Detroit's talent!

“OTRD constantly puts the Crofoot Ballroom in the face of new markets. We bring OTRD into both strategic planning and implementation. Sometimes they supply the extra troops to carry off a campaign… other times the field command… in either case, we consider them key players on our team.”  Blair McGowan, Owner, The Crofoot Ballroom