About Rocknoceros

As every family with youngsters in the DC area knows, Rocknoceros (pronounced like rhinoceros) is three guys, Coach Cotton, Williebob, and Boogie Woogie Bennie, who make wildly popular, award-winning music for the whole family.  

The three Rocknoceros bandmates "grew up" (if they ever did) in Northern Virginia.  Boogie and Coach, best friends since they were four years old, remember endlessly spinning Beatles records in Boogie's suburban bedroom while "waiting for Williebob" who appeared on the scene in high school. The three have been making music ever since, although it wasn't until 20 years later in 2005, when Coach Cotton was raising young'uns of his own, that the inspiration for Rocknoceros finally crystallized.

Rocknoceros has since dominated the Washington, DC children's music scene and gained significant national recognition as well.


  • Name: Coach
  • What do you do?: Write and sing songs
  • Hometown: Fairfax, VA
  • Instruments: Percussion
  • Favorite color: Purple Rain
  • Favorite hobby: Any kind of sport!
  • Favorite grown-up band: Talking Heads
  • Funny fact about you: I do a good Elmo impersonation
  • Favorite quote: "D'oh!" - Home Simpson

  • Name: Williebob
  • What do you do?: I farm. Well, to be more precise, I garden. Same clothing!
  • Hometown: Fairfax, VA
  • Instruments: Just about anything you can pluck.
  • Favorite color: Moby Grape
  • Favorite hobby: Chess
  • Favorite grown-up band: Is Led Zeppelin grown up?
  • Funny fact about you: I have two left feet!
  • Favorite quote: "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana." - Groucho Marx

  • Name: Boogerton Benedict Woogiesworth II (stage name: Boogie Woogie Bennie)
  • What do you do?: Eat, sleep, play, repeat.
  • Hometown: Fairfax, VA
  • Instruments: In increasing order of ineptitude: piano, drums, guitar, marimba, accordion, violin, sousaphone
  • Favorite color: Mood Indigo
  • Favorite hobby: Creating adventurous new recipes with applesauce.
  • Favorite grown-up band: The Beatles!
  • Funny fact about you: In addition to being the most handsome member of Rocknoceros, I am also the only member who can spell 'Phenolphthalein'.
  • Favorite quote: "Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering." -Marilyn vos Savant