Americana Joy - Friday 2.21 - Rockin' Americana Music Showcase - Free

Americana Joy at Bigfoot Lodge!! is a free monthly Music series. Join musical legacy Artist Matt Axton (son of Hoyt Axton) along with Grand Ole Country Bunker and Warbringer Southwest Bourbon as they bring a new crop of the best original Americana artists to the City of Angels each month. From Bluegrass to folk to Southern Rock and everything in between, Americana Joy takes great pride In creating a free community based showcase that gives a high quality platform to local, regional and touring independent musicians. This event is free and tickets are not required.

Schedule:

DJ Max Maxstofferson -8pm

Ted Russell Kamp . 9pm-9:45pm

Julian Julian. 10pm-11pm

Matt Michienzie Band -11pm- 12am

DJ Max Maxstofferson - 12am-close

originally hails from Foxboro, MA. For the past five years, Matt has resided in Los Angeles, where he plays with his countrified, bluesified, and grassified band. His passion as a songwriter is vividly clear: Matt sings from his heart and gives it his all in everything he plays. Whether fronting a bluegrass group, jam band, or country band, Matt is able to combine his influential and eclectic music curiosities in a very tasteful and unique way.

Not unlike many California grass bands, MMB is a progressive bluegrass project. The roots of the band are in bluegrass...although they have a keen interest in incorporating other genres into their sound, such as jam, soul, or traditional country. The band currently consists of fiddle, mandolin, guitar, and bass. In December 2022, Matt Michienzie Band flew back east to Matt's neck of the woods to open for Tim Reynolds and TR3 at the Narrows Center for the Arts in Fall River, MA. This would begin their travels as a band. In summer 2022, the band made their Grass Valley debut at the Father's Day Festival, hosted by the California Bluegrass Association.

Just recently, the band won 1st Place Band at the Topanga Banjo and Fiddle Contest - one of the longest running contests of its type. In October 2023, the band competed in the Battle of the Bands at Huck Finn Jubilee in SoCal and took home first place. The current band members are Julian McClanahan (fiddle), Nate Schwartz (mandolin) and Chris Jackson (upright bass).

The band has opened for the Kitchen Dwellers, AJ Lee and Blue Summit, Water Tower Band, Hot Buttered Rum etc…

On their 2024 slate, the band played at the Long Beach Bluegrass Festival, Topanga Banjo Fiddle Contest, Rambling Peaks Festival, The Western Swingout Festival, Huck Finn Jubilee, Road to Winter Wondergrass and more…

In the summer of 2024, Matt Michienzie Trio went to Europe to play 6 shows, including the Green Parrot Bluegrass Festival in Cologne, Germany and also the Herbe Blue Festival in Western France.

They are currently recording their first EP as a band. It will be released early in 2025.

Website- https://www.mattmichienzie.com/about

Ted Russell Kamp is an LA-based singer/songwriter, producer and Grammy winning bass player.

Ted writes, records and travels the world performing his own country / roots / Americana music from his eleven critically-acclaimed albums. Ted also plays live, records sessions, and collaborates on songs with A-list songwriters and musicians in L.A., Nashville, Austin and around the world. Ted often works out of his home studio — The Den — and has produced several well-received albums for fellow artists there. Ted has also had the honor of being a friend, collaborator and member of Shooter Jennings’ band for most of the last 15 years. Ted also played on the 2020 Grammy winning Country Album of the Year, Tanya Tucker’s While I’m Living.

Ted is well known for his ability to step into bands and rock all genres of music — the decades he spent holding down the bottom end for bands as diverse as Shooter, Jessi Colter, Whitey Morgan, Wilson Phillips and others have made sure Ted had the chops for anything from major festivals to David Letterman appearances and the Sirius XM Outlaw Country Cruise.

The last few years have found Kamp focusing on his own career as well as touring and recording with Shooter. He tours continuously in the US and Europe, and has releasing his solo albums to critical acclaim. His records have debuted at #1 on the Euroamericana Chart and made the US Americana Chart’s Top 100 Records of the Year. The Big Takeover wrote, “Kamp simply knocks one ball after another out of the park…Saturated in talent and sincerity … good music done right.”

This Jack of all trades points to Dave Stewart and Buddy Miller as role models, in the sense that they move so seamlessly between the roles of sideman and frontman while supplying both substance and glue to every project they take on.

“The biggest challenge,” Ted says, “is always to be myself and express myself while still supporting others. Bringing in traditional elements is a way to make the music classier and more timeless, in my opinion, whether it’s to enrich my own music or to make anything I’m part of as great as it can be.”

“I was born in New York and live in L.A. and love the heart and honesty of Southern music,” Ted points out. “Most of my favorite records were made within a few-hundred-mile radius that circles Memphis, Nashville, Muscle Shoals, New Orleans and up the Mississippi River, Dallas and Austin. It’s incredible — the passion, the storytelling and the soul that came out of that part of the country. It’s a huge part of the American voice.”

Ted dove into music after college. He spent several years woodshedding in Seattle, and recorded four LPs with his trio Ponticello before moving to LA in 2001. Once in LA, Ted formed the group Union Pacific, played with numerous bands, did extensive session work. That led in 2003 to Shooter Jennings pulling him into his band. And Ted’s never looked back. Whether he’s headlining a major show in the Netherlands with European superstars, playing Gruene Hall in mid Texas in the dead of summer, rocking an LA honky tonk with some of the best players in town, or working in his new studio to pull the soul from each song, Ted pours his drive and musical talent into every note.

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