Dan Bubien & The Delta Struts @ Big Rail Stage

Name: Dan Bubien & The Delta Struts @ Big Rail Stage
Start: 2026-04-10T18:00:00-04:00
Location: Big Rail Brewing

Schedule

Fri, 10 Apr, 2026 at 06:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Big Rail Brewing | Grove City, PA

Dan Bubien & the Delta Struts put a contemporary spin on soulful roots music. Driven by the dynamic guitar playing of Dan Bubien, along with soulful gritty vocals. Their signature sound is highlighted by the precision playing and deep toned-full sound of drummer Rick Morelli, glued together by Jim Spear’s steady, groove oriented bass playing and accented by Andrew Bicsey’s harmonies and guitar playing and Steve Binsberger on keyboards.
Dan Bubien is a singer/songwriter/guitarist born and raised in the small steel town of Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. This rust belt town Northwest of Pittsburgh, has been the launching pad for a career that spans over two decades now culminating with his current band The Delta Struts.
Dan’s professional career began in his mid-teens working along side veteran musicians on the local and regional club circuit of Southwest PA. Along the way, Dan founded and recorded with The Sun Kings releasing Rub It In (2006) while continuing to hone his skills as a front man and songwriter. As a solo artist, Dan released “Empty Roads” in 2013 with the help of four-time Grammy Award Winning Producer/Engineer Jay Dudt of Audible Images Studios. Capitalizing on his previous success with “Empty Roads”, Dan released his second solo album in August of 2016 entitled “Grinding These Gears”. Self-produced and recorded by legendary Pittsburgh musician Joe Munroe “Grinding These Gears” achieved critical acclaim and charted on the Blues/Rock and World Wide blues album charts respectively.
Fast forward to 2017 and the newest incarnation of Dan’s vision has culminated in the creation of Dan Bubien and The Delta Struts. Gritty and honest, yet always soulful one might think this band hails from a place much further south than the suburbs of northwest Pittsburgh. Dan is constantly refining and redefining his craft using a wide palette of tones and textures, sounds and styles, that express a heart-felt love of all things music. Rooted in soul, and versed in a style that harkens back to the days of a classic STAX recording, Dan Bubien and The Delta Struts consistently break new ground with an eclectic spin on the collective music they make. Backed by the stellar guitar playing of Shawn Mazzei and anchored by rhythm section veterans Mark Pollera (Drums) and Christian Caputo (Bass) The Delta Struts chart a course that begins and ends with the music always being the first priority. After spending much of 2018 recording what was to become “Thieves and Yesterdays” Dan Bubien and The Delta Struts plan on a release date of February 1st and a tour starting in Nashville at the end of March. Check our website for up to date information and reviews about “Thieves and Yesterday’s” as well as updates from the road beginning in March.
Accolades
Grinding These Gears:
Three weeks in top ten RMR Blues/Rock Album charts, charted as high as #4
Three weeks in top twenty RMR Blues Album charts, charted as high as #12
Three weeks at #1 RMR PA State Album charts
Spent over 6 months on the Blues, Blues/Rock and PA State Album Charts and selected as #36 “Best of 2016” Blues/Rock Album Roots Music Report
Selected by the Blues Society of Western Pennsylvania in the “Best Self-Produced CD” category at the 2017 International Blues Challenge in Memphis, TN.
Empty Roads:
Selected as one of the top 5 albums of 2013 in 91.3 WYEP’s Year in Review Publication by deejay Rob O’Friel
Charted has high as #14 on the PA Roots Charts and #41 on the Worldwide Blues Charts
Selected by the Blues Society of Western Pennsylvania in the “Best Self-Produced CD” category at the 2014 International Blues Challenge in Memphis, TN.
Festival Appearances
People’s Choice Festival, PA – Creekside Blues & Jazz Festival, OH -Canal Winchester Blues Festival, OH – Pittsburgh Blues Festival, PA – Heritage Music Festival, WV – Blast Furnace Blues Fest, PA – Dream On Fest, PA – Carnegie Blues Fest, PA, – Strip District Music Fest, PA – Blind Raccoon Showcase at IBC, TN, Hopewell Blues & BBQ Fest, PA, Johnstown Blues & Brews Festival, PA, Easterns Bayside Blues Festival, MD
Opened For/Performed With
311, Los Lonely Boys, Valerie June, John Browns Body, Robert Randolph, Martin Barre (Jethro Tull), Anthony Gomes, The Bros. Landereth, Scott Sharrard (Greg Allman), Patrick Sweany, Davey Knowles, Indigenous, Quinn Sullivan, Seth Walker, Hamish Anderson, Anna Popovich, Magic Slim, Joe Louis Walker, Bernard Allison, Tinsley Ellis, Shemekia Copeland, Debbie Davies, Guitar Shorty and Michael Burks.