Ron Hardt and Jimmy Wright Live at The Thirsty Badger
Schedule
Fri Sep 05 2025 at 08:00 pm to 10:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
The Thirsty Badger | Lynden, WA
Ron Hardt and Jimmy Wright start at 8pm!Ron Hardt started playing guitar and singing at the age of 13. In his early 20’s, while managed by a local San Gabriel Valley recording studio, his popular 70’s band Mickey Ratt played many gigs at local parks and community center dances with Alex and Eddie Van Halen’s band then known as Mammoth (before they became the infamous Van Halen). Since those days, Ron has continued to hone his skills with his own band The Stratocats, and has played with numerous other local favorites such as Crossroads, Johnny Starr and the Galaxy, Good Rockin’ Daddy, including musical sessions with keyboard extraordinaire Russell Ferrante of The Yellow Jackets, Blues Icon Floyd Dixon who wrote Hey Bartender resurrected by the Blues Brothers, and Tommy Salyers from the Laurie Morvan Blues Band. He enjoys and listens to many styles of music making him a true musical chameleon.
Ron concentrates on songs by the great songwriters of his generation giving the listener a unique enjoyable experience from a wide variety of different artists such as, The Beatles, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Elton John, Billy Joel to name a few. He also plays a lot of familiar forgotten songs one might not expect to hear. The audience just never knows what they might hear.
Jimmy Wright has been a working musician since age of 10.
At 10 years old he started playing with his Brothers, and has been preforming Music with many Shows of Music and Entertainment.
He has played over 30 years, 6 nights a week in many Casino, Resorts and Private Parties all over Puget Sound and Nevada.
He played in Hong Kong in the Hyatt Regency and was recorded for MTV in 1991.
Also in 1991 he played on the same ticket with Chuck Berry.
Jimmy has been a long time Music Entertainer, with his own Band, The Jimmy Wright Band, along with other professional Bands.
Jimmy has always been a Professional Showman and will continue to be.
He played the Paramount Theater in 1984, along with other showstoppers.
Jimmy’s passion is Music and will continue to share it in every show
