Mike Zito Big Band

A storied self-made blues-rock musician, singer/guitarist/ producer Mike Zito is one of the most lauded blues artists, with 18 albums to his name, as a former member of the US supergroup Royal Southern Brotherhood and multiple Blues Music Award nominations and wins. For 2022, he is nominated for a BMA Blues Rock Album for his 2021 release, Resurrection. 

His song Pearl River was the 2010 BMA Song of the Year, and in 2011 his release Greyhound was nominated for a BMA Best Rock Blues Album. In 2013, he assembled his band The Wheel. In 2018, First Class Life, debuted at # 1 on the Billboard's Top Blues Albums Chart. Zito won the 2021 Blues Music Awards in two categories, Blues Rock Artist and Blues Rock Album for his Mike Zito and Friends Rock 'n' Roll: A Tribute To Chuck Berry, an album that also debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Blues Album Chart. With songs ranging from furiously funky to wicked grooves and steaming slide work, Mike Zito always delivers.

Teaching himself guitar at the age of nine, Levi Platero emerged the Navajo Nation to the blues scene in 2004 with The Plateros, his family award-winning blues-rock power trio. After touring the U.S. with the band for 10 years, he played as a member of Indigenous for a year before returning to his own music and recruiting his own band. In 2016 he released Take Me Back, which won the 2016 New Mexico Music Awards for Best Blues. He was also nominated for an Indigenous Music Award for Best Rock album, with Perspective. Levi’s quiet nature is unleashed in a style that mixes a spectrum of Texas Blues, vintage rock, to modern guitar heroes such as Eric Johnson and Steve Vai. With a captivating live show, he ranges from flurries of guitar acrobatics all the way down to soulful expressiveness.

Electric blues and rock fans searching for a new guitar hero need look no further. In just a few years, the Terry Quiett Band has become a mainstay across America. Wherever they go the TQB has won over young and old with their energetic and soulful sound. Their last original music release, Truth & Intent, features swampy grooves to heart-tugging ballads to driving rockers. Chris Spector, Midwest Records says of TQB, "Kicking things off with the kind of choogling boogie blues that electrifies your hair endings and fries your synapses, Quiett is now leading the blues power trio to beat. A monster of an unfettered frat party run wild, you can just picture this crew providing the juice in the middle of a power outage in the middle of the American night. Hard-hitting, killer stuff that shows others just how it’s done."