Our next performance:
Howard City's Music In The Park Series
Free admission!
Ensley Park / Downtown Howard City, MI
July 7, 2009 / 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Come on out and see the new SchlitzBus!
News from Schlitz Creek:
June 2009 - Thanks to all our friends and neighbors who came out to see us play three sets at the Niles Bluegrass Festival on June 6th. All the folks we talked to gave us a lot of support and encouraging words and we appreciate it.
The legendary Steve Carroll of Deadwood Bluegrass
Other News:
May 2009 - Yes, it's true. Schlitz Creek does travel in a chick magnet.
April 2009 - The boys are proud to announce that they will be backing one of their all-time heroes, the legendary Rodney Dillard, in Kalamazoo on October 17, 2009. The location and time of the concert will be announced soon.
March 2009 - The band is now touring in their newly restored vintage bus, a 1973 Georgie Boy motorhome.
| Video from inside Schlitz Creek's new touring motor home: |
Welcome to Schlitz Creek, where there's always pickin' on the back porch. From the mountains of Kalamazoo, the Schlitz Creek Bluegrass Band brings you bluegrass music as it should be sung and played. They cannot be classified as strictly traditional or progressive, or entirely good or bad, as they are armed with a polished repertoire of standard bluegrass tunes as well as a collection of refreshing and unusual choices for a bluegrass band. The boys pull material from such legends as the Dillards, the Monkees, Bob Seger, Lennon & McCartney, Kenny Rogers, Bill Monroe, and Merle Haggard. Their high energy stage show has quickly made Schlitz Creek a crowd favorite on the local bluegrass festival circuit. The Schlitz boys also perform several old country standards, popular instrumentals and frequently accommodate audience requests during the shows.
Combining a high energy approach with lots of good old, down home humor, the “boys in bibs” are favorites in taverns and watering holes alike throughout Southwest Michigan. The band has appeared in venues ranging from backyard parties to large festivals, and bring professional experience to every performance.
Band members include: Isaac "Ike" Smith on fiddle, Nick Deaton on banjo, Dave Dekema on lead guitar, John Speeter on mandolin and Nick Griffith on bass.
Now accepting advance bookings for weddings, wakes, confirmations, bar mitzvahs, bat mitzvahs, goat ropings, snake rollings, ashtray emptyings, marbles tournaments, and bluegrass festerings.
Schlitz Creek: “Bluegrass with some bite”.
