Our next performance:
Pietro's Back Door Pizzeria
2728 Birchcrest Drive Southeast
Grand Rapids, MI
February 11, 2010 / 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
News from Schlitz Creek:
February 2010 - Schlitz Creek will be playing the 2nd annual Y96.5 birthday party with friends Ninth Street Bridge at the Wild Bull Saloon on March 6th.
January 2010 - Schlitz Creek fiddler Ike Smith received some positive press from The Daily News in Greenville, Michigan. Click here for the details.
November 2009 - The boys made their radio debut on Kalamazoo's WIDR-FM on 11/30/09. The results were as expected: broken strings, out of tune instruments, and off-key harmonies.
July 2009 - The boys made a Tuesday evening trip up to Howard City for a concert in Ensley Park on July 7 and the show was well-attended.
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
May 2009 - Yes, it's true. Schlitz Creek does travel in a chick magnet.
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 talented or talentless, 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 music the way it was meant to be sung and played”.
