31/05/2012 by LLRLRR - 0 comments

Steel Bridge Song Fest 2012

It’s that time of year and Mike Mangione & The Unions are off again to one of our favorite festival gigs: Steel Bridge!

The festival runs from June 7-10 and we’ll be playing the main stage on Saturday June 9 during the day and taking part in the pub crawl event that evening. Musicians take over every venue in Sturgeon Bay (even the bowling alley!) and your festival ticket allows you entry to every location.

(We don’t have our venue info finalized for the evening of June 8 yet but we’ll let you know as soon as we do!)

Steel Bridge 2012 Weekend Passes are On Sale NOW at all TicketStar Locations,
online at TicketStarOnline.com
or over the phone 1-800-895-0071

$25 tickets purchased through Ticket Star will include a digital download of Steel Bridge Songs: Volume 7 (2012 Release)! These will be mailed out to you a a later date.

Ticket allows access to all venues and also allows for priority admission to venues that are nearing capacity – ahead of persons paying the per venue cover charge.
Certain venues may require passes for entrance.

26/01/2012 by LLRLRR - 0 comments

New Year, new gear, new music, new shows – YES!

2012 is here and I’m already behind but I wanted to jot down a quick note about what’s coming up this year –

New gear – as usual I’ve acquired a few new cymbals over the past year thanks to my pal Bob Rupp at Sabian and I’ll be working those into the live rotation this year. Some HHX, AAX, OMNI and prototypes that are all pretty cool.

Music! The new Mike Mangione release rounded out nicely in mixing at the end of last year and went off to be mastered in December. We haven’t decided on a release date yet but new songs are creeping into the live set and people seem to really like them. Also, working on both the new Sulek and Justin Heron releases (even playing some bass!) and those should come out some time this year.

Shows – lots of upcoming shows with Mike Mangione and The Union as well as some shows here and there with my pals in Sulek and Justin Heron.

MMTU dates can be found here: http://mikemangione.com/tour and I’ll try to keep updates on the others as they arise.

Speaking of new and live – here’s Mike Mangione & The Union live on WGN America (and local Chicago channel 9) previewing a song called Burn in My Belly. Enjoy!

Mike Mangione and The Union in the WGN TV Midday Music Lounge

11/07/2011 by LLRLRR - 0 comments

Summerfest and more

Once again, I had the pleasure of playing at Summerfest and once again it was a blast! We’re rounding out the rest of July with a double header in Green Bay and then a little swing out west to Wyoming for the Oyster Ridge Music Festival for two dates, and then Colorado and Kansas on the way back home.

Dates are available here: http://mikemangione.com/tour

Come on out and say hi!

20/05/2011 by LLRLRR - 0 comments

Chicago Drum Show

Oh yeah! It’s my favorite event of the year and it’s this weekend: Johnny Rabb, Daniel Glass, JR Robinson, Clayton Cameron and more!

I’ll be tweeting up a storm tomorrow and I’ll surely do a quick recap with photos and video too.

The Chicago Drum Show: http://rebeats.com/drumshows_start_page.html

07/05/2011 by LLRLRR - 0 comments

Thanks to @ThinkDrums and @PercUpLive for the RTs

I did a little tweeting today from the Cascio Interstate Music clinic featuring Todd Sucherman (Styx, Brian Wilson), Hannah Ford (Bellevue Suite) and Pearl Drums Corps’ Raymond Massey. Think Drums and Perc Up Live picked up on it and were kind enough to share it with all of their followers and I hope everyone enjoyed the snippets and pics.

AND as promised, here’s a video snippet of Todd doing a seriously cool reinterpretation of Jimi Hendrix’s “Manic Depression.” I hope you like it!

27/02/2011 by LLRLRR - 0 comments

Big Thanks to WGN TV!

WOW! It was so much fun playing on WGN TV and the folks there were amazing. Growing up in the Chicago area, WGN was THE TVchannel – Bozo, Ray Reiner, Frazier Thomas classics on the weekend, Lester Fisher from the Lincoln Park Zoo. Man, it was just great to walk through the studio and watch them do the news and then get a chance to play them in and out of the breaks. Plus a full song at the end of the hour which you can see here:

Mike Mangione & The Union: “Offering” on WGN TV

26/02/2011 by LLRLRR - 0 comments

Show season begins!

Starting to get a little busy now with Mike Mangione & The Union, in support of the upcoming official release of “Offering”, and the ever expanding list of dates can be found here:
http://mikemangione.com/tour/

Come on out for a show and say hi!

22/01/2011 by LLRLRR - 0 comments

Back from NAMM 2011

WOW. I had a blast. Got to hang out with some old friends and made some new ones too. For some reason, I spent a lot of time looking at stuf but not really taking many pics. I did upload a few to my flickr site (you can see the pics in the sidebar) and I uploaded a great set of videos from Stanton Moore demoing his new LP pandeiro and a “steam powered” drumset from Trick. Those are up at my YouTube site. Take a look and let me know what you think!

(Oh yeah, and I got to meet one of my favorite drummers of all time, Abe Laboriel Jr. He was the coolest guy and totally worth waiting in line to talk to!)

17/12/2010 by LLRLRR - 0 comments

NAMM Show!

I am extremely excited to be going to the 2011 NAMM show this coming year in Anaheim. I am probably going to be completely overwhelmed by all the gear and meeting/catching up with all my drumigos (drummer pals) from around the country but I am going to try and post things as they happen. Lots of pics and short posts and then maybe a few bigger recaps.

Thanks so much to my friends at Taye drums and Sabian cymbals for their help in making this trip possible.

(only 29 days until the show woo hoo!)

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