Derek EVans

In the winter of 2004, while living in Dallas, Texas, Derek Evans decided to pack his things and move to California. Never having been to California and knowing no one, he moved there with one goal to start playing music professionally. By 2006, Derek had been touring the west coast regularly. He started by playing house concerts from San Diego to Portland. In 2007 he started taking those fans and applying the numbers to coffee houses. In 2008 he started hittting major venues, small clubs, fe...

In the winter of 2004, while living in Dallas, Texas, Derek Evans decided to pack his things and move to California. Never having been to California and knowing no one, he moved there with one goal to start playing music professionally. By 2006, Derek had been touring the west coast regularly. He started by playing house concerts from San Diego to Portland. In 2007 he started taking those fans and applying the numbers to coffee houses. In 2008 he started hittting major venues, small clubs, festivals, and branching out to the midwest and east coast. In 2009 Derek Evans started playing large clubs, colleges, festivals and started getting asked to support other artists, inlcuding Blues Traveler at The Fillmore in San Francisco. He finished the year off in San Diego opening for Everclear, where 95% of San Diego voted for him to support the band at House of Blues. 2010: Derek Evans will be releasing a new his EP “The Ballad of Stella”, which two of the songs will be featured in the upcoming movie “Shoots and Ladders.” Followed by a national tour in support of the release. I have toured for the past 4 years and have shared the stages with Jason Mraz, Blues Traveler, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Landon Pigg, Erin McCarley, Anya Marina, Greg Laswell, and many more.