East Ash

The East Ash Street Band is an American Jam Rock outfit that brings a full audio and visual world to life before your eyes. Transcending genres from over a century of music that soothes your mind and moves your body. With a love for songs, lyrics and extended jams they bring the grooves of funk, blues, reggae, rock, country and psychedelica together, along with a liquid light show, to inspire a variety of different crowds, young and old, too bring their dancing shoes. Pushing their total ...

The East Ash Street Band is an American Jam Rock outfit that brings a full audio and visual world to life before your eyes. Transcending genres from over a century of music that soothes your mind and moves your body. With a love for songs, lyrics and extended jams they bring the grooves of funk, blues, reggae, rock, country and psychedelica together, along with a liquid light show, to inspire a variety of different crowds, young and old, too bring their dancing shoes. Pushing their total number of live shows past 300 last year (2007), the East Ash St. Band played stages at national festivals for the first time including the Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival in Lawrence, KS, Dogstock in Melvern, KS, and Columbia, MO’s first annual Roots n’ Blues Festival, drawing over 60,000 fans to one of the Midwest’s most promising new independent music scenes. Following the release of their first full-length studio album (2008), The World Keeps On Spinning, East Ash continues to tour heavily, relying on a loyal regional following while hosting weekly live music events in Columbia and earning a return spot at this year’s Wakarusa Festival. In addition they returned to headline The Mushroom Festival and received the opportunity to play at The Blue Bird Music Festival. They have pushed their total show count close to 400 and sold over 100 albums since its release in April of 2008 and sell about 5-10 albums a show. Featuring a lineup of veterans and newcomers, the band continues to write and record daily, accumulating a large back catalog of live and studio sessions. Thank you. Accomplishments in 2007: They started their year winning the Waka Winter Classic at The Blue Note in Columbia, MO, which led to a booking as one of the featured bands at Wakarusa National Music Festival in Lawrence, KS (June 2007) Dogstock Music Festival in Melvern, Kansas (July 2007) with New Riders of the Purple Sage, Melvin Seals, Bernie Worrel-of Talking Heads, Leon Russell, Jacob Fred’s Jazz Odyssey, as well as the best of the Midwest touring bands like Madahoochi, Speakeasy, Mississippi Flapjacks, Bockman and others. The Mushroom Festival in Danville, MO (July 2007) with local and touring bands such as Madahoochi, Speakeasy, and Brother Bagman. Roots n’ Blues Music Festival in Columbia, MO (September 2007) Home to the University of Missouri, Columbia opened it’s doors to more than 60,000 visitors last fall throwing their inaugural blues festival in the heart of downtown. The East Ash St. Band shared the bill with Chris Tomas King, Taj Mahal, Big Smith, North Mississippi All-stars, Tab Benoit, and the Jerry Douglas Band. Toiletry Music Festival in Crown Point, Indiana, (October 2007) a festival in the north part of the country with friends and regional acts, Such as The Family Groove Company, Chester Brown, and The Diggity. Accomplishments 2008: Winning the Waka Winter Classic at The Blue Note in Columbia, MO, for the second year in a row. Which led to a Friday night spot at the Wakarusa National Music Festival in Lawrence, KS (June 2008) Releasing “The World Keeps On Spinning” (April 2008). Which is for sale online at itunes, digstation, cdbaby and many other digital suppliers. Returning to Headline The Mushroom Festival (August 2008) ¬¬Blue Bird Music Festival is a two day, indoor, walking festival in downtown Columbia, Mo during the 14th and 15th of November 2008. The festival will take place in over ten music and art venues, and will host over fifty International, National and Regional bands, all with Midwestern roots. “Body Bags” off their album “The World Keeps on Spinning” touches softly on certain realties of the state we live in today. It reached into the top 100 out of 2700 songs on Neil Young’s website living with war today and stayed for many months. There is a link below that you can follow to his site. “Body bags” can be found in the audio section of this E.P.K. as well. http://neilyoung.com/lwwtoday/lwwsongspage.html Recording for second album starts in December (2008) Along with a little help from their friends, The East Ash Street Band does its own managing, promoting, and booking. They say, "It's all worth it to play for people who share their love of music."