BLUES, SWING, JASS, CLASSIC AMERICAN MUSIC

​​ ​Eric Evans Music

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    Eric Evans plays a wide variety of music with a focus on classic American styles such as blues, jazz, ragtime, and western swing from the early and mid 20th century. He plays acoustic and electrified guitars as well as banjos, mandolins, harmonicas, kazoos, etc.

    Eric grew up in St Louis, Missouri, went to University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, University of Missouri, Kansas City then moved to Brooklyn, NY in the late 1980's playing gigs in dive bars and driving a truck to pay bills.

     He moved to Cincinnati in the late 1990s where he joined with musicians from The Brew House jam session to start the group Get Off Downtown. In 2000 he teamed up with The Sidecars to play western swing, recording and performing for several years around the tristate region, nominated twice for Cincinnati Entertainment Awards.  In 2009 he joined the Cincinnati Dancing Pigs and in 2014 was inducted, with the rest of the Pigs, into the Jugband Hall of Fame in the Artist Category. He has appeared with Sarah Johnson as Cadillac & Catfish performing around Cincinnati at places such as The Rabbit Hash General Store. For more than 15 years, Eric and bassist Tom Beck played blues and jazz for Happy Hour on Fridays at the famous Arnold's Bar and Grill in downtown Cincinnati. Eric has had the pleasure to perform with other great musicians from all corners of the local Cincinnati music scene. He has appeared on and has been involved in producing several independent albums with Get Off Downtown, The Sidecars, The Cincinnati Dancing Pigs and The Evans & Beck Duet.