The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band has performed in 38 countries and 48 states. They have been featured in Rolling Stone Magazine, Living Blues, Elmore, donned the cover of Vintage Guitar Magazine, had #1 records on the Billboard Blues Charts, and have been nominated for three Blues Music Awards by the Blues Foundation in Memphis. The Indianapolis Star listed Reverend Peyton as one of the top 25 Hoosier musicians of all time.

Maybe you found the band because of virtuosic guitar playing? Maybe you came for the tent revival style live show? The reasons that brought you here could be extensive, but the reasons that keep bringing people back are HEART. Real, from the heart, music made by people who love music. The Sacramento Bee said, “It’s a group with boundless stockpiles of heart to spare — it cascades throughout every slip-n-slide vintage blues/soul ditty they tear through and croon in every show they play, and they always leave a little behind. The front porch is the church, the church is the dance hall and the dance hall is the river bank — your knees will fail you by the time you figure it all out.”

Often called, “the greatest front-porch blues band in the world” the Big Damn Band is led by Reverend Peyton, who is considered to be the premier finger pickers playing today. Rev has earned a reputation as both a singularly compelling performer and a persuasive evangelist for the rootsy, country blues styles that captured his imagination early in life and inspired him and his band to make pilgrimages to Clarksdale, Mississippi to study under such blues masters as T-Model Ford, Robert Belfour and David “Honeyboy” Edwards. Accompanied by Rev’s wife, the washboard virtuoso, Washboard Breezy Peyton, and kept on time by the deep rhythms of Jacob “The Snakob” Powell, Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band will leave you clapping, stomping, and singing along every handmade show across the world. Their latest record Dance Songs For Hard Times went #1 on the Billboard, iTunes and Sirius XM Blues Charts and was produced by Grammy winner Vance Powell (Jack White, Chris Stapleton). The record is critically acclaimed by Rolling Stone, Relix, Popmatters, Guitar World, American Songwriter, No Depression, Glide, Wide Open Country, Paste, American Blues Scene and many more.

Adrian and Meredith Band is a Nashville-based Bohemian swing-folk act built around rhythm, movement, and the shared experience of live music. Led by married troubadour duo Adrian and Meredith Krygowski, the band draws from Americana, swing, soul, polka, and global folk traditions, while avoiding rigid genre boundaries.

With Adrian and Meredith, you never dance alone. Meredith’s old-time fiddle and percussive dance (often at the same time) invite audiences back into a freer, more visceral experience, while Adrian sings from a deeply human place, relating how much more alike we are than different, grounding the songs in empathy and connection.

Anchored by Ben “The Odyssey” Reiff’s inventive, rhythm-driven drumming and John Kveen’s driving upright bass, the band delivers a dynamic and flexible live sound. Syncopation and swinging rhythms, call-and-response vocals, in what Carson City Levitt has described as a “world class performance” from Adrian, Meredith, and longtime saxophonist and guitarist Ken Francis Wenzel create engaging, all-ages entertainment that welcome audiences from many backgrounds.

Their music has taken them across Europe, where they have performed for Ukrainian refugees, also in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Sweden and Germany, using shared songs and movement to create moments of worldly connection and solidarity.

In America, they have appeared at the Grand Ole Opry as guests with The War & Treaty, Folk Alliance International, and Performing Art Centers nationwide, where dancing is not only welcome but often inevitable. Their shows thrive on interaction, with the band responding to audience energy and shaping each night in real time. Every show is as unique as they are.