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Bandana is a 5-piece band playing Country and Classic Rock hits from today and yesterday.
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Bandana is a 5-piece Country band playing Country, and Classic Rock hits from today and yesterday.Band/artist history
Bandana is a 5-piece band playing Country, and Classic Rock hits from yesterday and today.
Bandana has been a fixture in Kansas City Country music since it's inception in August of 1993.
The band formed in 1993 with Fred Wood (guitar),
Dave Carver (acoustic guitar) , and Dan Chapman (bass) and began touring a 4-state area
playing clubs, events, fairs, festivals and rodeos.
They opened for Johny Lee and West Coast Flyer (“Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places”).
They also helped open a one-time popular Johnson County club called Orlando's, which was
broadcast on Q104 by TJ McIntyre (a popular K.C. Disc Jockey). They played the Lineman's
Rodeo for 8 years straight. In 1998 due to irreconcilable differences Dean, Paul, Dan and Mark
left Bandana to form “Showdown”. That group added in Pat Lafferty (keyboards, mandolin,
cello, accordion and various percussion instruments) and Marty Ewing (fiddle).
This powerhouse group played together 2 years, playing all the gigs that Bandana had done
plus a few. However in early 2000 the road and time having taken it's toll the band split up for
what some might have thought was 'for good'. However in early 2007 Mark and Rick Eidson
(bass) would decide to rekindle things and upon calling Dean and Paul they decided to form
RiverGard. Soon after deciding to reform the old group they contacted Nelson Struewe
(keyboard) and he joined the group.
Since forming in January of 2007 RiverGard has played gigs in bars, member's only clubs,
weddings, birthday parties, and outdoor events. Most recently RiverGard participated in
Country Wars (a local battle of the bands) and were contacted by the Johnson County Fair
association and asked to open for Curb/Asylum recording artists “Cowboy Crush” in concert at
this year’s 109th Annual Johnson County Old Settlers celebration. The band happily accepted.
Finally in early 2009 it again became time to rekindle the old "Bandana" fires and so the band was reborn. Through providing quality entertainment and connecting with their audience Bandana hopes
to play all the top venues in the greater Kansas City area and also a few excursions to Lake of
the Ozarks and other outlying areas a bit 'closer to home'.
The bottom line is...these guys have the talent, the experience, the songs and the desire to
please their audience and their clients. If you're looking for quality entertainment, look no
further.Have you performed in front of an audience?We play LIVE all over the greater KC area and we enjoy it very much. Nobody is getting rich here, so FUN is the only good reason to do this. We've had TONS of special moments and continue to have them every time we play.
Stand-out's would be opening for bands in concert, playing fairs and festivals, working with the area Country radio stations, playing the many benefits (all for very good causes) that we've played, and playing Jim Kilroy's COUNTRY WARS finals twice.
Your musical influences
George Straight, Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, Brooks and Dunn, Emerson Drive, Restless Heart, Little Texas, Brad Paisley, Keith Urban...
We are influenced by everything we hear and everything we do.What equipment do you use?
As a band-
Allen & Heath GL2400 24-channel mixing console
DBX DriveRack PX powered speaker processor
Lexicon MX400 dual stereo/surround processor
Presonus ACP-88 8-channel compressor/gate
(2) Behringer 15-band stereo EQ's
(3) Sennheiser EW300IEM's (in ear monitors)
(4) JBL PRX535 650 watt 15" 3-way powered speakers w/Crown amps
(4) JBL PRX518S 500 watt 18" powered subwoofers w/Crown amps
(3) JBL PRX512M 500 watt 12" powered monitors w/Crown amps
(3) Shure Beta 87a condensor microphones (vocals)
(1) Sennheiser e906 instrument microphone (guitar)
(1) Sennheiser e609 instrument microphone (guitar)
(1) Sennheiser MD421 studio microphone (drums/kick)
(1) Audix D6 kick drum microphone
(1) Audix i5 snare drum microphone
(1) Audix SCX-One C hi-hat microphone
(2) Audix ADX-51 condensor microphone (overhead/cymbals)
(3) Audix D2 rack tom microphones
(2) Audix D4 floor tom microphones
(1) CAD KBM412 bass/kick drum microphone
(1) EV MS3000a wireless system
(1) Crown CM311a/e headset microphone
Alesis HD24 24-track Digital Hard Disk recorder
Alesis Master;link ML9600 Master Disk recorder
Alesis HD24 Fireport 1394 (firewire PC link)
EWI 16x8 30' insert snake
EWI 24x24 30' patch snake
EWI 24x8 100' reel snake
EWI 12x4 25' stage snake
Gator G-Tour rack and road cases
SKB 12-slot microphone caseAnything else?
Just because you are paranoid, that doesn't mean that they are NOT out to get you!
Kansas City, MO
USA
ID
929204
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