The Mike West Band

Mike West picks a mean banjo and tells stories too strange not to be true. He cut his teeth as a banjo-slinging troubadour in the clubs of the New Orleans, before setting out on a twenty year touring career with alt-country duo, Truckstop Honeymoon. He has recently returned to gigging under his own name, West’s shows are full of stories. An engaging entertainer and an accomplished picker, West leads the audience through hurricanes, floods, love, life and family, while all the time ripping into a five string banjo, guitar or mandolin.

As a touring songwriter, Mike West received a Big Easy Entertainment award from the City of New Orleans, several Best of the Beat awards from Off Beat Magazine, and a Phoenix Award for lifetime contribution to the Arts from the City of Lawrence Kansas. He has played festival stages from Sydney to Berlin, as well roadhouses in Alabama, rock clubs in Illinois and shearing sheds in Wales. He recently released a solo acoustic EP produced by British folk-punk artist, Frank Turner, “A Day in Mersea”, and is currently promoting a collaborative album, “Broster & West”, featuring Canadian songwriter, Nick Broster.