A FREE in-store performance by The Ingham County Regulars

Thursday , October 14, 2004
05:30 pm - 6:15 p.m.
Location: Elderly Instruments
in-store performance (free)

You may have seen The Ingham County Regulars performing at the East Lansing Art Festival, in the summer-evening outdoor Fountain Square Concert Series or the Ann Street Plaza Concert Series in East Lansing. You may have seen them at Dagwood's, The Temple Club, Mac's Bar, Ann Arbor's Blind Pig, Webberville's Michigan Brewing Company, or maybe at Detroit's Magic Stick, where they've opened for national acts. You may have seen the band members in other popular area bands--The Lash, Pub Domain...

If you've seen them, you may know that their combined experience with varying musical genres enables the "Regulars" to blend the intensity of rock music with the emotion and honesty of the old country classics of Hank Williams and Merle Haggard. The band explains this successful blend: "As the lines between rock music and country music begin to blur, many people from all sides of the music spectrum are beginning to turn to the young and still-developing genre of alt country. These days, alt country is one of rock and roll's hideouts."

If you haven'tseen The Ingham County Regulars live, now's a good time. The concert is free and the band is fun. Consisting of Marty Portier (vocals and guitar), brother Jason Portier (bass and vocals), Chris Diener (lead guitar), and Jesse Soriano (drums), the "Regulars" formed in early 2002 and have steadily perfected their unique and increasingly-popular blend of "honky-tonk rock."

"Combining rock and honky tonk, The Ingham County Regulars perform the songs of country greats such as Hank Williams Sr., Johnny Cash and Ray Price, throwing in originals in the same vein." - Sarah Stollack, lsj.com, for The Lansing State Journal, July 24, 2003

"The Regulars have a high-energy take on honky-tonk. It's hillbilly music played with a raw, straight-ahead sensibility, like Hank Williams all hopped up." - Matt Miller, "Twang-Town," The Lansing Noise, June 2, 2004

The Regulars' recently-released self-titled CD, offering classic covers and originals--and everything from slow melodic acoustic ballads to fast-paced twang-laden "old country"--is now available at Elderly.

Check out recordings we carry featuring The Ingham County Regulars