The Big Rockin' Blues Band

Mike Weinstock is the band leader and 25 year veteran of the blues. He has played in diverse settings, from street corners in New Zealand to Chicago's south-side classic blues club The Checkerboard Lounge. Michael sings, plays rhythm guitar, and blues harmonica.

Steve Shapiro got his start performing at the Provincial Hotel, a rough biker bar, finishing the evening with a guitar on his back and holding tight as a 'biker chick' rode him home. He has an urgent and engaging voice ranging from Johnny B. Goode and American Girl to I'm Free.

Jenny Morgan has been playing music her whole life, and has recorded 2 original CD's as well as using music to bring kids back to nature. Jenny met Michael in 1987 and they have been playing together ever since!

Pete Cary has played in numerous Columbus bands and might very well be the best guitar player you have ever heard!

Ben Johnson is the glue of The Big Rockin' Blues Band - rockin' a bluesy bass... filling our sound from the low end

Tomasz Jarzecki, originally from Poland, is a graduate of University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music and a self proclaimed "jack-of-all-genres". From a symphony stage to a country band stand, he's done it, performing with the Juke Joint Saints, Christy Angeletti Band, Ray Massa's Eurorhythms, In Full Swing Big Band, and the Clavesonic Latin Jazz Project. In short… he rocks!

Ben Kessler, keyboardest-extrordinaire, professor of the musicology, fine-tuned and blues-grooved adds a dimension rarely heard in a blues band; one only needs to hear him play and sing Oh my sweet Carolina, Wagon Wheel, or Broken Halos to know you have come to the right place.

Dennis Hirsch plays hand percussion, bongas, congas, bonga-congas and has been known to prompt the crowd to yell; "more cowbell next time!" Dr. Hirsch brings it all home adding a reggae beat to Knockin' on Heavens Door and a tribal energy to Sympathy for the Devil! Listen carefully for his vocal performance on Ain't no sunshine when she's gone...

Together... we are...

 The Big Rockin' Blues Band!!