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Guitarist/songwriter/teacher/journalist MIKE O'CULL is a familiar presence on the Midwest music scene. He has worked with ex-Sonia Dada frontman Paris Delane and members of Chicago's Grammy-nominated Liquid Soul as well as many nationally known tribute artists including Rick "Elvis" Saucedo, Irv Kass, and Denny Diamond. He currently plays guitar for Midwest country music favorites The White Saddle Band and the acoustic duo The Better Half. He is experienced in original and cover music, plays electric and acoustic, and has a reputation as one of the best sidemen in the Chicago market. A partial list of venues and clients he has performed in or worked with would include House of Blues Chicago, Chicago Blues Festival, WGN-TV News, Chicago Country Music Festival, Soldier Field, U.S. Cellular Field/Chicago White Sox,The United Center/Chicago Bulls, Fox Theater in Boulder, CO, Special Olympics, The Belly Up in Aspen, CO, Buddy Guy's Legends, Martyrs', Uncommon Ground, Navy Pier, KBCO Radio in Boulder, CO, and many more.
Mike is well known as an excellent guitar instructor and has a successful private teaching practice based in Chicago’s Northwest suburbs. He has been a featured instructor at Chicago’s famous Old Town School of Folk Music and also writes the Guitar Tips column for www.Chicagomusicguide.com. He is comfortable working with any age or ability level and covers topics including music reading, ear training, music theory, improvisation, song learning, performance preparation, and more, all in a fun yet still goal-oriented manner that keeps students coming back for more. Many of Mike’s students have gone on to study at prestigious music schools like Berklee College of Music in Boston and Musicians Institute in California and some are already music teachers themselves. Whether a student’s goal is to be a professional player or to simply experience and enjoy guitar lessons as part of the care and feeding of their human spirit, Mike is the teacher to get students where they want to be.
Mike is also emerging as a songwriter and one of his songs, "Look This Nice," received an Honorable Mention in the 2007 Great Lakes Songwriting Contest. Savvy readers may recognize O'Cull's name from his other career, that of music journalist. He is a regular contributor to the Illinois Entertainer (www.IllinoisEntertainer.com), which is the largest music magazine in the Midwest and boasts 200,000 audited readers monthly and which has published O'Cull's reviews and feature articles since the year 2000. He is a contributor to www.Gear-Vault.com, www.RivetingRiffs.com, www.Illinoisblues.com and www.Chicagobluesguide.com and his work has also appeared in Gig Magazine, Bassics, and Bass Frontiers. He does press releases, bios, liner notes, and web content for other area artists, as well.
We are very excited about playing at such an awesome jazz club. We have some great sets lined up for you, so don't miss it. Friday and Saturday November 20th and 21st, 5:00-8:30p at Andy's Jazz Club in Chicago
Aaron Koppel -Guitar, Matt Nelson; (Lupe Fiasco, Matthew Santos) -Keyboard, Graham Czach; (Chicago Afrobeat Project) -bass, Robert Tucker (Matthew Santos) -drums
Stoppin by and saying HI. Always nice to hear from friends. Hope life's treating you well but most of all I hope you’re smiling! PLEASE read all BLOGS I have posted on site! Check back often, things change often and sometime fast. Come see who you know and say Hi to all!!!
Take care and KEEP ROCKIN. Shoot for the moon!
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Just a quick reminder that the Crown Vics are bringing their 1950's Rock & Roll show tonight, April 18t to...
The Onesti Dinner Club 18 N 4th Street St.
Charles, IL 8:30-11:30PM
We are still on cloud nine coming off of our performance at the Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekender at the Orleans Hotel in Las Vegas this past Friday. We still have plenty of pent up energy from our success there.
Also, mention that you are a fan of the Crown Vics and you will receive 10% off your food bill during the show.
