| About bugs Beddow | bugs Beddow sings and plays the trombone & flute. His awesome band play iconic Rhythm & Blues and Funk over 100 nights a year and have won the Detroit Music Awards for Best R&B Band 5 times. Beddow has shared the stage with Boz Scaggs, Eddie Money, Robert Cray, Spyro Gyra, Earl Klugh, Blood, Sweat, & Tears, Christian McBride, & many more in addition to providing music to actor Jeff Daniels over the last decade. His music can be found on YouTube & iTunes as well as on other artists recordings with artists like Mitch Ryder and J.D. Lamb. He played trombone in the movie “Hoffa” with Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, and Armand Asanti and in "Ancient Evenings", based on a Best Selling Novel by Norman Mailer. Trombone Driven Rhythm & Blues and Funk. Award Winning Party Music that is defined as "Hot, Danceable, Rockin' Rhythm & Blues that delivers Plenty of Vocals, Horns, and Dancing". Things really get cookin' with an excellent Vocal Blend atop Classic Rockin' Blues Rhythms and a Sparkling Horn section that is punctuated by searing Electric Guitar work, all driven by Beddow's signature trombone work. bugs Beddow may be known the world over playing concert stages, nightclubs, and parties of all kinds, but he calls Detroit his home and he’s always got time to play for you. Beddow is a 20 year West Bloomfield resident. In addition to being a bandleader, trombonist, and flutist for his own band, Beddow is the K-5 music teacher at Roosevelt Elementary and a 6th grade band director at Abbott Middle School. After school, when he’s not gigging with his band, he teaches private lessons on trombone, sax, flute, trumpet, and tuba at the Orchard Lake School of Music in Sylvan Lake and West Bloomfield’s Marshall Music on Haggerty Road. He also serves as Vice President of the Orchard Lake Philharmonic Society and has received awards for classical music performances on trombone. Beddow is a member of Advent Episcopal Church, where he occasionally performs Christian music on flute. For more on the bugs Beddow Band, visit: reverbnation.com/bugsBeddowband |
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