Steve Kimock

Steve Kimock & Friends will celebrate NYE at the Sweetwater Music Hall on December 30 & 31.  We are excited to bring in 2017 at our home away from home with a great line-up that capsulates Steve's diverse reportoire from 2016 and moves ahead into the New Year.

The decline of 1970's Grateful Dead piano player Keith Godchaux was sad but not entirely unexpected. The hardships of the never-ending grueling tour and travel schedule (that had always been for The Dead) had taken its toll on Keith and his wife Donna Jean Godchaux, a talented Muscle Sholes-alum vocalist. It was Donna who introduced Keith to Jerry Garcia in 1971 after a Dead show they had attended.

We are glad to be on the road this week... family style.  Heading up to Seattle today to start our summer run, following an inspired Everyone Orchestra show at the Oregon Country Fair.

Excited to visit all these beautiful spots in the Far West with our band... join us for some shows!

K I M O C K Summer 2016

NedFest Friday headliner to be Steve Kimock and Friends, including Jeff Chimenti of the 2016 Dead and Company tour, Bobby Vega, Leslie Mendelson and more!

Since Steve announced from the stage at the Fox Theatre that he would be headlining Friday NedFest, we've been getting tons of very excited messages, so we figured we had better let the rest of our fans know that one of NedFest's favorite artists would be returning this year!

KIMOCK | Crazy Fingers | Fox Theater | Boulder, CO | 6/4/16

In spring 2016, Steve Kimock’s latest solo effort, Last Danger of Frost, was first presented in the exciting, new, intimate ensemble called K I M O C K -- which will come to Colorado in June -- when Steve partnered with John Morgan Kimock (drummer, composer, multi-instrumentalist). The father/son duo has been composing further music over the past year, inspired by the record’s compositions and direction, orchestrating musical styles across genres and generations.

Combining delicately delivered music hypnotics and subtleties with a full band sound, guitar master Steve Kimock and his new group of accomplices, dubbed K I M O C K, delivered on March 6 a satisfying two-set performance at the intimate Center for the Arts in Grass Valley, California.

We are giving away a full VIP Experience for the K I M O C K show of your choice on our upcoming Spring Tour!  This includes a pair of tickets to the show, a handprinted silk-screen tour poster, a signed CD (or vinyl) & an after show meet-and-greet.

To celebrate the new record, we put together some special perks offered exclusively to our fans.

Want to have coffee with Steve? No problem. Want a private lesson from Steve?  What time? How about some autographed white vinyl? On the way. 

For nearly four decades the guitar playing of Steve Kimock has captivated listeners of all different musical palettes. The master improviser and bandleader is busy as ever, nearing an exciting nationwide tour with his new band K I M O C K featuring his son John Morgan Kimock on drums, familiar cohort Bobby Vega on bass, and Leslie Mendelson on vocals and piano. I’m here today with Steve to talk about this surge of new activity.

Steve Kimock’s imaginative guitar and improvisational prowess continues to evolve. For over forty years he’s crafted boundless music that captivates and expands consciousness. His compositions are distinct in melody and temperament, while his approach will undoubtedly modify as every tune develops, as its own singular organism at any given performance. He began his professional career in the early 1980s as co-founder of the cherished Bay Area band Zero.

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