Moonshine Bandits
April 12, 2025 · Doors open at 7:00 pm
Moonshine Bandits
Backwoods bravado, patriot’s pride, country soul, keg-thumping beats — these are the qualities that Moonshine Bandits have championed since they began their journey. Armed with a hybrid arsenal of country and hip hop fusion, the California duo of Dusty ‘Tex’ Dahlgren and Brett ‘Bird’ Brooks are back with the grittiest, spirited and distinctly grass-roots release of their sixteen year campaign of musical badassery – “Gold Rush.”
Since their formation in Los Banos California in 2003 the Moonshine Bandits have continued a campaign of crossover genre-bending musical mayhem that appeals to the eclectic, color-outside-the-lines tastes of listeners, aka The Shiners, and they fiercely refuse to have their tastes confined and filed into categories. “Our musical style has always been full throttle and in your face,” says Moonshine Bandit Tex. Just like the rumrunners, bootleggers, smugglers and outlaws of old – the Moonshine Bandits provide a supply of the goods for the demand, defying the mandates and trends of mainstream pop culture.
Blake Banks
The man, the myth, the million dollar mullet himself… Midwest singer/songwriter and all around American bad ass BLAKE BANKS is regarded as this generation’s most genuine artist. Most recognized for his songs with multi award winning platinum recording artist Post Malone who is featured on his album ‘Shameless’ if not his recent cameo as himself in Shaboozey’s music video for his platinum chart topping hit “Tipsy, A Bar Song”. Fans obsess over Blake’s authentic flavor and unique sound. Climbing steadily from the underground independently over the years only now recently aiming for the Top40 charts and radio play.
Blake has gained fans across the nation touring all over the US with some of music’s top influential artists such as Colt Ford, Ludacris, Mickey Avalon, Moonshine Bandits, Devin the Dude, The Pharcyde, Struggle Jennings, Brantley Gilbert, G-Eazy, Atmosphere, Riff Raff, Rehab, and Ryan Upchurch just to name a few in recent years. Playing everywhere across America from honky tonks, to saloons, theaters, casinos, festivals, to expos… just about any type of music venue or event you could think of, he’s played it. His music has reached international fans world wide so Blake stays passport ready.
Life on the road is nothing new for Banks who grew up touring with rap and hip hop groups throughout the midwest with trending artists in his teenage years. By the age of 16 Blake was performing coast to coast nationally and internationally in South Korea and other countries. Blake packed up and left the Midwest in his early 20’s dropping out of college pursuing a BA in marketing to follow his passion for music, realizing early on in his youth that he was all in when it comes to developing his talents.