Mike Daniels Trio 2018

Mike Daniels Trio

2018 August 4, Friday
Performing 2 sets in the Turnaround Lounge between main stage resets starting at 7:00 pm.

Mike Daniels

With nearly four decades of drumming to his credit, Mike Daniels has performed in a variety of bands throughout the U.S., Canada, and in Japan. He was front man and guitarist for the legendary Blue Avenue Delegates, a band which played steady Monday nights for over 20 years at Lansing’s Green Door Lounge, and which opened for the great Ray Charles at MSU’s Wharton Center. Mike formed the successful dance band “Smooth Daddy” in the 1990’s and continues to perform regularly with the band today.

He has served as a faculty member at Lansing Community College for almost 20 years, teaching private drumset lessons, Band Management, and Business of Music, and performs as a member of Layers, the LCC faculty jazz band. Daniels is also known for organizing La Batterie, which started as an informal gathering of a few drumming friends in 1986, but has now grown into an annual event involving up to 30 drum sets on one stage. As he says, “The beat goes on!”