What does Tony Medina play?

Blues and the rock and roll that came out of it, plus his own songs. The covers run from Freddie King and B.B. King through the classic rock of the seventies and the alternative rock of the nineties, and the footage on this page is him playing them. A set is built around the flow of your evening.

How small can this booking be?

One musician. Solo is a voice and an acoustic guitar, and it's a real booking on its own: welcome drinks, a patio evening, a rehearsal dinner or a long dinner where guests need to hear each other. It's the smallest live booking on the roster.

Will it fill a dance floor?

At trio and four piece, yes. Voice and guitar over bass and drums, with a second guitar or keys on top at the four piece, playing blues and rock covers a crowd already knows. Dinner sits at 65 to 72 dBA at the nearest table and a floor runs 88 to 95, and the band moves between the two on cue.

Does he play originals at a private event?

Only if you want them. The default set for an event is covers, because guests dance to what they recognise. He has a published catalogue of his own songs and they can sit inside the set where a night has space for them, which is worth asking about for a listening crowd.

Blues, rock and roots

Tony Medina

A named act. Covers and originals, solo to four piece.

A smoky voice and a guitar played with a funk guitarist’s right hand. He plays the blues and the rock and roll that came out of it, and he scales from one musician under the conversation to a four piece with a floor in front of it.

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Hear him first: medinablues.com and his channel.

Trusted and booked by

Some nights want a voice that sounds like it’s been somewhere. Tony Medina sings with grit and gravel in it and plays guitar with a funk guitarist’s right hand, which is why a set of blues and classic rock in his hands tends to catch a crowd that thought it had turned up for background music.

The book is the blues and most of what the blues turned into. Freddie King and B.B. King at one end, The Cars, Prince and the rock records of the seventies and nineties at the other, and his own songs threaded through. Guests recognise nearly all of it without being told what it is.

It scales from one musician to four. Solo, it’s a voice and an acoustic guitar, warm enough to sit under conversation through welcome drinks and dinner. Add percussion, then bass and drums, and at the four piece it’s a band with a floor in front of it.

He’s a working Denver musician with his own catalogue, his own site and his own channel. The footage on this page is his, and there’s a lot more of it on his channel.

This is a named act, booked under the name of the person who fronts it, and if anyone in the lineup changes, we tell you in advance. He joined the roster under his own name in September 2026.

Configurations

Size	Where it lands
SoloVoice and acoustic guitar	Welcome drinks, patios and dinner, at conversation volume.
DuoVoice and guitar, plus percussion	Patio evenings and receptions that want a pulse under the set.
TrioVoice and guitar, bass, drums	Smaller venues, and parties that want a floor without a full band.
QuartetThe trio plus a second guitar or keys	The dance floor booking. Office parties and milestone birthdays.

The configuration and the date set the number: an hour under cocktails and a full evening in the resort corridor are different jobs. Send us the date and we price that night.

Occasions

Common occasions for Tony Medina.

Blues and rock are songs almost everybody knows. Each of these occasions wants a different size of the same act, and each one has a full page of its own.

Milestones and private parties: A fiftieth or a sixtieth birthday is a great fit for him. The guests grew up on these records and will sing along from the first few bars, and the act starts the evening at a size that lets people talk and ends it at a size that fills a floor.
Office holiday parties: Classic rock covers are a reliable floor-filler for a mixed-age company party, because nobody has to like the same decade to know the songs. The four piece is the size that opens a floor once the program is done, and Denver carries the downtown season in detail.
Retreat evenings in the mountains: An evening after a day of sessions usually wants something loose and easy. Solo or duo on a deck or by a fire fits it, and the acoustic end of his book carries an evening without turning it into a show.
Welcome drinks and rehearsal dinners: The night before, and the hour after the ceremony. Solo voice and guitar sits under the conversation at the volume that hour needs, and it’s a great pick when a couple wants something with more grit in it than a jazz set.

How the music sits around speeches and a program is planned with the run of show. What live music costs across Colorado, size by size, is set out in the cost guide.

The book

A sample of the book.

The covers below are songs you can watch him play on this page. A set is built around the flow of your evening, and this is a sample rather than the whole list.

The blues end

Going Down Freddie King
The Thrill Is Gone B.B. King

What the crowd sings

Purple Rain Prince
Drive The Cars
Don’t Drink the Water Dave Matthews Band

His own

Headline
Breathe In Deep
How Love Saved My Life

The wider covers book runs from sixties soul and classic rock through nineties alternative, and the whole of it is published as the song list. His own catalogue is on his channel, and originals sit inside an event set only if you ask for them.

The footage

The blues, the covers, and one of his own.

A Prince cover plays above. Below: B.B. King live at a blues jam, The Cars, two duo versions with a second guitarist on Freddie King and Dave Matthews, and one of his own songs so you can hear what he writes.

Tony Medina playing an acoustic guitar under string lights, black and white.

Tony Medina seated on cobbles in a hat and waistcoat, a lit patio behind him.

Tony Medina and three other musicians on a stage lit with teal neon.

Tony Medina playing an outdoor set at night beside a streetlight.

Tony Medina in a hat and waistcoat outside a bar at night.

Tony Medina holding a drink up to the light in dappled shade.

His surname inlaid in abalone along a guitar fretboard.

The soundhole and strings of his acoustic guitar, close up.

Booking questions

The operational detail, footprints to power, is on the technical page.

What does Tony Medina play?: Blues and the rock and roll that came out of it, plus his own songs. The covers run from Freddie King and B.B. King through the classic rock of the seventies and the alternative rock of the nineties, and the footage on this page is him playing them. A set is built around the flow of your evening.
How small can this booking be?: One musician. Solo is a voice and an acoustic guitar, and it's a real booking on its own: welcome drinks, a patio evening, a rehearsal dinner or a long dinner where guests need to hear each other. It's the smallest live booking on the roster.
Will it fill a dance floor?: At trio and four piece, yes. Voice and guitar over bass and drums, with a second guitar or keys on top at the four piece, playing blues and rock covers a crowd already knows. Dinner sits at 65 to 72 dBA at the nearest table and a floor runs 88 to 95, and the band moves between the two on cue.
Does he play originals at a private event?: Only if you want them. The default set for an event is covers, because guests dance to what they recognise. He has a published catalogue of his own songs and they can sit inside the set where a night has space for them, which is worth asking about for a listening crowd.

Tell us the night, and Tony brings the size of band it needs.

Live music for your event, from a solo musician to a full band, with sound support that’s the right size for the venue and a personal contact for the night.

Check a Date

Send us the date and the venue, and we’ll come back with a recommendation and a price for your night. What live music costs in this market is on the pricing page.