Blues, rock and roots
Tony Medina
Covers and originals, solo to four piece.
Tony Medina sings The Thrill Is Gone with gravel in his voice and plays guitar with a funk guitarist’s right hand, and the crowd that came for background music turns around to watch. He plays the blues and the rock and roll that came out of it, from one musician under the conversation to a four piece with a dance floor in front of it.
Hear him first: medinablues.com and his channel.
Trusted and booked by
His song list is the blues and most of what the blues turned into, from Freddie King and B.B. King to The Cars, Prince and the rock records of the seventies and nineties, with his own songs threaded through. Guests recognize nearly all of it.
Configurations
| Size | What it suits |
|---|---|
| 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 dance floor without a full band. |
| QuartetThe trio plus a second guitar or keys | The dance floor booking. Office parties and milestone birthdays. |
The size and the date set the price. Send the date and we’ll come back with a recommendation and a price.
Occasions
Who books Tony Medina.
- Milestones and private parties
- A 50th or a 60th for a crowd that grew up on these records, with a size that lets people talk over dinner and a size that gets people dancing after it.
- Office holiday parties
- Classic rock gets a company party of every age dancing, because the whole staff knows the songs whatever decade they grew up in. The four piece is the size to book for a dance floor, at a downtown Denver venue or your own office.
- Retreat evenings in the mountains
- The evening after a day of sessions, on a deck or by a fire, with the acoustic end of his songbook played solo or as a duo.
- Welcome drinks and rehearsal dinners
- The night before, and the hour after the ceremony, with solo voice and guitar under the conversation, for a couple who wants more grit in the music than a jazz set.
We plan the music around speeches and a program with your run of show. What live music costs across Colorado, size by size, is in the cost guide.
Song list
A sample of his songs.
Every cover here is one you can watch him play in the video clips on this page.
Blues
- Going Down Freddie King
- The Thrill Is Gone B.B. King
Classic rock
- Purple Rain Prince
- Drive The Cars
- Don’t Drink the Water Dave Matthews Band
Originals
- Headline
- Breathe In Deep
- How Love Saved My Life
His wider song list runs from sixties soul and classic rock through nineties alternative, and more of it is on the repertoire page. Originals are played at an event only if you ask for them.
Video Clips
The blues, the covers, and one of his own.
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 questions
Stage sizes and power for each size are on the technical page, and the questions every booking shares are on the full question list.
- 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 video clips on this page are him playing them. He's a Denver musician booked through Signet Artists, solo up to a four piece.
- Will it get people dancing?
- At trio and four piece, yes. It's voice and guitar over bass and drums, with a second guitar or keys on top at the four piece, playing blues and rock a crowd already knows.
- How loud is it?
- Solo, it sits under the conversation, so a dinner table talks across it. The four piece on a dance floor plays like a rock band at a good party, and the band moves between the two on cue. He sets the level to the space and the crowd, and if your venue has a sound limit, just let us know.
- 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 recognize. Originals songs 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.