I’ll be playing with an abbreviated version of Patois Six and Rude Guest for a private event.

Mitch The Lip & Side Hustle is back at The Toadstool Pub for our annual concert out back. If you haven’t been to The Toadstool Pub in Highwood, it’s a great time outside in the back lot with a great stage and sound for your listening pleasure. Join us for a great time hanging, dancing, and seeing all your new friends!

With their induction into the IL Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and some great gigs, the return of the Flock with original members Jerry Goodman and Jerry Smith, plus special guest 2-time grammy winner Howard Levy, this band is something to see and hear! Joined by world class musicians including Michael Flynn, Don Laferty, Jamo Van de Bogert, Tom Trinka and me, we are The Flock! Come here originals and covers that you may have not every heard before like this.

GA Tickets here!

For more info on The Flock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flock_(band)

The Hot & Dirty Brass Band will be at Fireman’s Park in Germantown, WI. More information is available here: https://www.facebook.com/MusicAtThePavilion/

We will be playing a private event in MKE that day. Hopefully, you will all be there to see/hear us play. We’re a big deal like The Big Easy! Some of them might be easy too!

The Hot & Dirty Brass Band will be playing the WAMI Awards at The Atwood Music Hall in Madison, WI. Will be a quick couple, three songs for us, but will be fun evening celebrating the WI Music Awards ceremony. Come join us!

More info available here: https://wami.org/

Patois Six will play as part of a line up of bands at Montrose Saloon. More details to follow.

Come join the MD’s (Music Doctors) duo with Derrick Procell and Mitch The Lip at Toadstool Pub on Sunday, May 10th for a Mother’s Day jam. Weather permitting, we’ll be out back! Playing a bunch of songs we both like to perform in a casual and celebratory way.

Additional Links for info:

https://www.toadstoolpub.com/ or https://www.derrickprocellmusic.com/

Look for this show in SEP2026 - Thanks! Come catch The Hustle with Mitch The Lip & Side Hustle Quartet. We will be doing some originals and covers that we can do with a small group. It’s always a fun time to hang with some great cocktails/mocktails and cool / happy people!

Copper Fiddle info

I’ll be hanging with the Buffett Beach Band in Gary, IN for a gig. Looking forward to some crowd watching and playing some fun music that people really enjoy. Of course there’s a whole story on how I got the call to sub with them. They also invited me to be their guest at a Cubs game the next day. Who does that? Very cool people.

You can find more info here: https://buffettbeachband.com/

I’ll be a guest on The Bus Stop Blues show again. This time with Tom ‘Shoes’ Trinka! If you don’t know who he is, you should. He’s a legendary multi-instrumentalist playing Sax, flute, keys and vocals. I get to work with him in multiple music situations both live and in studio recording. Now we share the experience of being on the radio together. There’s a book of the top 50 Saxophone solos in Pop music and he’s one of the players in that book for his work on The Curly Shuffle with Jump In The Saddle Band. Look it up!

This gig got pushed out and went from just the horns to the full band. I’m looking forward to the full band tailgating before the game at American Family Field in MKE, WI.

The Hot & Dirty Brass Band makes their debut at Schmidty’s Bar & Grill. Come join us for food, drinks and fun! If you haven’t seen a live Brass Band, it’s a NOLA style experience!

NOLA style funky Brass Band music to dance away your troubles and doubts. Come join us and grab something from the H&D gift shop tonight.

Patois Six plays Reggae and Ska music. It’s old school and fun. Bring your dancing shoes.

Irish Heartbeat - A tribute to Van Morrison brings the show to Raue Center in Crystal Lake, IL for another St. Patrick’s Day celebration. Do we need another day to celebrate? We all think so! Come join us run through a storied career of music spanning 58 Album releases and many years of concerts. Come and see why we have been told we do Van Morrison better than Van Morrison! (if you know him, don’t tell him I said that…)

Irish Heartbeat is the Tribute to Van Morrison brought to you by The Lyric Theater and STOAG. This show brings down the house and generally sells out at the The Lyric Theater. We love the Southside Irish folks celebrating St. Patrick’s Day early with us. This is for the Saturday show. Get your tickets here.

Irish Heartbeat is the Tribute to Van Morrison brought to you by The Lyric Theater and STOAG. This show brings down the house and generally sells out at the The Lyric Theater. We love the Southside Irish folks celebrating St. Patrick’s Day early with us. Get your tickets here.

More to come on this gig - Huey Lewis & The News Tribute show for our friends in WI near Lake Geneva. Or take a nice road trip and hang with us! Going to be a really fun show in a beautiful location, right on the water. Could be frozen water, but hey, it’s still water.

More info to come - I’ll be cohosting the last Sunday of the Month Blues Jam at Madcats with a great line up. Sign up sheet starts around 6 PM and the jammers start at 7:15 PM ish. It’s always a great time!

Playing some NOLA funk for Fat Tuesday with my friends in The Hot & Dirty Brass Band! Trumpet and vocals are the flavor of the day and maybe a Paczki for dessert! Come out and join us for some great food and music.

Get more info on HDBB and dates here.

The Fat Tuesday warm up and romantic evening with HDBB. This time we’re at Crawdaddy’s on Greenfield in West Allis, WI. They will be serving Southern style food to go with the NOLA funk music! Get your groove on!

  - A Very Sinatra Valentine's Eve - 

Come out for a night of great live jazz and selections from the Great American Songbook! Billy Corgan's venue is a fantastic intimate room for our show!

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Hot & Dirty Brass Band is not your typical Milwaukee band. They play NOLA Funk and Brass Band music that really gets the crowd movin’ and groovin’. If you like the music of Rebirth BB, Trombone Shorty, Lettuce, Bonerama, Lucky Chops, and Mama Digdown’s Brass Band, you will have a blast singing along with HDBB! Paulie’s Pub & Eatery for a Sunday afternoon show starting at 3 PM. You’ll be home in time for Sunday night football…

Joining my friends in Not for Profit for an afternoon event with the residents of Lambs Farm. It’s an appreciation lunch sponsored by the Board and is always a great time for the guests and band. We play music and they sing an dance like the world stopped spinning for them. We should all enjoy food, dessert and music like these people do! I will be mostly singing and playing some trumpet. I’ve also played both guitar and drums on this gig in the past.

Ska Night at Robert’s Westside in Forest Park, IL. The lineup is The Crombies, Run and Punch, and Patois Six. Doors at 6:30 PM. Show starts at 8 PM. 21+ Tickets available at robertswestside.com

Raue Center for Performing Arts and STOAG present Huey & The News - a Huey Lewis & The News tribute. I’ll be playing trumpet, guitar and singing backing vocals with an all star band that really brings the Heart & Soul to this show! Grab your tickets for this one. We’ll be happy to see you in JAN 2026!

Tickets available here.

For more information on the band, Click here.

Mitch The Lip will be joining friends in Better with Bacon for a night of jams and adult beverages at Copper Fiddle Distillery. Show starts at 8 PM and I’ll be hitting the woodpile for the night. That means playing drums! If you like the music of Phish, Widespread Panic, Dead, Zeppelin, Goose and Blues Image, you will have a blast listening to BwB! See you there.

The Hot & Dirty Brass Band open up the night for Sleighriders in Milwaukee and I’ll be hanging on trumpet and vocals with my friends! This event generally sells out so grab your tickets if you want to attend. Here’s the rest of the ad:

Forty of the best, most experienced, most professional musicians of the Milwaukee music scene join together again for the annual Sleighriders show and charity auction! These musicians join forces in one gigantic rockin’ band. It’s a very special holiday event that you don’t want to miss and a true Milwaukee tradition. For over 30 years now the band has donated their time and talents for charity. This year is no exception as we sponsor Variety of Wisconsin helping disabled children.

I’ll be playing trumpet and singing for a private event. This band won the Law Rocks - Chicago with guests from the firm we are playing for. They will do all the songs we played at the Law Rocks event at Lincoln Hall and add a couple sets of music from the Not for Profit book of songs.