Bio

        Eric Evans plays a wide variety of music with a focus on classic American styles from the early and mid 20th century. He plays acoustic and electrified guitars as well as banjos, mandolins, harmonicas, kazoos, etc.

    Eric grew up in St Louis, went to University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, University of Missouri, Kansas City then moved to Brooklyn, NY in the late 1980's.

     In the late 1990's he moved to Cincinnati where he joined with musicians from The Brew House jam session to start the swing jazz group Get Off Downtown. In 2000 he teamed up with The Sidecars to play western swing, recording and performing in and around Cincinnati. The Sidecars were nominated twice for Cincinnati Entertainment Awards. In 2014 he was inducted into the Jugband Hall of Fame in the Artist Category with The Cincinnati Dancing Pigs. Eric has had the pleasure to perform with great musicians from all corners of the local Cincinnati music scene. He has appeared on and has been involved in producing several independent albums. He currently performs solo and with several groups and projects in the tristate region and beyond.