Paula Boggs Band blends jazz and Americana. Front woman guitarist/songwriter Paula Boggs, percussionist Tor Dietrichson and banjo player/guitarist Mark Chinen are founding members. Their sound is “Seattle-Brewed Soulgrass” the band has toured across America and Canada.
The band has released a steady stream of music over the past decade-plus. Debut album “A Buddha State of Mind” came in 2010 and “Carnival of Miracles,” followed in 2015. Four years ago Paula Boggs Band released the EP “Live at Empty Sea, Songs of Protest & Hope” and 3rd album Elixir, The Soulgrass Sessions.
After Elixir, the band added multi-instrumentalists Paul Moore and Darren Lucas, bassist Alex Dyring and drummer Jacob Evans. Moore, Dyring and Evans are music conservatory trained. Dyring and Evans are second generation professional musicians. “Mistletoe & Shiny Guitars,” the band’s first holiday song came in 2018. EP “Electrokitty Sessions” and single “America 2020,” produced by multi-Grammy nominated Tucker Martine followed in 2020.
Paula Boggs Band’s 4th studio album, “Janus”, also produced/engineered by Martine and featuring Dom Flemons, was released in 2022.
