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Mike Evans: Banjo
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Mike is the leader of the Toll House Jazz Band in Columbus, Ohio. The band recently celebrated their 16th year.
The band has played at festivals throughout the Midwest including the Bix Beiderbecke festival in Davenport, the Coon-Sanders festival in W. Virginia
and the Early Jazz Festival in Ohio. He has played with the Toll House Jazz Band on four tours in
Europe including performances at jazz clubs and festivals in Munich, Dresden, Leipzig, Regensburg and in Brunico, Italy.
Mike performed as solo banjoist aboard the American Queeen riverboat on the Mississippi River. He was recently inducted into the Columbus Senior Musicians Hall of Fame.
In addition to tenor banjo, Mike plays plectrum banjo and guiatar, contributes vocals and does some nice harmonies with vocalists, Jim Armstrong, and Phil Stone.
