BIOGRAPHY
AJ Lee & Blue Summit are an award-winning energetic, charming, and technically jaw-dropping band quickly rising on the national roots music scene. Based in Santa Cruz, California, the group met as teenagers, picking and jamming together as kids at local music festivals and jams until one day, they decided they would be a band.
“Our roots go really deep,” explains de facto band leader Lee. “We met when we were young kids… We definitely decided to choose each other as a chosen family band later on in life, but in a lot of ways it was naturally just like that in the beginning.”
“It was like one of those late at night things,” she continued. “We were sitting on a trailer at Grass Valley” at the annual Father’s Day Bluegrass Festival held in the Sierra Nevada foothills – “Someone said, ‘All of us right here, we're a band now.’ We kind of didn't take it seriously, but we were like, okay, we'll be a band!”
PRESS
"Lee handles most of the lead vocals and brings brightness to the proceedings through her mandolin...purposely keep[ing] an even keel while singing and lets the strings do the emotional work through her instrumental trills accented by Jan Purat’s fiddle and guitarists Sullivan Tuttle and Scott Gales. City of Glass consistently showcases the distinctive gifts of each performer and the magic that happens when they all play together." popmatters
“AJ Lee & Blue Summit are pure, beautiful American music. Soaring harmonies, top notch picking and strumming as well as a healthy respect and reverence for the classic country, bluegrass and folk music of the past all add up to a band who are masters of the genre. That’s not to say that AJ Lee & Blue Summit are antiquated in anyway. While the band tips a hat to the American masters of the past, their sound is modern and thoroughly of today. The band are great torch bearers of the music that helped build America. ”
-Eric Oblander – Musician, Producer of Rise Up on BCAN (Buckeye Community Arts network)
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE AJ Lee & Blue Summit return home and look to new horizons on ‘I’ll Come Back’
BLUEGRASS TODAY Track Premiere: When You Change Your Mind from AJ Lee
BLUEGRASS SITUATION Listen: AJ Lee & Blue Summit, “MONONGAH MINE”
ASSETS
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