About the Band
Please welcome our newest band member, Steve Strauss on keyboards and guitar! Steve joins us with a wealth of experience on both keys and guitar. Also, please welcome Mike Stinnet on Saxaphone! Mike is a well-seasoned sax player with over 40 years as a professional.
We are a genre-bending band rooted in the blues. Best described as a diverse Blues-Rock-Americana band, we feature sizzling electric guitar licks, deep, rich and full-bodied bass guitar, melodic keyboards, powerful-yet-mellow sax, responsive and scintillating drums, and wide-ranging, sultry vocals.
We do many well-known songs to draw our audiences in, as well as many lesser known, oftentimes contemporary songs that many people have never heard. We do our music this way to captivate our audience while allowing them to get to know us at the same time.
We have been playing out for the past few years here in Roseburg, starting as a duo and maturing into a larger, more experienced band of professional players. We are grateful for all of the venues and private parties who’ve had us and who’ve supported our growth over the past five years. What a blast it is to play with such talented individuals who share our passion and with whom we have been blessed with a wonderful camaraderie!
It all started on the Oregon coast in a campground, when Gregg and Sue began playing and singing some songs in their campsite. Soon, other campers started to come by, often pulling up a camp chair (and a cocktail) to listen and hang out. It was then they thought, “Hey, maybe we could play out?”
Not long after forming Second Chance Band as a duo playing at local Roseburg venues, Gregg and Sue met Stephanie (AJ) LaFleur at her shop, Oregon Serigraphics, to inquire about having some band T-shirts made. Little did they know Stephanie was an accomplished drummer who’d been on sabbatical from playing for a few years as her shop grew. Then they met Ted Edwards, who works at Absolute Sound of Music and who is an accomplished bass player (sings good harmony, too!). Gregg and Sue’s duo soon became a local, four-piece blues band. The rest is history!
And these days, they’re playing more often than they’d originally envisioned. “Our band shares a wonderful chemistry among all of our players, and we have a ball at our gigs, often hearing things like, ‘It looks like you guys are having fun, which makes us have fun, too!’” Although the band rehearses weekly and also practices individually, they don’t take themselves too seriously. That would take all the fun out of it!
“We enjoy playing recognizable songs taken from the genres of blues, rock, and Americana, as well songs from artists in these genres most people have never heard of. We love to see people dance and are always striving to learn new, exciting material to bring to our audiences.
What do we want for the future? To continue to bring good, live music to Roseburg and its surrounding areas. We’ve come a long way, with lots more ahead. And we’ve met so many lovely fellow musicians and friends along the way, making it all worthwhile! Having fun doing what we like to do, and coming together as a community of friends who share the same excitement? What more could we ask for?”
We’d love to bring our passion for music to your next event.
Drop us a line and let’s get started!