Joel Nelson Productions: Bay Area Event Planning, DJs and Live Music

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Michael Paul Band

What kind of music do you get when you take 5 professional musicians that all have rock and jazz roots but love country? You get Cowboy Rock! The Michael Paul Band is the definition of Cowboy Rock Music...

Rolando Morales

Blessed with great ears and a natural sense of rhythm, most of what Rolando learned came from performing in diverse bands while growing up and in college, as well as from playing with flamenco pros in mesones in Spain...

All Access

Get an All Access Pass to fun at your next event. This new Bay Area SuperGroup features a lineup of the finest musicians from different bands around the country...

Fred McCarty

Fred McCarty has deep roots in bluegrass and Country. Some of Fred's earliest influences were Marty Robbins, Roy Orbison, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams Sr., Bob Wills, Sons of the Pioneers and Gene Autry...

Mick Martin

For the sixth straight year, Real Blues magazine of Canada has honored Mick Martin and the Blues Rockers as Best West Coast Blues Band, a real coup considering the hard-core traditionalist attitude of its founder/editor, Andy Grigg...

Funky Little Shack

Want to dance all night long? Funky Little Shack gets everyone out on the floor with a funky party groove. We play the best old and new school funk --plus r&b, motown, reggae and rock...

Rudy & The Funky Coalition

Rudy & The Funky Coalition is a very energetic and high energy Show Band from Fremont Ca, dazzling audiences all over the bay area. From the high energy sound's of the70's through the 90's and beyond...

The No Mercy Band

The vocalists in The No Mercy Band are the greatest in the SF Bay Area and their awesome talent is represented at every function...

Mitch Woods

Mitch Woods and His Rocket 88s have been the torchbearers of a great American blues musical heritage, not for two years but two decades. Taking their inspiration from the great jump n' boogie outfits of the late 40s and early 50s, they breathe fresh life into the music that gave birth to rock n'roll. Woods styled his group after the jumpin' n' jivin', shoutin' n' honkin', pumpin' n' poundin' bands of Louis Jordan, Wynonie Harris, Joe and Jimmy Liggins, Amos Milburn, and Roy Milton.

All Star Jukebox

All Star Jukebox features eight of the Bay Area's most dynamic and talented entertainers. Award winning vocalists Lisa Battle and Jay Middleton front the all-star four-piece rhythm section featuring musicians from Sons of Champlain, Harvey Mandel and The Funky Meters...