Upcoming Events

It's another swingin' Sunday soiree in Santa Ana in the brand new dance hall at Original Mike's!

This show features those ever-lovin', ever-touring, ever-creative band of musicians - Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys.

The Moontones are our resident swing band, and they have got the dancers coming out for these monthly matinee shows.

The Southwest Biscuit Co. is a Western Swing band who really deliver the goods - danceable good-time music with a swinging beat.

Three bands, big dance floor, full menu, free parking - what else could you ask for?

New hours 1-5 pm.

Texas Fiddle Music & Progressive Western Swing... and those voices!

The Quebe Sisters have delivered their authentic triple fiddle and three-part harmony sound to the concert halls and festivals of North America, Europe, and Russia.

Grace, Sophia, and Hulda Quebe front an innovative Progressive Western Swing band of archtop guitar, upright bass, fiddles and sibling harmony. The Dallas-based five-piece presents a unique Americana blend of Western Swing, Jazz-influenced Swing, Country, Texas-Style Fiddling and Western music.

“We differentiate our music as ‘Progressive Western Swing’ from simply ‘Western Swing’ because we aren’t trying to sound just like Bob Wills,” Grace Quebe explains. “Instead, we continue his vision, playing the style he pioneered in an authentic way by incorporating new genres and songs, interpreting them using our own unique voice through Country instrumentation.”

The band’s stripped-down acoustic instrumentation breathes new life into seasoned sounds once found in Texas dance halls and honky-tonks. Grace continues, “To us, preserving the tradition of Western Swing isn’t about keeping something alive like a relic. Western Swing has always been about innovation.”

Innovation has led the sisters to channel the musical connection between danceability and emotiveness, combining old sounds with new feelings and old feelings with new sounds. It’s not nostalgia that drives the band as purveyors of Western Swing, but the aspiration to take the music back to its roots and sustain the spirit of Swing.

Combine the musical stylings of The Mills Brothers, Ray Price, Count Basie, Willie Nelson, and you have none other than The Quebe Sisters.

Louis Prima Jr. and The Witnesses Bring The Swingin'est Rock Band In The World to the French Quarter in Bellflower

Born into an undeniable musical legacy, Louis Prima Jr. picks up the torch lit by his iconic father and leads his incarnation of The Witnesses headfirst into the future. Their seamless blend of hard driving big band jazz, insanely danceable swing and, at its core, real rock and roll has been wowing crowds worldwide for over a decade.

Make no mistake, this is no tribute act. Although the band most certainly Jumps, Jives, an’ Wails "Prima-style," they are their own musical beast — thoroughly modern, laying down a blueprint for the future on the foundations of the past.

Audiences will be treated to an evening of classics from the Louis Prima catalog, selections from LPJ & Co.'s two CDs (Return of the Wildest! and BLOW) and a healthy dose of sure-to-please surprises.

Equal parts bandleader and ringmaster, Prima Jr. brilliantly distills the finest elements of his father's five-decade career through a contemporary filter, adding his own indelible stamp. "This is the happiest music on Earth!" he enthuses. "My father was rock n’ roll; Mozart was rock n' roll. It’s a state of mind; I don’t think it’s a genre of music. It’s how aggressively do you play and do you play it like you mean it.” And The Witnesses mean it. From Passaic to Palermo and Seattle to Sicily, they're bringing Prima music into the 21st century with new energy and attitude to match.

It's The Wildest Show this side of the '60s!

Baptized in muddy waters down by the cross roads on a blue moon night, The Mighty Mojo Prophets were born as a group of seasoned Los Angeles area musicians who's passion for the old school blues drew them together with the mission of honoring the early blues pioneers who blazed the trails for the world to follow.

In today’s musical culture, the word “authenticity” has pretty much lost all meaning.

What used to represent something bona fide and true is now just watered-down marketing speak, stamped onto press releases without a second thought.

Born in Montgomery, Alabama in 1983, JP Harris doesn’t fancy himself so much a musician as he does a carpenter who writes country songs. After finishing the eight grade, he boarded a Greyhound in the middle of an early summer night, and scarcely looked back. He traveled the country, often alone, hitchhiking and hopping freight trains while making his living as a farm laborer, shepherd, woodsman, and carpenter, among many other titles.

Still an in-demand carpenter to this day, Harris has been writing and performing country music for nearly a decade now, releasing his debut album, I’ll Keep Calling, in 2012.

He followed that album with Home Is Where the Hurt Is in 2014, which only saw his star rise both among country fans and critics at major outlets like Rolling Stone.

With his forthcoming album “Sometimes Dogs Bark at Nothing,” he’s back after a four-year hiatus to remind folks what a lifetime dedicated to country music really looks and sounds like.

Sure to please fans of his hardscrabble earlier work, this new release also finds the acclaimed songwriter and vocalist stretching himself musically and personally. In just about every way, Sometimes Dogs Bark at Nothing is a recorded manifestation of Harris’ growth over the last four years. He’s become more comfortable in his singing, more confident in his artistic direction, and more adventurous in his sonic palette. He’s letting listeners in to some of his most difficult struggles and turning a compassionate eye to the struggles of others.

Los Straitjackets are the leading practitioners of the lost art of the guitar instrumental.

Using the music of the Ventures, The Shadows, and with Link Wray and Dick Dale as a jumping off point, the band has taken their unique, high energy brand of original rock & roll around the world.

Clad in their trademark Lucha Libre Mexican wrestling masks, the “Jackets” have delivered their trademark guitar licks to 16 albums, thousands of concerts and dozens of films and TV shows.

Viva Los Straitjackets!

Kirk Fletcher has a reputation as a bonafide can’t-miss performer. His soulful playing and singing never fails to elicit chills, and his unique approach to Rhythm & Blues music is both refreshingly modern and completely authentic.

Widely considered one of the best blues guitarists in the world, he has commanded the respect and acclaim of critics, peers and fans across the globe. He is a four-time Blues Music Award and a 2015 British Blues Award nominee and has played with a variety of popular artists, including Joe Bonamassa and a three-year role as lead guitarist of The Fabulous Thunderbirds.

He has released 4 albums and a live album.

Rip Cat Recording Artists Johnny & Jaalene and band

The throwback sounds of old-school blues, R&B, rockabilly and pop are marked by a string of covers that are second nature to Johnny Ramos and his young partner Jaalene De Leon. Their new self-titled album includes all of those influences.

"We listen to all the stuff we play, really," Johnny said in a recent interview. "Rockabilly people, soul singers and everything, but you know, since we're young we have really big influences from everything else, the 90's, the 2000's."

If Johnny's last name is familiar to blues fans, you would be right. The son of blues guitarist Kid Ramos, Johnny joined his father on Ramos' comeback album Old School on Rip Cat Records.

Together, Fletcher and the young duo are the 6th showcase from Main St. Blues, a monthly spotlight on the best in the blues business with free parking, full dinner menu and all ages. Reservations recommended.