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The Wild Honey Collective formed in the summer of 2020 to perform original songs and traditional American folk music. Singers and songwriters Tommy McCord, Danielle Gyger, Timmy Rodriguez, and Dan O’Brien, joined shortly thereafter by pedal steel guitarist Adam Aymor and drummer Joel Kuiper, launched the project in rural Michigan as a back porch acoustic gathering purely for the love of music in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The rootsy and unassuming beginning of the band led to the immediate recording of the 2021 The Wild Honey Collective: Volume 1 full-length debut album, which Local Spins described as having “its feet firmly rooted in classic country and folk while daring to allow its head to explore the technicolor clouds of psychedelia.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-TyNs6Ok-4
The 12-track The Wild Honey Collective Volume 2 album (July 2022), the 7 track “mini-album” Chicory (September 2023), and the 12-track Volume 3 (May 2024) all followed, each building on the foundation of original and traditional music set by the debut album, with an added sense of energy brought on by steady live performances that saw the group becoming a mainstay of the Michigan roots music circuit – voted #1 folk artist in the City Pulse “Top Of The Town 2023” – as well as multiple tours of the Midwest and East Coast. While there is a core membership of The Wild Honey Collective, the group rotates through different lineups and has worked with an esteemed roster of collaborators live and on record, including songwriter/guitarist Jack Straw, drummers Kevin Adams, Dave Shilakes, and Hattie Danby, bassist-guitarist-songwriter Michael Boyes, bassist Nicholas Richard, certified Detroit rocker Jeremy Porter, and Michigan roots music pillars Mike Lynch and Drew Howard, among many other talented folks.
Prominent events that The Wild Honey Collective has performed at include Wheatland Music Traditional Arts Weekend (Remus, MI), Smiling Acres Music Festival (Trufant, MI), Forest Trail Music Festival (Freesoil, MI), Fallasburg Arts Festival (Lowell, MI), Hotel Music Festival (Conneaut Lake, PA), Oktoberfest (Michigan City, IN) and venues ranging from Calumet Theatre (Calumet, MI) to Founders Brewing (Grand Rapids, MI) to Blue (Portland, ME) to Marigold Theater (Easthampton, MA) among over 100 shows since June 2021. The Wild Honey Collective is ever-evolving and encompasses sounds of traditional string band music, rowdy country rock, psychedelia, classic pop and more to preserve and nurture the lineage of Cosmic American Music.
“Impressive country and Americana-hued music.” – Local Spins
https://youtu.be/RFtBsH47SKQ
“Katie” Live Studio Session 2024
https://youtu.be/Tbz4gESBSCs?si=h_YbWOdavaNrmACY
“The Mighty Plea” Live Studio Session 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcJuZziGq5g
“I Know You Rider” Live At Workshop Brewing April 2023
https://youtu.be/9tjsaf4C4vw?t=12
“This Old House” Live In-Studio Performance August 2020
https://youtu.be/k7TdSiJtbD8
“Look Around” Live At Horrocks January 2023
https://youtu.be/oY4dPNpixTI
“Rocky Mountain Belle” Live at Hannahpalooza August 2022
https://youtu.be/Nsm6ulG3oEs
“GR Live” Radio/Web Performance and Interview March 2022
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