Experience the Music World with Too Far North Productions

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Too Far North Productions had its beginnings in the late 1980s in the Red Lion

Tavern & BBQ when part owners Craig Heimbigner and Karyn Christner decided to

bring in bands to increase business. There were local blues favorites at the time, Too

Slim & The Taildraggers, Bakin’ Phat, The Dawgs, and this led to blues acts from

Seattle/Portland like Curtis Salgado and Kathy Hart. National touring acts (mostly

blues) followed, the first being Buddy Guy & Jr Wells (2 shows). Many followed; Norton

Buffalo, Roy Rogers, Dan Hicks, Eddie Clearwater, Lonnie Brooks, Sue Foley, Mark

Hummel, Charlie Musselwhite, C.J. Chenier, Average White Band, Tish Hinojosa, Dave

Van Ronk, Jimmy Johnson, many many more.

This led to a mentorship with Mike Smith at The Met (Bing Crosby) and bringing years

of acts to that theater, beginning with The Met’s first sold out show, Taj Mahal.

These are headline acts Too Far North Productions has found for some Northwest

Events:

Pig Out In The Park

Sir Mix-A-Lot, Shaggy, Kenny Chesney, Scott Stapp of Creed,

Spin Doctors, BoDeans, The Zombies, Verve Pipe, Lucinda Williams, Rail, Randy

Hansen, Edgar Winter, Elvin Bishop, Bo Diddley, Leon Russell, Los Lobos, Lake Street

Dive, The Tubes, John Mayall, Eric Burdon, Rick Derringer, War, Marcy Playground,

B.J. Thomas, Cracker, Booker T, Lydia Pense, It’s A Beautiful Day, Coolio, Kid N Play,

March Fourth, LeRoy Bell, Curtis Salgado, Son Volt, Jon Cleary, Too Slim & The

Taildraggers, Ten Years After, The Grassroots, Alejandro Escovedo, Clumsy Lovers,

Electric Flag, Lukas Nelson, Sovereign and the Non Prophets, The Iguanas, Austin

Lounge Lizards, Sha Na Na, Coco Montoya, Pat Travers, Carbon Leaf, Peter Rivera, Jr

Cadillac, The Yardbirds, Fish Bone, Eilen Jewell, Dead Winter Carpenters, A Thousand

Horses, Sammy Eubanks, Junior Brown, Big Brother & The Holding Company, Heart by

Heart, Mark Farner of Grand Funk, Cowboy Mouth, Paul Revere’s Raiders, Dishwalla,

Teresa James, Black Oak Arkansas, The Posies, and over a thousand more of the

Inland Northwest’s BEST bands. Many Thanks to them all.

Moses Lake Summer Concert Series

Roger McGuinn, It’s A Beautiful Day, The Von Trapp Children, Sha Na Na, Tom Rush, LeRoy Bell, The Grassroots, Pirates Of The Mississippi, Lowrider Band, The Kingsmen, Booker T, Al Stewart, Duke Robillard, Jimmie Van Zant, Sierra Hull, Jesse Colin Young, Paula Cole, Pure Prairie League, Suzy Bogguss, The Classics IV, The Verve Pipe, Leon Russell, Dave Mason, Peter Rivera, BritBeat, The Boxcars, Della Mae, Collin Raye, John Sebastian, Peter Tork, B.J. Thomas, Clumsy Lovers, sooo many more for nearly 20 years every Saturday and some weekends all summer long.

Coeur d’Alene Blues Festival 

Red Hot Blues Sisters, Curtis Salgado, Coco Montoya, Roy Rogers & The Delta Rhythm Kings, Randy Oxford Band, Sammy Eubanks, Nu Jack City, Mumbo Jumbo, Duffy Bishop, Charlie Musselwhite, Ty Curtis, Lloyd Jones, Janiva Magness, Dana Fuchs, Tinsley Ellis, Laith Al-Saadi, Stacy Jones Band, Marcia Balls, Alabama Mike Anson, Anson Funderburgh, Rose City Kings, Rafael Tranquilino Band, Sara Brown Band, Ben Rice, Harlis Sweetwater, The Fabulous Thunderbirds featuring Kim Wilson, The Stepbrothers with Jennifer Kemple, Ana Popovic, John Nemeth, Rae Gordon, Nu Jack City. Randy Hansen, Mike Zito & Albert Castiglia as “Blood Brothers,” Johnny Rawls, Maria Muldaur, Randy Hansen Band, Stephanie Ann Johnson, David Raitt & The Baja Boogie Band, Sugaray Rayford, Too Slim & The Taildraggers, and many thanks to Robin Barrett & Coyote Kings w Tiphony Dames, Sara Brown Band, Bobby Patterson, Whack A Mole, Diego Romero, The Step Brothers, Doghouse Boyz for often going along with that extra mile for the event.

Wallace Blues Festival

John Nemeth, Nikki Hill, Curtis Salgado, Nick Vigarino, David Raitt & The Baja Boogie Band, Billy D & The Hoodoos, The Chris O’Leary Band, Kenny Neal, Polly O’Keary, Samantha Fish, Hank Shreve Band, Terri Odabi, Duke Robillard Band, C.D. Woodbury, Roy Rogers & The Delta Rhythm Kings, Randy Oxford Band, C.D. Woodbury, Ghost Town Blues Band, Daniel Castro Band, a few hundred other local & regional acts and special thanks to Sara Brown Band, Doghouse Boyz, Too Slim & The Taildraggers and Sammy Eubanks All Star Jam for always being there.

Silver Mountain Brewsfest

Ana Popovic, Sue Foley, Eclectic Approach, Nu Jack City, Sara Brown, Soul Proprietor, so many, many great touring and local/regional acts for 30+ years.

Too Far North Productions has either promoted shows on its own at these venues or

booked and assisted these venues in producing shows as their own:

Silver Mountain Concerts, Spokane Fox Theater, Bing Crosby Theater, The Panida

Theater, The Kroc, Spokane Opera House (First Interstate Arts), Maryhill Winery at

Goldendale, Arbor Crest, Masonic Temple, Hotel RL, Spokane Interstate Fair.

ACTS AT THESE VENUES INCLUDE

Taj Mahal, Camper VanBeethoven, Lyle Lovett, James Brown, Chris Cornell, George Jones, Widespread Panic, Jeff Tweedy, Neko Case, Roger McGuinn, Mitch Ryder, Bo Diddley, Buddy Guy, Jr Wells, Edgar Winter, Emmylou Harris, Lou Rawls, Lucinda Williams, Judy Collins, Al Stewart, Graham Nash, Jim Messina, Beth Hart, Merle Haggard, Clarence Clemons, Los Lobos, Chris Isaak, Big Head Todd, Robert Cray, Manhattan Transfer, Bill Maher, Chris Cornell, BB King, Paula Poundstone, Indigo Girls, Post Modern Jukebox, Amos Lee, Trombone Shorty, Julia Sweeney, Beausoleil, Trace Adkins, Joan Baez, Aimee Mann, Tony Bennett, Irma Thomas, Elvin Bishop, Asleep At The Wheel, Dirty Dozen, Country Joe McDonald, Canned Heat, Tower of Power, Cherry Poppin’ Daddies, Devon Allman, Prairie Home Companion, Toad The Wet Sprocket, Colin Hay, Jesse Colin Young, Nicolette Larson, Tuck & Patty, Philip Aaberg, Diane Schuur, Eileen Jewell, Blink 182, Lukas Nelson, The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, Leo Kottke, 5 Blind Boys of Alabama, John Hiatt, Dave Van Ronk, Maria Muldaur, Michelle Shocked, Tommy Castro, Coco Montoya, Roger

McGuinn, The Von Trapp Singers, Cowboy Junkies, BJ Thomas, Nancy Wilson, Delbert

McClinton, Robben Ford, George Winston, Los Lobos, Janis Ian, AJ Croce, Bobby Bare, Mark Collie, Webb Wilder, Martha Reeves, Gene Watson, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Ricky Skaggs, Todd Snider, Laura Love, Dan Hicks, Roy Rogers & The Delta Rhythm Kings, Norton Buffalo, Lucky Dube, Jimmy Vaughn, Nicollette Larson, CJ Chenier, Black Uhuru, War, Charlie Musselwhite, Rory Block, Mitch Ryder, Commander Cody, The Travelin’ McCourys, Della Mae, Joan Armatrading, Emily Remler, John Hammond, and many, many, many more…

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