Johnny Mullenax
Thursday, December 17 · 7:00 PM · Strings Music Pavilion
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The Road to WinterWonderGrass featuring Billy Failing, Johnny Mullenax, and Bronwyn Keith-Hynes—three artists who take bluegrass in different directions. Failing pairs inventive banjo playing with original songwriting, Mullenax mixes bluegrass with funk and rock, and Grammy-winning fiddler Bronwyn brings songs from her latest album, Rattlin’ Bones.
Johnny Mullenax, a Tulsa native, grew up in a musical family. He started playing the guitar at age 5. In his teens, he followed his family to the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas. In typical Johnny fashion, he showed up with just a guitar and ended up sleeping in a standup bass case. At 18, he used a friend’s ID to get into a club where he was part of a live hip hop band backing rappers. According to Johnny, “Life is too short to play one style of music, and if you have an opportunity to try something different then you should give it a shot.”
Claiming wide-ranging influences from AC/DC and The Ramones to John Coltrane and Parliament, Johnny calls his genre bending sound "a funky country bluegrass good time for working folks".
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