Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen

You don't have to listen hard to hear the buzz.  It's all around.  Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen know how to turn up the heat on stage and fans and fellow artists are taking notice. This former vocalist, mandolin, fiddle, and guitar player for the United States Navy's elite country and bluegrass band, Country Current, has put together one of the most anticipated bands to come across bluegrass in recent memory.

Biography

"These guys have the whole package," says Grammy nominated, 11X IBMA Dobro Player of the Year, Rob Ickes."Incredible music by a great combination of players.They can sing, play and write extremely well!This is the best new bluegrass band..."  High praises indeed. 

  Solivan is a singer of power and passion and a writer whose articulate songs go straight to the heart.A multi-instrumentalist who combines the pure, hard drive of classic bluegrass with twenty-first century sophistication, Solivan and company are increasingly in demand at festivals and venues across the country.    

On Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen, their self-titled release scheduled to hit streets on August 17, 2010, the band is set to experience perhaps the best year of their career.Already stirring the pot with excitement, the album offers up a smorgasbord of sounds, combined with multiple layers of instrumental expertise, stellar songwriting, solid lead and harmony vocal deliveries and years of experience, to offer up one of those recordings you’ll never want to stop listening to.    

Solivan is joined by Baltimore/D.C. five string-banjo master Mike Munford, Stefan Custodi as the heartbeat of Dirty Kitchen on upright bass, and flatpick guitar wizard Lincoln Meyers.Solivan finds an outlet that suits his talents to a T, combining his unique and varied experience in the middle of three top-notch musicians who lift each other up and let each person's talents shine through in the most impressive of ways.   

A Modesto, CA native, Solivan moved to Alaska in the mid ‘90’s teaching fiddle, mandolin, and guitar and took first prize in the Alaska State Fair fiddle contest four years in a row.While playing first chair violin in the University of Alaska’s Symphony, he also toured with bluegrass legends Doug Dillard and Ginger Boatwright.And even though he was barely twenty years old, he acted as a key mentor to members of Bearfoot (Winners of the 2001 National Band Competition at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival in CO) and other young Alaskan artists.    

A few noteworthy venues where Frank has played are The Grass Valley Bluegrass Festival (Grass Valley, CA), The Kennedy Center (Washington, DC), The Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival (Ancramdale, NY), The Anchorage Folk Festival (Anchorage, AK) and more.