Band Brûlée

I spoke to one of our long-time listeners this morning, and she asked if we're EVER going to play again.  Finally, the answer is now YES!  Our winter hiatus was longer than usual and extended even past cherry blossom season due to my strange and ever-changing travel schedule.  After way too much time on planes back and forth to Korea, California, New York, France, Mexico, and Scotland, plus two trips down to North Carlolina, it's time to stay home for a while and play some music!  So come out to see us.  Check out the shows page for dates… 

Looks like 2025 has come and mostly gone.  Thanks to everyone who came out to see us.  We have some great memories of gigs with the new rhythm section this year, and we're looking forward to lots more in 2026.  I think we'll be taking Jan and most of Feb off for work travel and hopefully songwriting, but we'll be back out there making noise again in March.  See you soon!   

Click on over to the shows place where you'll find something for everyone!  Pickles, Halloween, wineries…  It's looking like a fun fall for Band Brulee. 

We're back from our summer hiatus with new song ideas, a new bass player (check out our instagram for one of Jacob's hot bass solos), and some new shows on the calendar.  See you soon!

One of our favorite eras of this band was the time when Johannes lived in DC and joined us on keyboards.  He's simply one of the most musical people I've ever met, and he will always be my brother.  You can hand Johannes any instrument, and he'll bring it to life.  Now here's the big news for you Brulee watchers: Johannes will be visiting from Denmark for this weekend.  I don't think we'll have a keyboard for him, but he's a true master on the melodica, and we're so excited to have him back, if only for a day.  See details of this very cool event on the shows page.

We'll be back at the lovely, secluded, top-secret Urban Winery in Silver Spring on Friday night.  We're expecting good weather, which means we'll be outside for this one!  We'll have Chris on drums, and I think we'll have a new bass player with us (More on that later as details develop).  I also met a very cool sax player last night, and he said he would come join us for some songs… So it's sort of an unpredictable night.  We're in suspense to see how it all plays out.  Come watch us sink or swim!

It's been a quiet winter for Band Brulee.  I broke my foot in the desert about a month ago, which makes it very difficult to think about carrying gear and standing up to play guitar.  Aura has come over a few times to help me finish writing a new song and work up a few new covers (The Replacements, Stevie Wonder, the New Radicals…the usual Brulee randomness, but we haven't ventured into public since my most recent skeletal disaster.  I'm walking a bit now though and we've booked shows starting in March, so we'll see you then… 

Click on the shows page for details on some new gigs, and thanks to everyone at our cavalcade of shows in August and September.  Riversdale and Robin Hill were really as good as it gets.  Nights like those are the reasons we keep doing this.  See you soon!

Summer always brings a slow calendar for Band Brulee as we take off traveling in different directions, but we have three great dates scheduled in August.  Check out the shows page for details.  See you then!

We don't cross the river to Virginia very often (other than to visit Mike's home recording studio).  Lou gets freaked out by the maze of Glebe Roads.  But on Friday night (June 7), Lou and Aura will be playing as a duo at the Casual Pint in Dunn Loring from 8:00 – 10:00 pm.  This place looks really fun, and we already have a great feeling about it based on our emails with the new owner.  It's a small craft beer place with good looking bar food.  People seem to love it here, and we're excited to give it a try.  We think we'll be playing out on a patio in good weather.  If you're not too scared to cross the Potomac, come join us!