AJ Lee and Blue Summit

AJ Lee and Blue Summit at the MIM

AJ Lee and Blue Summit have performed all over the word, but they call California’s Bay Area home. The band falls loosely under the bluegrass label: singer-songwriter AJ Lee plays mandolin, Sullivan Tuttle and Scott Gates play steel-stringed acoustic guitars, Jan Purat plays fiddle, and Chad Bowen plays upright bass. The quintet effectively uses this configuration in its arrangements to create unique space and textures. Drawing from country, soul, swing, rock, and jam music, the band uses the lens of bluegrass as a vessel through which to express and explore the thread that binds and unifies all great music.