MEET THE BAND

MICK SERETNy - HARP

Mickey started playing harp in 1971, being inspired by Alan “Blind Owl” Wilson from Canned Heat. He spent a year in Europe practicing and jamming with many different musicians.

In 1976 he moved to Florida and played with The Saltwater Band and toured Europe several times. Mick was also a founding member of The Roadhouse Band, while living in St. Petersburg, and played with John Lee Hookers’ sideman Eddie Kirkland for almost 2 years. He toured Europe again with Diamond Teeth Mary in 1984, and played with The Mad Beach Band for a year.

He later moved to California in 1985 until 1999, and played and recorded with The Undulations Band out of Sacramento.

Mickey returned to Connecticut in August of 2000. He played with The BluesTalkers Band until December 2006. In 2007 he joined up with the Kingpins Band. The band plays 25-30 gigs a year. Since returning to Connecticut, he has also performed with The Chili Blues Band, The Kingcake Band, Pete Merrigan and the Sunapee Allstars and Patty Tuite and The Boilermakers.

This past May, Mickey became an endorser of Hohner Harmonicas.

JIM BeNINI - DRUMS

Born in 1959, James grew up on the edge of the Hudson River in Croton-on-Hudson,NY. He started learning to play in 1974. He holds a BS in Industrial Arts Education from Oswego State University and a MA in Special Education from the University of Connecticut.Since moving to Connecticut in 1982, he has worked with local bands such as the Little Big Band, Second Time Around, Ethnic Fiction, Loose Melvin,and The Kingpins.

JIM ROMANOW - GUITAR

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Jimmie ‘Noodles’ Romanoff

In 1959 at the age of 9, inspired by the music of Red Nichols, Jim Romanow began playing the cornet. In 1964, after losing his will to the seductive spell of an electric guitar, he converted his high school Dixieland jazz combo to a surf band, ‘The Infinity Four’. 40+ years later, traversing rock, blues, funk, folk, country and a brush with pop exposure when his psychedelic band opened two shows for Three Dog Night in 1970, Jim is still under that spell. Since 2005, as Jimmie ‘Noodles’ Romanoff, he has continued rocking by adding his energetic style to The Kingpins’ performances.

kEITH lYONS - VOCALS

KEITH LYONS - Vocalist

Keith likes to sing anything, anywhere, anytime.

TOM NieLSEN - BASS

Tom "the Turk" Nielsen, Bass.

Over the last 30+ years,Tom has played the gamut from blues, gospel, jazz, R&B, country, folk, roots music, rock, classic rock, to originals in varying bands and venues throughout Connecticut and Massachusetts with some minor forays into Rhode Island. He lists as major influences Stevie Wonder's left hand, Jaco Pastorius, Marcus Miller, Preston Hubbard, The 3 Stooges, Hopalong Cassidy, Arthur Godfrey, Hunter Thompson, William Burroughs and Raymond Chandler(just to name a few)