The Gene Smith Band

Gene Smith has been writing songs for forty years; real songs about real life, some serious, some more whimsical. He has performed many of them with groups as varied as Boris Garcia, Psych-A-Billy, Sunhill Down, The Turnips, and Buddha’s Kitchen. All of these unique bands imparted their own flavor to the performances. In 2013, Gene approached bassist Chris Henderson and asked if he would be interested in joining him on a project that would reimagine and come up with new arrangements of this vast catalog, performing them the way he envisioned the songs in his head when he wrote them. Thus the journey that is “The Gene Smith Band” began. With contributions from a rotating cast of some of the Philadelphia Area’s best instrumentalists who join them for shows, The Gene Smith Band is realizing Gene’s vision of presenting these songs as they were originally conceived.

Personnel: ​Gene Smith: Vocals, Guitar, Recorder, Songwriter; Chris Henderson: Fretless Electric Bass; Trevor  Buglio: Drums; ​Dave Brown: Electric Guitar, Lap Steel, any other instruments lying around.; ​Dexter Myers: Vocals, Keys, Guitar, Percussion; ​Bud Burroughs: Mandolin, Keys; ​Many Guest Instrumentalists

Visit https://www.genesmithband.com/ for more information!

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Parking:

Guests of The Royal are permitted to park in the parking lot of St. Paul's Lutheran Church. Enter the lot on Mt. Carmel Avenue, on the other side of Easton Road. Parking is available at the Glenside Train Station, but at your own risk as we are not associated or contracted with SEPTA. Street parking is also available.