Mike Spine & Barbara Luna | Live on The Living Stage | A Folk Rock Duo Event

Mike Spine (Seattle, USA) and Barbara Luna (Milan, Italy) met in 2014​ and they immediately had a strong musical connection.

Before long they decided to collaborate and they started performing as a folk rock duo with Mike on guitar and vocals and multi-instrumentalist Barbara on piano, guitar, violin and backing vocals.

Completely dedicated to their musical passion, they have successfully toured Europe and USA with over 100 concerts in the last few years.

The duo is highly adaptable and they have played in pubs, clubs, community centers, festivals, private concerts and as street musicians.

They predominately perform original songs taken from Mike’s catalog of ten albums made during the last twenty years as a professional musician,

Mike is known for his insightful lyrics depicting working class lives, which is drawn from his time working as an inner city teacher, musician and activist.

Spine has shared bills and stages with artists as Mike Watt (Iggy Pop, The Stooges, Dave Grohl, Eddie Vedder, Minutemen), Creedence Clearwater Revisited, Los Lobos, Damien Jurado, Artis the Spoonman (Soundgarden), Johnny Sangster (Mark Lanegan, K.D. Lang, Neko Case, Laura Veirs, Steve Turner of Mudhoney), Pall Jenkins (Black Heart Procession, J. Mascis of Dinosaur Jr.), Dick Valentine (Electric Six), Stef Burns (Alice Cooper, Vasco Rossi), Chiodos, The Murder City Devils, Ian Moore (Joe Ely), The Districts, Sean Nelson (Harvey Danger), etc.

He has performed several times at the Northwest Folklife Festival, The Rhine in Flames Festival (Germany), Music Odyssey Festival (Italy), Seattle Weekly Reverb Festival (headlining slot), Evel Knievel Days (Montana, headlining slot), The Marin County Fair and the Oakland Fire Arts Festival (California), Meanyfest (New York City), and hundreds of other concerts throughout the USA, Europe, Asia, Australia and Latin America.

Mike started Global Seepej Records while living in Portland, Oregon in 1996 and has released dozens of recordings of artists, including 2008’s compilation, "Sounds from the Seattle Underground"


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