The World-Famous Spirit Room Bar features live music acts by local Arizona musicians. Join us for select weekends:
For the best music and atmosphere in Jerome AZ!
Billy Bond, Jr. is a singer/songwriter from Prescott. Billy moved to Arizona 21 years ago from Southern Colorado and took 20 years off from his music career. He was a member of the popular trio, Hired Hands, that played the Taos and Santa Fe clubs and resorts for many years.
About 20 months ago, he decided to dust off his guitar, build back his voice and get the calluses back on his fingers. He’s been hard at it ever since playing several nights a week around Northern Arizona. He is a member of The Cactus Farmers, a trio, and performs regularly with Austin Lynn Austin as a duo.
Billy combines his unique guitar style, dobro, Weissenborn and lapsteel instruments with expressive vocals into a wide range of songs from Hank Williams to Prince. But, his specialty is a full catalog of obscure Southwestern tunes and original songs that touch the heart and please the ear.
Austin Lynn Austin spent the early side of the 1990s chasing his musical dreams and took off with a couple bandmates to Europe. They landed in London and signed a record deal with The Cure’s record label (Fiction/Polydor). They toured and opened for acts such as Nick Cave and the Badseeds, Swans, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Cramps and many more. Highlights of that time were recording sessions with The Cure and playing many of the large, outdoor European music festivals. In the mid-90’s, life changing events befell one of his bandmates and it all suddenly came to an end, and he stopped playing music.
Heavy Soul is a musical trio comprised of Nick Canuel on guitar, Darryl Icard from Combo Deluxe and Gabriel Rhodes from Well Dressed Wolves. Two amazing bands that highlight both of their musical skills.
Nick Canuel plays it tough & dirty on that lead guitar while Darryl plays monster bass and adds vocals and harmonies as well. Gabe kicks it on drums/vocals.
This should be an afternoon full of fun, dancing and creative musical choices.
Frizzy and Edgy are two talented local Jerome musicians and they will amaze you with the depth of their musicianship. Sally has been singing since an early age and has been in numerous bands and projects. With her on bass, her husband joins her with harmonies and guitar.
Start your weekend right with some home-grown tunes at the Spirit Room in Jerome Az.
Chick Blundy & the Tryin’ Times is a 4-piece country-blues band that plays original songs and covers. When they perform their own written material, there is a love of music from Lefty Frizzell, Kris Kristofferson, and JJ Cale to the Grateful Dead. You will find many influences in this band’s music.
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Banana Gun shows are an event, not just a few guys strapping on their instruments to wank through a set. They do exactly what you want a band to do on stage: Lay it all out. No Bullshit. No hustle. Their set lists often include only the instructions: “just the hitters, no quitters.”
Banana Gun’s sound is described as bluesy, jammy, eclectic, and jazzy. But, we all know that “jazzy” is a catch-all musical term too many music critics use when they don’t know how to describe a band that incorporates so many influences. Banana Gun actually has never approached writing or playing music with the intent of fitting into a comfy description Their sound fits anywhere and is comfortable in a 1000 plus venue or your neighborhood dive bar. Releasing their eponymous ‘Banana Gun’ in 2010 and then ‘The Elephant in the Room’ in 2012 (which was voted Top Ten Digital Download of 2012 by Amazon Music Editors), Banana Gun then toured the Southwest and California before releasing their latest album ‘Love.Instinct’ in March 2014. Their most recent EP, ‘I and the Me’ was recorded and released December 2014 as part of their five year anniversary.
Banana Gun is one of those bands that lay everything on the line for each other. Writing, recording, or playing live, they do it for each other and hopefully you’re lucky enough to be there to see it.
Virgil Brown is a Canadian singer-songwriter, finger-style guitarist, podcaster & author. He’s a natural entertainer who has played coffee houses, pubs, nightclubs and concert halls all over the world.
He’s got a well-seasoned voice reflecting his heroes, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, and John Prine. He engages his audience with humor and flair as he braids the songs together with stories.
In 2024 Virgil had to cancel his summer tour as was diagnosed with prostate cancer. With the help of a fantastic medical team at Southeast Valley Urology in Gilbert Arizona, he is currently cancer free.
2025 is a brand-new start and the summer tour is now being booked, with dates in Arizona, Washington State, and Alberta & British Columbia, Canada.
Recently, Virgil Brown Released Two Albums: The Lost Paris Tapes and Almost Famous in Alberta (The Album.) He also released a 3-song EP of duets with his son Samuel called: 2-fer by Brown & Brown. A new album will be ready in the spring of 2025.
In 2023 he Released his first book, a memoir collection of 35 short stories called: Almost Famous in Alberta & Other True Stories, now available On Amazon.com
In September of 2023, Brown debuted his “Wildwood Flower” one man show at Sedona Film Festival’s Mary D. Fisher Theater. The event was a book release celebration and the kick-off for his fall/winter solo acoustic tour of Northwest and Canadian destinations.
The 2023 fall tour was a great success with a string of solo shows in Arizona, Idaho, Washington, Vancouver Island, and as far north as Alberta, Canada. He also played with his Seattle band The Midnight Flame Throwers in Bellevue and Snohomish, Washington.
In early 2024, Virgil Brown released two songs in a collaboration with Canada’s greatest Fiddler: Calvin Vollrath.
“Rootsy and cleverly honest. Superb guitarist, and singer-songwriter”
– Peter North — Edmonton Journal