Shane Dwight is a charismatic and supremely talented guitarist, soulful vocalist, prolific songwriter and one of the brightest young up-and-coming stars on the rock/blues scene today. In the last two years the Shane Dwight Band has been catapulted to [+]Shane Dwight is a charismatic and supremely talented guitarist, soulful vocalist, prolific songwriter and one of the brightest young up-and-coming stars on the rock/blues scene today. In the last two years the Shane Dwight Band has been catapulted to the forefront of the West Coast Blues Scene. Appearing at prestgious concerts such as the Montery Bay Blues Festival, Reno Blues & Brews Festival, San Diego Blues Festival, Portland Oregon Waterfront Blues Festival, San Francisco Jazz Festival, S.F. California Blues Festival, Central Valley Blues Festival, San Jose Comcast Jazz Festival, San Jose Metro Fountain Blues Festival, and the Redwood Coast Jazz Festival (Eureka) etc.etc. The Shane Dwight Band has also performed at world famous nightclubs; Slims (Boz Skaggs club), John Lee Hooker's Boom Boom Room, and Biscuits and Blues in San Francisco. B.B. Kings in Hollywood, Blue Cafe in Long Beach, and Harvelle's in Santa Monica. Though Shane's music is blues based, the bands ability to cross over to a variety of different audiences is evidenced in their current concert shcedule which has them working at venues as diverse as County Fairs, Disneyland Theme Parks, opening for Major Country, Blues and Rock Stars and appearing as the house band on Microsoft's Nationally Broadcast television show, "Microsoft Insider LIVE." Shane has already been contacted by several concert promoters from around the United States as well as Europe for the 2005 Festival season. These are just a few of the entities that recognize and appreciate the potential of Shane and his band and are expecting great things in their future. Shane and his band are getting rave reviews for every performance they play.
The catalyst of Shane's growing popularity and fan base has been the unforseen development of his soulful, country-tinged vocals and charismatic stage persona. Silicon Valley Metro's Marianne Messina qoutes, "In spite of 'old' influences, Shane Dwight is anything but dated...Dwight hops up crowds wandering in from both hip-hop and rock clubs...He's been known to incite the girls to crazy-wild behavior." Though he has only been singing and fronting his own band for a few years, continuous media exposure, "good press" and lots of radio play on local and Nationwide radio shows such as Kin
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