Loophole Performs Vegas

Like Panic, The Killers, Adelita’s Way, Imagine Dragons and Otherwise before them, Loophole portends to be the next Vegas break-out band.  Come out and see why Shawn Eiferman, Arrow, Tim Catching and Danny Garay are the band to watch.

The Fab Plays Vegas

The Fab may be the best Beatles tribute band in the world today.  They don’t dress like the Beatles, but they play every Beatles album, song and special recording like no on else.  Performing this week: The Best of the Beatles Music (from such classics as Hard Day’s Night, Help, and Yellow Submarine).

Every Saturday beginning April 21, Michael Grimm plays live in concert at the Ovation Lounge, inside the Green Valley Resort.

With his soulful voice and earthy, Southern charm, Michael charmed millions of viewers as a contestant on Season Five of NBC’s popular America’s Got Talent. Parlaying his substantial singer-songwriter appeal into a first-place finish, Michael took home the one-million-dollar prize and headlined the first-ever national “America’s Got Talent Tour.”

In the spring of 2011, Michael debuted his first major label release, the self-titled Michael Grimm. Working with Grammy-award winning producer Don Was (The Rolling Stones, Elton John, B.B.King), Michael released an album that had his fans purchasing it in droves. “Oh, it’s swampy,” he says. “It’s Michael Grimm leaving his hat on. This is me. It’s the way I’ve always been since I was a teenager, wearing hats and singing the music that I love to sing.”

The album featured some legendary talent, including Ann Wilson (Heart), Ian McLagan (Faces, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, John Mayer), Davey Faragher (Elvis Costello, Cracker) and Greg Leisz (Avenged Sevenfold, The Eagles). Thirty+ Grammy-nominated albums, Kenny Aronoff played drums, with the legendary Waddy Wachtel on guitar. The album joins several previous self-releases by Michael, all available on MichaelGrimmMusic.com.

Michael grew up listening to the country artists his grandmother favored, classics like Ernest Tubb, Hank Williams, George Jones, and Ray Price. When he was 11, a club owner who had heard about him singing at a wedding said, “I know you’re going on 12, but if you bring a legal guardian and you want to sing a karaoke set here … we can’t pay you anything, but you can put a tip jar down.’” Michael accepted and performed there for the next several years.

At age 15, he began writing songs. Figuring he needed some instrumental accompaniment, he picked up a guitar and taught himself to play. “Just being a singer won’t put bread on the table,” he says. “You’ve got to have something else going. I needed to be a musician.” A few years later, he was hired as a guitarist and back-up vocalist for the live celebrity impersonation show “Legends in Concert” in Biloxi.

At age 21, Michael took a job performing at Las Vegas’ “Legends in Concert” and made the move west, where he’s lived for the past decade. Then, in 2005, his life was changed forever when Hurricane Katrina decimated his hometown of Waveland. “The whole town was flattened by the tidal surge. My grandparents had to move into a FEMA trailer… [then] into another mobile home in the woods. All I wanted to do was find a way to help.”

Enter America’s Got Talent. In the spring of 2010, Michael auditioned for the show, which debuted in June. His tremendous talent and genuine emotion over his grandparents’ loss resonated with viewers, who voted him the winner in the most talented year ever, after his roof-raising rendition of “When A Man Loves A Woman.” Immediately, a fedora-wearing star was born.

Now Michael’s back in the studio recording a new album. All he’ll say is it’s got some “soulful Americana” coming your way. It’s a new day, so you’ll have to get out and see some of his shows to catch a peek of what’s to come.