About The Band

Michael’s musical interest stemmed from his decision to take a semester off college in 1971 to visit Maui (he never did get the damn degree). He left paradise ten years later after chasing waves, women, and music all over the island.  While on Maui his surf buddies introduced him to playing guitar. They were much better surfers than musicians but what better thing to do when the surf was flat? Now, after a few years of playing mostly ukulele, the Slackers have been an inspiration to him to start playing guitar again.

Blandy started playing the ukulele at age 11. Her primary instrument now is the banjo uke. In time her interests were directed towards playing the tenor banjo before she took up the guitar. The last 3 years have found her back playing the ukulele. Her comment on coming full-circle  musically is, “less strings mean less ego”.