Tommy Thomsen & Wendy Dewitt

Tickets $25

TOMMY THOMSEN

Western Swing/Country

Singer, piano pounder, and guitar picker extraordinaire – grew up in Sonoma, California, at a time when small-town values were still a way of life in the Valley of the Moon. As a child, his first instrument was the piano. He studied classics and worked his way up to performing Franz

Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody at his last recital. After his mother, Jean (aka “Big Red,”) taught him to play a mean Boogie Woogie, he segued into all things Americana. He leaped from Liszt to Jimmy Reed’s You Got Me Runnin’ and never looked back. As a teen, he took up guitar and began his first professional band, “The Headsman,” incorporating Texas Blues and Rock ‘n Roll classics. In 1995 in a ceremony attended by many former Texas Playboys and professional musicians, Tommy Thomsen was honored by being inducted into the Western Swing Society Hall of Fame in Sacramento. Subsequent awards include the Pioneers of Western Swing Hall of Fame in Seattle and the Western Swing Society of the Southwest in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Tommy toured extensively – including, France, Italy, Denmark, and Japan. He has become a hometown legend and enjoys volunteering for local charities – such as the American Cancer Society and American Liver Foundation, Sonoma Valley Hospital, Hospice Work, and various benefits for local people in need.