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LET'S GO ON VACATION! BRAD'S VACATION PARTY BAND FEEL, PUT YOURSELF OUT THERE AT THE BEACH..

Go On Vacation with BB's Island Vacation Tour 2020!

I am a one man show one guy singing with a guitar, and have a lot of crowd interaction. I like to say for my show intro, “I’d like you to imagine 50-100 people walking through that door, like the tourist bar I’d play 4 nights a week or the resorts on Maui where the bands play in front of the hotels.”  I play Country, Flogging Molly and Rock and my own songs in those styles. I call my songs and show “tough guy rock, classic American cool, stories about cowboys, gangsters, soldiers and sailors, jobs we’ve all had or will, its about American muscle” and have vacation vibes.

I like saying I’m not just in the storytelling business, I’m in the vacation business with the crew at bars I become friends with and “let’s go on vacation” in my shows. The crowd sings along, hi fives me, brings me over to hang out at their table, bartenders and girls from the audience sometimes come on stage to sing, couples single girls and all dance in front, its a crazy fun friendly wild rock show. Pretty good for one frontman. I played those opening shows to a few thousand people doing what I call acoustic stadium rock, so one guy, one guitar, and my songs holding down the stage and the audience’s attention.

"Everyone needs a place to live and hangout, every bar has a story. In this exotic island spot somewhere, the guy they see when they arrive, the face of American music in that bar, is me....Tonight we're all locals, the people that come in later don't have what we have, we're ten shows in at this bar, we all know each other, having a good time, hanging out singing some songs"---Brad Burns

My current show is solo acoustic, and can be originals or covers.

I generally do 3 sets of 45 min each, but this can be varied to meet the need.

My show is Country, Flogging Molly, and Rock.

I also have played other genres and styles and do so on request.  

I have played a few hundred shows, as well as major gigs as a house entertainer, tourist bar, college bar, openings at fairs,  radio play, corporate affairs and charity events as well as album sales in the US.

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My original songs are from my albums,

"Easy Drive to Work, War & The Beach",

and my earlier compilation albums such as "Swinging My Fists With A Smile".

They sound like Flogging Molly, Social Distortion, Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers, CCR.

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A word from Brad on the solo acoustic storytelling, image and focus of his show...

Classic movies have the cowboy saloon. Film noir has the nightclub or pub . Combat movies have battle songs ..... It sets the mood. It gives you that fighting spirit and tells your story as a fighting man. Same for me

Thats why no matter what I’m playing, rugged western ballad,  tough rock, nightclub gangster jazz, acoustic or electric..... It's all what I call,

"Tough Guy Rock, Classic American Cool"

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It's for cowboys, sailors, gangsters, immigrants and soldiers in and out of uniform...... It's about  "American muscle."

In my Original songs, I want to tell a story. For "Swinging My Fists With A Smile" it was tensions of moving from remote western towns to live in major cities, and  covers the many singing styles and characters I am, and have lived.

The story of "Easy Drive To Work War & The Beach" is the story of an American western outlaw fighting for the last remnants of his outnumbered people and his island nation across the Atlantic, and playing a few shows to tourists on the way. 

The independence of his America, his national homeland and his own life and death all at stake in one adventure. Once he reaches the big city, he opens a bar and has to bring in tourists and customers, and fight bad guys. But he discovers the West isn't Far Enough to escape all the conflicts that surround him on every level. He survives a rough sea battle in the Pacific, fighting sharks on a sinking ship, fleeing from Hawaii where he thought he would finally be safe from all the conflicts...

It is Brad's story of trying to live in peace in America and overseas, told by a musical photographer, capturing laughing, joy, sorrow whether through Brad's acoustic stadium rock or Flogging Molly or a Johnny Cash ballad.

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