HILLBILLY JAZZ 2 featuring MITCH POLZAK & THE ROYAL DEUCES | Eclectic American Roots Artist Showcase

Christopher Burkhardt's Eclectic American Roots Artist Showcase presents HILLBILLY JAZZ 2 featuring MITCH POLZAK & THE ROYAL DEUCES. Also performing is SEATBELT as well as LIL' SUE & THE COW TIPPERS.

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Hillbilly Jazz series is a monthly mash-up of honky tonk, western swing, R&B, blues, folk, hillbilly and rockabilly.

In this episode:
Mitch Polzak & The Royal Deuces: Polzak's guitar, vocals, and five string banjo play a wide representation of American Roots Music from Rockabilly to Honky Tonk. Polzak’s incredible showmanship and ability to connect with his audiences as well as his diverse background in multiple genres - like Cajun, Bluegrass and Surf - contribute to what makes his sound and show so unique.

Lil Sue & The Cow Tippers - This swinging honky tonk band has some talent! From Lil' Sue's vocals to Gene Cornwell's guitar pickin' to their solid rhythm section of Tony Macias and Tony Deherrera - this band is hot!

Seatbelt - Scott McLean and co. bring rockabilly, hillbilly boogie and honky tonk to our show - performed on vintage gear with a modern edge - and a dance energy that is as contagious as the Rockin’ Pneumonia or the Boogie Woogie flu!
This StellarJAX performance was captured live at Campus JAX in Newport Beach, CA.




Who is Christopher Burkhardt?

Christopher Burkhardt, owner of Stellar Shows and Concerts PLUS Eclectic American Roots e-Broadcasts, began promoting festivals, country concerts and rodeos in Kalamazoo during his college years.
In the mid-1980s he moved to California and began working with the StarFest country music events at Fairplex in Pomona. Burkhardt organized country dancing showcases and produced fashion shows, a rodeo and video board advertising.

Burkhardt then helped promote the massive Cowboy & Indian Congress in Scottsdale, Ariz. which brought together Wild West shows, concerts and rodeo action.

In the mid- 90s he published "That's Country" magazine, a national newsstand publication focusing on the entire country and Western lifestyle, with emphasis on Western fashion, dancing, furnishings, rodeo and country music.

He also published the Single Action Shooting Society official program, and the Cowboy Mounted Shooting Assn. Rundown magazine - while competing in those single-action shooting events. He was Reserve Champion in 2007 at the Las Vegas National Finals of the CMSA.

For 16 years, his company, FanCorp Publishing, was the Professional Bull Rider’s official program publisher. helping grow them from their first event into an international powerhouse. He created countless magazines, program, calendars and posters which those rabid PBR fans collected.

The most popular indoor arena rodeo event in the world – professional bull riding – was only covering the riders when he helped create a blood registry for bucking bulls. He also published Bull Pen magazine, which thoroughly covered the animal side of the sport for American Bucking Bull, Inc.

In 2009, he brought his lifelong cowboy marketing experience to Palm Springs, where he created a rodeo event, the Frank Bogert Memorial Rodeo presented by Spa Resort Casino.

In 2011, he presented the prestigious Western Design Expo, sponsored by Cowboys & Indians Magazine, as well as the TwangFest roots concert (on 4 stages) and the Bogert BBQ Showdown. The 4-day weekend in March 2011 was described as “a Western World's Fair” and included over a dozen bands and entertainers.

As half of the popular B&B’s Musical Thrills concert team, he produced over 500 concerts at the iconic tiki palace Don the Beachcomber.

His desire to continue to bring great roots music to Southern California led him to create Stellar Shows and Concerts in 2017, presenting diverse shows in the fields of rockabilly, honky tonk, western swing, surf and R&B at venues like The Yost Theater, French Quarter, Original Mike’s and Campus JAX.

During the Covid “Damn-penic,” he joined with Tim Ellis of JAX Hideaway to create StellarJAX and produce Eclectic American Roots - 2-hour roots music programs combining interviews and live performances - which are e-Broadcast as Sunday matinee shows at Noon Pacific right here on the StellarJAX YouTube Channel.

As always, it is about the music and the musicians. Burkhardt has put over $1 million in the pockets of roots musicians in the past decade, and continues to put the well-being of roots musicians as the top priority for Stellar Shows.

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