Dutcher Snedeker

Keyboardist, Studio Musician, Collaborator

Current Collaborations (2025)

What am I up to currently? Where am I playing live? Who am I recording with? This section helps to answer all of those questions!

Wanna see any of these groups live?
Check out my “Shows” page!

You can also hear music from the recorded versions of some of these live performances
on the “Music” page!

I worked with many of the musicians on this stage to record Eric Engblade’s new music for Plant Our Trees: Vol 1 in 2024, and we kicked off a summer of shows highlighting this album release at Tip Top Deluxe on April 18th in Grand Rapids, MI and at The Rumpus Room on April 25th in Chelsea, MI. Keep an eye out for more 2025 performances of this music!

 

Justin Avdek recently released his latest record, Songs for Cowboys (For People Who Aren’t Cowboys) on Bandcamp. This video shows a behind-the-scenes look at tracking one of the singles, “River of Mindlessness,” which is a social commentary on the addictiveness of phones and how it has changed how we interact with the world and each other.

Justin and Eric have both planned to co-bill on a lot of the same shows this album will be featured on, including the aforementioned performances at Tip Top Deluxe & The Rumpus Room, and Eric and him both contributed to each other’s recording process alongside similar cast of musicians at Goon Lagoon (where this video was shot).

Keep an eye out where you can hear more of this spaghetti western/classic country music infused with modern artistry.

 

2024 Highlights

This wonderful concert was recorded by the diligent media team that captured the whole event! We also had our previous drummer, Madison George, join us for the festivities!

The great folks in After Ours released "OK2DAY," a song I had fun contributing keys for alongside Hannah Laine's vocals!

In July 2024, Eli Kahn accepted the award from the 16th Annual Music Video Asheville Awards on behalf of the animator, Nathan Morrow, After Ours, and the guest collaborators on the recording process!

This mashup of Bombtrack by Rage Against The Machine and National Anthem by Radiohead includes members from all sorts of Grand Rapids bands coming together for a few hours and arranging, rehearsing, and recording the final product that day. Check out more from The Dogtown City Band for these types of one-off collaborations!

I joined a host of Grand Rapids artists to work with Lady Ace Boogie on a cover of Like a Stone by Audioslave, a cover that also features The Dogtown City Band in action! We got the arrangement together that night and recorded the final product.

The first session I did with The Dogtown City Band, which also featured mainly Grand Rapids artists! We picked the song, vibe, and arranged the song to rehearse/record that afternoon!

Alex Austin is a wonderful singer/songwriter that leads the band Deerfield Run, and he asked me to record this intimate version of this tune!

 

Dogtown Sessions w/ Loren Kranz ft. Mark Lavengood and Justin Avdek

(Catch this band this summer in 2025!)

For fans of The Band and for anybody who wants to play all night, long into the next morning!

If you love a slice of New Orleans in Michigan, you'll love this tune! Inspired by Allen Touissant and other NOLA greats!

 

Earth Radio

 

Normal Mode

 

Mark Lavengood

An original bluegrass jam inspired by Shredder from the classic Ninja Turtles! For fans of fast-paced music that'll get you moving!

A classic steel ballad from Santo & Johnny with a piano solo added into the arrangement

A classic from Little Feat's stellar catalog and one the band enjoys performing live

 

The Rehearsal Room | The Allah (Blvcksheep Production)

 
 

Michigan Recording Collective

 
 

One-Offs & Live Collaborations

This collaboration featured many of West Michigan’s finest women in music. This 2019 recording is a capsule in time before folks moved out of state, saw huge success with their own groups, or expanded their own local careers to new heights in a post-Covid climate.

This was a video that I created for my cousin, Garrett Snedeker, to use for both live performances and this recorded version Frederic Rzewski's North American ballads, of which this is the third. This recording is from his Master’s Recital in 2021 at Trinity Laban Conservatoire.

The video was entirely crafted with archival footage from fair-use databases, and it features reenactments of the antebellum South and the Civil War, early suburbia advertisements, and protest footage during the Civil Rights era.

The idea was to compliment the mood of the music while highlighting the protest music behind this classical composer’s interpretation of traditional spiritual. The narrative follows the transformation of white and black freed citizens post-slavery and showcases the dichotomy between each community’s development after reconstruction into the early 70’s.

 

Full Live Concert Recordings and Streams

Want to enjoy a full concert experience from events I’ve played? Look no further!

This live performance was part of WYCE’s 2023 series that is hosted outdoors at the Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM)

Personnel:
Sarena Rae (Vocals)
Kevin Koezel (Guitar)
Dutcher Snedeker (Keys)
Jeff Baldus (Bass)
DaVeonce Washington (Drums)
Terrence Massey (Trumpet)
Mason Viilo (Sax)
John Gist (Sax)

 

This live performance in 2023 at the Jammies Awards featured music from her album Vote for Love, which was a finalist that year for “Album of the Year!”

Personnell:
Cole Hansen (Vocals, Acoustic Guitar)
Collin Pompey (Electric Guitar)
Dutcher Snedeker (Keys)
Justin Avdek (Bass)
Andy Travis (Pedal Steel)
Zach Dubay (Drums)

This performance was recorded live in 2020 as a part of the "Virtual Concert Series” WYCE hosted at Wealthy Theatre

Personnel:
Mark Lavengood (Dobro, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals)
Dutcher Snedeker (Keys)
Ian Thompson (Bass)
Loren Kranz (Drums, Vocals)

 

Earth Radio performed on the WYCE “Virtual Concert Series” at Wealthy Theatre back in 2020, where we also accepted our Jammies Award for our album Reanimate.

Personnel:
Hannah Laine (Vocals, Keys)
Dutcher Snedeker (Keys)
Justin Avdek (Vocals, Bass)
Travis Swanson (Guitar)
Madison George (Drums)

 

Blushing Monk was asked to perform on the 2020 “Virtual Concert Series” hosted by WYCE at Wealthy Theatre.

Personnel:
Dutcher Snedeker (Keys)
Travis Swanson (Guitar)
Caleb Elzinga (Sax)
Ethan Bousma (Drums)

 

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