PK Mayo Trio
August 23, 2024 @ 7:30pm
Americana- Roots- Blues
Guitarist- Singer- Songwriter
Outdoor stage on TLHD front lawn under tent
(This show will be held rain or shine. If severe weather occurs we may choose to move it indoors.)
A native son of northern Minnesota, PK Mayo grew up in the mining town of Eveleth. From an early age, when he was known as Paul Kennedy Mayasich, he soaked up a wide range of diverse styles of music coming over the airwaves of the local college radio station, KUMD. He refers to those listening years as his college. Mayo has spent the majority of his life following the muse of that sound while recording, gigging and stepping on stage 200+ nights a year. He started gigging around his hometown as a teenager, playing in country, polka and rock cover bands. He moved to Minneapolis and sought the tutoring of seasoned R&B, soul, jazz and blues musicians. After a fair amount of jamming Mayo quickly fell into local bands and stepped out to front a few of his own.
General Information
-Run Time: 90 minutes
-15 Minute Intermission
-Rating: All Ages
-Outdoor Stage Under Tent
**A new outdoor seating chart is currently being constructed for this show. Once, complete we will contact you with any adjustments in location of your reserved seat(s).
“Since the first time I heard Duane Allman’s intro to ‘Statesboro Blues’ on At Fillmore East by the Allman Brothers, I knew I wanted to play guitar,” he exclaims. When I was six or seven I ‘played’ my Mom’s broom with a 11/16 socket as my ‘slide’ to emulate another favorite, Lowell George.” - PK Mayo
Decades of touring and gigging has honed his guitar skills to a razor’s edge. Mayo’s abilities playing slide guitar (acoustic and electric) – his rare touch, feel and dynamism on the instruments combined with his accomplished original songwriting, and soulful vocals Mayo is the complete package. His music is an aural quilt built of what is today called the Americana genre: country, rock & roll, blues and folk, shaken and stirred into a satisfying musical brew. He’s achieved many awards, including induction into both the Minnesota Blues Hall of Fame and the Minnesota Rock & Country Hall of Fame. While in Blue Chamber, the backing band of Big John Dickerson, he won the Minnesota Music Award for best blues recording for the song, Arms of the Blues, which, he wrote.