Guitar Summer at 331 Club hosted by The Mikkel Factory, featuring Mike Salovich.

Mikkel on his new series: “The summer ‘Rezo City’ resonator guitar series I’ve been hosting the last 4 years has grown into a more sophisticated American Primitive/Rezo thingy I’m calling guitar summer. Great players from around the region will join me on some Sunday afternoons throughout the summer forgreat performances. Free for your enjoyment.”

Mike Salovich performs eclectic uptempo 12-string and 6-string electro-acoustic guitar music. His guitar virtuosity typically mixes world rhythms, simple melodies and turbo fingerpicking. Think Leo Kottke rifting world music. Mike Salovich’s guitar technique is rooted in American Primitivism, known for animated fingerpicking on steel strings to create layers of notes towards folk impressionism. His music is difficult to categorize and veers towards the World genre when it beats Latin, African and East Indian rhythms. Mike Salovich’s influences include Leo Kottke, Peter Lang, John Fahey along with spaciness from The Edge, Brian Eno and spicy Latin rhythms of Celia Cruz, Aterciopelados.

Mikkel Beckmen (washboard, wooden tray, and stomp box) has been a fixture on the Twin Cities scene for a number of years; some of the folks he's played with include the Brass Kings, Charlie Parr, and Lonesome Dan Kase & the Crush Collision Trio.