About Mike

Blues, swing, jazz, and folk musician Mike Lundstrom began performing as a singer/songwriter/guitarist while in his early teens. At seventeen he spent most of a year busking in Europe, then returned to the United States, enrolled in college, and began performing at coffeehouse venues in the Midwest and Southwest, as time permitted. At age 21 he went on the road as an itinerant musician, performing six nights a week.

The music became an avocation when Mike began a career in photojournalism.

Fifteen years ago he was forced to abandon the guitar because of an extreme case of tendinitis in his left wrist. He took up the dobro, and music once more became his primary interest. 

For the last decade and a half Mike has performed extensively at North Central Washington venues, in collaboration with Rolf, and with the Gypsy Jazz quintet All That Djazz, the members of which are violinist John Weeks, guitarist Dick White, bassist Maren Noyes and guitarist Ron Clark. He has also appeared with his quintet, The Mike Lundstrom Quintet, accompanied by Weeks, Clark, guitarist Jim Allyn, and percussionist Bradly Scott, and with the bluegrass band, The Methow Mountain Boys. 

Mike has also appeared at numerous regional music festivals such as the Tumbleweed Music Festival, Yakima Folklife, the Chelan Bach Fest, Northwest Folklife, the Leavenworth Summer Music Festival, Basin Summer Sounds, the Columbia Gorge Bluegrass Festival, the Boise River Festival, and the Northern Rockies Folk Festival.

“I’m singer first, and an instrumentalist second,” Mike says. “To me, the dobro is primarily an accompanying device. I can’t profess to be unique, yet I can't think of any musicians who utilize the dobro in this manner.”

Although Mike claims the dobro is secondary to his voice, he is a four-time winner of the Columbia Gorge Bluegrass Festival dobro contest.

Mike has also participated in several recording projects in addition to the Hymnody, and Christmas Gifts CDs with Rolf. The most notable of these projects are two compilation recordings by Resophonics Anonymous, the critically acclaimed CDs Resophonics Anonymous and Relapse. In 1996, Mike released his first solo CD, Please Accept This Simple Song, and in 1995, he appeared on Behind The Barn with Tab Tabscott.


Reciprocity, Mike's newest solo CD (released in December of 2006) features Mike's blues, jazz, and swing vocals and dobro. Rolf, bassist Mick Nicholson, guitarists Orville Johnson, John Malloy, and Ron Peters, accordionist Nova Devonie, and vocalist Jeannie Kappel join Mike on the CD Reciprocity.

Mike enjoys teaching — privately and in workshop situations. He has given workshops at the Tumbleweeds Music Festival, the British Columbia Swing Workshop, Northwest Folklife, and the Columbia Gorge Bluegrass Festival.

Mike enthusiastically endorses resophonic guitars built by John Morton, Port Townsend, Washington and Manfred Pietrzok (Manzanita Guitars) Rosdorf, Germany, and guitar straps made by Bobby Poff, Riverton, Wyoming. He uses John Pearce strings exclusively.