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  Kevin Buster
Musician
Booking info [email protected]
Kevin Buster is a multi-instrumentalist playing
alto and soprano saxophones, guitar, clarinet, flute,
washboard, and other percussion including tap dancing.
Has been playing music Since 1992.
PictureKevin "Muscle Mouth" Buster with Baby Gramps at Hobo Festival NY. 2018
Kevin has been playing with world famous
Baby Gramps for the past three years. Occasionally accompanied by Bob Dylan's bass player, Tony Garnier.

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​Tours included:
Brooklyn Folk Festival,
Tera Blues in the East Village, The Jalopy Theater in Brooklyn, Bumbershoot, U-district Street Fair, Oregon Country Fair, Sha'Bang, and The Subdued String Band Jamboree.

Kevin has also played, toured, and recorded on the NPR radio broadcast with Eric "Two Scoops" Moore, and played with Seattle jazz legends Buddy Catlett and Floyd Standifer.

In February of 2000 Kevin studied under Hal Sherman at Bellevue College, participating in the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival with legends Lionel Hampton, Benny Golson, and Clark Terry, and winning an award for best baritone saxophone soloist.
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Kevin with Lionel Hampton, 2000
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Kevin with Benny Golson, 2000
Around the Same time Kevin attended Music Works North West, under Roy Cummings, Clarence Acox, Daniel Barry, Paul Harshmen, Jake Bergavin, and Scott Brown.
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Kevin Playing with St.Cinder Oregon Country Fair, 2017
Founding member of:
Muscle Mouth Jazz Band, Golden Earrings Jazz Band, The Careless Lovers, Lunch Money, Fascinator, The Grit City Grapplers, Pike Street Stompers, Feed the Frog Jazz Band.
Participating member of:
​Ahamefule J. Oluo, Solomon Douglas, Swing 3PO, Tevis Hodge Jr, The Inner City Medicine Show, Cardboard Caravan, The Rotten Apple Ruckus, Hot Dog Sling Shot, The Speakeasy Jazz Cats, Falty and the Defects, The Satin Sirens, Erratic, Skarillas.
Kevin has sat in or jammed with:
Vince Giordano and The Night Hawks, Emily Asher's Garden Party, The Holotrad Band, The Crow Quill Night Owls, "Stailbread Scottie", The New Orleans Jazz Vipers, Tamar Korn & Her Kornucopia, Casey MacGill, Glenn Crytzer, Craig Flory, Jason Webley, 8 Dice Cloth, Meschiya Lake and the Little Big Horns, St. Cinder, Petunia and the Vipers, Washboard Cutups,
Hot Damn Scandal.

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Upcoming Shows
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Kevin Playing with The Careless Lovers, 2012







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Vashon Island, Washington
(This is a Thursday)March 4th,2026
6-7:30pm
Vashon Wine Shop
Presents:
Pine and Shake
17205 Vashon Hwy SW A-I
Vashon Island, Washington
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Bellingham, Washington
(This is a Friday) March 6th, 2026
8-11pm
Orion Ballroom
Presents:
Pine & Shake
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with
Andy Simmons & Jan Peters

311 E. Holly St
Bellingham, Washington
98225

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Seattle, Washington
(This is a Thursday)March 12,2026
7-9pm
Traveling Goat
Presents:
Golden Earrings
Jazz Duo

621 1/2 Queen Anne Ave.
Seattle, Washington
​21+


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Seattle, Washington
(This is a Thursday)April 9th,2026
7-9pm
Traveling Goat
Presents:
Golden Earrings
Jazz Duo

621 1/2 Queen Anne Ave.
Seattle, Washington
​21+


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Seattle, Washington
(This is a Thursday)May 14th,2026
7-9pm
Traveling Goat
Presents:
Golden Earrings
Jazz Duo

621 1/2 Queen Anne Ave.
Seattle, Washington
​21+


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Seattle, Washington
(This is a Thursday)June 11th,2026
7-9pm
Traveling Goat
Presents:
Golden Earrings
Jazz Duo

621 1/2 Queen Anne Ave.
Seattle, Washington
​21+
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