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B-Man & mi-Shell (B-Man & the Mizzbeehavens)

B-Man & mi-Shell (B-Man & the Mizzbeehavens)

Key West, Florida

From the tropical shores of Key West, Florida, B-Man & mi-Shell bring audiences an unmistakable blend of Nautical Americana, Trop Rock, Coastal Country, and feel-good island vibes. Known for their warm harmonies, engaging personalities, and laid-back coastal sound, the duo has become a recognizable part of the Florida Keys music scene. Blending original music with crowd-favorite classics, B-Man & mi-Shell create performances that feel like a sunset on the water…relaxing, uplifting, and full of positive energy. Their music captures the spirit of island living, celebrating boating, beach life, friendship, love, tropical adventures, and the carefree lifestyle of the coast. Whether performing live at waterfront venues, festivals, private events, breweries, or community celebrations, the duo delivers an authentic Key West experience that connects with locals and visitors alike. Their shows combine storytelling, audience interaction, acoustic musicianship, and a fun-loving energy that keeps audiences engaged from the first song to the final encore. In addition to performing live music, B-Man & mi-Shell are also the hosts of Coastal Confessions, a weekly radio show airing Friday night on Tiki Man Radio. The show features music, interviews, coastal culture, and entertaining conversations that celebrate the beach lifestyle and the people who live it. Their original music releases, including songs such as Sail Away, Key West Bound, Livin’ Here in Key West, Drinkin’ Down in Mexico Sandbar Surfin’ and the recent release with Singer/Songwriter Tiffani Green, Beachin’ Boatin’ Fishin’ Floatin’, continue to showcase their signature tropical storytelling style and growing presence within the Trop Rock, Coastal, and Nautical Americana communities. B-Man & mi-Shell are more than musicians — they are ambassadors of the island lifestyle, bringing sunshine, salt air, and timeless tunes wherever they perform.

Bahama Mama and The Painkillers

Bahama Mama and The Painkillers

Bahama Mama and the Painkillers are a Connecticut-based original beach band whose sound draws on Sublime, Jimmy Buffett, 311, and Jack Johnson, blending surf and trop-rock influences. Their aim is to make listeners feel like their toes are in the sand with a drink in their hand, even in Connecticut. Released singles include "Tequila".

Bald Twitchy

Bald Twitchy

Weeki Wachee, FL

They say true artists can't be put in a box, and Bald Twitchy is living proof. A self-described sonic chameleon, the songwriter trades in raw, human authenticity rather than perfection. His unique moniker is born from his personal journey with Tourette syndrome, handled with the same self-deprecating humor and grit that defines his creative outlook.Bald Twitchy's path has been anything but linear. After stepping away from music for 30 years, he made his comeback by founding a music and sound production company and partnering with Craig Blackwell. However, realizing his heart belonged strictly to the pen and paper rather than the corporate grind, he sold the company to Blackwell to focus solely on his lifelong passion: songwriting. His catalog is an unpredictable journey, shifting effortlessly from aggressive metal to deeply intimate love songs. Florida sunsets that inspired his sun-drenched, upbeat Trop Rock single, "Square Grouper." Stripped of pretense and full of soul, Bald Twitchy is back to making music entirely on his own terms like Tequila Goggles, a inside joke between him and friend Peter Billingsley. Bald Twitchy's greatest muse is his high school sweetheart and wife of 37 years, who serves as the ultimate inspiration behind everything he creates. He says we just live life and the songs write themselves. His songwriting approach is anchored by advice he once received from Jimmy Buffett, who told him simply: "Write what you feel and what you see." Living by the motto "Life writes the songs, I just add the music," his eclectic catalog shifts seamlessly from heavy metal to deep love songs, alongside sun-drenched Trop Rock tracks like "Square Grouper"—inspired by his days diving, fishing, and chasing Florida sunsets. I don' need approval from anyone, I write because I love it. I have been around music all my life and have friends who are in the industry. I' not looking for that or I would of stayed in the business over 30 years ago. I do it now for the joy.

The Bamboozlers

The Bamboozlers

The Bamboozlers are a trop-rock band founded in 2004 and based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, blending Americana, rock, reggae, and roots-rock. They have become one of the Midwest's preeminent trop-rock acts, performing at events including Meeting of the Minds and Music on the Bay. Their album "The Other Side of the Island" was released in 2018.

Barefoot Man

Barefoot Man

The Barefoot Man, born George Nowak in Munich and raised in North Carolina, is a calypso, reggae, and soca entertainer and songwriter who has performed in the Cayman Islands since 1971, earning his nickname for playing without shoes. He has composed roughly 2,000 songs and recorded about 500, and wrote "Money, Money, Money" for the 1993 film The Firm. His honors include the Cayman Islands National Heritage Award and the Stingray Tourism Award.

Barefoot Reggie Starrett

Barefoot Reggie Starrett

Barefoot Reggie Starrett is a beach and island-themed singer-songwriter working in the trop-rock vein, with releases spanning roughly 2016 to 2022.

Bari Leigh

Bari Leigh

Bari Leigh is a singer-songwriter who blends country and Americana influences, describing her sound as "sugar and grit." Based in Maryland with time spent in Nashville and California, she released the album "Honey & Gravel" in 2017, drawing on personal resilience and authentic storytelling.

Becky Denton

Becky Denton

Becky Denton is a country and tropical-Americana artist who records in Nashville, often collaborating with her husband Will Denton, a touring and session drummer who co-produces her work. Her 2019 album "Fire & Grace" won Best Country Album at the 2020 Independent Music Awards, and her single "Take Me Back to Tybee" reached #1 on the Weekly Trop 40 Chart in July 2019. She charts on Australia's Country Tracks Top 40 and receives airplay across tropical/coastal-Americana radio internationally.

Beth Travers

Beth Travers

Beth Travers is a Southwest Florida-based trop-rock and reggae performer celebrating coastal living, known for her smooth, sultry voice and songwriting. She also plays bass in the Jack Mosley Band and is a Trop Rock Music Association academy member. Her releases include "Late Bloomer" (2019) and "Sail Away with Me, Songs to Summer By" (2024).

Bill Cockrell

Bill Cockrell

Bill Cockrell is a Florida-based trop-rock multi-instrumentalist who plays guitar, banjo, flute, keyboards, and steel drums, performing as Bill Cockrell & the Aquaholics. His music provides a backdrop to the Florida and tropical lifestyle, with releases including "Dog's Life" (2015), "Aquaholic," and the 2016 singles "Toasted Coconut Rum" and "Wave After Wave."

Billy Buchanan

Billy Buchanan

Billy Buchanan, billed as "The Ambassador of Rock 'n Soul," is an award-winning singer-songwriter with over two decades in music whose sound blends rock and soul. He performs both as a solo artist and leading Billy Buchanan & his Rock 'n Soul Revue, built around the motto that "people just wanna dance."

The Boat Drunks

The Boat Drunks are a trop-rock band out of Champaign, Illinois — beachy, island-country originals like “Tropical Standard Time” and “This Ain’t Duval Street,” fronted by Mike Miller.

Bob Durand

Bob Durand

Bob Durand is an Americana and trop-rock singer-songwriter and guitarist whose musical roots are planted in New Orleans, where he grew up as a drummer marching in Mardi Gras parades. After decades as a drummer and vocalist, he became a singer-songwriter and guitarist in the 2000s and relocated to Gulf Shores, Alabama, blending his New Orleans heritage with coastal beach influences. His albums include 'Living in the Real L.A.' (2016) and 'Nola (Songs from New Orleans to Lower Alabama)' (2026), with songs such as 'Modern Day Pirate' and 'Sermons from a Dive Bar.' He is a member of the Trop Rock Music Association.

Bob Karwin

Bob Karwin

Bob Karwin is a trop-rock singer-songwriter who began his career in 1990 playing the Irish pubs and college bars of Boston before moving to San Diego in 1993. Known for blending humor with thoughtful songwriting in his lively one-man shows, he has been named Temecula Valley Acoustic Artist of the Year and Trop Rock Music Association Entertainer of the Year. His albums include 'Have Sun, Will Travel' (2009), 'Sand Dollar Millionaire' (2010), and 'Life on Lotus Street' (2013), featuring songs like 'Working on My Tan.'

Bob Schiele

Bob Schiele

Bob Schiele is a trop-rock and beach-themed singer-songwriter who performs throughout Florida. His albums include 'Chillax' (2013), 'Mystic Water' (2017), and 'Permanent Vacation' (2020), with popular songs such as 'Key West State of Mind,' 'Paradise Is You,' and 'Pickleball State of Mind.'

Boomer Blake

Boomer Blake

Boomer Blake is a coastal trop-rock singer-songwriter whose music carries a tropical, beach-inspired sound. His albums include 'Road to Cayo Hueso' (2017), 'Down by the Coastline' (2019), 'Watching the River Go By' (2020), and 'Polka Dot Umbrella' (2021), with popular tracks such as 'Road to Cayo Hueso' and 'Down by the Coastline.'

Brad Brock

Brad Brock

Brad Brock is a soulful singer-songwriter and one-man-band entertainer who plays guitar, drums, bass, and harmonica while singing in harmony. Based in Florida's Treasure Coast, his style has been compared to Cat Stevens, John Mayer, and Jack Johnson. His albums include 'Welcome To Hollywood' (2009), 'Songs About You (and Every Other Girl)' (2014), and 'Once Upon a Bottle of Rum' (2018), and he is a member of ASCAP.

Brenda Burch

Brenda Burch

Brenda Burch is an award-winning country singer-songwriter and keynote speaker from Utah whose music centers on following your passions and spreading happiness. She has earned three #1 hits and nine songs in the top ten on country music charts throughout her career. Her albums and singles include: The Rush (2007 album), Brenda Burch (2010 album), Crushin' (2014 single), Nowhere Else (2014 single), and Big Wide World (2022 single), with hit songs such as "Sparks Will Fly," "No Better Time," and "Big Wide World."

Brenda Cay

Brenda Cay

Brenda Cay is a country and folk singer-songwriter based in Nashville with more than a dozen licensing deals and over 7 million streams. Her work has been featured on Apple Hot Tracks (Country) and the Academy of Country Music's New Music Friday playlist, with coverage from Broadway World, Cowgirl Magazine, and Guitar Girl Magazine. Her songs include 'Fragile Like A Bomb' and 'I Fish,' which earned an Honorable Mention in the American Songwriter lyric competition, and recent albums 'Salt and Sugar' and 'Nothing Left But The Burn.'

Brent Burns

Brent Burns

Brent Burns is a trop-rock singer-songwriter often called the poet laureate of the beach. Born in Oklahoma and raised in Arizona, he settled in Gulf Shores, Alabama, in 1972 and was named Official Music Ambassador of the Alabama Gulf Coast Convention and Visitors Bureau in 2006. His signature song 'I've Got a Beach in My Backyard' (2009) won Trop Rock Music awards for CD and Song of the Year, and his albums include 'My Jukebox at the Beach' (2019), 'Somewhere South of Here' (2021), and 'Lot of Beaches to Go' (2022).

Brian Caudill

Brian Caudill

Brian Caudill is a singer-songwriter based in the Tampa Bay / Clearwater, Florida area, where he has played thousands of gigs at beach bars such as Frenchy's Rockaway. His music draws on a diverse mix of styles built up over the years, showcased on his debut CD "Pocketful of Change." He also performs with the Brian Caudill Trio, blending smooth vocals with strong bass and percussion.

Brian Darnell

Brian Darnell

I’ve been writing country/americana music when I’m not running my tree service business here in Greenville SC. My songs are my reflections during this season of life as a husband, dad, friend and business owner. I hope you are able to feel the struggle as well as the hope and joy I am living in and can find some camaraderie with me along the way!

Brian Iannucci

Brian Iannucci

Brian Iannucci is a singer-songwriter from Saint Johns, Florida, with an eclectic musical background. He blends aspects of country, pop and blues to produce a unique sound.

Brian Neale

Brian Neale

Brian Neale is a trop-rock and island singer-songwriter who has performed across the US, Canada, and internationally for nearly three decades. Professionally trained in music and voice, he began as a solo artist performing his own songs alongside material by Jimmy Buffett and The Eagles, and in 2003 formed the band Northern Harbour. His best-known songs include "Boats" and "Living in the Islands."

Brian Roberts

Brian Roberts

Brian Roberts is a singer-songwriter based in the Florida Keys, performing original island-flavored music across the local live circuit.

Brigitte DeMeyer

Brigitte DeMeyer

Brigitte DeMeyer is an Americana singer-songwriter whose sound draws on roots rock and classic pop songcraft, with influences ranging from Patty Griffin and Carole King to the Allman Brothers. She began her career in San Diego bands in the mid-1980s and released her debut solo album in 2000, later collaborating with Will Kimbrough on a duet album.

Brittany Kingery

Brittany Kingery

Brittany Kingery is a trop-rock singer-songwriter originally from McCleary, Washington, who left a government job in the Pacific Northwest to pursue music in Bucerias, near Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. After her 2013 debut "Edge of the Ocean," she became a rising star in Puerto Vallarta's music scene and released the acclaimed album "Dream in Blue," featuring the song "Tequila Talking." She swept the Key West Tropic Rock Awards, winning Best Female Vocalist, Best Song, and a Horizon Award.

Bryton Stoll

Bryton Stoll

Bryton Stoll is a Kansas-based singer-songwriter who performs as "The Landlocked Sailor," blending acoustic and tropical/trop-rock influences. His music draws on memories of campfire sing-alongs and the beach lifestyle, channeling an island vibe from the American Midwest.

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