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ONE OF MICHIGAN'S PREMIER VARIETY BANDS
The Band can play anything from easy listening to dance gigs. Performing 50-100 events a year at places like:
South Haven Brewery
The Blueberry Festival.
done Gun lake casino,
Odawa Casino
Sheraton in Kalamazoo
Gull Lake Country Club
Country Club of Jackson
The H Hotel, Midland
Zehnder’s Park, Auto Fest, Frankenmuth
Little Harbor Club, Harbor Springs
The Kathy Ford Band has been performing for over 35 years at clubs, concerts, private parties, corporate events, weddings, and all other occasion with over 50000 live performances. We pride ourselves on being professional at all times. Our many styles that we play are custom fit for the occasion. We play a wide variety of styles such as Rock, Top 40, blues, Motown, Country and Jazz. We would love to be a part of your next event or private party.
Kathy Ford band was named the “Best of the Best” from Lansing State Journal readers for 10 years in a row.
in 1982 Kathy released her first album which took her to Nashville Tennessee. During the next 15 years she recorded at several studios in Nashville such as Music Mill, Studio by the Pond and Fireside. Several singles Ep’s and Cd’s were released nationally and internationally which were all mentioned and tracked in Billboard magazine, Cashbox and Indie magazine for charting in the top 100. During that time Kathy performed on stage as an opening act, headliner or part of the band with many artists such as Vince Gill, Waylon Jennings, Garth Brooks, Randy Travis, Tammy Wynette, Jerry Reed, Mel Tillis, Stella Parton, Seals and Croft, Eric Burton, Marth Reeves and Vandella’s and many more.
Kathy continues to play in Michigan and the midwest with her band (ALL high end players) the Kathy Ford Band as well as many solo and trio engagements. Kathy plays guitar, piano, and fiddle depending on the genre of the gig.
Kathy also teaches privately online guitar, piano, voice and songwriting.
Below are our sample song lists. This list does not contain all of our current songs – we have many more and continue to add new material!
Disco
Bee Gees Medley
Brick House
Car Wash
Celebration
Don’t Leave Me This Way
I Love the Nightlife
I Will Survive
We Are Family
Le Freak
Play That Funky Music
Ring My Bell
She Works Hard for the Money
YMCA
Love Shack
Jazz and Standards (too many to list)
At Last (Etta James)
Autumn Leaves
Crazy
Get There (Oleta Adams)
Misty
Moon Dance
Satin Doll
Sentimental Reasons
Sleep Walk
Sunny
Wonderful World
You Send Me
Motown/Rock and Roll (and many, many more)
I Love Rock and Roll
ZZ Top
Bob Seger
many many more
Soul Man
It’s Allright
Chain of Fools
Heard It Through the Grapevine
I Feel Good
Midnight Train to Georgia
Moondance
Mustang Sally
Respect
Second that Emotion
Son of a Preacher Man
Sugar Pie Honey Bunch
Under the Boardwalk
You Can’t Hurry Love
Ballads (too many to list)
Missing you, John Waite/Tina Turner
Wonderful World
Crazy Love
Breathe (Faith Hill)
Dreams , Fleetwood Mac
Have I Told You Lately
Landslide
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
Unchained Melody
Waiting for You
You Look Wonderful Tonight
You’ve Got a Way
Current Hits and Top 40 (plus many more)
Blackhorse, Amy Winehouse
Smashmouth
Maroon 5
Who Knew, Pink
Waiting on the World to Change, John Mayer
Ain’t Nobody (Chaka Khan)
Get this Party Started (Pink)
It’s All Been Done (Bare Naked Ladies)
Keep on Dancing (No Doubt)
Smooth (Santana)
I Love This Bar
50’s and 60’s Medley
Other
Knocking on Heaven’s Door
Angel from Montgomery
Bob Seger Medley
Brown Eyed Girl
Dancing in the Dark
Favorite Mistake (Sheryl Crow)
Friends in Low Places
Gimme Some Lovin
Give Me One Reason
Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Love the One You’re With
Margueritaville
Pink Cadillac
Pretty Woman
Rockin in the USA
Rocky Mountain Way
Something to Talk About
Sweet Home Alabama
Sweet Home Chicago
Walking After Midnight
What I Like About You
Brown-Eyed Girl
Instrumental
Use me. C
I know C
Moondance
Chain of fools. Am
I like it I love it. C
Pontoon. A
My girl C
Will it go round in circle. G
Brown eyed girl. G
Dreams. F
I’ll be around E
Boogie shoes B
Pride and joy. E
Midnight train. C
Feeling alright C
Taking care of business
Coma Grove
I’ll take you there. C
Soul man. E
Little less talk. A
Man I feel like a woman A
Play that funky.
Brick house. A
Mercy. G
Talk to your daughter G
Tennessee Whiskey A
Rather go blind
Shaky ground. E
Love shack. C
Never been to spain
Seeet home Alabama
Get Ready Daft Punk
Signed sealed delivered F
Ricky don’t lose that number
Drunk and I don’t want to go home. Elle king Miranda Lambert
Drink a beer Chris Stapleton
No diggity. F
Thank you E
Heard it through C
Daft punk. B
Son of a preacher man
Dreams
Sun spot
Hit me with your best shot
Devil went down?
Some kind of wonderful
I’ll be around
What’s goin on
Fire
Johnny cash
Superstition
We are family
Sweet home
Drift away
Messing with the kid
Honky Tonk woman
Down home blues
Angel from Montgomery
Black horse and cherry tree
We are family
Talk to your daughter
REVIEWS
Dean
Just letting you know that we had so much fun with the Kathy Ford Band!!! We loved them so much! We had a great time!!! Thanks for arranging it!!
Lisa, Life Enrichment Manager
Dean,
The band did a nice job. Plus, they were so polite and friendly. It was funny – we made a comment as staff about how great the were, and later Kathy told me that we were the nicest team of managers she’s encountered. I laughed as she said it, wondering who can really be mad at the band! For some of our special stuff they are great… I am revamping a bunch of events for next year, including the one they played at – but I am definitely keeping this crew in mind for the future. Thanks!!
-Matt CEO/General Manager, Golf Resort
Kathy Ford’s Band
Hank Horton played with Styx and currently on the road with Skunk Baxter steely Dan and doobie brothers.
JR on drums played with Rare Earth (Motown Band) for 20 years.
Mike Eyia on guitar.