RSVP here: Keith Sykes, May 4th, 2024

The Wheeland Brothers are two Southern California surfers who grew up where the concrete meets the sand. Their playful pursuit of life invites listeners to join in on the stoke, all the while blending infectious good-time-energy with peaceful introspection.

Their sound is a signature blend of surf rock, reggae, hip hop and acoustic pop.
The Wheeland Brothers have burst onto the national music scene with their album Pacific Vibration. They’ve become fan-favorites and mainstays on Sirius XM’s No Shoes Radio as well as Sirius XM’s Radio Margaritaville where their single “Song To The Sun” was the most played song of the summer 2022 on both stations and was added to coveted playlists on both Spotify and Amazon.

The band has performed with peers ranging from 311 and Slightly Stoopid to Donavon Frankenreiter and Michael Franti. They’ve also performed at Meeting Of The Minds, Tortuga Music Festival, Kaaboo Del Mar, and were personally picked by Kenny Chesney to play the Nashville kick off to his 2022 summer tour. As a headliner, they pack out venues from Coach House in SoCal to Guanabanas in Florida and Big Chill Beach Club in Delaware.

About Keith Sykes…

Once upon a time in the summer of 1967, Keith Sykes hitchhiked to the Newport Folk Festival.

He saw Arlo Guthrie perform “Alice’s Restaurant.” In the fall of that year he got a copy of the album, learned the whole song and sang it at a Holiday Inn in Charleston, South Carolina. They hired him on the spot for a regular gig playing music in the hotel.

It’s pretty perfect that such a rambling tale should be at the start of Keith’s own rambling tale – in the more than 40 years that followed, he would become a troubadour and storyteller, a massively successful songwriter with more than 100 songs recorded by artists as diverse as Rosanne Cash and George Thorogood. He would tour every corner of America and play in just about every conceivable kind of venue, appear on Saturday Night Live and Austin City Limits, and host songwriter nights on Memphis’ legendary Beale Street with many of music’s most talented songwriters. He would join Jimmy Buffett’s Coral Reefer Band, tour the country and record the Volcano album – the title track for which he co-wrote with Jimmy.

To date, recordings of Keith’s songs have sold more than 25 million copies worldwide. With 13 full-length albums released – and great success with his own publishing company, credited with signing John Kilzer to Geffen Records and the discovery of Todd Snider – Keith Sykes has proven to be nothing short of prolific.

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