There’s nothing like Midnight: When the sun goes down, and you’re not ready to go home, Midnight will keep the night young. With original takes on great songs, you will be able to dance to songs you know and love but with a new take and fresh sound.

Our Band:

Hailing from Redding, CA. Midnight prides itself on a chunky Rock and Roll groove with clean sound, tight harmonies, and fresh perspective on a wide variety of music. We also have originals because we’re a great band and we can’t resist writing our own songs because we’re arrogant enough to think people should be subjected to our music.

With a rockin’ female lead vocalist harboring a 3-octave range, three solid axe men laying down the groove, a drummer who can’t be tamed, and two gorgeous harmony makers, the band is more than just good to listen to, they’re entertaining to watch. Midnight puts on a full show, with rich sound that will fill any venue, from club to stadium.

Our Sound:

Midnight rocks a clean sound, where vocals sit on top of the mix and you can hear every note of the twin guitars, the drive of the bass and every kick and tom from the drums. Yes, we’re a Rock Band, but the sound is clean and clear, no mud or unintelligible vocals buried in the mix.

All our songs sampled on this website are recorded LIVE, in our own IGO-LIVE studio, with no dubbing, no mixing, no sampling. Every song is played in real time by the whole band in a room with twin SM-57 SHURE microphones and recorded on Pro-Tools. No gimmicks. No dubbing. Just straight up Rock and Roll. What you hear is what you get.

 Our Members:

Lead vocals are supplied by Tanya Stedman, who was born to a family of engineers and rebelled against The Man from Day One. No way was she dating a slide-rule; She cut her jeans too short, developed a passion for chunky heels, told her parents she was moving to Atlanta, worked at Cartoon Network, stole a horse from her ex-boyfriend, then married a Chef on Halloween in Vegas and started playing Rock and Roll.

Ron DeMaagd is an engineer by trade, which is perfect, considering he’s built like a cement truck. After a long ass career working for the City of Redding building roads and infrastructure, he finally grew his hair out to a full ½ inch, put in his retirement notice, grabbed a guitar, his childhood sweetheart, hit the gym double time and found himself a Rock and Roll band where he could tell everyone to take this job and shove it. He plays bass, guitar, and sings. And he likes Whiskey. Good whiskey – ‘cause the man has style.

Lead guitar is supplied by James Russell, a local legend in the North State. No, seriously, it’s true! He’s a master Luthier, which is a super fancy word for “Dude who builds guitars,” and you will find his ax in the hands of some super heavy-hitting studio/ famous musicians worldwide. On top of that, he teaches music and is wholly responsible for three-quarters of the band knowing what a Relative Minor is. And scales. Yeah. He taught us scales. Dude has class. He’s Vegan(ish), but we don’t hold that against him.

Boom-Boom Coon is what we call him. His real name is Jeff Coon, and he spent 30 years as an investment banker. Wearing ties. Everyday. EVERYDAY!!! For 30 Years!! Sure, he won a drumming competition when he was a kid, but it was choked out of him by those damn ties. Until now. The day he walked out of the bank he had a burn barrel ready and the ties were toast. We even thought of naming the band that. Ties are Toast. It would be a great punk name. And after 30 years of being polite and professional, the man has one speed: Go! He has one volume: Loud! Which is why he’s called Boom-Boom Coon, and he’s our drummer. He’s perfect. He can count. Which is important in a drummer. And an investment banker, frankly.

Che Stedman is a cross between a clown and a pogo stick. Birthed by a piano who got preggers by a guitar, he was raised by a standup bass in what used to be known as the Wild West. You know it as The Emerald Triangle. He is the only one of us who was actually raised by musicians. (Hippies) And Wolves. (Still Hippies) He’s only had one (Legal) job in his whole life: He’s a Chef and he’s damn good at it. (When he’s not in jail) When he’s not fixing whatever happens to be broken at the moment, he likes to play guitar. So, we started a band.

Ann-Marie and Mikaela are kind, pleasant, beautiful, and bring a full rich sound to the band. They probably shouldn’t be hanging around us. They should know better. They met Tanya while doing a modern-day burlesque called The Rocky Horror Show and sang some great harmony work together. Because they have terrible judgment and poor taste, they became fast friends and now, when they are not breaking hearts, destroying dreams, or participating in unmentionable backstage shenanigans, they tend to loiter about with the degenerates of Midnight.

Valerie Coon is the Badass Behind the Band. Formerly an active participant, and known as ‘The Lord of The Things’, she decided that a New Role was in order. You see, Val has never done drugs. Ever. Of any kind. EVER. I know. We didn’t trust her at first either. As it turns out, she wanted to be a lawyer, but life is odd, so she became a Legal Car Thief. Yes. She was a Repo-Woman. (She jacked some dudes yellow corvette!! Legit!!) After that, she went to work helping people get SBA loans, which is kind of the same thing. You might want to hide your keys. Plus, somebody needs to bail our sorry asses out of jail. And book gigs. Honestly, we should just play a gig at the local lock-up. We know half the people there already.