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Riders of the Rockin' B - Available for Booking!

Riders of the Rockin’ B have been the house band for the Rockin’ B Ranch Cowboy Supper Show for 17 years. In their present configuration, they include Scott Brownlee on doghouse bass, Pamela Brownlee singing, JayDean Ludiker fiddlling, Sam Mazzola picking guitar, and Gordon Grove rhythmically herding everyone with his pail-poundin’ percussion. They all sing for some of the most ear-pleasing five-part cowboy harmony you’ve ever heard.

The Riders do a mixture of old trail standards like Ghost Riders in the Sky, some yodeling, some pickin’, lots of hot fiddling, with a peppering of knee-slappin’ comedy. But first and foremost, they are a vocal band.Their intricate five-part vocal arrangements have become known far and wide as sophisticated, yet accessible.

In addition to the summer series of Cowboy Supper Shows, the riders continue to be available for supplying music for your next event/wedding/bar mitzvah/funeral/brandin’ or cuttin’.

Scott Brownlee

 

​acts as ranch foreman and co-wagon master at the Rockin' B. Scott herds the big old doghouse bass viol, does all of the musical arranging for the Rockin' B shows, and sings a pretty note to boot. His handsome twin brother, Dusty Bicuspid, pops up (by request) to tell a story now & then. 


Born and raised in northeastern Colorado, Scott spent several years performing with the rock-bluegrass group, Rufus Krisp. He composed music for many television series and films, including the Emmy-award-winning, "Baby Doe." Scott then joined the musical gold rush to California, where he penned songs for the Muppet Babies cartoon show, and worked as a freelance recording engineer for Disney, Marvel, and DIC, earning an Emmy Nomination.   Besides his duties shovelin' in the Rockin' B corral, husbandin' Miss Pammie and bein' father to their grown offspring Penn and Olivia, he is a professor emeritus at the School of Film and Television at UCLA, teaches at Loyola Marymount University and SFCC, commuting to L.A. each week during the “off season.”

Pamela (Miss Pammie) Brownlee


wife of Scott, shares his love of the cowboy life and country living in general. Music plays an integral part of her life.


As a member of the 4-H club, Miss Pammie availed herself of the talent show aspect, in addition to raising and showing sheep. She began performing musicals in elementary school and hasn't stopped since. Her first band was The Salt Company out of Hollywood, CA. She enrolled in the vocal program at Dick Grove School of Music where she co-founded the Doo-Wah Riders. It was there she met Scott, and together they voyaged on the Queen Mary (fortunately the ship was docked at the time) with Pamela singing and Scott playing bass in an Andrews Sisters Revue.
The treble and bass clefs engaged, and were married in 1981. Since then the two wagon masters have been blessed with two wonderful children, Olivia and Penn. The family moved to Liberty Lake, WA in 1992, where they founded the Rockin' B Ranch in 1994. And for each performance, the songstress and the bass player get together again.

JayDean Ludiker (singer and fiddler extraordinaire)

fell in love with fiddle music as a young girl after hearing her father play at their Spokane Valley home. He took her to contests all over the country and watched her become the National Junior Champion at age 17 and National Ladies winner the following year. She consistently places in the top 5 of the National Old Time’s Fiddler’s Contest in Weiser, Idaho. (In 2010, she placed 4th in the nation!!) JayDean now teaches the art of old time fiddling and pens instructional manuals through her company Ludiker Music (www.ludikermusic.com) She organizes children's' performing groups, judges fiddle contests, and teaches at fiddle camps all over the country.

Sam Mazzola (singer and guitar)

hails from Los Angeles, but don't hold that against him. He has one of the “prettiest” and naturally big voices this side of the Rio Grande. At five, he sang on a local radio station to promote his dad's auto dealership, and school performances soon followed. He formed the pop/fusion ensemble “Freeway” in the early 80s, and soon began the touring life.
After moving to the inland Northwest with his wife and seven children, Sam performed at CenterStage in the 2008 production of The Great American Songbook, a tribute to the Gershwins and Cole Porter. He has performed various biblical characters in the passion production of Behold the King at the INB Performing Arts Center. This is Sam's fifth season  with the Rockin' B.  If you need any cabling done, as operator of Streamline Cable, Sam is your guy.  He sings while he works.

Gordon Grove (singer & percussion)

 

was born in Spokane, Washington. Gordon has performed as singer, drummer and actor since the age of four. As a child, accompanied on piano by his dad, he became a multi-year veteran of Spokane’s Starlit Stairway television show. He also appeared on stage, solo and paired with his sister, Leslie Ann Grove, in countless variety shows for fraternal, veterans and service organizations in the Spokane area. While in school at Gonzaga University, Gordon acted, designed sets and wrote plays. Now he is sole proprietor of The Gordon J. Grove Company, a video production and media development outfit that creates all forms of Audio Visual presentations, and writes personal and commercial songs for special occasions. Gordon has been seen and heard in numerous radio and television commercials…and he has also appeared in the movie, The Basket.

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