Everyday People is a high energy performance
band featuring soul and funk hits from the
60's and 70's. With a song list that touts
some of the greatest party music of all time,
every E.D.P. performance is guaranteed to
please. Everyday People features hit songs by
legendary artists such as Aretha Franklin and
James Brown as well as music from hit groups
like Average White Band, Sly and the Family
Stone and Kool and the Gang. E.D.P,
specializes in private parties and outdoor
events, and can frequently be seen playing at
Portland area's hottest night spots. So the
next time you're in need of a big dose of live
music, find Everyday People and " get down
with the good thang ".
Christine “Kit”
Lorraine Stuber joined EDP in March of 2008,
but has been performing as a musician and
dancer since the age of 8. As a child, Kit
Lorraine studied classical piano and later
moved on to blues and jazz. She began seeking
formal vocal training at 18 and has since
studied with a number of instructors including
Valerie Day, vocalist and co-founder of the
band Nu Shooz. Kit Lorraine studied ballet and
tap as a child and discovered a passion for
Brazilian dance in 2006 when she began
attending classes taught by Donna Oefinger, a
Portland based choreographer and
percussionist. Kit Lorraine enjoys teaching
and working in arts education and has worked
as an instructor for Schools Uniting
Neighborhoods (SUN) and Ethos Music Center;
she also served on the board of arts funding
non-profit organization, Artists for the Arts.
Connect with Kit on
facebook.
An experienced musician, sound
engineer, photographer, and video recording
engineer - both in and out of the studio, Big
John's background vocals, "big ears",
arranging, and transcriptions are well known
amongst his friends. Big John's muscial styles
cover Funk, Soul, R&B, Blues, Big Band,
Straight-ahead Jazz, Rock, Pop, Latin, Fusion
– Big John loves what the audience loves!
Big John has had the privilege to play
with Howard Roberts, Mary Field, the Woody
Hite Band, L.A. studio legend Mitch Holder,
King Louis Pain, Sweet Baby James, Renato
Caranto, Micah Kassell, Margaret Linn, Tall
Jazz, Wade Kirtley’s B3 Quintet, Gary
Fontaine, Carlton Jackson, Funkbuddy, and the
Providence Stage Band. In addition, he has
gigged with JayBird Koder, D. K. Stewart,
James Gregg, Jeff Frankel, Wayne Henderson,
Carl Joiner, Laura Cunnard, Allyn Jackson,
Ward Baxter, and Lee Elderwood.
Johnny
Ashy was born and raised in south Louisiana
and was playing music in a soul band by age
14. A former music major from
Louisiana-Lafayette, Johnny has spent most of
his life as a full time professional musician.
Johnny has resided in the Pacific Northwest
for the past twenty-five years, and has been
the founder and a member of Everyday
People for the past three years. Johnny plays
trumpet, congas, and harmonicas with Everyday
People as well as being the lead male vocalist
Joshua Corry grew up in a musical
household, my father being a professional
musician/songwriter and music store owner.
Various baby photos show me playing around on
a toy drumset at the tender age of 3- but I
didn't really pick up the drums seriously
until I was about 15-16. From that point I was
hooked and began playing with a crummy punk
band at all ages venues. Soon after, I moved
out to the Oregon Coast and the madness began,
as I was playing in about 5 different bands
while working on my own music and teaching
drums as well. Fast forward a couple years and
while I was living in Eugene going to school,
one of the friends I made in those coastal
days let me know about an audition and now I'm
in the wonderful city of Portland, making a
living playing music with Every Day People
and a couple other great bands- truly living
the dream. If you see me back there rockin' it
at a show near you- come say hi!
I started playing
Saxophone when I was a 10 Yr Old 5th Grader, I
continued through all my school years playing
in every band that the schools offered.
Concert, Pep, Marching & Jazz ensemble. One
highlight was my senior year at Beaverton
High. We marched in the Macy’s Thanksgiving
Day Parade in New York City 1982. I Enrolled
at Western Oregon State College where I
continued playing and studying Music. Later,
In 1989 I marched in the Rose Parade in
Pasadena California with the “One More Time
around Again Band”. I took a break for a few
years to start a family. Sometime around 1992
I picked the Horn back up and started playing
again.
To describe my playing style, I
like to layback in the pocket while
accompanying the vocal line, adding color and
texture to the sound. When it’s my time to
Solo, I lay down a funky back beat grove line
and build up to a psychedelic techno-colored
frenzy using multi- note combination with
articulated note attack. I went on to play
professionally with the following groups:
¾ Chub – Pop Rock/ Alternative The
Lawrence McAlister - Jazz/ Fusion ensemble
Funk-A-Fid X - Power Funk-Jam Hammer Head
Rose Band – Rocking Blues Victoria Secret
Police (VSP) – Classic Pop Rock Pepper -
Original Power Pop / soul Ballads Blues
Broads Show Band and review – Blues Brother
Tribute Band Shaky Ground Top - 40 Dance
Everyday People - Soul, R&B, Funk.
Bassist Calen
Uhlig is a relative newcomer to the Portland
scene but has fast become a recognizable
presence in the music community.
Calen is already well-established on the
Oregon Coast after laying it down since 1997
for Astoria bands such as the Function and
Heather Christie Band, and also from nearly
two decades holding the bari sax chair for
coastal institution, the Bond Street Blues
Band. Since coming to Portland in early
2005 Calen has been playing constantly,
working with and learning from a wide
variety of P-town musicians, including
studies with renowned jazz bassist David
Captein, and hundreds of sideman gigs with
Mark & LaRhonda Steele, Amy Keys, Lloyd
Allen, Robert Carson, Reggie Houston, Robbie
Laws, Johnnie Ward & the Sharkskin Revue,
and many others. Calen has been fortunate
to have been invited to play such venues and
events as the Portland Rose Festival, the
Bite of Portland, the Bite of Vancouver, the
Crystal Ballroom, and the Portland
Waterfront Blues Festival. He has had the
opportunity to share the stage with national
touring acts as Kool & the Gang, Country Joe
MacDonald, and Lydia Pense & Cold Blood.
Calen is a founding member of the highly
unique quartet Caravan Gogh, which features
Portland Cello Project member Gideon
Freudmann and has been received multiple
features spots on OPB’s Artbeat. Calen is
an active member of the blues jamming
community as well, and can be found every
other Thursday hosting house bass at the
Monty’s jam in Beaverton, OR.
Calen grew up in sleepy Clatskanie, OR.
He began playing bass somewhere around
freshman year of high school, going on to
win the Louis Armstrong Award for jazz
performance his senior year. After
graduation from CHS, he moved to Astoria in
1997, where he had already been performing
regularly with Bond Street since 1992. He
lived on the Oregon Coast for seven years,
working in a music store and playing with
numerous bands simultaneously. He left
Astoria in fall of 2004 for a three-month
hiatus with friends in Edmonton, Alberta,
and then eventually landed in Portland to
explore the music scene and also to begin
college coursework. Calen now attends
Portland State University and expects to
complete a Bachelor’s of Science degree in
Electrical Engineering in 2010.
Calen says, "I've been with Everyday
People since summer of 2006. I actually got
the bass job by way of being hired as a
fill-in sax player! When I showed up to
rehearsal as former EDP saxman Alan
Jackson's cover man for a gig, it turned out
that they were seeking a replacement for
their current bassist who was soon going
back get a Master's degree, and I had
actually previously met and played with EDP
guitarist John Hannam at a jam in SE
Portland, so it was cool. Funny how things
just work out sometimes. I love playing
with Everyday People, because when you get a
full 7-piece band up and cooking, the
momentum you can create is insane..! We
play a lot of really danceable tunes, too,
and funk has some of the greatest bass
lines."
