White hot & rollin’ like a freight train from behind the redwood curtain of Humboldt County, the rollickin’ funk-soul juggernaut that is Diggin Dirt has carved out a niche as a wildly transformative live party experience not to be missed. They rock’d JTMF back in May 2019, May 2021 & Oct 2023. Their two sets at High Sierra Music Festival in July were truly lit. These cats were phenomenal years ago, but they have put in the work – touring and rehearsing as if possessed – and it shows. They are tighter, more psychedelic, electric, eclectic and funktastic than ever. Shoveling their own path, Diggin Dirt has seen sustained growth over the past few years, with multiple national tours and festival stops at Jam Cruise, High Sierra, Hulaween, Same Same but Different, Live Oak, Cascade Equinox, Joshua Tree Music Festival and many more. Their infectious sound is fueled by blazing horns, searing guitars and a relentlessly driving rhythm section, and tying it all together is the band’s frontman who launches the ensemble into rarefied air with his pipes, charisma and natural-born soul. With flashes of James Brown or Sly and the Family Stone, Otis Redding or Tower of Power, the band’s sound is both familiar and yet refreshingly original, layering psychedelic rock, Motown soul, afrobeat and even reggae atop a thick foundation of late-60s inspired funk.
