The Jeremy Facknitz Band

“This is all far above the ordinary. The 6-member band are the chefs in a musical kitchen – each recipe conjured tastefully... A good time is guaranteed for all.” - John Apice — Americana Highways

Jeremy Facknitz’s most recent album is titled "Smilin’ At The Future", a caption from his high school graduation photo in the hometown newspaper. If the songs smile at the future, it’s not idealism but a need to transcend the struggle of the present and the wounds of the past. This is the sixth record by the two-time Kerrville Grassy Hill New Folk Songwriting Competition finalist and 2023 Posi Award Winner, and it’s his strongest songwriting and most imaginative music yet. Facknitz describes his music as “indie rock with a made-for-the-theatre twist. I’m a singer-songwriter, but I’m not 3 chords and the truth - I’m 8 to 15 chords and cryptic cynicism. Less like John Prine and Townes Van Zandt - more like Elvis Costello and Lin Manuel Miranda.”   

Surprisingly, these lively descriptors make sense. Like Costello and Miranda, Facknitz is a gifted storyteller open to finding new forms and new sounds. Writing about his album From These Sweet Ashes, Collin Estes writes that Facknitz’s “emphasis on song-craft is immediately apparent, and the album an artistic triumph.” Loring Wirbel writes “The next instantiation of Nick Lowe and other power-pop barons already exists, and From Those Sweet Ashes is his defining work to date.” Wirbel goes on to compare Facknitz’s music to Andrew Bird and John Darnielle.   

While many fans consider him a recent discovery, Jeremy has entertained audiences with his lovingly crafted music and high-energy performances for over a quarter century. Since the 2002 break-up of his Detroit-based band "The Ottomans" (they earned a 2001 Detroit Music Award for Best New Alternative Band, beating out "The White Stripes"), Jeremy has performed primarily as a solo act, marrying folk-rock and jazz stylings to showcase his intimate stories of life, love, and self-discovery.   

While touring the U.S., Canada and UK primarily as a solo act, Jeremy loves to perform here in Colorado with his high-energy, world-class 6 piece band consisting of Ricky Sweum, David Siegel (Grass It Up, Mango Fan Django), John Standish, Mike Kimlicko (Treo) and Brad Plesz (Treo).