The John Masino Band hails from Madison, Wisconsin and has won innumerable music awards! The current 4 piece line-up features guitarist/vocalist/songwriter, John Masino, an inimitable Midwest music veteran, and former CBS Nemperor Records recording artist. On lead vocals is one the Midwest’s top vocalist’s, the incomparable Bobby Duncanson. And featuring a powerful, talented rhythm section featuring bassist Bob Kennedy, and drummer Brian Dahl.

The group has a history steeped in performing hundreds of shows at concerts, bars, and private events in Wisconsin. Each member has been an integral part of many of Wisconsin’s notable bands. Click this link: https://music.youtube.com/channel/UC75-eNWl1GQLcu0oyR-HeSQ for current albums by John Masino Awards: *Madison Area Music Association: 2023 World song of the year: John Masino “Transcend” 2023 Jazz/New age song of the year: John Masino “One Mind” Best Guitarist in the 2022 Madison Area Music Association. 2022 Best World Album for “Phase into Change” Past awards: Winning both Madison and Minneapolis rounds for Guitar Center’s King of the Blues Contest and 2010 Madison Area Music Award winner for Best Guitarist, and many other song and vocal contest awards Regular rotation on the Todd Rundgren Radio channel, as well as local airplay on Madison’s Triple M radio, 94.1 WJJO- Interviewed by Tommy Rage, WVMO (Monona, WI) Max Ink Radio 2013- Performed with the UW Varsity band (Director Mike Leckrone) for 3 nights in April at the Kohl Center Madison, WI 1999- Runner up in the Jimi Hendrix Electric Guitar Competition in Memphis, TN 1981-1983-Studio musician in New York, NY 1980- Signed to CBS Nemperor Records and recorded the Gregg Clemons album at Shade Tree Studios in Lake Geneva, WI Noted as one of the top 3 guitarists to audition for Foghat in 1980 Auditioned for Rick Derringer (1977), The Rascals (1982), Foreigner- for lead vocalist) and many other New York bands Late 1970s- Punch /managed by Ken Adamany, toured Midwest, Texas, Oklahoma, St. Louis, Montana, Colorado, Nebraska, Illinois and Iowa. National shows with Kool and The Gang, Cheap Trick, The Tubes, John Couger Mellencamp, Head east, Ted Nugent, Mountain (Leslie West) Rick Derringer, Foghat, Robin Trower, Savoy Brown, Blue Oyster Cult, Kenny Wayne Sheppard, KC and The Sunshine Band, America, Jackyl, Quiet Riot, and many others

 Current Albums:  https://music.youtube.com/channel/UC75-eNWl1GQLcu0oyR-HeSQ

Thunder Bolt release:  https://youtu.be/c3vZWdUC8wc