Steve Pikal

Steve Pikal (upright bass) has been playing music professionally for many years and is highly regarded as a first call bass player from the Minnesota Twin Cities area jazz scene. He has had the pleasure backing shows with legendary performers such as Cab Calloway, Bob Hope, and Margaret Whiting. He enjoys keeping very active playing locally and nationally touring, recording, plus on many music festival circuits working with top bands and artists from all around the country. Some of his additional playing credits include the Jim Cullum Jazz band, Butch Miles, Artie Shaw Orchestra, the Barbary Coast Dixieland Show Band, Dick Hyman, Becky Kilgore, Banu Gibson, Delfeayo Marsalis, Harry Allen, Jon Weber, Danny Coots, Brian Holland, the Wolverines Big Band, Butch Thompson, Hal Smith, John Cocuzzi, Jeff Barnhart, The Midiri Brothers, and the Bill Evans New Orleans Jazz Band