Nashville's best classic rock cover band. Ever!
There's only one way to rock, and you can do it by booking
the VELVET DOGS for your big event!
There's only one way to rock, and you can do it by booking
the VELVET DOGS for your big event!
First Horizon Park | 19 Junior Gilliam Way
This will be our fifth appearance at the St. Jude Rock 'N' Roll Running Series, better known as the Nashville Marathon. Start your day with ...
First Horizon Park | 19 Junior Gilliam Way
4957 Lebanon Pike | Old Hickory
It's Kentucky Derby Day Evening so join your fellow horseplayers at Bottle & Barrel (the venue formerly known as Double E) to celebrate your...
4957 Lebanon Pike | Old Hickory
142 Belle Forest Circle | Bellevue
Our January date at Wynot Saloon was postponed due to snow, ice and single-digi temps. If that happens on May 11, the Wynot Be Old Fashioned...
142 Belle Forest Circle | Bellevue
155 Legends Drive | Lebanon
Twelve years and we've never played in Lebanon. But that'll change in a big way when we visit Legends Sports Grill!
155 Legends Drive | Lebanon
3248 Blackwood Drive Nashville
It's CMA Fest Weekend and, if you're like us, there's no place else you'd rather be - than Rebar ATD! See ya there!
3248 Blackwood Drive Nashville
Elton John has about 100,000 great songs.
We can't play 'em all but this is one of our favorites.
Velvet Dogs play songs that everyone knows and loves but rarely hear from a cover band. Lido Shuffle by Boz Scaggs is a good example.
Some songs, like this Carly Simon classic, are even better when they get the Velvet Dogs treatment.
The Velvet Dogs' inauspicious beginning dates back to 2009 when Ed Atlas played guitar so poorly that he got kicked out of a band he co-founded.
With a staggering blend of resolve and naiveté, he forged onward, scouring Craigslist and the bulletin board at the local Guitar Center in search of like-minded musicians. It was against this backdrop that a meeting with vocalist Hal Perry - who had been booted by a band as well – was inevitable.
The band that would eventually become the Velvet Dogs jammed for the first time during the spring of 2012. Later that year, a co-worker overheard Ed bemoaning the fact that he couldn’t find a bass player for his fledgling project. She told her husband and that’s how Kevin Murakami joined the debacle.
The Velvet Dogs made their public debut on May 18, 2013 at the Bellevue Picnic in Nashville. The lineup has changed a few times over the years but the core remains the same. In 2017 Kevin switched to guitar and a national search landed drummer Dennis Kennedy. OK, so his employer transferred him to Nashville, but whatever. Kevin Jonas, the most recent addition, was the last man standing after a competitive round of bass auditions in 2021.
Some guys play golf; others do this. And while their golf scores have suffered, playing crunchy/grungy/poppy/metally cover tunes is tons of fun for the Velvet Dogs and their legions of followers. Catch ‘em at an upcoming show or, better yet, hire ‘em for one of your own!
The Velvet Dogs are for hire and are booking dates for 2024 and beyond. So, if you’re getting married or divorced … if you own a bar or you’re having a Bar Mitzvah … or if it's just "been a long time since you've rock and rolled,” book 'em. They'll change your life!
The band is named after The Velvet Dog, a great New Orleans bar that did not survive Hurricane Katrina. It was located in the French Quarter on the "local side" of St. Peter Street, directly across from Preservation Hall and Pat O'Brien's. Friendly folks. Bikers. Cops. And a juke box with everything from Helen Reddy to Queens Of The Stone Age.
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