Musician and State Senate Candidate Mike Reardon

7 pm Saturday Night, October 9 -- Brookings, SD
Old City Hall, 310 4th Street (between Main Street and 3rd Avenue)
Speeches by Candidates, music with Mike Reardon

Mike Reardon is running for the South Dakota state senate, district 35. He is also a well known Rapid City musician. Both abilities will be on display Saturday night, October 9 in Brookings. He will speak and also play music starting at 7 pm, Old City Hall, 310 4th Street. The event is free and open to the public.

Reardon is part of the “Whistle Stop Tour of the I-29 Dairy Corridor” being put together by the “I-29ers for Quality of Life.” He will also have his guitar aboard the I-29er motor home on which some of the nineteen legislative candidates will ride along with some of the press. The event will feature stops for speeches in eight towns from Canton to Watertown.

Also speaking at the Brookings event will be Roger Prunty (District 7), Rich Widman (District 7) Steve Burge (District 6), Larry Rudebusch probable (District 4) and Frank Kloucek (District 19). Other speakers will include Kristi Prunty who is running for Brookings County Commission and well known farm expert Bob Mack.

The rest of the evening will feature a relaxed coffee house atmosphere where people can mingle and enjoy the music while Reardon performs. Mike enjoys spontaneous interaction with an audience and carries a bag of assorted percussion instruments with him to create an on-the-spot rhythm section.

Mike is open to meeting and jamming with other musicians, which frequently happens during a show. Some of his own original songs can be found on his CD, "Michael Sean Reardon".

Mike draws from a wide song repertoire of originals and well known songs from Gershwin to Greenday, Neil Young to Cold Play, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, and Woody Guthrie.

A Boston trained musician, Reardon moved to Rapid City in 1994. He has played with many Black Hills bands including the Counter Players, Abby SomeOne, and Toadstool Jamboree as well as his own acoustic rock band "No Clue! He plays bass from time to time for several well known 1950's bands -- the Platters, the Drifters and the Coasters.

Reardon has performed at coffee houses, restaurants, bars, casinos, music festivals and in concert around South Dakota, Minnesota, Wyoming, Colorado, and Arizona. He has played in Brookings before at the Joe House and the Jackalope Lounge. Mike attended Boston's Berklee College of Music and Massachusetts College of Art.