BIO
VAN TASTIK is an U.S-born Roots Artist with a story to tell and an unforgettable way of telling it.
VAN TASTIK shines like a sepia tinged sun, infusing his music with a magnetic energy that captivates and inspires like the traveling preachers of old. Jumping into crowds and celebrating the hardships of life through music. Creating warmth and familiarity through humor, crowd participation, hollerin’, and foot-stompin’. The shows are a riveting, humorous and calculated pastiche of some eerie, forgotten Pentecostal travellin’ church service.
VAN TASTIK notably appeared with artists such as Cam Cole, The Bridge City Sinners, Left Lane Cruiser, Dirty Deep and Lighting Luke and at festivals such as Wacken Open Air, Rotterdam Bluegrass, Muddy Roots Tennessee and Muddy Roots Buenos Aires, 3 consecutive years at Muddy Roots Europe, with a breakthrough set at Culemborg Blues and a sold out debut album release tour.
According to the Fallen Reverend “The Darkness” has just been misbranded - it’s literally a party and a chance for all of us to light up the dark! It’s the very dark room in which we are enjoying VAN’s Dark Delta Rock coming together to celebrate the moment united through music and common experience.
¡But beware! You may leave with more energy than you came with!
And as they always say before closing off a show: