Welcome to Pickin' Up Speed's Website!

(Under construction!)

Pickin' Up Speed is a Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based bluegrass band that has been in its current configuration since early 1999, but had its beginnings in 1982. The band has performed at festivals around the Midwest, coffeehouses, clubs, weddings and other events, mostly in the Milwaukee area. Pickin' Up Speed plays traditional bluegrass, in the style made popular by Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys. Two recordings have been released and the band is working on a third.

Contact: Linda Somers Sandersen
Phone: 414-961-0660
Email: lsandersen@wi.rr.com

Here are some more pictures of the band, and a few links:

Here's the  membership form for the Milwaukee Area Bluegrass Music Association!

Current gig list:

Gigs –2006 – Pickin’ Up Speed

1/7 – Bremen Café (with the Jefferson County Bluegrass Band), 901 E.

Clarke St., Milwaukee, WI 53212, 9 pm

1/21 – Olympia Brown Unitarian Church, Racine, WI, 7:30 pm

2/17 – Borders Bookstore at Southridge, Greenfield, WI, on S. 76^th St.

2 blocks south of Layton, 8-10 pm

3/18 – Tom’s Garage, Appleton, WI (?)

4/1 – MABMA 13^th Annual Spring Bluegrass Festival, Unitarian Church North,

13800 N. Port Washington Rd., Mequon, WI

5/20-21 – Mayfest, Lowell, MI

6/10-11 – Heritage Farm, Kewaunee, WI

7/8 – Delavan, WI, Bluegrass day

7/21-23 – BBC, Jefferson County Fair Park, Jefferson, WI

10/28 – Whitefish Bay pumpkin display

Click here for the 2002 gig list

Click here for the 2003 gig list

Click here for the 2004 gig list 

Click here for the 2005 gig list 

Don't worry, there's more to come!