The Captain Ledge Band

In August we were honored to play the New Orleans Jazz Museum. Here's a video of part of our set from that event. There are two songs in this video that will be part of our next album@
Give us a holler on Facebook. We're very active there and not so much with N1M due to how their site handles a multitude of things.

Once Mic and a $59 dollar camera

We are excited to announce that we recently licensed one of our songs to the Oklahoma Department of Human Services for a campaign to raise awareness about issues involving children. We gave them the song for free. It just seemed like the right thing to do.
Now the song "I Wish" has been entered in the New Orleans North American Song Competition and we need your help to win! All you have to do is click on the link below, fill in the form and hit vote. You won't be placed on any e-mail list unless you opt in to one. The prize is CASH and we'll use the money to help pay for our next album. The album will be produced by someone that has worked with Garth Brooks and Alyson Krause just to name a few.
In return for your help we're going to upload "I Wish" to N1M once the contest is over along with some other new music that we know you'll love!

(expired link)

Thank you for your help!

We're very excited to announce that this Sunday, July 12, you'll be able to catch us live from Studio B3. The event will stream live from The Captain Ledge Band Facebook page. Our current lineup features some awesome musicians with Clint Spears on guitar and Michael Roberson on Drums. Of course you'll also see Captain Ledge (Cliff Downing) on bass and vocals and the incomparable Jeana Downing on Mandolin and handling lead vocals.

Then get ready to hear this incredible lineup as we release 4 new EP's starting on August 1st! The four EP collection is all our favorites from our first two album re-recorded in a studio setting with the above mentioned line up AND we've licensed 3 of our favorite cover tunes for the release. Included will be Steve MIller's "The Joker" along with Sublime's "What I Got" and a little taste of Oklahoma with a song from Stoney LaRue called "Idabel Blues".

The 4 EP relase will be named "The Great Craptastic Divide" and each EP will be treated as a chapter with its own name and art work. The EP's will be released one per month for the next 4 months after which we'll return to the studio to record a whole new album complete with 10 new songs from the band.

We sincerely hope you'll join us on Facebook July 12th at 7pm for an awesome evening of music from The Captain Ledge Band!

Hello All!

Here's a link to a free download. Share it, stream it, download it. We hope you enjoy.

We'll be announcing lots of festival appearances in the near future. Follow us on Facebook to find where we're at this summer.

(expired link)

Much love and peace to you all!

The Captain Ledge Band

We're excited to announce The Captain Ledge Band has been nominated in three categories by the International Music and Entertainers Association for their 2018 Awards.

The categories are

Bluegrass Band of the Year
Bluegrass Album of the Year - Rumors of The Great White Skunk
Bluegrass Song of the Year - Bucket Mouth (video link (expired link) )

You can help us win! 20% of the voting is fan based and anyone can vote. Just follow this link or copy and paste it into your browser (expired link) then click where it says "Music". This will take you to the official ballot. You don't have to fill out the entire ballot. Just scroll down to the Bluegrass section and click beside our name. Then scroll down and submit.

Thanks for the Help and let's get ready for an awesome summer!

Check out a video we recorded Live last Saturday February 17th, 2018 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. If you like it please follow us on Facebook or Bands in Town and catch us as we prepare for our summer tour!
(expired link)

This was recorded live in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Saturday February 17th. If you like it check our The Captain Ledge Band on facebook and give us a like. Then find us on bands in town and follow us as we prepare for our summer tour.

Stay in touch as we'll be releasing songs for our third album.

The Captain Ledge Band isn’t just about a love story between Jeana and Cliff Downing. It’s also a story about coming back from a catastrophic injury to return to doing what you love.

Bass player and vocalist Cliff Downing has toured througout the United States as both a sound tech and a musician. Playing club dates and “one nighters” Cliff spent much of the 1980’s working with the hair bands of those years in large clubs. Tiring of touring Cliff spent 1988 to 2001 in Tulsa living and working for himself.

In 1996, while playing softball, Cliff shattered bones in his right wrist. The resulting injury put him into an external fixature device for 2 months followed by months and months of cast and rehabilitation. The surgeon that pieced the wrist together informed Cliff that he was lucky to be able to use his right hand. Playing bass was going to be out of the question. Frustrated and somewhat depressed after several attempts Cliff set his bass down and didn’t pick it up again for 10 years.

In the meantime he met and married Jeana in 2006. In 2007 Jeana and started playing the mandolin. combining her voice with the mandolin produced an inviting and beautiful sound. It wasn’t long until she was urging Cliff to try to play bass again so they could make music together.

And it worked! The two have been performing together as The Captain Ledge Band ever since. Playing and singing together has resulted in two albums with a third on the way! They’ve collaberated with Jimmy Henley, formerly of the Roy Clark Band for 26 years and winner of the award as “Best Banjo Player in the World” two years in a row, and Tony Adams, formerly of Grammy Winner Michael Ginsberg’s band, who contributed to their first two albums. There have been tours and the band has appeared in such venues as The House of Blues in New Orleans, the Malibu Wine Festival in Malibu California and locally for 5 years in a row at The Robbers Cave State Park Antique Tractor Show.

The Captain Ledge Band is also in the process of working on material for their third album which will be recorded with award winning producer Mark Hornsby. Hornsby has worked with stars like Garth Brooks and Allyson Krause along with winning awards for his work with The London Philharmonic.

The Captain Ledge Band has a smooth “bluesey grass” sound with wonderful mellow harmonies and a musical style that will leave you with a toe tapping smile. They have been featured in Wake Magazines 2014 Year end Sampler that featured female vocalist from around the world as well as having had the video for their song “Threadbare” broadcast nationally for 18 months on ZUUS Country TV along with CMT. They’ve also been a part of Podcast and radio broadcast of their music in not just the United States but also Germany and England.

In the last several years the band has begun to appear at festivals and performed to eager crowds of fans across the Midwest and as far west as California. Appearances at Festivals in 2017 have resulted in their being asked back in 2018 to every festival they played at in 2017!

We know you probably follow other bands but we want to do something that NO ONE else has done for you. That's why we're giving away for FREE a download of our entire show on Saturday July 15th, All you have to do is click on this link. There are songs from both our albums along with some new songs that will be on our 3rd album. Don't forget you can find The Captain Ledge Band on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

We hope you enjoy this almost 2 hour long mp3. We guarantee you we're one of the best sounding bands you ever hear live and this will prove it. If the link doesn't work just copy and paste it into your browser.

(expired link)

Thanks for following us!

The Captain Ledge Band

Our video "Threadbare" is on CMT. They're the largest video channel in the world and we need your help to get their attention! By following the link no only will you get to see a great video but you'll also help us move up in their video rankings.

(expired link)

The video was produced by former Hanson videographer Paul Lawson. It features the guitar playing of a former member of the band of Grammy Winner Michael Ginsberg and was shot in and around our SE Oklahoma home. It's beautifully done and there's a bonus at the end!

During the shooting of the video we had the good luck of having a double rainbow appear. You can see it at the end of the video.

We managed to video our show last Saturday night and thought you might like to see us on stage.

We covered "Whiskey" by Trampled by Turtles. We hope you enjoy!

Don't be afraid to message us. We try to respond to every single one.

and while we're at it...

Our new album will be released on May 10th!

Peace