Mike Sugar is an extraordinary and unpredictable musician hailing from New Orleans, now residing in the Central California. His obsessive curiosity for music and instruments as a teen led to formal study of basses, guitars, classical music, jazz, modern composition and music technology from U.C.S.D. Sugar then took to the road with Jambay, a band he co founded while in college. He spent the next years cutting his teeth to a fine edge playing venues all over the states, giving rise to numerous bootleg tapes still circulating today. Jambay released 3 original CDs, composed for film, and were the subject of a documentary DVD chronicling their tireless output. They also toured as Ken Kesey's house band/opening act for his stage play "Twister". Since Jambay split up Sugar has lent his varied musical talents to many recording and touring artists and bands, most notably, Kingfish, Melvin Seals, and most recently, The Sunshine Brothers. He has jammed onstage with artists including J.J. Cale, Taj Mahal, Jon Fishman, Bob Weir, and Narada Michael Walden. He has continued participation in projects of all the members of the Jambay family: Matt Butler's The Everyone Orchestra, The Redwood Project, Chris Haugen's Seahorse Rodeo, Shelley Doty's X-tet, Perps, etc. Currently Mike is producing albums, writing songs for his own recording and performing projects including the The Soda Pop Addicts and looking forward to performing with good friends and fine musicians throughout 2010.