Upbeat rhythm and blues rock 'n roll.

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The Root Band is a power rock trio with an infectious sound that covers a wide spectrum of music from rock, rhythm and blues to reggae. They perform songs you don't usually hear a band cover, like ZZ Top's, "La Grange", and Rick Derringers, "Rock and Roll Hoochie Coo," but it's not unusual to hear the band pull out their originals like, "Peace," and "Rasta Man", which always gets the audience, âAll Reved Upâ.

Root has been performing together for 15 years, "exciting the audience to dancing hysteria," says Laura Hull, manager of the Bethel Depot in Vermont where The Root Band first sunk their roots. Since then they've come down to the keys and in a few short years have generated quite a buzz about their good energy and tight sound. Valerie Ridenour of Key West The Newspaper says, "Rasta Man" is reggae at its best with great lyrics and a guitar production that is sheer magic." P.D. of the Vermont Review says, "Quality blues influenced rock and roll with some healthy hints of reggae is what this band is all about....these guys are out for a good time." The response to their sound is always spectacular.

Root is built around singer songwriter guitarist, David Tortolano, whom The Times Argus deems as having a "striking sound", with "brilliant almost fevered guitar playing." David has also played with Keith Godshaux of the Grateful Dead, and his band has opened for the Georgia Satellites and the Beaver Brown Band. Joining him on Bass is singer and saxophonist Rick Cleaver, who has countless years of professional performance and studio experiences with Philadelphia Rock bands Striker and Whitecollar and has performed locally with the Infinite Tolerance band which has shared the stage with Inner Circle and The Original Wailers. Rickâs rock solid rooted to the earth bass provides a full sounding bed to Davidâs electrifying leads, all filling up the aural spectrum with a top notch sound system. Newest addition and drummer extrodinaire, Hal Howland, is also a singer songwriter who has performed and composed classical, avant-garde, jazz rock, and folk music in America, Europe, and the Middle East.

Since The Root Band has been in the Keys, singer songwirter Adrienne has joined them and performs with them in the band Injade, but the boys still love to rock out on their own and perform regularly at places like Looe Key Tiki Bar and Geiger Key Marina.