Lake Street Dive is an American band founded in 2004 in Boston, Massachusetts The band's original members are Rachael Price (lead vocals), Mike "McDuck" Olson (trumpet, guitar), Bridget Kearney (upright bass), and Mike Calabrese (drums) Akie Bermiss (keyboards) joined the band on tour in 2017 and is on their 2018 album Lake Street Dive started at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston The band was named after a street with many dive bars in Olson's hometown of Minneapolis, Minnesota After meeting as fellow students at the New England Conservatory in Boston, the band was hand picked by Minneapolis trumpet/guitar player Mike Olson and named after an actual neighborhood of seedy bars in his hometown Vocalist Rachael Price came from outside Nashville, Tennessee, stand-up bassist Bridget Kearney was an Iowa native, while drummer Mike Calabrese called Philadelphia home “I wasn’t only impressed with their musicianship,” says Olson, who acquired the nickname “McDuck” while at the conservatory for his reclusive ways “They were also a lot of fun just to hang out with The first four years of rehearsals were more like glorified dinner parties
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