Lonnie Schumacher

A life-long Ft. Pierre, South Dakota resident, Lonnie is the Einstein of the group. He has been playing bass guitar since he was 12 “because I only had to play one note at a time”.

Playing in Rock and Country band and the original bass player for the Red Willow Band of the mid 70's, he has become a very gifted jazz bass performer over the past 9 years. “Just as singers get off on that neat three part harmony, when we achieve that instrumental nirvana of musical communication, it makes up for all the practice and hauling gear.”

He is self employed at “Lonnie’s Homework” and can fix just about everything and we mean everything. When a friend told him he had taken the whole weekend to fix something, he replied, " you should have called me, I could do that in a lunch hour!"

The photo with his stand up blonde (there isn't enough room for his 18 or so other electric bass guitars) have been house pets as his wife, Vickie, and two daughters have had to find other space for their things.