A man who wears many hats, Steven Gevenich has carved out a career in the music industry over the last 15 years as an independent artist, bandleader, music producer, DJ, tour manager, recording engineer, educator, and songwriter.

Steven’s band, The Misery Mountain Boys, played its first show at the Belle Centre in Peace River on June 1st, 2012, and has gone on to play hundreds of shows across Western Canada, including showcases, theatres, and festivals such as North Country Fair, Kaslo Jazz Festival, Jasper Folk Festival, Wild Mountain Music Festival, South Country Fair, and Robson Valley Music Festival.

In 2016 he completed a diploma in Recording & Music Production from MacEwan University, and has gone on to record and produce multiple records for the Misery Mountain Boys and other projects. This was also the jumping off point for his electronic dance music project, Honeydripper, which has garnered over 10 million streams on Spotify to date. More recently, in the spring of 2026, he completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Jazz Guitar Performance at MacEwan University.

No stranger to the presenter side of the industry, since 2022,  also works as an Artistic Director and Marketing Director for Starbelly Jam Music Festival, based out of Crawford Bay, BC. 

Band Bio:

You might hear the tunes of the Misery Mountain Boys drifting from behind a rotating bookcase of a 1930’s speakeasy. Harkening back to a simpler time, the MMB’s create a soundscape infused with tongue in cheek wit, playfulness, and nostalgia. The bands performance delivers as both classic and fresh, offering a generous variety of sweaty jazz numbers, velvety love songs, and swingin' jump-blues.

With the release of the Misery Mountain Boys fourth album, Somebody Stole My Peaches (2025), this feisty and focused group continues to establish itself as a top drawer example of a retro-cool roots group. Fuelled by a big bouquet of sounds, some of the group’s musical touchstones have been in the wind for a century, while others are of a homemade variety that have enabled this quintet to create a recognizable spin on classic feels.

“The Misery Mountain Boys have truly created a sound all their own — playful, energetic, melodic, fun- loving, and toe-tapping. With their groovin' musical sophistication and whip-smart song- writing, this is a band that can win over any audience, of any age — from punk rockers to devotees of old-time country, jazz, and blues.” - Grant Stovel (CKUA Radio)