Summer Concert Series: The Matt Powell Experience

The Matt Powell Experience is unlike any band around—delivering a high energy sound of all-original American roots music, at once bluesy and folksy, pretty and gritty. 
 

The band formed in Mountain Home in 2025, around Matt’s songwriting workshop at ASUMH and local blues jams, drawn together with a shared desire to create great music, full of soul and straight from the heart. 
 

Matt Powell’s guitar is rhythmic, tasty and full of tone—as one west coast blues legend noted, he “knows where to put it.” Jenny Woodruff honed her instinctive drumming style over 30 years of playing in bands covering a wide range of genres. Daddy Rabbit is a rolling stone who blows harp like he’s breaking out of jail. Cody Gilbert’s bass rounds out the sound with a warm foundation. 
 

Together they create an Experience unlike any band around—original songs with something to say, and a fire in the belly.