About Bear Goes North
Bear Goes North is an instrumental alt-rock band based in Colorado. In theory the band encompasses more than just the two individuals listed below and is an umbrella for gathering all musicians who collaborate under the moniker. This iteration is based on the band’s current EP Covid Takes which featured Dustin Arndt on drums & percussion and Jason Tyler Vaughn on guitars & bass.
A new project is on the horizon and will be released later this year. Rehearsals have begun and charts are being made. Bear Goes North can be found on Instagram and can be reached via DM or the contact page on this site. Thanks for listening.
Dustin Arndt – Drums & Percussion
Dustin Arndt has performed all around the world, including tours in the United States, Canada and
Singapore. Equally at home in a concert hall or a small club, Dustin’s greatest attribute is diversity.
Playing over 100 gigs a year, Dustin stays busy as a freelance percussionist playing all types of music including Classical, Jazz, Rock, Dixie, Irish, World and many more. Dustin is an in demand Musical Theater Percussionist, specializing in drum set and percussion. Dustin received his bachelors degree in Percussion Performance from the Metropolitan State College of
Denver (now Metropolitan State University of Denver) in 2006. Former teachers include: Mark Foster, Ron Miles, Jeremy Sandoval, Jeff Gust and Paul Romaine.
Working for over twenty years as a music educator, Dustin is well versed in teaching drum set, mallets, orchestral percussion and world percussion. Dustin has been a featured lecturer at MSU Denver in the area of marching percussion. Dustin teaches percussion at Arapahoe High School in
Centennial, CO. as well as maintaining a private lessons studio in Castle Rock (Colorado Percussion Studios). He also performs several clinics a year throughout Colorado.
Dustin is, or has been, a member of such performing ensembles as The Colorado Wind Ensemble, The New York Street Boys, The Urban Island Steel Band, the LCMA Dixieland Band, the Tivoli Club Brass Band, and Reptiles and Samurai (Denver’s premier Oingo Boingo Tribute Band), as well as performing as a contract player with Boulders Dinner Theatre, Littleton Town Hall
Arts Center, The PACE Center, Performance Now, Inspire Creative and many, many more.
Dustin is proud to endorse Mapex/Majestic Percussion Instruments and Innovative Percussion Sticks and Mallets.
An avid outdoorsman, Dustin spends most of his free time in the mountains of Colorado where he loves fishing and camping with his family and friends.
Dustin lives in Castle Rock, CO with his wife Erin, twin daughters Lily and Molly, dog Ripley and two very spoiled cats, Lumos and Nox.
Dustin can be reached via email here.
Jason Tyler Vaughn – Guitars
Jason Tyler Vaughn is an Instrumentalist, Composer, Arranger and Producer as well as a Theatrical Music Director in the Denver/Northern Colorado/Colorado Springs communities. He has been teaching private music and instrumental performance lessons for the past 15 years and continues to do so. Jason graduated from MSU Denver with a Bachelor’s in Music and also studied at the University of Northern Colorado. Notable teachers include Dave Devine, Steve Kovalcheck, Ron Miles, and Jim White.
Jason has played 20+ musical theater productions all over Colorado including the Denver Center for the Performing Arts (Tommy, Xanadu), The Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities (Mamma Mia!, Jesus Christ Superstar, etc.), the Aurora Fox Arts Center, The Fine Arts Center at Colorado College and many more.
Jason is the band leader for the Denver based East Colfax Trio, a funk, blues and rock power trio and Bear Goes North, an instrumental alt-rock band. Bear Goes North released it’s first EP “Covid Takes” on May 21st and can be found on all major streaming platforms here – Bear Goes North – Covid Takes
Jason also runs Alliestar Studios, based in Colorado Springs, CO and Pelennor Publishing an ASCAP music publishing firm. Jason writes and records as often as possible at Alliestar Studios and is working on his first full length album this year with Bear Goes North.
When he is not doing all this craziness he crushes like crazy on his wife Alannah and dotes extensively on his two boys, Elias (3.5) and Asa (1).
Jason can be contacted via his website – jasontylervaughn.com
