Umphrey's McGee, sometimes stylized as UM, is an American rock band originally from South Bend, Indiana.

The band experiments with many musical styles, including rock, metal, funk, jazz, blues, reggae, electronic, bluegrass, country, and folk.

Since 2002,[1] they have been the headlining act and organizers of Summer Camp Music Festival, which is held annually in Three Sisters Park in Chillicothe, Illinois.

Formed by students at the University of Notre Dame in December 1997, members were guitarist/vocalist Brendan Bayliss, Johnzo West, Jeff Topp, bassist Ryan Stasik, keyboardist Joel Cummins, and drummer Mike Mirro.

Umphrey's McGee combined members of Tashi Station and Stomper Bob, two Notre Dame rock bands.

Brendan Bayliss, our other lead singer and guitar player has a cousin ... and his name is actually Humphrey Magee but it's not possessive with the apostrophe s ..."[3] In mid-1998, after 8 months together, the band released their debut album, Greatest Hits Vol.

Although long out of print, the album contains songs that remain staples of Umphrey's live sets, such as "Divisions", "Phil's Farm", "FF", and "All in Time".

By the end of the year, Umphrey's McGee, along with peers Ali Baba's Tahini, were one of the most popular bands in the South Bend/Notre Dame area.

[citation needed] They began performing outside the area at colleges and house parties, allowing listeners to tape and trade their music freely.

Cinninger deepened the Umphrey's sound, and also contributed a large repertoire of original music, much of which comprised the bulk of the catalog from his previous band, Ali Baba's Tahini.

[citation needed] After hundreds of audition tapes were reviewed by the percussionist Andy Farag, the band settled on the first one they had received, which was from Kick the Cat drummer Kris Myers.

[citation needed] In 2004, the band released Anchor Drops, recorded in several different studios throughout the Chicago area.

"[7] Starting in 2005, the band began producing Umphrey's McGee Podcasts, an effort to provide fans with highlights of recent shows.

That evening, the band performed with Huey Lewis for the first time (they were also joined by Mavis Staples, Sinéad O'Connor, and Jeff Coffin).

The band was featured at many of the major U.S. festivals throughout the summer, playing 129 shows before a three-night stand in Chicago for New Year's Eve.

Near the end of 2006, Umphrey's began a program to provide complimentary tickets to audience tapers in exchange for their distributing the recordings digitally online.

The album was recorded over two nights at the Egyptian Room in the Murat Centre in Indianapolis, Indiana, on April 6–7, 2007.

Riffing on the idea of mash-ups popularized by DJs, they arrange new composition from 2–3 songs (a mix of covers and originals).

With the album's pre-order came a set of packages for super fans, including fishing trips and bar crawls with the band.

[citation needed] On July 16, 2021, UM released their thirteenth studio album, You Walked Up Shaking In Your Boots But You Stood Tall And Left A Raging Bull.