Growing up in a household full of first-chair talent, Royce absorbed the frequencies put forth and, like a pearl, slowly grew inside of his oyster. Making his debut at the ripe young age of 33 with his album “For Freedom,” he has spent the past few years touring from the upper parts of the Olympic Peninsula down to the Bay Area. Crafting the art of the troubadour has been his passion, and anyone with a keen sense for sound and authenticity can tell that “this ain't smoke’n’mirrors”.

He has shared the stage or opened for The Muddy Souls, Electric Tumbleweed with Barry Sless, Matt Sircely, Sebastian Saint James, and The Highway Poets. In this day and age, ripe with auto-tuned songs about the aimless wonderings of the monotonous day-to-day of modern society, Royce provides the listener with a contemplative experience of perspectives developed from journeys inside of the mind and outside of the body. A listener once quipped, “Ahh not another God song……actually, this reminds me of Leonard Cohen with a hint of Jackson Browne”.

Royce has found inspiration in the likes of Jerry Jeff, Blaze, Townes, Guy, Todd Snider, Colter Wall, Nick Drake, “the Johns” (Mayall, Mayer, Prine, Hartford, Craige) Brent Cobb, and the tunes spinning on community radio.

If you are within 20 minutes of where he is playing, as the crow flies, there's a chance you might just have yourself a good time.