Real name: Kenny Tompkins

The Christmas Lights are an experimental and progressive side project of prolific songwriter/producer Kenny Tompkins. At the projects peak in 2009-2012, Tompkins expanded the project into a live band which included brother Curt Tompkins on Drums, Gibb Cochrum (aka Gilbert Lee) on sampler, and Derek Shank on Keys, percussion, and bass. The band toured as support for such acts as Circa Survive, Cotton Jones, and Good Old War.