Vocals - Percussion
Trixie Johnsen was born and raised in Bellybutton, Saskatchewan to mother Jude Johnson, a Nashville session Theremin player, and father Jim “Slidey” Johnston - 1975 Grammy award winner for his slide whistle solo on ...
...Spiff Argyle’s super hit single, Spiff Licious from their album, This is Spiff. Growing up in a musical household, Trixie joined her first band at 16, Stumbling Distance, with three high school friends. A cover band, Stumbling Distance routinely played local grain elevator parties until the group disbanded in 1993 when Johnsen founded Trixie and the Snake Milkers. A post-neo glam rock group, the Snake Milkers included members Dee Dee Domino (guitar), InkAnna (bass), Cedric Savage (drums), and multi-instrumentalist, Bambi Fennelseed (bongos, tenor recorder, banjo, washboard, bicycle chain, and marble machine). Trixie and the Snake Milkers went on to win three Juno awards:
Band name of the year – 2001;
Most wrecked hotel room – 2003;
Album of the year for He’s Either a Mormon or a Serial Killer - 2006
Johnsen took a musical hiatus for a number of years to take on a lucrative career in professional bridesmaiding having been hired to be a bridesmaid for more than 1200 brides.
Johnsen met Daj Ronson in 2017 at a wedding at which she was a hired bridesmaid and Ronson was a member of the band, Orchestra Orlando Russo. Johnsen and Ronson went on to be married in 2020 and eventually formed SHAG, the Band in 2022 after having finally finished Netflix during the pandemic.