SheyRoth

Behind the turntables

Music has always been the center of Shey's world. As DJ Shifty Shey, he reads a room like a record — energy, taste, and an intuitive feel for exactly what a crowd needs to hear next. Parties, bars, private events, festivals: he builds a set that keeps the floor moving.

The name is the whole philosophy. To shift is to change — a DJ's job is to move people from one feeling to the next, one blend at a time.

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For event info, find “Shifty Shey” on Facebook or @shifty.shey on Instagram. To shift is to change — thank you.

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Where he comes from

Shey Roth is the son of Paul Terry Walhus of Austin, Texas — web pioneer and builder of the WholeTech Network — and descendant of two remarkable American family lines.

On his father's side, the roots trace to Norwegian immigrants who settled Spring Grove, Minnesota in the 1850s — the state's first Norwegian settlement. Great-grandfather Dr. Martin J. Walhus practiced dentistry there for fifty years.

On the Frauenthal side: Max Frauenthal, a Civil War hero who founded Heber Springs, Arkansas; Dr. Henry Frauenthal, a survivor of the Titanic; Barney W. Frauenthal of St. Louis Union Station; and cousin Barney Ebsworth, who built one of the greatest private art collections in American history.

From the fjords of Norway to the battlefields of Virginia, from the decks of the Titanic to the turntables of Sonoma County — quite a lineage.