Party: Damn Right I've Got the Blues And Roots!

Party: Damn Right I've Got the Blues And Roots!

FT: THE BLUES PREACHERS + BONNIE KAY & THE BONAFIDES + SUGAR BOWL HOKUM

Damn Right I’ve got the Blues and Roots!

A night of traditional blues with a bit of a spin-off in a few different directions: 3 bands, 3 treatments.

The Blues Preachers: Brother John on guitar, banjo and vocals, and Captain Bluetongue on harmonica, mountain dulcimer and vocals were chosen by Yoko Ono as runners up in the John Lennon 70th. Birthday Anniversary Song writing Contest for their song about the GFC "Divine Justice Coming Down". They will make you want to get up and dance with their joyful country and ragtime blues, and send a shiver down your spine with their atmospheric feels, echoing and paying homage to the sacred sounds of early artists such as Blind Willie Johnson and The Reverend Robert Wilkins.

Bonnie Kay and The Bonafides Here is a unique sort of soulful and sass y package of blues and roots : Ope n it! Bonnie Kay, a contempora ry Ame rica n singe r/songwriter from Philly who lande d in Australia via Tokyo, uses acoustic, finge rpicking, slide -guitar techniques, plus a voice reminiscent of blues icon Bonnie Raitt's, to deliver her own red-hot, sexy sound. Her Bona fide companions ? Matt Russ ell adde d depth and support to the sound when the two became a duo. Wayne Rigby made the duo a trio with his saxophone and flute , taking the dance to a sobbing heap on the floor and then lifting it up into a foot-stomping, holle ring hootena nny . Add Jed Wesley Smith on double bass , Pere grin Chia ra on drums and Tanya Bethune on trumpet and you’ve got additiona l elements of jazz, soul and funk- a Bona fide Band with a capital B. That, there , is the whole truth.

Sugar Bowl Hokum Rewinding the musical clock to a time when cocaine and reefer were legal, modern womanhood was redefined ,the first sexual revolution was under way and blues was the pop music of the day,Sugar BowlHokum performsongs that drawon these themes. Comprised of PKon double bass, Tim O,Driscollon percussion, Michael Meissner on acoustic guitar &ukulele, Gray Read on Harmonica &Cassandra Woodfield on vocals and kazoo, their sound is bluesy&ragtime with some early jazz and swing overtones. The lineup is often augmented by trumpet. Their music has been played by specialist DJ’s on community radio stations
DOORS OPEN AT 6:30PM