Friday, May 25, 2012 -- Kick-Off Dance
9 pm - 1 am
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Buffalo Dance Hall,
211 N Bullard St.
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Pat “Guitar Slim” Chase
Although he's never had a lesson in his life, at age ten Pat Chase says he first started learning guitar at by playing around on his brother’s guitar. Since then Pat has backed up, and in some cases toured with, John Lee Hooker, Albert Collins, Brownie McGhee, Charles Brown, Buddy Guy and Junior Wells, Lowell Fulson, Luther Tucker, Pee Wee Crayton, Phillip Walker & George "Harmonica" Smith, Rod Piazza, and Smoky Wilson. He has been a member of The William Clark Band, Ron Thompson & the Resistors, and Mark Hummel and the Blues Survivors.
After more than a decade of playing in his own band with some of the Northwest's best players, Pat "Guitar Slim" Chase released his first CD of blues, instrumentals, R&B and a little rock 'n roll entitled, "Dedicated" (dedicated to his father). This debut recording, won the Northwest Area Music Association award for Best Blues Recording, in 1991. It received extensive airplay on KMTT, KPLU, KXRX, KCMU, KBCS and other area blues programming, as well as local television and print reviews. This increased media attention has enabled Guitar Slim to play more varied gigs for arts organizations, festivals and other events.
www.guitarslim.net
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Saturday, May 26, 2012 -- at Gough Park
12:15 - 1:25 pm |
Muddy Hands Blues Band
The Muddy Hands Blues Band was formed in Las Cruces New Mexico the Spring of 2011 by bassist John Hyndman. The band was put together to play a benefit for the restoration of the 100 year old adobe constructed Phillips Chapel in the old Mesquite district of Las Cruces. The boys offered up their talent as The Muddy Hands Blues Band in the spirit of those folks, including John, that in fact were getting muddy hands restoring the oldest African-American church in Las Cruces. As the band rehearsed for the benefit it became clear there was a special chemistry between the members and clearly a passion for playing the blues.
The Muddy Hands Blues Band brings years of professional experience to the stage. MHBB is Ben Altamirano on vocals and harp, Royce Bandle on drums, Bill Godby on guitar and John Hyndman on upright bass. The bands songlist includes a mixture of classic Chicago blues, Texas shuffle and Memphis blues that includes tunes by Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Little Walter, BB King, Slim Harpo, Jimmy Reed, Otis Span, Albert Colllins and Freddie King.
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1:45 - 2:45 pm |
Kas Nelson Trio featuring Sunny James
Kas Nelson: Harry Truman was the president. What's that tell ya?
Jay Ortiz: Jay and I have been playing around town with the Kas Nelson Trio for a couple of years now. Jay is about 7 weeks younger than me. I know this because he brings it up several times a week. Eisenhower was elected a couple of weeks after the bundle of joy that is Jesus Ortiz arrived.
Ken Stone (Im sure you'll recognize Ken. He's the CBB drummer as well), He was born during the Johnson administration…I guess. Maybe it was the Nixon administration?
Sunny James, our new 'discovery' ---well, Sunny has been singing for years, but hey...I just discovered her. We’ll put “impresario” on my bio now. Anyway, Sunny has performance experience with big crowds, and has a very likeable and inviting charismatic stage presence. Sunny is significantly younger than me. Im not sure, but I think Sunny was born late in the Reagan administration. She does not hesitate to point out the differences in our ages. Hopefully not on stage at the blues festival.
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3:15 - 4:45 pm
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Big Daddy D and the Dynamites
Brace yourselves for Northern Arizona's premier house rockin' blues band, Big Daddy D. & the Dynamites!
This group of five comes from all parts of the country, and one thing ties them all together: a passion for playing the blues. Founded in 1998, Big Daddy D and the Dynamites began with Darryl ‘Big Daddy D’ Porras and three others scraping around for gigs, but the group has since evolved into a serious band in blues demand.
With Darryl as the lead singer/rhythm, Carlos B. Jones on the drums, Gary Regina on saxophone, Drew Hall on guitar and vocals, and Steven Ayres on guitar, this group brings to the stage a variety of sounds from their collective five albums. They were the 2007 winners of the Arizona Blues Showdown and featured performers at the 2011 Bisbee Blues Festival.
www.bigdaddydblues.com
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5:15 - 6:45 pm |
Jason Elmore & Hoodoo Witch
Jason Elmore is a Dallas, TX-based guitarist/singer/songwriter who has taken the music scene by storm in just a short period of time. Front his trio, Jason Elmore & Hoodoo Witch, Elmore is able to bring together elements of popular blues/rock/Americana in his performances that seem to bridge the gap between blues, rock, country, surf and jazz. He is remarkable in his ability to appeal to fans of all genres of music with his devastating guitar licks, soulful old-school vocals, keen sense of humor and imaginative-yet-familiar songwriting.
A high-energy melting pot of musical styles that is reminiscent of Johnny Winter, Rory Gallagher, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Freddie King, all one needs to do is watch them play live on time in order to have a good understanding of how all these different genres of music have a common thread when it comes to eliciting an emotional response from the listener and taking them to that special place where only the music exists.
www.jasonelmore.net
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7:15 - 9:00 pm |
Trampled Under Foot
Siblings Danielle, Kris and Nick Schnebelen grew up with the Blues. Their parents, Bob and Lisa, were active in the thriving Kansas City Blues scene, playing in local bands and competing in the Kansas City Blues Challenge. Bob and Lisa’s band didn’t make it to the International Blues Challenge in Memphis — but their kids’ did. When Trampled Under Foot arrived in Memphis for the 2008 IBC, they were followed by huge, wildly enthusiastic throngs of hometown supporters, eager to cheer for their favorite musical family.
When Trampled Under Foot took First Place in the competition and Nick won the Albert King award for best guitarist, it was a sweet victory for the Schnebelen family and for Kansas City itself. TUF has been on a roll ever since, becoming popular repeat headliners at clubs, festivals and cruises around the world and releasing CDs and a DVD on their own label.
In just 2011 and 2012 alone, the band has won a medley of awards including Blues Matters Writers Poll International’s Best Newcomer, Best Studio Album, Best Ban, and Best Vocalist, in addition to nominations for Blues Music Award’s Best Instrumentalist for Bass and Band of the Year.
www.tufkc.com
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9 pm - 1 am
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Festival Musician Jam Session
at the
Buffalo Dance Hall
211 N Bullard St.
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Sunday, May 27, 2012 -- at Gough Park
12:00 - 1:00 pm |
The Greenwood Misses
"The Greenwood Misses" are not from Greenwood Mississippi, but rather from Tucson, London, and a South Texas bayou, and now reside in the Silver City area. Between them, Manda Clair Jost and Esther Jamison have a combined height of 12 feet and over 50 years of diverse guitar-playing experience. The group formed when Jost and Jamison discovered a shared love for the music of Mississippi John Hurt and other early (1920's) artists from a time when blues, folk, ragtime, and jazz were still "mostly the same thing". Versatile drummer Robyn Caruso brings a tasteful minimalism to this genre of blues that was traditionally performed without any percussion. Robyn also collaborated with Manda Clair in the New Mexico based group "The Tarantchiladas", but is perhaps best known for her early television appearances as a member of "The Electric Mayhem". Come enjoy the laid-back fingerpicked sounds of one of the oldest forms of the delta blues, as "The Greenwood Misses" appear for one of their first festival performances.
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1:30 - 2:30 pm |
The Country Blues Revue
Santa Fe’s Blues scene has been enriched during the last 2 years with the new group The Country Blues Revue. Starting as the acoustic blues duo of Marc and Mike, the group grew into Marc Malin and Harmonica Mike Handler’s Country Blues Revue, now called CBR for short. Consisting of Marc on guitar and dobro, Mike on Harp, guitar, drobro, oil can guitar and percussion, Larry Diaz on bass (along with the occasional stand up addition for Janice Nelson and/or Johnny Broomdust), Mr. Bob on mandolin, and Arne Bey or Gerald Rodriguez on drums, the band plays blues derived from the Delta (Robert Johnson, Tampa Red, Blind Blake) up to modern blues songs written by the band.
www.santafe.com/bands/the-country-blues-revue
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3:00 - 4:30 pm |
Hazel Miller Band
Hazel Miller is not just a great singer. Her voice has been called "stunning, moving and powerful." Hazel has been a sought after performer in Colorado for the past 27 years; ” Whether she is singing blues, jazz, pop, or Gospel, her voice charges the songs with a primal dose of genuine soul”.
Hazel began her career in Louisville, Kentucky. There she opened for national artists. Most recently, Hazel opened for Jay Leno at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House. In September Hazel Miller Band made their first appearance in the “Deadwood Jam” receiving outstanding recognition and reviews.
Since moving to Colorado in 1984 she has regularly performed with Big Head Todd and the Monsters. She has performed at all the major jazz and music festivals throughout Colorado while maintaining a working band which won the Westword Readers Poll "Best Blues/R&B" band. She has sung with or opened for such artists as Leon Russell, B. B. King, India Aire, Julian Lennon, Stanley Jordan, John Mayall, Charlie Musselwhite, Leo Kottke, Diane Reeves, Bob Weir, Herbie Hancock, Pop Staples, Five Blind Boys of Alabama, Lou Rawls, Rickie Lee Jones, James Taylor, Little Ed and the Blues Imperials, Michael McDonald, and many more.
HMB is enjoying a great year of festival appearances in Colorado, Florida, New Mexico, Wyoming, Kentucky, South Dakota and more. Performing in the Bohemian Nights New West Fest this summer was a new achievement for Ms. Miller. Hazel Miller Band performed at the prestigious Telluride Jazz Festival and the massive HullabaLOU Festival in Louisville, KY; the Arts & Jazz Festival in Grand Junction, CO. HMB music can be heard on many local radio stations and nationally on Sirius Radio’s “Real Jazz” station. HMB released a new EP CD in May, 2011.
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5:00 - 6:30 pm |
Rosie Ledet and the Zydeco Playboys
Rosie Ledet provides a unique female presence in the male-dominated zydeco world. In conjunction with her band, The Zydeco Playboys, she sings in both Creole French and English. Rosie and her band began performing in 1994 throughout the Texas-Louisiana triangle, and have gradually spread their touring base to include the rest of the United States. They have also been on several European tours.
Rosie Ledet’s songs are often sly and lusty and combined with her distinctive, bluesy singing voice, she wows audiences wherever she goes. A prolific songwriter, Rosie has released nine albums of her own material, each showcasing superb lyrics, strong vocals and skillful accordion playing along with funky bass grooves, solid danceable beats, and blues rock guitar. Her newest CD, "Come Get Some" JSP Records, was released in 2011 and very well-received, critically and commercially. Rosie is among the few zydeco artists who still sing and write some of their own material in Creole French.
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The 17th Annual Blues Festival Lineup
