Saturday May 10
B&B World Music Night Presents: Moonlight Cruisers 8PM & 10PM $20

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The Moonlight Cruisers are an LA-based roots rock band highly influenced by rockabilly and traditional Mexican music. They began experimenting with their live shows by mixing cumbias and other Mexican music into their rockabilly sets and the fans went wild. Along the way to becoming a premier act in the rockabilly circuit, the Moonlight Cruisers invented a new sound now labeled “Cumbiabilly.”

Sunday May 11
Lloyd Gregory with Tony Lindsay 8PM & 10PM $12.50

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Lloyd Gregory's smooth jazz guitar playing and distinguished musical taste and style captivates audiences throughout the world. Doing a mix of jazz, blues, popular favorites and standards, Gregory has performed and toured with such noted artists as Stanley Clarke, Martha Reeves, Freddie Stewart (Sly & The Family Stone), Lenny Williams (Tower of Power), and the Dells. Gregory features guest singers every Sunday. Tony Lindsay is an amazing vocalist and tours with Santana.

Tuesday May 13
Lara Price 8PM & 10PM $15

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Hard-hitting singer Lara Price leads several bands in the Bay Area. Her blues combo features guitarist Laura Chavez. The Lara Price Band is currently featured on the Ruf Records international release Blues Guitar Women and has been written up as a “Hot Pick” on Guitar One Magazine.

 

Wednesday May 14
Ed Earley Band 8PM & 10PM $15

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Trombonist Ed Earley and his band play classic soul tunes but mostly blues. Ed Earley has played with artists such as Albert King to Elvin Bishop. Earley’s down-home blues style guarantees a good time whenever his band is in town.

Thursday May 15
Shane Dwight Band 8PM & 10PM $15

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Shane Dwight is a charismatic and supremely talented guitarist, soulful vocalist, prolific songwriter and one of the brightest young up-and-coming stars on the rock/blues scene today. In the last two years, the Shane Dwight Band has been catapulted to the forefront of the West Coast Blues Scene.

Friday May 16
Joe Louis Walker 8PM & 10PM $20

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Joe Louis Walker is a San Francisco native and very successful blues guitarist, singer/songwriter and producer. Joe has been touring since the ‘60s and has performed alongside artists Earl Hooker and Freddie King. Additionally, for 10 years Joe sang with the gospel quartet, “The Spiritual Corinthians,” and much of his music has been influenced by the gospel genre.

Saturday May 17
Jackie Payne and Steve Edmonson Band 8PM & 10PM $20

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Jackie Payne and Steve Edmonson have a history together that goes back almost ten years. They first met when they were members of the popular show band, The Dynatones. They soon found that they had a common love for the blues. Jackie doesn’t just sing, he entertains. Jackie’s show can easily match the fervor and intensity of a fire and brimstone gospel revival.

 

 

Sunday May 18
Lloyd Gregory with Darlene Coleman 8PM & 10PM $12.50

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Lloyd Gregory's smooth jazz guitar playing and distinguished musical taste and style captivates audiences throughout the world. Doing a mix of jazz, blues, popular favorites and standards, Gregory has performed and toured with such noted artists as Stanley Clarke, Martha Reeves, Freddie Stewart (Sly & The Family Stone), Lenny Williams (Tower of Power), and the Dells. Gregory features amazing guest singers every Sunday. Darlene Coleman is a vocalist who has been much in demand by many of the San Francisco Bay Area's top bands for the past ten years.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monday May 19
LOST WEEKEND Western Swing Band8PM & 10PM $12 advance/$15 at the door

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Formed back in 1984, The Lost Weekend is a western swing large band - at times fielding three horns, twin fiddles, full rhythm section with steel, lead, and rhythm guitars, as well as piano and drums. From the outset, the group was in demand not only as a dance band, but also as a concert attraction. One critic tagged The Lost Weekend lineup: “A Who’s Who of Bay Area Country-Western and Jazz.”

Tuesday May 20
Fat Tuesday Band 8PM & 10PM $15

Wednesday May 21
Craig Horton 8PM & 10PM $15

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Craig Horton is an Oakland-based, celebrated blues guitarist. Voted Best Blues Guitarist by the Bay Area Blues Society, it was noted that he’s also a very talented musician and singer, and a great band leader. Tom Mazzolini, producer of the San Francisco Blues Fest, reported after last year’s event that, “Craig Horton gave one of the most memorable sets that had people talking. It was impressive and it was deep mountain high! The real thing!”

Thursday May 22
Jimmy Thackery 8PM & 10PM $20

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Jimmy Thackery is a blues guitarist known for his gritty, blue-collar approach and marathon live shows. Born in Pittsburgh, Thackery was raised in Washington, D.C. After joining the Nighthawks in 1974, and recording over 20 albums with them, he went solo in 1987. Since 1991 he has been leading a trio, Jimmy Thackery and the Drivers, whose early recordings were for the San Francisco, California based Blind Pig Records.

Friday May 23
Mark Hummel Band with Rusty Zinn 8PM & 10PM $20

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Mark Hummel, leader of the Blues Survivors, is an incredibly powerful harmonica player and vocalist. Within the past decade, several young harmonica-led blues bands have emerged, and in California, the groups have drawn their inspiration from the Chicago scene but added elements of jump blues and rock & roll. This mix has created an exciting new style of West Coast blues. Hummel has performed alongside many of Chicago’s greats, but currently resides in Oakland, the northern capital of California blues.

Saturday May 24
Jim Kimo West 2:30PM $10 advance/$15 at the door

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Jim "Kimo" West is one of ki ho ‘alu’s most unique talents. A virtuosic player and prolific composer, his delicate, heartfelt playing technique and his generous output of new, exciting slack key guitar originals puts him solidly in a category of his own.

Saturday May 24
Phillip Walker 8PM & 10PM $20

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Phillip Walker is a contemporary blues guitarist most noted for his 1959 hit single, “Hello My Darling,” produced by J.R. Fulbright. Louisiana-born guitarist Phillip Walker enjoys a sterling reputation as a contemporary blues guitarist with a distinctive sound honed along the Gulf Coast during the ‘50s. A teenaged Walker picked up his early licks around Port Arthur, TX, from the likes of Gatemouth Brown, Long John Hunter, Lightnin’ Hopkins, and Lonnie “Guitar Junior” Brooks.

Sunday May 25
Lloyd Gregory with Fred Ross 8PM & 10PM $12.50

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Lloyd Gregory's smooth jazz guitar playing and distinguished musical taste and style captivates audiences throughout the world. Doing a mix of jazz, blues, popular favorites and standards, Gregory has performed and toured with such noted artists as Stanley Clarke, Martha Reeves, Freddie Stewart (Sly & The Family Stone), Lenny Williams (Tower of Power), and the Dells. Gregory features amazing guest singers every Sunday. A San Francisco native, Fred Ross has performed in concert halls with top talents such as Pete Escovedo, Tower of Power, Huey Lewis and The News, Graham Central Station, and Lionel Richie.

Monday May 26
LOST WEEKEND Western Swing Band
8PM & 10PM $12 advance/$15 at the door

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Formed back in 1984, The Lost Weekend is a western swing large band - at times fielding three horns, twin fiddles, full rhythm section with steel, lead, and rhythm guitars, as well as piano and drums. From the outset, the group was in demand not only as a dance band, but also as a concert attraction. One critic tagged The Lost Weekend lineup: “A Who’s Who of Bay Area Country-Western and Jazz.”

Tuesday May 27
Kelly Richey Band 8PM & 10PM $15

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One critic has described Kelly Richey, a blues-based rock virtuoso, as “Stevie Ray Vaughan trapped in a woman’s body with Janis Joplin screaming to get out.” The attention of the live performances is centered around this Kentucky native’s guitar playing; Richey’s proficiency has earned her comparisons to both Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimi Hendrix. Richey has opened for artists such as James Brown and Johnny and Edgar Winter, and her extensive touring has built quite the cult following.

Wednesday May 28
B&B World Music Night Presents: Manny Moka 8PM & 10PM $15

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Brooklyn born Manny Moka began studying classical piano at an early age, but soon found himself influenced by the exposure to the broad musical spectrum that serves as an underscore to life in New York City. He eventually moved to the west coast doing independent production and arranging. Moka’s music combines a sassy, funky attitude with picante Latin rhythms and a smattering of smooth jazz

Thursday May 29
Frankie Lee 8PM & 10PM $15

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Blues vocalist Frankie Lee has always been an engaging and energetic live performer and his live shows have become legendary. If Denise LaSalle is a modern day Bessie Smith, than Lee is a 1990s Otis Redding. One of Lee's live-show trademarks (like the late Albert Collins's guitar walks) is the point in the show in which he leaves his mic on stage and walks out into his audience, be it a festival of 10,000 people or a small club of 50. Lee's motto is, "whether it's one or 1,000, me and my band are gonna put on a show."

Friday May 30
E.C. Scott 8PM & 10PM $20

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No less a music industry legend than Jerry Wexler, co-founder of Atlantic Records, called E.C. Scott “one honest-to-God soul singer.” High praise indeed from the main who produced Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, and Wilson Pickett! Blues and R&B diva E.C. Scott possesses a warm, inviting voice and a delivery that can be smooth and sultry one minute but sassy and sexy the next. She can mesmerize a crowd down to a whisper or rock them into a loud frenzy.

Saturday May 31
Earl Thomas 8PM & 10PM $20

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Earl Thomas is a soul singer who combines his love of the blues and soul music of the ‘60s and ‘70s into what he calls Contemporary Blues. His song “I Sing the Blues,” became a hit for Etta James and he’s toured with artists such as Elvis Costello and B.B. King. Thomas is currently touring throughout Europe and will be performing song from his latest CD release, Soulshine.