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.