<img src=http://sonewmex.com/images/scblues.jpg align=right border=1 vspace=5 hspace=5 alt="Zac Harmon photo by DustyBlues.com">Silver City – It’s lucky 13 for the Silver City Blues Festival and music lovers will gather at Gough Park and venues around the area on Memorial Weekend to listen to regional favorites and internationally renowned Blues artists.
The 13th annual Silver City Blues Festival, sponsored by the Mimbres Region Arts Council, is unique because all main events at Gough Park and the Yankie Street Dances are free.
For tickets and information call 575.538.2505 or 1.888.758.7289 or visit (http://www.mimbresarts.org/)<a href=http://www.sonewmex.com/modules.php?name=Content&op=visit&id=353 target=_blank>www.MimbresArts.org</a>
Featured artists this year include Sherman Robertson, Marie Knight, Big Pete Pearson and Zac Harmon.
Big Pete Pearson & the Rhythm Room Allstars will woo the audience from 4:45 – 6 pm Saturday with his Chicago-style music. In a review published last year, Phoenix New Times Music critic Mark Keresman says Pearson “is proof that the blues (as a flourishing vibrant form) is not dying of old age and House of Blues-bred respectability… .Pearson has a burly, somewhat raspy, heartfelt bellow of a voice in the vein of late icons Muddy Waters and Junior Wells. …Pearson breathes fire (and a bit of drollness) into routine subject matter.”
Mississippi Blues artist Zac Harmon takes the stage from 6:30 – 8 pm. The winner of the Blues Music (formerly W.C. Handy) Award’s “Best New Artist Debut” in 2006, Harmon was born and raised in the heart of Jackson, Miss., and is a true disciple of the music that emanated from the city’s historic Farish Street district. While in high school and college, Harmon gigged as a guitarist for the likes of Z.Z. Hill, McKinley Mitchell, Dorothy Moore and Sam Myers. He moved to L.A. in the 80s and worked as a studio musician, then as a writer and producer, crafting songs for the likes of the O’Jays, Freddie Jackson, Karyn White, Alexander O’Neal, Black Uhuru and the Whispers.
His first CD, Live at Babe & Ricky’s Inn (2002) is an electrifying testimonial to Mississippi blues and established his reputation as a torchbearer for the next generation of the blues.
Capping off the day’s music will be Sherman Robertson, considered a young master of zydeco, hard-swinging Texas electric blues, R&B and swampy Louisiana blues. Robertson often surprises audiences with his ability to play R&B, zydeco and blues with a rock edge. “I use that driving, road-cooking type zydeco groove, and put blues on top of it,” says Robertson. It’s basically rhythm and feel.”
Says Living Blues: Sherman Robertson deserves to have his name added to the short list of the finest musicians who play electric blues.”
“Some of the best Texas soul-blues anyone could hope for,” says Blues Revue. “Potent singing and sizzling guitar ‘Sherman Robertson is one of the most important artist in blues.”
A jam session at the Buffalo Dance Hall followers from 10 pm – 1 pm (Tickets are $10.)
The festival begins on Friday at the Buffalo Dance Hall with regional fav Guitar Slim playing from 9 pm to 1 am (Tickets are $10).
Then on Saturday, listen to a full day of music at Gough Park. Edie and the Silver Blue Roots starts the afternoon at 1:15 followed by the Albuquerque Blues Connection (3-4:15 pm) to get you ready for the evening’s line-up.
Sunday’s line up includes Alex Maryol, the Jen Exten Trio (Jen Exten, Pat Dutton and Pat Chase), Chris Dracup, John Mooney and Marie Knight.
Chris Dracup, a Taos native, he has been a singer and lead guitarist with some of New Mexico’s favorite bands, including “The Muttz”, “The Rattle Cats”, “The Chris Dracup Trio” and “The Chris Dracup Project”. He has been a featured performer at some of the region’s top music festivals, including the Thirsty Ear Festival, The Telluride Blues and Brews Festival and the Silver City Blues Festival. He plays both electric and acoustic guitar in a variety of styles.
Jen Exten hails from Truth or Consequences and plays her own brand of “jazzy blues” and is a popular performer in regional venues. She recently released a CD with harmonica player Pat Dutton, whom she called “an institution at the Blues Fest.” For the Bleus Festival, they will be playing with another regional staple blues guitarist Pat Chase, known as “Guitar Slim”.
Sunday’s Legacy Performer Marie Knight, was born in New York City in 1925 and has recorded since the early ‘50s. In 2003 Marie Knight was recruited to sing a track for the highly successful CD, Shout Sister Shout, A Tribute to Sister Rosetta on M.C. Records. Since its release in August 2003 Marie Knight has performed on syndicated radio programs Mountain Stage and Wood Songs Radio Hour. She has been interviewed for NPR’s Weekend Edition. Marie Knight was also part of two successful Tribute shows in New York City with The Holmes Brothers and Odetta.
<img src=http://sonewmex.com/images/scblues.jpg align=right border=1 vspace=5 hspace=5 alt="Zac Harmon photo by DustyBlues.com">Silver City – It’s lucky 13 for the Silver City Blues Festival and music lovers will gather at Gough Park and venues around the area on Memorial Weekend to listen to regional favorites and internationally renowned Blues artists.
The 13th annual Silver City Blues Festival, sponsored by the Mimbres Region Arts Council, is unique because all main events at Gough Park and the Yankie Street Dances are free.
For tickets and information call 575.538.2505 or 1.888.758.7289 or visit (http://www.mimbresarts.org/)<a href=http://www.sonewmex.com/modules.php?name=Content&op=visit&id=353 target=_blank>www.MimbresArts.org</a>
Featured artists this year include Sherman Robertson, Marie Knight, Big Pete Pearson and Zac Harmon.
Big Pete Pearson & the Rhythm Room Allstars will woo the audience from 4:45 – 6 pm Saturday with his Chicago-style music. In a review published last year, Phoenix New Times Music critic Mark Keresman says Pearson “is proof that the blues (as a flourishing vibrant form) is not dying of old age and House of Blues-bred respectability… .Pearson has a burly, somewhat raspy, heartfelt bellow of a voice in the vein of late icons Muddy Waters and Junior Wells. …Pearson breathes fire (and a bit of drollness) into routine subject matter.”
Mississippi Blues artist Zac Harmon takes the stage from 6:30 – 8 pm. The winner of the Blues Music (formerly W.C. Handy) Award’s “Best New Artist Debut” in 2006, Harmon was born and raised in the heart of Jackson, Miss., and is a true disciple of the music that emanated from the city’s historic Farish Street district. While in high school and college, Harmon gigged as a guitarist for the likes of Z.Z. Hill, McKinley Mitchell, Dorothy Moore and Sam Myers. He moved to L.A. in the 80s and worked as a studio musician, then as a writer and producer, crafting songs for the likes of the O’Jays, Freddie Jackson, Karyn White, Alexander O’Neal, Black Uhuru and the Whispers.
His first CD, Live at Babe & Ricky’s Inn (2002) is an electrifying testimonial to Mississippi blues and established his reputation as a torchbearer for the next generation of the blues.
Capping off the day’s music will be Sherman Robertson, considered a young master of zydeco, hard-swinging Texas electric blues, R&B and swampy Louisiana blues. Robertson often surprises audiences with his ability to play R&B, zydeco and blues with a rock edge. “I use that driving, road-cooking type zydeco groove, and put blues on top of it,” says Robertson. It’s basically rhythm and feel.”
Says Living Blues: Sherman Robertson deserves to have his name added to the short list of the finest musicians who play electric blues.”
“Some of the best Texas soul-blues anyone could hope for,” says Blues Revue. “Potent singing and sizzling guitar ‘Sherman Robertson is one of the most important artist in blues.”
A jam session at the Buffalo Dance Hall followers from 10 pm – 1 pm (Tickets are $10.)
The festival begins on Friday at the Buffalo Dance Hall with regional fav Guitar Slim playing from 9 pm to 1 am (Tickets are $10).
Then on Saturday, listen to a full day of music at Gough Park. Edie and the Silver Blue Roots starts the afternoon at 1:15 followed by the Albuquerque Blues Connection (3-4:15 pm) to get you ready for the evening’s line-up.
Sunday’s line up includes Alex Maryol, the Jen Exten Trio (Jen Exten, Pat Dutton and Pat Chase), Chris Dracup, John Mooney and Marie Knight.
Chris Dracup, a Taos native, he has been a singer and lead guitarist with some of New Mexico’s favorite bands, including “The Muttz”, “The Rattle Cats”, “The Chris Dracup Trio” and “The Chris Dracup Project”. He has been a featured performer at some of the region’s top music festivals, including the Thirsty Ear Festival, The Telluride Blues and Brews Festival and the Silver City Blues Festival. He plays both electric and acoustic guitar in a variety of styles.
Jen Exten hails from Truth or Consequences and plays her own brand of “jazzy blues” and is a popular performer in regional venues. She recently released a CD with harmonica player Pat Dutton, whom she called “an institution at the Blues Fest.” For the Bleus Festival, they will be playing with another regional staple blues guitarist Pat Chase, known as “Guitar Slim”.
Sunday’s Legacy Performer Marie Knight, was born in New York City in 1925 and has recorded since the early ‘50s. In 2003 Marie Knight was recruited to sing a track for the highly successful CD, Shout Sister Shout, A Tribute to Sister Rosetta on M.C. Records. Since its release in August 2003 Marie Knight has performed on syndicated radio programs Mountain Stage and Wood Songs Radio Hour. She has been interviewed for NPR’s Weekend Edition. Marie Knight was also part of two successful Tribute shows in New York City with The Holmes Brothers and Odetta.