Buddy Guy
Plus: Quinn Sullivan
Calvin Theater
Friday, August 02, 2013 ~ 8:00 PM
$55.00, $45.00, $35.00
Blues legend Buddy Guy is at the top of the blues food chain, serving as an all-important link between the breathless old and the electric new. Still amazing well into his 70s, Guy continues to make exciting, visceral music. With his new album, Living Proof, Buddy Guy takes a hard look back at a remarkable life. At age 74, he’s a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, a major influence on rock titans like Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, a pioneer of Chicago’s fabled West Side sound, and a living link to that city’s halcyon days of electric blues. He has received 5 Grammy Awards, 23 W.C. Handy Blues Awards (the most any artist has received), the Billboard magazine Century Award for distinguished artistic achievement, and the Presidential National Medal of Arts. Rolling Stone ranked him in the top 30 of its "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time."
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Samirah Evans and Her Handsome Devils featuring Miro Sprague
Iron Horse Music Hall
Saturday, July 06, 2013 ~ 7:00 PM
Adv: $12.50 - Door: $15.00
Jazz & blues vocalist Samirah Evans first performed at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in 1990 and became a fixture for fourteen consecutive years. She has toured Europe, Asia, and both Americas as a headliner, and shared stages with B.B. King and James Brown, to New Orleans own Queen of Soul, Irma Thomas. Samirah’s connection to the jazz lineage and her message of love and excitement radiates from her entire band which will include W. Mass. jazz pianist Miro Sprague for this show. As a teenager, Miro won a number of awards, including being honored in the 2002, 2003, and 2004 Downbeat magazine’s national student music awards with prizes for composition and performance. He also won awards at many jazz festivals, including the Berklee Jazz Festival, where his trio took a 1st prize and he received an outstanding musician award two years in a row.
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The Blues Broads: Tracy Nelson, Angela Strehli, Annie Sampson, and Dorothy Morrison
Iron Horse Music Hall
Sunday, July 14, 2013 ~ 7:00 PM
Adv: $20.00 - Door: $25.00
All four singers in The Blues Broads are headliners in their own right. These superstars of the seminal era of the genre do what they do best – blow the house away with soulful, irreverent, throaty Blues sung from the bottom of their hearts. DOROTHY MORRISON, is the singer and co-author of the classic “Oh Happy Day”, recorded with The Edwin Hawkins Singers. TRACY NELSON, founder of the legendary group Mother Earth. ANGELA STREHLI is the organizer of The Blues Broads and one of the driving forces behind the historic Rancho Nicasio in Marin County, where the group fisrt performed. ANNIE SAMPSON, former longtime cast member of “Hair” and the groundbreaking group Stoneground, brings deeply soulful roots to the table. In this star-studded show, each artist gives the audience a taste of their individual specialty, and then combine voices in ways that make The Blues Broads far more than the sum of its parts. They are backed by some of some of the best musicians in the business,
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Matt Schofield
Iron Horse Music Hall
Sunday, July 21, 2013 ~ 7:00 PM
Adv: $15.00 - Door: $18.00
Now firmly established as the freshest and most exciting blues guitarist to have emerged on the world scene for many years, Matt Schofield's powerful mix of blues, rock, and New Orleans funk is unlike anything else on the block. He is rated in the top ten British blues guitarists of all time (Guitar & Bass Magazine) putting him in the company of such iconic names as Eric Clapton and Peter Green.
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Albert Cummings
Albert Cummings
Iron Horse Music Hall
Saturday, July 27, 2013 ~ 7:00 PM
Adv: $15.00 - Door: $18.00
Breaking every cliché associated with the blues while producing some of the most powerful music of the 21st century comes as natural to Albert Cummings as swinging a hammer while constructing one of his award-winning custom built homes. He has taken tradition and built his own musical edifice that expresses his thoughts and dreams. It is a vision that alternately excites and soothes while also clearly providing a glimpse of his unlimited future. The best is yet to come.
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Debbie Davies Band
Plus: Stewart James & The Juke Joint All Stars
Iron Horse Music Hall
Saturday, August 03, 2013 ~ 7:00 PM
Adv: $12.50 - Door: $15.00
Honing her chops in the legendary Albert Collins’ band the Icebreakers, guitarist/singer/songwriter Debbie Davies has been fronting her own powerful blues units over the course of seven critically-acclaimed releases. One of the top contemporary blues artists on the scene today, Davies injects that kind of deep, soulful resonance into her work that she learned from her mentor.
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Gary Hoey Band
Iron Horse Music Hall
Friday, August 16, 2013 ~ 7:00 PM
Adv: $15.00 - Door: $20.00
With 18 albums and a #5 Billboard Rock hit with “Hocus Pocus,” Gary Hoey is one of the top 100 guitarists of all time. Hoey has toured and traded licks with the likes of Jeff Beck, Brian May of Queen, Ted Nugent, Joe Satriani, The Doobie Brothers, Foreigner, Styx, Steve Vai, Peter Frampton, and Dick Dale. He recently produced and co-wrote The Queen Of Metal Lita Ford’s latest release “Living Like Runaway." The world renowned rock guitarist Gary Hoey takes on the Blues with his new album, Deja Blues.
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Carolyn Wonderland
Plus: Shelley King
Iron Horse Music Hall
Friday, August 23, 2013 ~ 7:00 PM
Adv: $15.00 - Door: $18.00
Carolyn Wonderland is a multi-award winning blues artist from Texas. She and her band were named Austin's Best Blues Band at the 2009 Austin Music Awards where Carolyn picked up the award for Best Female Vocalist, too! A triple threat with diverse songwriting, soulful vocals, and blues guitar goddess status, Wonderland has toured with Buddy Guy and Johnny Winter and sat in with String Cheese Incident, and Los Lobos. Carolyn also whistles, scat sings, plays trumpet, accordion, mandolin, and keys. “Stated plainly, Wonderland has one of the most impressively powerful voices recently heard anywhere, regardless of sex. Able to boon, cajole, promise growl, and wheedle with equal power, she plays guitar with much the same forcefulness.” --Matt Weitz, Dallas Observer
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James Montgomery Band
Iron Horse Music Hall
Friday, August 30, 2013 ~ 7:00 PM
Adv: $15.00 - Door: $18.00
When blues legend James Montgomery plays the harmonica, he "brings it on home". Whether it's recording with Kid Rock, sitting in with Gregg Allman, or fronting his hot band of thirty years, Montgomery plays with authority. While growing up in Detroit he learned first-hand from the masters - James Cotton, John Lee Hooker, and Jr. Wells - at the legendary "Chessmate." Over the years, he's carried on in the tradition and continues to be a vital presence in Blues as one of the most dynamic performers on the scene.
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Albert Lee
Plus: Forward Motion
Iron Horse Music Hall
Saturday, August 31, 2013 ~ 7:00 PM
Adv: $20.00 - Door: $25.00
Known for his use of the Fender Telecaster, signature Ernie Ball guitar and lightning speed playing, Albert has not only worked in the studio and on tour with some of the biggest names in world music, but he has also maintained a successful solo career of his own. Recently Albert began working in the studio and subsequently toured with Bill Wyman. In 2002 he appeared on stage at the 'Concert for George' to celebrate the life and music of George Harrison. The same year, Albert received a Grammy for his work on Brad Paisley's 'Cluster Pluck'. He also received nominations for tracks on three other solo CDs of his own. Albert's next big project is the 70th Birthday Celebration, a solo album, documentary and concert project celebrating his illustrious career in music
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Southside Johnny and the The Poor Fools
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Southside Johnny and the The Poor Fools
Iron Horse Music Hall
Friday, September 13, 2013 ~ 7:00 PM
Adv: $35.00 - Door: $40.00
Southside Johnny and The Poor Fools play the music of Dylan, Mose Allison, Muddy Waters, NRBQ, Richard Thompson, Emmylou Harris, The Band, George Jones, Tom Waits, and more. The Poor Fools will also dive into some of the legendary Asbury Jukes material. "The Poor Fools tour is a chance for me to try out different material and a some Jukes standards in an acoustic form. In this incarnation, Jeff Kazee, John Conte, Tommy Byrnes, Soozie Tyrell and I will all be singing, playing and having some fun on stage” No rules. No fences. With Lyon shaking each up night's setlist for himself and his four multi-instrumentalist band members, Southside Johnny and The Poor Fools is another trip--one more way to see one more side of Southside Johnny.
Tickets for all shows are available at IHEG.com and at the Northampton Box Office, 76 Main Street. To charge by phone call 413.586.8686
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