Blues Fest 2007
Information about the Magic City Blues Fest of 2007
Magic City Blues Fest
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Magic City BluesFest
DATE: Sunday, September 2, 2007
TIME: 12:00 Noon to 8:00 p.m.
LOCATION: Sloss Furnaces, 32nd Street North, Birmingham, AL 35222
Check back soon for some pictures. You can find some HERE and some more HERE and some at the myspace page: magiccityblues also some at Roger’s gallery.
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The next few entries give some information about the performers at the Magic City Blues Fest.
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Bob Margolin
Steady Rollin’ Bob Margolin is a Blues guitar player and vocalist, a recording artist who tours worldwide both leading his own band and The Bob Margolin All-Star Blues Jam. He has won many awards including a W.C. Handy Award in 2005 for Guitar. Bob played guitar in Muddy Waters’ Band from 1973-’80. He can be seen with Muddy Waters and The Band in The Last Waltz, the classic music documentary.
Nappy Brown
Appearing as a special guest with Bob Margolin, Nappy Brown is truly a legend. The mid-1950s was an era of radical musical change. Big-voiced Blues shouters belted out their tunes backed by rocking bands of guitars, drums and horns. During these golden years, a group of performers emerged in the forefront as pioneers of this sound. Napoleon “Nappy” Brown was one of these.
Debbie Davies
Born in 1952 in Los Angeles, CA, Debbie Davies was exposed to the music scene at an early age through her musician parents (her father wrote arrangements for Ray Charles and made sessions with such industry heavyweights as Frank Sinatra and Pearl Bailey). She came up playing in Blues and rock ‘n’ roll bands in the San Francisco Bay Area before returning to
Microwave Dave and the Nukes
Microwave Dave & The Nukes garnered the 2007 Birmingham Weekly’s BAMA (Birmingham Area Music Awards) for Best Blues Artist. There is good reason, this band smokes. Eighteen-plus years of performances in the U.S and Europe and six albums—with more on the way—have helped Microwave Dave & The Nukes establish a wide multinational audience. Formed in 1989,
Mikey Jr.
When the oldest continuously running Blues society in the world says you’re the “real deal”, it has to mean something. When Blues forums toss your name round with the likes of harmonica masters like Little Walter and Sonny Boy…that has to mean something. Of course, there will always be skeptics; but to the Blues fans of the northeast United States, there is no doubt that at just 26 years old, Mikey Jr. is chasing the masters at a pace that’s frightening. Growing up on the tough streets of Trenton, New Jersey, Mikey Jr. is a self-taught prodigy.
Sharon “Shar-Baby” Newport
Shar-baby was introduced to music as a child by her father who was a Gospel singer and Aunt Rosie who dated Little Walter. When she was eleven, Sharon acquired her first guitar. When she was 15 her music teacher heard her voice and asked her to join their band Check-Mates part II.
Harpdog Marson
“Harpdog” Marson
Harmonica workshop for kids
Dan “HARPDOG” Marson will be doing a harmonica workshop with kids in the auditorium at Sloss from about 2:30 -4pm. Each child will receive a free harmonica to take home with them. At 4:30pm, all the participants in the workshop will hit the big stage for a short performance. So bring your child out and have Harpdog teach him/her the original alternative music…BLUES!
By day Daniel Marson , J.D., Ph.D., is a Professor of Neurology, Director of the division of Neuropsychology, and Interim Director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Center at the University of Alabama School of Medicine. With his jam-packed schedule by daylight, Marson isn’t a prime candidate to pop up in a smoky bar at 2 a.m. This Neuropsychologist (likely the only one ever nicknamed “Harpdog”) traces his fondness for the harmonica to his teenage years, when he was influenced by harmonica greats such as Little Walter and Magic Dick of the J. Geils Band.
Permalink2Blu (Bruce Andrews and George Dudley)
2BLU winners of the recent Magic City Blues Society’s Battle of the Bands competition has been added to the Blues Fest line up on September 2nd, 2007 at the Sloss Furnaces.
Harp player and vocalist Bruce Andrews describes their music as a blend of blues, rock, funk, folk and gospel. Bruce says they have been influenced by many artists, especially Little Feat, Reverend Gary Davis, Elmore James, Blind Willie Johnson, Lowell Fulson and Eric Clapton. “We play many original tunes with adaptations and covers of our liking thrown in.”
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