20th Annual Blues Harmonica Blowout-Tribute to Muddy-1/26-31
Mark Hummel's Blues Harmonica Blowout is 20 years old this year. The show this year is a Muddy Waters Tribute with former Muddy harp sidemen including Grammy winner James Cotton,Paul Oscher,Willie Big Eyes Smith,Mojo Buford,Johnny Dyer,Rusty Zinn & Mark Hummel & The Blues Survivors(Dyer,Hummel,Zinn & band will perform songs off Rolling Fork Revisted).
1/26 Sierra Nevada Brewery-Chico,Ca.
1/28 Moes Alley-Santa Cruz,Ca.
1/29-31 Yoshi's-Oakland,Ca.
Also in Feb. shows will be Mark,Kim Wilson & Rod Piazza:
2/2 Mystic Theatre-Petaluma w/Andy Santana plus The Aces
2/3 State Theatre-Modesto,Ca. w/MoFo Party Band
2/4 Soho-Santa Barbara,Ca.
2/5 Anthology-San Diego,Ca.
2/6 Brixton-Redondo Beach,Ca.
Okay, to be fair, I see you and Rusty will be in the Mid-Atlantic area in April. Hopefully, I'll get to catch you at BB Kings in NYC, or maybe the Baltimore or Pennsylvania shows. It sure would be nice to have a few of these big combo events booked out east though. The best we get sometimes are the Blues festivals, which aren't quite the same as a good club or theater gig.
It's disappointing with a lot of artists to see 40 shows in California for the year, and just a quick pass out east for a couple of weeks - and a lot of them booked on stage three in a multi-stage Blues festival rather than a good blues venue.
Mark,
You Blowouts are always amazing and I look forward to them each year. See ya at Moe's.
I'd love to have bigger shows if they'd just give me the budget to do it out east? How come you ain't showin up to BBs ?
BB's is an overnighter. I'm coming from Philly, and while it's only an hour-and-a-half away, NYC requires a commitment on my part to hang out and hit the clubs for the whole weekend!
On the other hand, I'm still thawing out from New Years Eve in Times Square. Between freezing my butt off and seeing Ryan Seacrest up on the stage - I'm still recovering. When Ryan Seacrest is one of the first things you see in the new year, you know that it's going to be a bad one.
See you in April!
P.S. Maybe on a future pass you could hit Warmdaddy's or World Cafe in Philly?
I'll be playing a gig the night before BBs in Phoenixville,Pa. at Steel City Coffeehouse on 4/18 but it's not a Blowout.
Unfortunately, I already have tickets to the Joe Bonamassa show in Wilmington, Delaware for that date.
BB Kings it is!
See you there. (going to be a great week for blues!)
I got an email from my band's drummer telling me we were going to squeeze in an opening act gig ( before a regular rotation) for "Here Come the Mummies". More and more often as I get older I feel entirely out of the loop - I didn't have a clue about them. Are any of you familiar with them?
Dude, sometimes it seems like y'all forget there's another coast!
Go east young man!
We're Lady Gaga'd-out in these parts.