Saturday, August 10 2013
ON THE BEACH AT STAGE FORT PARK
Gracie Curran & The High Falutin’ Band
Listed as the #12 Best Boston Band among local royalty like the Dropkick Murphy’s and Ronnie Earl, added to the list of the Top 30 Roots/Soul Acts along with Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings and Alabama Shakes, and included on the list of the Top 30 Vocalists with the likes of Bonnie Raitt, Susan
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AUGUST 11 2012 :: World-class blues will reverberate through Stage Fort Park with some of the nation’s finest performers playing from the Gloucester Blues stage. Located right on the waterfront on beautiful Cressey’s beach, the event will have a beer garden and outstanding food and craft vendors…
MORE >>Shemekia Copeland
At a young age, Shemekia Copeland is already a force to be reckoned with in the blues. While still in her 20s, she’s opened for the Rolling Stones, headlined at the Chicago Blues Festival and numerous festivals around the world, scored critics choice awards on both sides of the Atlantic…
MORE >>Lucky Peterson
Blues legend Lucky Peterson plays contemporary blues, fusing soul, R&B, gospel and rock and roll. Peterson was a child prodigy on the keyboards, discovered by legendary blues musician Willie Dixon when he was three…
MORE >>Kenny Neal
Kenny Neal was born in 1957 in New Orleans and raised in Baton Rouge. He began playing music at a young age. Learning the basics from his father, singer and blues harmonica master, Raful Neal. Kenny is known as a modern swamp-blues master and multi-instrumentalist…
MORE >>Henri Smith & New Orleans Friends & Flavours
Henri Smith was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, the birthplace of jazz; there he polished his sophisticated and dramatic vocal delivery. Then he took it on the road and thrilled audiences with his New Orleans jazz, blues, Creole and Cajun flavored…
MORE >>Eddie Shaw & the Wolf Gang
Blues saxophonist extraordinaire Eddie Shaw was born on a Stringtown plantation in 1937. He learned music at school in Greenville and performed in various local bands before moving to Chicago to join the Muddy Waters band…
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