Christone “Kingfish” Ingram
Christone “Kingfish” Ingram’s love of music grew from the rich Gospel sounds emanating from his family’s church and the Blues music he regularly heard played in his Delta neighborhood. A cousin to legendary Country music great, Charlie Pride and trained at the Delta Blues Museum under the tutelage of Daddy Rich and Bill Howl-N-Madd Perry, Kingfish undoubtedly has music in his soul.
At the tender age of 6, Kingfish began playing the drums. Three years later, he took up the bass guitar. By the age of 13, he began playing lead guitar. Soon he was fluent in all three instruments and quickly added smooth vocals to his musical repertoire.
Kingfish's guitar influences run the gamut from the Delta Blues of Robert Johnson, Elmore James, Muddy Waters, and Lightnin' Hopkins to the electric Blues of B.B. King, Big Jack Johnson, Lefty Dizz, Albert King and Buddy Guy to the Rock of Jimi Hendrix, Prince and Eddie Hazel. Not only can Kingfish play in the styling of his idols and mentors, but he also has an amazing ability to create guitar sounds entirely his own.
Through his young career, Kingfish has shared the stage with legendary names such as Bob Margolin, Eric Gales, Rick Derringer, Guitar Shorty, Buddy Guy and many more. He has played music festivals and venues all over the U.S. and has performed internationally in several countries. He's been a guest on the Rachael Ray Show and the Steve Harvey Show. Kingfish even performed at The White House for First Lady Michelle Obama.
After graduating high school in May 2017, Kingfish is now prepared to release his highly anticipated debut album in early 2018.
At Campus Jax, Kingfish will have cabaret seating with a full Cajun/Creole/American dinner menu at your seats.
Awards:
The 2015 Artie "Blues Boy" White Youth Scholarship Award
The 2015 Jus' Blues "IN HONOR OF B.B. KING" King of The Blues Award
The 2015 Robert Johnson Rising Star Award presented by The R&B Hall of Fame
The 2015 Muddy's "Performance of The Year" Award at The Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival
2015 Sean Costello Rising Star Award Nominee
The 2016 Young Blues Generation Award presented by The Bellinzona Blues Sessions Festival
The 2016 Rising Star Award presented by The 3rd Annual New Blues Festival
Wed Jan 23 2019, 7:30 PM
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Rockabilly Guitar Fest at the Yost
Enjoy 5 top bands playing Rockabilly, R&B and Surf music with Gretsch Guitars in the vintage Yost Theater in beautiful downtown Santa Ana.
It's just 6 miles and about 12 minutes down the 5 Fwy from the NAMM show.
JAMIE JAMES & THE KINGBEES
Like the Stray Cats and the Polecats, the Kingbees revived rockabilly with an '80s new wave flavor. The band was formed by Jamie James (vocals, guitar) in 1979. The Kingbees signed with RSO, and their self-titled debut LP appeared in 1980. The album was initially a commercial bust until the track "My Mistake" hit number one in Detroit. It became the Kingbees' first of two singles -- "Shake Bop" was the other -- that penetrated the Billboard charts. The Kingbees also recorded material for the soundtrack to 1980's The Idolmaker. James started performing with former Stray Cats members Lee Rocker and Slim Jim with regular gigs at the Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach, California. In 1993, James released Cruel World, followed by Crossroads in 2000. An expanded edition of the debut Kingbees album was released by Omnivore Records in 2015; the same label brought out an upgraded version of The Big Rock the following year.
THE ROCKIN' REBELSHis band Jason Lee and the R.I.P. Tides have gained increased notoriety in recent years playing the premier west coast tiki subculture events, such as Tiki Oasis, Taboo, and Tiki Highway.
In 2012 the band was signed to Dionysus Records and over the past eight years Jason has led one of Youtube's top instructional video companies teaching guitar techniques for surf, rockabilly, and spaghetti western genres through user friendly tutorials. He has made it a personal goal to get the Surf guitar and 1960s instrumental music recognized as a more viable genre of music.
Fri Jan 25 2019, 7:00 PM
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Kid Ramos' 60th Birthday Bash at Original Mike's
Kid Ramos' long-awaited 60th Birthday Bash is significant for a number of reasons.
One reason is that he is a cancer survivor, and was fortunate to be able to beat that challenge and play music to this day.
Another is that his longevity in the music industry is near legendary, a feat that many musicians strive for but few ever achieve. He is one of the most sought-after musicians in SoCal, and is still performing in international music festivals on a regular basis.
And the third significant reason is his ability to attract top players from the whole musical spectrum to play at his annual Birthday Bashes. As his birthday coincidentally happens during the NAMM convention in Anaheim, Kid has a smorgasbord of top-flight artists to invite to play on his stage. There are always surprises, and always a good time.
Since his teenaged years, David "Kid" Ramos was playing friend's parties and nightclubs on a regular basis, joining harmonica expert James Harman's blues-based band in 1980, playing up and down California alongside such punk bands as X, Oingo Boingo, the Blasters, and the Plimsouls. Kid played with the Harman Band for most of the '80s, and then filled in as the guitarist for the outfit Roomful of Blues.Ramos formed the Big Rhythm Combo with singer Lynwood Slim (issuing The Big Rhythm Combo in 1994), in addition to releasing his first-ever solo album, Two Hands One Heart, in 1995. The same year, Ramos was invited to join one of his favorite all-time bands, the Fabulous Thunderbirds. He has had a successful career as a producer and a studio sideman, and recently released "Old School," a solid blues album for Rip Cat Records.
Paul Pigat
An extremely versatile artist, with projects ranging from delta blues to classical music, Pigat heads four diverse Vancouver bands and is in high demand as a sideman, having recorded and toured with the likes of Neko Case, Carolyn Mark, Michael Kaeshammer and Ndidi Onukwulu. Artists with whom he has performed include Jim Byrnes, the Blind Boys of Alabama, Big Sandy, Aaron Neville, The Sojourners and many more.
Paul’s central touring project is his rocking hillbilly trio, Cousin Harley, considered to be Canada’s premier rockabilly and roots band.
Mondo Cortez
This extremely talented guitar bluesician heads a Chicago outfit known as the Chicago Blues Angels. He plays American Roots Music, Rock n Roll, Blues, Rockabilly, and a whole lotta soul.
Tommy Harkenrider
Harkenrider is a blues & roots guitar prodigy who specializes in performing and teaching American roots music.
He has paired professionally with James Harman, Candye Kane, Lynwood Slim, Phil Alvin, Rick Holmstrom, Jeff Turmes, Junior Watson, Kid Ramos, Big J Mcneely, Ray Campi, Big Sandy, and Canada's Paul Pigat. He is currently bandleader for The Memphis Kings, a Southern California-based R&B band.
Johnny & Jaalene
Look for an appearance by the teenage heartthrobs Johnny and Jaalene who are making their mark as creative artists in their own right. Johnny Ramos learned to play guitar at his father's knee, and Jaalene Serenity has the voice of an angel. They have recently released a Rip Cat Records CD, the compelling "Johnny & Jaalene," on sale now.
Original Mike's new concert hall is located at 100 S. Main St. in Anaheim, about a 10-min. Uber ride from Anaheim.
The show kicks off at 7:30 and wraps at 10:30.
Free parking, full menu, dance floor and it is an all-ages event.
Sat Jan 26 2019, 7:00 PM
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Janiva Magness at Campus Jax
2017 Grammy nominee, B.B. King Entertainer of the Year, 7x Blues Music Award winner, 26x nominee, and 2015 Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year Janiva Magness
After Janiva Magness added a 2016 Grammy nomination to her 26 Blues Music Award nominations — with seven wins, including Entertainer of the Year — she might have taken at least a short rest on her laurels. Instead, one of the preeminent voices in contemporary American roots music has raised the bar for herself. Magness’ 14th album, Love Is an Army, is a brilliantly crafted bridge between the past and present, blending the echoes of classic soul and Americana music with timeless themes of love and the very contemporary sound of protest.
Love Is an Army’s dozen songs reverberate with the timeless character of the Memphis Rhythm & Blues patented by the Stax and Hi Records studios, especially in tracks like “Back to Blue,” which opens the album and sets its tone, and “Hammer,” which features Grammy winning blues legend Charlie Musselwhite on harmonica. Another Tennessee music city, Nashville, is the geographic touchstone for the title number, a duet with Texas singer-songwriter Bryan Stephens, and for “On and On,” with Poco frontman Rusty Young on pedal steel guitar. Like Magness, both Stephens and Young are on Blue Élan Records. Other guest artists include the legendary Grammy-winning R&B singer Delbert McClinton, Grammy-nominated Mississippi hill-country blues torchbearer Cedric Burnside, and Americana Music Award-nominated bluegrass guitar and banjo virtuoso Courtney Hartman from the band Della Mae.
Magness’ inspired vocal performances unify all the elements of Love Is an Armyand serve as a beacon for her coterie of guests. She displays new heights in her clarion tone and elegant phrasing, which are laid bare to the soul in the stone gospel voice-and-piano arrangement of “Some Kind of Love.” But the core of the album is, of course, the songs that Magness and her cast serve superbly in their performances. And many of those songs are essentially protest numbers, so it’s fitting they take musical inspiration from the ’60s and ’70s recordings by the likes of The Staple Singers and Al Green, whose lyrics about strength and love cut through the hubris and deceit that surrounded the Civil Rights struggle and the Vietnam War like a laser.
“Dave Darling and I had a real sense of urgency when we were writing and recording this album,” Magness explains. “What led the album was the lyrics, and the things that are happening right now — the division, the racism, the violence, and our leaders’ lack of concern about basic human issues like health care and poverty. The first song Dave and I wrote was ‘Love Is an Army,’ and then David brought in ‘Home,’ and the direction of the album was clear.” Dave Darling has produced six albums that garnered Grammy nominations. His collaborations include album with Brian Seltzer, Glen Campbell, Dan Hicks, and the Stray Cats.
Magness considers the title song a rallying call and an expression of her sense of purpose. “When I sing ‘you know that I will fight for you/There’s no divine inspiration/Something else calls us here/And our hearts know what to do,’ I really mean it. Now, in particular, it’s once again important for us all to do the right thing, and I’m willing to do that, regardless of the cost.”
“Home,” a duet with Cedric Burnside, is equally galvanizing. “Mom and pop protect the borders,” Magness testifies over a deep groove punctuated by handclaps and tambourine. “Draw the line deep in the sand/Load the guns for sons and daughters/To steal freedom of another woman and man.” Burnside reinforces the lyrics with a heart-searing performance that balances his earnest singing with burly psychedelic guitar tones that sting like an angry bee.
“I realize that this album might be a challenge for some of my fans,” Magness says — although her singing and the album’s rich arrangements are a panacea throughout. “But I need to be honest, and I’ve always been a fighter.”
As if spotlighting that, Magness carried a pair of boxing gloves on the cover of 2016’s Love Wins Again, which earned her a Grammy nomination and cemented her crossover success in the Americana music scene. That year she also performed at the Americana Music Association’s annual festival in Nashville. And, indeed, Magness fought some tough battles before she launched her career. She lost both parents to suicide as a child and was placed in a dozen foster homes. But, inspired by the encouragement of her final foster mother and a galvanizing performance by the legendary bluesman Otis Rush, she found stability and salvation in music.
Since the early ’90s, Magness has built an impressive career in American roots music, brick by hard-earned brick. She has traveled millions of miles, sung on thousands of club and festival stages, and made a string of recordings — including five albums and the 2017 EP of standards, Blue Again, with Darling — that have earned accolades and awards.
Beginning with 2014’s Original, she has also emerged as a talented songwriter. That album entered the Billboard blues chart — where her titles routinely appear — at number five and topped the blues radio charts, as did Love Wins Again, which remained in the top 10 for seven months and crossed over to the Americana charts. Those two albums spent several weeks each on the Americana radio chart including the Top 25. Her seven Blues Music Awards include the highly coveted B.B. King Entertainer of the Year Award. She is only the second woman, following blues giant Koko Taylor, to receive that honor, which was given to her by B.B. King himself as well as Bonnie Raitt.
“Getting a Grammy nomination was a dream,” Magness offers. “I never thought I’d be a Grammy-nominated artist. But I guess I also feel a certain amount of pressure to follow that with an album that really makes a statement — a statement about who I am and what I believe and the music I love. Love Is an Army does all of that, and I hope it helps somebody else to be as inspired and empowered as I was when we were making it.”
Wed Jan 30 2019, 7:30 PM
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6-String Showdown Blues Cavalcade
Showcasing the best blues musicians in the OC! Our festival aims to celebrate the immense variety of blues bands that play both classic and contemporary blues in the Southland. An event to showcase the Best Blues Musicians Behind the Orange Curtain!
Here are the standout performers for this singular evening:
STEVE ARTEA
Steve Started Playing At Age:11. Steve's Biggest Musical Influences Have Been:
Early Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, James Brown, Ray Charles, Chuck Berry, Motown & Stax Records Artists, Beatles, Stones,Keith Richards,The Kinks,The Animals,Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page,Led Zeppelin,Eric Clapton,Cream, Jeff Beck, Yardbirds, Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, Alvin Lee,Ten Years After, Cactus, Gary Moore, Billy F.Gibbons, ZZ Topp, Freddie King, B.B.King, Albert King, Albert Collins, Buddy Guy, Muddy Waters, Johnny Winter, Robin Trower, Leslie West, Mountain, Paul Kossoff, Paul Rodgers, Free, Blind Faith,Stevie & Jimmy Vaughan, Ritchie Blackmore, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, Foghat, Tony Lommi. Black Sabbath, Joe Bonamassa, Walter Trout, Coco Montoya, Chris Duarte, Lance Lopez, Kal David & so many other great artists.
Steve Has Performed In Shows With: (in alphabetical order): Ambrosia, Billy Vera & The Beaters, Coco Montoya (2x), Darrell Mansfield, Deacon Jones, Eddie Money( 2x), Eric Gales (3X), Johnny Winter, Leon Russell, Little Richard, Lil' Willie G., Martha Davis and the Motels,Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels, Renegade Creation (Robben Ford, Michael Landau, Jimmy Haslip, & Gary Novak), Rod Piazza, Sammy Avila, Savoy Brown, Sons Of Champlin, Stryper, Terri Nunn & Berlin.
Steve brings a strong Blues,Rock n Roll,Funky Soul Groove to the stage with passion and all heart.
With his upfront stage presence, vocals, he tries to connect and get the audience and band into the funzone.
He's played with many local bands in So.Cal. since the 60's and continues to do guest appearances with other artists!
KK MARTIN
K.K. Martin is a fourth generation Singer/Songwriter/Guitarist/Musician/ Arranger/Producer/Engineer/all-around Entertainer born in West Monroe, Louisiana. Exposed in the womb as his mom loved listening to the music of Jimmie Rodgers, Robert Johnson and Hank Williams; he was baptized in the Blues before he was even born.
Martin's first gig was on a local TV show in Long Beach during a trip to California."There was a show called `Cal's Corral,' and Squeekin' Deacon, a deejay at KFOX in Long Beach, one of the biggest country stations in Southern California, threw me onstage when I was 3 years old. I think I did `Little Red Wagon' (a Hank Thompson hit)."
When his parents retired, Martin kept on playing, cutting his teeth on the local L.A. rock scene at age 16 landing a brief stint with the Albert Collins Backup Band. As a stalwart in the 1980’s L.A. scene, Martin was a founding member of the band A La Carte, recorded and played with Donald (Duck) Dunn, It's a Beautiful Day, Eric Burden, Booker T, Rick Derringer, Lester Chambers, Andy Johns, The Chambers Brothers, and Shark Island. He shared stages with, Journey, Van Halen, Motley Crue, Black Oak Arkansas, Blondie, UFO, Johnny Winters, Mike Campbell, (of the Heartbreakers) Glenn Cambell, and The Busboys, to name just a few.
In the late 90’s KK rediscovered his roots, producing, recording and performing Delta Blues in the old solo artist traditions and style. “It's what I always come back to." Martin was honored at the 9th Annual HOUSE of BLUES, Los Angeles MUSIC AWARDS being voted "OUTSTANDING BLUES ARTIST”. His Delta Blues debut, “Naked Blues” featured Martin’s amazing fretwork, the finger styling he learned at his grandmothers knee, but also emphasized his vocal performance and emotion; dark and suffused with undertones of danger.
Martin may have started mostly in country and pop and now focuses on blues, but when it comes to music, for him there are no limits.
"I'm a musician, and part of that entails that whatever the gig is, you show up and do the gig, whether it's country, jazz, blues, rock or polka," he said. "I mean, at the end of the day - and this is one of the things that I like to say to people a lot - there's really only two kinds of music, good and bad."
JESSICA KACZMAREK
Jessica started her professional music career at the age of 17, playing in bands and performing in recording studios as a teenager.
She is a multi instrumentalist & singer who plays lead guitar, piano/synthesizer, bass, ukulele, and mandolin.
Her earliest guitar influence was Jimi Hendrix- she had been taking piano lessons at the time, when she saw Hendrix on television and it completely changed her world. She immediately stopped piano lessons and started playing guitar, digging deep into the blues of Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, Robert Johnson, and the British blues of John Mayall and Eric Clapton. Later heroes were David Gilmour, and soul legend Steve Cropper, along with contemporary players such as Johnny Marr from The Smiths, and The Edge. Chet Atkins, Eddie Cochran, Scotty Moore, Duane Eddy and Link Wray came soon after as she delved more into the style of early rock and roll.
She's worked in various seminal bands around Los Angeles and Orange County, playing music ranging from indie rock/alternative, punk, blues, surf and rockabilly, with bands such as; The Busstop Hurricanes, Russell Scott & The Red Hots, backing band for Tom Kenny (a.k.a SpongeBob Squarepants) on his comedy tours & appears on featured songs with Tom on the Cartoon Network, Bourbon Jones (with drummer Steven Hodges of Tom Waits band and also John Hammond Jr), many guest appearances with The Blue Shadows (featuring members of The Blasters).
This has led her to opportunities touring around the U.S and Europe, playing with such world-renown musical acts as Prince, Chuck Berry, Joe Strummer of The Clash, Mike Ness Of Social Distortion, The Reverend Horton Heat, Dwight Yoakum, and The Nelson Brothers.
She is currently playing guitar & singing with Greg Antista & The Lonely Streets ("punk rock with a twist of Johnny Cash"), Washington D.C. rock & roll transplant J.P McDermott, and The Tony Lopez All Stars blues band.
Jessica's musical path ultimately led her to working in creative capacities for Interscope and Columbia Records, in addition to doing studio work performing on albums for various artists at recording studios in and around Hollywood and Orange County.
She is currently working on movie soundtracks for films in Brazil and the U.S, along with a documentary about a Hollywood golden age public relations agent that is slated for release later this winter. She is also finishing album work with Greg Antista & The Lonely Streets, and currently working on her own alternative rock solo project.
ANDY VIMAR
Andy Vimar met his band partner, Mike Moody, in the Guitar Program at Musician's Institute and instantly formed a collaboration known as "Mike Moody and the Motion".
Andy was a Semi-Finalist in Season One of the 6 String Showdown, taking place on the stage at the New Blues Festival in Long Beach. Andy entered his band in the International Blues Challenge for the Orange County Blues Society and won. The Motion is going to Memphis to compete in the Blues Foundation International Blues Challenge this January.
ANDREW RYAN
Andrew Ryan picked up his first guitar, an acoustic, at the age of nine and a half. Now at fifteen years old, Andrew has been on the local scene for the past 3 1/2 years performing everything from classic rock, hard rock, blues and jazz. He has performed in various bands and solo at local restaurants, bars, and coffee shops in shows and in open mics. He has performed at Fullerton’s Day of Music city wide music festival for the past three years in a row. Andrew had the incredible opportunity to participate in the 6 String Showdown last summer. Since then he has been a guest guitarist for professional bands such as Juke Joint Preachers, Bluz X Precians, Wag the Dog, and the Janice Evelyn & Sheva Band.
Andrew is currently working on his own band project, PRONE. PRONE is a solid mix of hard rock, blues, and originals written by Andrew. Having just completed the band’s first show in DT Fullerton they are off to an exciting start. Andrew is also an active member of The OC Blues Society and a regular at the many jams. He has shared the stage at these jams with many of OC’s finest including an epic jam with Sir Stanley Griggs on vocals recently. Andrew favors Jimmy Page, Jimmy Hendricks, Freddy King, BB King, John Frusciante and Slash.
Sat Feb 2 2019, 5:00 PM
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Alice Wallace at Original Mike's
INTO THE BLUE -- Alice Wallace
By Holly George-Warren
“It’s a song about taking the risk to do what you love,” Alice Wallace says of the soaring track, “The Blue,” which yields a lyric entitling her spellbinding new album. With Into the Blue, the California-country singer-songwriter conjures the atmospheric sound of the Golden State’s canyons and deserts, mountains and crashing waves, its crowning beauty and its tragic losses. At the same time, the supple-voiced Wallace tells her own and others’ stories, weaving tales that resonate as we grapple with so many disturbing national issues.
Into the Blue is Wallace’s fourth album but marks her debut on the brand-new Rebelle Road label, an imprint founded by a trio of women dedicated to strengthening the California Country music community and expanding visibility for female artists in the Americana/roots genre. “They care so deeply about giving women a stronger voice in the music industry,” Wallace attests. Having spent the past six years writing songs and touring the nation – from AMERICANAFEST® to county fairs, barrooms to coffeehouses – Alice Wallace is ready to break out. “It takes bravery to ‘sail away into the blue’ and grab it,” she says. “It took me until about six years ago to finally take the plunge, quit my job and go for it. I haven’t looked back since.”
It was after Wallace’s return to her birth state of California that she fully embraced her calling as a singer-songwriter. Her musical family had relocated to rural St. Cloud, Florida, when she was a child. She grew up around the sounds of her parents playing guitars and singing, with “Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris, their favorite,” she recalls. She also absorbed the country rock of ‘70s-era Linda Ronstadt on the turntable. “I really taught myself to sing by mimicking their styles,” she says. “The powerful belt that Linda has. The emotive lilt to Emmylou’s voice. Trying to navigate those different elements helped me find my own voice nestled in between all that.” She first picked up guitar at age 10, with her dad teaching her to finger-pick at 15, and by senior year in high school, Wallace was performing original compositions at the local Borders bookstore. It was in college that she discovered yet another calling: yodeling, that haunting vocal style that blends blues, country, and western. Wallace’s own “A Little Yodel” added her to the ranks of legends Patsy Montana and Carolina Cotton.
In 2008, when the Wallace family relocated back to Southern California, she joined them. There, she began focusing on writing, performing, and touring, both solo and with a band. Since 2013, she performs some 200 dates a year. One of those with whom she’s shared stages is singer-songwriter Ray Wylie Hubbard, who says she and her “stunning” songcraft have that “Steve McQueen ‘Cincinnati Kid’ cool.” Pundits agree: she won the 2017 Female Vocalist of the Year at the California Country Awards and the previous year’s Best Country/Americana Artist at the L.A. Music Critic Awards. She was recently singled out by the Los Angeles Daily News and Pollstar for her “dead-on lovely version” of Ronstadt’s “throbbing” “Long Long Time” at the “Palomino Rides Again” event celebrating the legendary California honky-tonk.
Into the Blue represents Wallace’s evolution as a recording artist, showcasing her growth as a songwriter as she embraces a fuller sound, backed by some of Americana’s most distinctive players. Co-produced by Steve Berns and Rebelle Road’s studio veteran, songwriter and musician KP Hawthorn (who’ve made a name for themselves working with artists in the West coast Americana scene), the album is brimming with soul. The formidable rhythm section, including drummer Jay Bellerose (Bonnie Raitt, Elton John, Aimee Mann) and bassist Jennifer Condos (Jackson Browne, Graham Nash), underpins instrumentation ranging from Tom Bremer’s crunchy electric guitar to Kaitlin Wolfberg’s lush string arrangements to keys and pedal steel from Jeremy Long (Sam Outlaw).
Wallace uses an intoxicating array of vocal styles to bring her songs to life: a dusky alto on “The Lonely Talking” (co-written with KP Hawthorn); gospel-tinged belting on “When She Cries” (inspired by the end of a six-year drought in California), and a soaring soprano on “Santa Ana Winds.” The latter, a country-rock chronicle of California’s devastating wildfires, is a co-write with Dallas artist Andrew Delaney, a frequent collaborator whom she calls “the most brilliant lyricist I’ve ever met.” Wallace inhabits his stirring “Elephants,” giving voice to women who refuse to be “quiet as a mouse in a room full of elephants.” The Wallace-Delaney-penned “Echo Canyon” is, she says, “a southwestern cowboy ballad that’s a modern take on a yodel song.” Wallace’s heart-wrenching “Desert Rose” tells of a young mother’s struggle to give her baby a better life across the border.
Lyrically, the heart of the album is the luminous anthem, “The Blue,” says Wallace. It describes her own journey to “get over my fears and go for the thing I love the most.” She knew that being a traveling troubadour and committing herself fully to music could be a dangerous choice. “In some ways, I wish I had done it sooner,” she says. “But I’m also glad I have the life experience to help fuel my songwriting and survive life on the road.” The highly charged emotional feel of “The Blue” derives in part from its exquisite layered harmonies – Wallace’s vocals joined by those of her father, mother, and brother. Known as “blood harmony,” when kinfolk sing together, it conveys a rapturous kind of purity and strength. That buoyancy radiates throughout Alice Wallace’s Into the Blue, lifting her listeners up, transporting them into the world of a seasoned troubadour looking back from a dream realized and dues paid without regret.
Fri Feb 8 2019, 7:00 PM
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Deb Ryder & The Broughams at Main St. Blues
DEB RYDER
Blues singer & songwriter Deb Ryder has been wowing audiences all over the world with her powerful, commanding, whiskey soaked voice and captivating stage presence. She takes you on a sonic journey of pure energy, serving up a savory blend of R&B, soul, and roots-based blues that have garnered rave reviews and sustained chart topping success. Her songs paint a gritty picture of life, love and pain, and lead you from the very heights to the depths of the blues.
“This is an artist that deftly combines polished musicianship with a deep respect for blues tradition. Deb Ryder deserves a spot on every blues fans radar.” - Jon Kleinman – LIVING BLUES MAGAZINE
“ Turn her all the way up and have some oxygen or an ambulance at the ready. Whew!” - MIDWEST RECORD
The BROUGHAMS
Brophy Dale, Mike Malone, Chris Smith and Greg Mitchell have enough blues-playing experience between them to make your head spin. "Blues and beyond" is what they call the music they are making now.Guaranteed good time!
Sat Feb 9 2019, 7:15 PM
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Bailey Dee's Hillbilly Jazz Matinee
Chicago's lead Rock N’ Souler and Ruby Records recording artist - BAILEY DEE found the rock and roll handbook and she reads it right!
She comes out swinging with the ferocity of a young Etta James, the sweetness of Lorrie Collins, and the soulful swagger of Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
Recently awarded Rockabilly Female of The Year by the Ameripolitan Music Association in Memphis, this young lady will surely show you what she's been showing crowds all over the world; the love, respect and pure joy she brings to her vintage sound.
Her impressive range and warm, rich voice will embrace you and put you in a spell, all while bringing a raw, edgy sound with her guitar. A not to miss up-and-comer!
A full band backs her featuring members of legendary R&B Chicagoan Andre Williams band plus Ashley Kingman, Kevin Stewart and Mando Dorame on sax.
Whether she is creaming on a rocker in a way that would make Jay Hawkins proud, or coaxing tears from jaded audiences with a pining ballad, Bailey Dee covers the spectrum with ease.
Come see what the fuss is about with this THREE TIME AMERIPOLITAN NOMINEE and most recently the 2018 WINNER IN THE ROCKABILLY FEMALE CATEGORY.
Joining the Sunday matinee show are everybody's favorite vintage R&B band - The Moontones.
Special appearance by Robby Ravenwood on ukelele.
Free parking, great menu. all ages, full bar and large dance floor!
Sun Feb 10 2019, 1:00 PM
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James Intveld's Valentine Show - Romantic Dinner & Dance
Once a year, a special day for lovers rolls around... and it has become a Valentine Day tradition to enjoy an evening with James Intveld as he croons love songs, sings ballads and plays swing music.
This year, Original Mike's beautiful new showroom hosts the popular event, complete with hardwood dance floor, a delectable prix fixe menu - and an early start time so everybody can enjoy James on a Thursday.
As an added bonus, James will personally deliver a red rose to all ladies in attendance while he sings to each and every one.
The band is a special combo of his Swing Sinners and his Honky Tonk Palominos that we call "The Swinging Palominos."
Make reservations now for this annual chance to dance and romance!
Here is what the $20 prix fixe dinner includes:
Please order one per person in your party. (optional dinner menu - veggie option also available onsite - there will be an appetizer menu available as well)