booking presentation - music maker blues review (usa)

8/9/2019 Booking Presentation - Music Maker Blues Review (USA)

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Tino Zippel


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Dr. Burt

Pat Cohen

Albert White

Ardie Dean

Adolphus Bell

Eddie Tigner

Lil Joe

Tim Duffy

Chicago Bob Nelson

Ron Hunter

Alabama Slim

Lee Gates

Little Freddie King

Boo Hanks

Tommy Brown

Robert Lee Coleman

Beverly Watkins

MudcatPura Fe


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Dr. G.B. Burt has played his Blues since achild, but it was not until he met Music Maker

at 70 years old that he had his firstprofessional show at the Tasmanian Royal

Botanical Gardens with Keith Urban and JohnFogerty. He has since performed at the

Lincoln Center and venues in Europe.


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Pat Mother Blues Cohen

sang in New Orleans sixnights a week until Katrina

destroyed her home. Sherelocated to North Carolina

and has recently started

touring with the Blues Revue.


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JimmyWilliams

Albert White began playing guitarin the late 50s with his legendary

uncle, Piano Red, and his group

Dr. Feelgood & the Interns.


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He is a world-class drummer who has

been with Music Maker since 1991.


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Since joining Music Maker

he has transformed a lifeof homelessness to a life

of touring Argentina,Turkey, Australia, Europe

and the US making

audiences smile with hisdancing, drumming and

original blues songs.


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Eddie Tigner joined the Army in 1944 with guitar legends Les Paul

and T-Bone Walker; these men gave Eddie his core musicaltraining. After his stint in the Army he backed up Blues slide guitar

legend Elmore James and then went to lead an Ink Spots group

for 35 years. He performed at every Army base in the US.


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Lil Joe Burton is

from the Southside

of Chicago. Hebegan his career

with Junior Wells

and spent 10 years

on the road with

B.B. King.


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Tim Duffy founded the Music

Maker Relief Foundation in 1994

which has aided hundreds ofartists. He has produced over 100CDs, three documentary films and

has led the MM Revue to Carnegie

Hall, Lincoln Center and through-out the US and the world.


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Chicago Bob Nelson has played the Blues ever since he

was a child. He was trained under Howlin Wolf andMuddy Waters and played harp in John Lee HookersCoast to Coast Blues Band for several years. Bob jammed

with everyone in Chicago including Buddy Guy and SlimHarpo, which earned him the nickname Chicago Bob.


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Jimmy Williams

Big Ron Hunter of Winston-Salem,

North Carolina learned guitar from

his father when he was a young boy.


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Slim grew up playing in juke joints in

Alabama and moved to New Orleans

in the 60s. Since joining MM, hismusic has been felt at performances

in the States and abroad.


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Lee Gates has an incredible presence, standing well over six feettall, his entire body draped with muscles from a life of hard work.

Lee moved to Milwaukee in his early 20s, and has lived in

that city for most of his life where he performed with SonnyBoy Williamson, who also lived in Milwaukee at the time. Healso played with Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters.


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Little Freddie King was born inMcComb, Mississippi but left homeat 17 to go to New Orleans.

For decades he performed atthe roughest juke joints likeThe Bucket of Blood.


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Bill Steber

Boo Hanks, a descendant of

Abraham Lincoln on his mother's

side, is the greatest Piedmont Bluesrediscovery in many years. He sings

and plays guitar in the style of the

legendary Blind Boy Fuller.


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Tommy Brown is more than a legendaryBlues singer, he is truly a legendary

entertainer. This is proven in his classicBlues recordings of the 1950s including his

1956 Billboard #1 hit Weepin & Crying, tohis coveted comedy records of the 1970s.Tommy Brown has been everywhere and

done it all, and he is still at it today!


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Robert Lee Coleman of Macon,

Georgia played guitar for Percy

Sledge from 1964 to 1969. In1970, James Brown hired him

for his new band, the JBs.Roberts guitar is featured on

Brown's album "Hot Pants,

including the songs "Revolutionof the Mind," recorded live at the

Apollo Theater & Make It Funky

from the "Soul Classics" LP.


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Beverly came up under Piano Red and

cut records with him back in the 50s

and 60s. Now, she continues to teardown the house with her low-down,hard stompin, railroad-smokin Blues.


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Mudcat has apprenticedunder many American

musical pioneers,including FrankEdwards, Cootie Stark,

Cora Mae Bryant, NealPattman, Dickey Betts,and Taj Mahal.


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Like all truly great singers, Pura Fehas the power to move you.

With a potent mix of Native influences and goodold-fashioned blues, her voice is soul itself.


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Cognac Blues Passions, FRLincoln Center, NYC

House of Blues, Chicago, New Orleans

Spoleto, Charleston, SC

Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CAEast Coast Blues & Roots Music Festival, AU

Chicago Blues Festival, Chicago, IL

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Kulturzelt Kassel, DE

Rheingau Musik Festival, DE Bardentreffen Nrnberg, DEKulturarena Jena, DE

Zeltival, DE


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