5 days = 6 great blues acts

Scorch on the Porch at Washburn University June 9

Have your lunch at Washburn on Wednesday and get a good dose of midday music during Washburn’s “Scorch on the Porch.”

Scorch on the Porch will take place on the Memorial Union north lawn Wednesday, June 9th from 11 am to 1 pm.  All ages + free.

Enjoy:

* $5 lunch special: Grilled hamburger or hotdog, chips, beverage and an ice cream sandwich.
* Bookstore Sidewalk Sale with great deals on T-shirts, books and more.
* Live entertainment from the Back Porch Blues Band featuring Washburn alumni Kurt Morrow and Kevin Hoover.

Back Porch Blues Band is hometown blues from Topeka.  They play Chicago, Texas, jump, swing and funk blues.  Everything from slow blues that will make you cry to dance tunes that you can’t sit still to.

Blues/Rock from Mission, KS

Levee Town was picked to represent Kansas City at the 2010 International Blues Challenge.  I obsess over Levee Town about as much as I do for Trampled Underfoot [the 2008 KC IBC pick + winner]

They guys are great and I personally think that Brandon Hudspeth is one of the best guitarists around.

Listen to Levee Town:
House Party
That’s Alright

Opening the show is Eli Cook “Featuring fast-fingered guitar and a powerful voice beyond his years, Cook doesn’t need any Robert-Johnson-style pact with the devil to take him to the top.”  [Eli Cook's Red House Blues Band, by Matthew Hirst, C'ville Review, 12/10/2003]

Friday, June 11. Uncle Bo’s, Topeka Ramada, $5.  21+

**Eli Cook will also be playing at the Music at the Market booth, Downtown Topeka Farmers Market this Saturday, 9-11 a.m.

Topeka’s own Josh Vowell & the Rumble open for Tinsley Ellis!!!

With additional opening act from Sean Mullady

Guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Tinsley Ellis ranks among the top blues/rock guitarists working today. Ellis sings and plays with the energy and soul of all the great Southern musicians who have come before him. He attacks his music with rock power and blues feeling, in the same tradition as Deep South musical heroes Duane Allman, Freddie King and Warren Haynes.  [Suki Willison]

See all three amazing musicians Saturday, June 12 at Uncle Bo’s. $15 advance tickets, $18 at door.
Watch Josh Vowell & the Rumble


Learn more about Sean Mullady

Tab Benoit returns for a special Sunday show

Blues from New Orleans

Guitarist, singer, and songwriter Tab Benoit makes his home near New Orleans in Houma, LA. Born November 17, 1967, he’s one of a handful of bright rising stars on the modern blues scene. For most of the 90s, he’s been working each of his records the old fashioned way, by playing anywhere and everywhere he and his band can play. Since the release of his first album for Justice, Benoit has taken his brand of Cajun-influenced blues all over the U.S., Canada and Europe. Nice and Warm, his debut album for Houston-based Justice Records, prompted some critics to say he’s reminiscent, at times, of three blues guitar gods: Albert King, Albert Collins, and Jimi Hendrix.

See Benoit Sunday, June 13 starting at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $20 and will sell out!

Listen to Tab Benoit
Voodoo On The Bayou

[June 2010 | Kerrice Mapes | photos contributed]
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