Blues Notes August 2012
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Volume SeVenteen, number eight • AuguSt 2012 Come join us for 3 days of delicious, mouth watering barbecue and entertainment on the beautiful grounds of Stinson Park at Aksarben Village! FREE ADMISSION! FREE PARKING! FREE MUSIC! Our inaugural family-oriented event will feature nationally renowned professional Saturday, August 11th McKenna’s rib cooking crews, each bringing you a unique style of barbecue and fixins! will host an all day Blues, Booze THURSDAY AUGUST 16 and BBQ party at the bar. The Back 5:00 ~ Blues Ed - Blues Dilemma • 6:00 ~ Blues Ed - Crimson Dawn Alley Blues Band, as well as many 8:00-10:30 ~ BlueHouse & The Rent To Own Horns Blues Ed bands will take the stage thoughout the day. FRIDAY AUGUST 17 5:00-6:30 ~ Chad Lee • 7:00-8:30 ~ Collective Twang • 9:00-10:30 ~ Tami Hall Also August 11th, The OK Sisters will make a rare appearance in SatURDAY AUGUST 18 the area at Heartland Cafe! For 11:00 ~ Blues Ed - What Happened? • 12:00 ~ Blues Ed - Us & Them • 1:00 ~ Blues Ed - Mojo Bag • 3:00-4:30 ~ Lou Deluca a complete concert series lineup 5:00-6:30 ~ The Pounders • 7:00-8:30 - Little Joe & Big Trouble • 9:00-10:30 ~ Brad Cordle please visit heartlandcafe.net Blues Society Of Omaha Presents: THE JOHNSEN BROTHERS RETURN! CAROLYN Friday, August 3rd WONDERLAND The Heartland Cafe, 8pm • 2615 North Main, Elkhorn Tuesday, August 28th - 5pm The Waiting Room Advanced tickets on sale at etix.com THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND The Bluesmasters Concert Featuring The Allman Brothers Band and Master of Ceremonies, Mick Fleetwood When: Friday, August 31, 2012 @ 6 p.m. (Doors open 5 p.m.) The Where: Haymarket Park, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE Artists: THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND, BLUESMASTERS Eric JErardi Band AND GUESTS, LEON RUSSELL, & ELVIN BISHOP Gator O’Malley’s Guests include Otis Taylor and Eric Gales Thursday FB: www.facebook.com/thebluesmastersconcert august 9th Tickets – www.etix.com or 1-877-464-2255 9:00pm The following artists will perform at 21st Saloon located at 4737 S. 96th St. in Omaha, NE — All shows at 5:30pm — Thu 8/2 ...........................................................................................Samantha Fish Thu 8/9 ................................................................................................Tinsley Ellis Thu 8/16 ................................................ Randy McAllister w/Buddy Whittington Thu 8/23 .............................................................................................Kelly Richey Thu 8/30 .............................................................................. Trampled Under Foot Thu 9/6 ...............................................................................................Ana Popovic Thu 9/13 ...........................................................................Moreland and Arbuckle Thu 9/20 .................................................................Royal Southern Brotherhood Thu 9/27 .....................................................................................................Bel Airs PAGE 2 BLUES NEWS • BLUES SOCIETY OF OMAHA Why donate to The Blues Society of Omaha? The Blues Society of Omaha, Inc is a 501C3 Non-Profit Organization that was formed in 1998. We are an all-volunteer organization with over 800 members. BSO’s mission is to “Keep the Blues Alive”. We are recognized as one of the top Blues Societies in the country – a very cool thing for our great city. Through your support we continue to contribute to The Blues, its musicians and events in the area through our sponsorship and volunteer support: • BSO is a sponsor of Playing With Fire, a series of concerts held each summer on Omaha’s riverfront. We support the event financially as well as provide 500+ volunteer hours for each of the events. The PWF concert series has drawn national recognition to Omaha! • In 2001, BSO created BluesEd, a non-profit youth artist development program which provides opportunities for young musicians to perform with other students in a band format. BluesEd has also gained national attention for Omaha. • Regularly produces charitable events for musicians in need • Provides support to The Zoo Bar – Lincoln’s award-winning Blues venue • “Jammin Away The Blues” – annual fundraiser for The Nebraska Mental Health Organization • Operation Feed the Troops – fundraiser to provide free food to deploying and returning armed forces members and their families • Annual toy drive for the children of Pine Ridge Reservation Other Donor Benefits: • Free monthly subscription to “Blues Notes” – our monthly newsletter that will keep you abreast of Blues events in the area, Blues CD revues and other articles of interest to Blues connoisseurs! • Weekly e-blasts with late-breaking Blues news • Invitation to special events and parties • Special pre-sale and discounted tickets to select events • Various discounts offered by BSO advertisers • Pride in belonging to a group dedicated to “Keeping The Blues Alive!” Please consider switching to the GREEN VERSION of Blues Notes. You will be saving the planet while saving BSO some expense. Contact Nancy at [email protected] to switch to e-mail newsletter delivery and get the scoop days before snail mail members! BLUES ON THE RADIO: Mondays 1pm-3pm on KIOS 91.5 “Blues in the Afternoon” with Mike Jacobs You can listen to the live stream at www.kios.org Sundays 9am-Noon on KIWR 89.7 Rick Galusha’s “PS Blues” Pacific Street Blues & Americana podcast: http://kiwrblues.podOmatic.com/entry/2010-02-03T11_00_49-08_00 Lincoln’s KZUM Radio - Nebraska’s only community radio, and you can listen to it on the web at KZUM.org. Monday – 3:00-6:00pm “World Gone Wrong Blues” Tuesday – 10am-Noon “The X” • 3:00-6:00pm “Group W Blues” Wednesday – 3:00-6:00pm “My Deja Blues” Thursday – 3:00-6:00pm “Every Kind of Blue” Friday – 1:00-3:00pm “Women’s Blues & Boogie” • 3:00-4:30pm “Hudson Blues” Friday – 4:30-6:00pm “A Blues Oasis” Saturday – 6:00-8:30am “Blues at Sunrise” BLUES NEWS • BLUES SOCIETY OF OMAHA PAGE 3 B.B. KING BLUES-ROCKER TINSLEY ELLIS with special guest The Robert Cray Band AUGUST 16 @ 8 p.m. • Pinewood Bowl Theater TO PERFORM IN OMAHA! Tickets on sale now! Thursday, August 9, 2012 The 21st Saloon • 4727 South 96th Street His reign as King of the “Blistering, inspired roadhouse blues Blues has been and passionate Southern rock, super- as long as that charged guitar and gritty, soulful of any monarch vocals.” -Relix on earth. Yet Blues-rocking guitarist/vocalist Tinsley B.B. King con- Ellis will perform at The 21st Saloon in tinues to wear Omaha on Thursday, August 9, 2012. Ellis his crown well. will be performing songs from his latest At age 76, he Alligator release, SPEAK NO EVIL. Over is still light on the course of 11 albums and literally thou- his feet, sing- sands of live performances, Ellis is one of today›s most elec- ing and playing trifying guitarists and vocalists. Rolling Stone says he plays the blues with «feral blues guitar...non-stop gigging has sharpened his six- relentless pas- string to a razor›s edge...his eloquence dazzles...he achieves sion. pyrotechnics that rival early Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton. Time has no apparent effect on B.B., other than to make him more popular, more cherished, more relevant than ever. Surrounded by the natural beauty of evergreens, Pinewood Bowl Theater in Lincoln’s Pioneers Park offers a night like no other under the stars. Tickets are available at the Pershing Center box office, all Ticketmaster locations, ticketmaster.com or charge by phone at 1-800-745-3000. On the day of the concert, tickets are available at the Pinewood Bowl Theater beginning three hours prior to the gates opening. Ticket prices are: $45, $56, $86 and a limited number at $153. All seats reserved. (additional fees may apply) All ages welcome. Check out B.J. Huchtemann’s column Hoodoo Blues each week in the Omaha READER for info on upcoming shows and other news in the roots-blues music scene. Find the new column online each Thursday at http://www.thereader.com/music/C12/ BSO CORPORatE SPONSORS BLUE CLUB Steve and Lisa Krueger KZUM FM Radio Shelli Mayer Terry O’Halloran Mike Nash West Point Rack Michael J. and Paula McCarville 21st Saloon Bimbo Pietro, DDS Sue & Tim Miller Havana Garage Roger and Sheri Slosson SPECIAL Teresa A. Renken Mama’s Pizza West Dan Van Houten Matthew Barges Sid Sidner Shucks Fish House Richard Wolken Glenn Bauer Ernest Sutherlin 7 Oaks Investment Corporation Seth & Linsdsey Carlson Bob and Becky Swift CORPORATE Barry O’s Old Market Jerry Cyza Pamela Tanous Frank Besch Cackin’s Repair and New John Irvine Greg Virant and Lynn Kost Virant Mitch Bolte Christy Rossiter & 112 North Duck Sindie and Jerry Katskee Malissia Wollen Jim Bradford Jr. Eagle Search and Service Kit and Pam Kelley Paul Scott Hoagbin Blues Band = Conrad Good Gator O’Malley’s Royce M. Kreitman PSH Blues Band Alan Green Heartland Cafe Troy and Susan Krupicka PAGE 44 BLUESBLUES NEWS NEWS • OMAHA• OMAHA BLUES BLUES SOCIETY SOCIETY What’s New with BluesEd? Latest Gigs and News July Workshop with Sue Foley and Peter Karp Our bands have been busy playing at Stinson Park and Our BluesEd students were thrilled to attend a workshop Werner Park before Omaha Storm Chaser’s games and are on July 5 with songwriters and blues artists, Sue Foley and gearing up for our future performances at Sumter Amphithe- Peter Karp, who were in Omaha for a performance with The ater, McKennas, and the Aksarben Village Ribfest. Our musi- Nighthawks. Peter and Sue shared stories of their diverse cians have also been attending workshops with our BluesEd professional experiences with the students along with clinicians where they are learning new songs and enhancing songwriting and performance tips. The students enthusias- their performances. Finally, local band Blue House invited a tically embraced the knowledge and many mentioned after few BluesEd students to play with them in June at Sumter the workshop that they learned a great deal that they can Amphitheater. The students had a great time! apply to their future performances.