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Blues Notes June 2014 VOLUME NINETEEN, NUMBER SIX • JUNE 2014 DOUG DEMING & DENNIS GRUENLING Zoo Bar • Tuesday, July 1, 6-9 p.m. www.reverbnation.com/dougdemingdennisgruenling RICK ESTRIN & THE NIGHTCATS facebook.com/DennisGruenlingDougDeming with THURSDAY BLUES SERIES SELWYN BIRCHWOOD 4727 S 96th Plaza All shows 6pm – bands subject to change June 18th Zoo Bar, 6 p.m. June 5th ....................................................... The Red Elvises ($10) June 19th The 21st Saloon, 6 p.m. $15 June 12th .....................................................Reverend Raven ($10) June 19th ................................. Rick Estrin and the Nightcats ($15) w/Selwyn Birchwood (Alligator Records showcase) Soaring Wings 10th Annual June 24th (Tues.) ........................................................The 44’s ($8) Spring Wine, Beer, Blues 2613 N. Main St. • Summer Concert Series and Balloon Festival June 7 , 14 , 21 & 28 • $8 cover for all shows Bar & grill and best seating at 5:00 Saturday, June 7th - 5:30-10:30pm Music from 7 till 10:30 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 The 44’s are a Los Angeles-based band who play blues-roots-rock music. The 44’s are one the brightest rising stars on the American blues roots scene. Make no mistake about it. The raw rough and tough sounds gener- ated by these four expert musicians during live performances and in the making of their Sophomore album Americana, on the Rip Cat label, demands to be heard by Blues music fans World Wide. They evidence a genuine gift for creating blues in the moment while at the same time showing loyalty to a remarkable blues-and-r&b tradition that goes back decades through the James Harman Band and the Red Devils to storied greats like Howlin’ Wolf, Albert Collins, and Muddy Waters. They’ve become a favorite band of club and festival crowds across North America. The 44’s 21st Saloon, Omaha, NE • June 24th (Tuesday show), 6 p.m. • $8 cover Zoo Bar, Lincoln, NE • June 25th, 6 p.m. 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 Craig Kelley, Inserra & Kelley RDS Skin Care Troy and Susan Krupicka Royce M. Kreitman Law Firm West Point Rack Jo Mach 7 Oaks Investments Corp. Steve and Lisa Krueger Vanessa Marie 21st Saloon John Rogers (Peace, Love, Etc.) SPECIAL Michael J. and Paula McCarville OnTrack Music Roger and Sheri Slosson Matt Barges Tim & Sue Miller Sin City Soul & Blues Revival Dan Van Houten Mo Barry John Pollack and Karen Berry Richard Wolken Glenn Bauer Sid Sidner CORPORATE Bel Air Merchant’s Association Geoff Clark Ernest Sutherlin Mitch Bolte Cackin’s Repair and New Jerry Cyza Bob and Becky Swift Jim Bradford, Jr. Christy Rossiter & 112 North Duck Bill & Patty Doney Pamela Tanous Chick Ganz Mama’s Pizza West David & Kristine Evans Dave and Sue Vanlandingham Conrad Good Paul Scott Hoagbin Blues Band Mike and Sue Hansen Greg Virant and Lynn Kost Virant Kit and Pam Kelley PAGE 44 BLUESBLUES NEWS NEWS • OMAHA• OMAHA BLUES BLUES SOCIETY SOCIETY What’s New with BluesEd? BluesEd Draws Crowd at Pizza Shoppe Collective; Seniors Shine People were literally walking Iowa, for the graduation party of in off Maple Street on May 3 to their guitarist, Phil Pfeiffer. Phil hear all six BluesEd bands belt received an acrylic guitar as a out the blues at the Pizza Shoppe gift from the band. “It’s a really Collective in downtown Benson. big deal to me. I am really grate- Mojo Bag turned in a stellar per- ful to be in a band with such cool formance as sisters Ali and Jenny people. I wouldn’t have wanted Fisher wowed the crowd with my last BluesEd season to be vocals. Ben Curran (guitar), Ed with anybody else,” said Phil in Berry (keyboards), and Joe Fox an e-mail to the band members. (drums) round out the seasoned Other seniors in their final year band. Third-year member Jenny of the program are: Ed Berry added her skills on bass guitar (Elkhorn South), keyboardist for as well. Ali, who graduates from Mojo Bag, 6 years in BluesEd; Millard South this year and a Jenny Fisher, bass guitarist and vocalist for Mojo Bag, Ben Curran (Lincoln Southeast), six-year veteran of BluesEd, said performs at the Arthritis Walk in Stinson Park. guitarist for Mojo Bag, 2 years she got involved in the program in BluesEd; Grace Bydalek (Brownell-Talbot), vocalist for because of the influence of her cousin, Monica Maher, who Dilemma, 3 years in BluesEd; Trace Jones (Creighton Prep), was also a BluesEd artist. Monica played for Backer’s Blues, guitarist for Dilemma, 3 years in BluesEd; Ben Wellwood (Mil- named after Doug Backer, one of the original founders of lard South), guitarist and harmonica player for Us & Them, 3 BluesEd. Ali and Jenny’s parents, Bill and Barb Fisher, are in years in BluesEd; and Connor Swanson (Millard South), gui- their second year as directors of the BluesEd program. tarist for Us & Them, 4 years in BluesEd. One audience member at PS Collective said, “I heard this Be sure to come out to the BluesEd Fundraiser June 8, 4 p.m., great vocalist when we walked by and had to come in and at the Slowdown, 729 N 14th St. Bad Brad and the Fat Cats see what was going on.” The vocalist was Becca Erdman for will be the closing band at 8 p.m. Far & Wide. Far & Wide also performed May 17 in Stanton, --Scott Stocking FREE FESTIVAL JUNE 6TH & 7TH IN GLADSTONE (K.C.) June 6th Fast Johnny Ricker • The Bel Airs • Larry Garner June 7th Danny Cox • Doghouse Daddies • Brick Fields & the Chosen Ones Moreland & Arbuckle • Walter Wolfman Washington BLUES NEWS • BLUES SOCIETY OF OMAHA PAGE 5 REVEREND RAVEN AND THE CHAIN SMOKIN’ ALTAR BOYS KEEP IT SIMPLE AND REAL With their attention getting the Blues in 1971 after he oddity of a name and Mil- June 12th heard a Freddy King con- waukee as a home base, cert. His career was inter- Reverend Raven and the 21st Saloon • Omaha, NE rupted by a 15 tear stint in Chain Smokin’ Altar Boys 6 p.m. • $10 cover the Navy where he got his are different in some ways, nickname. One of his duties but faithful to the real Blues as a Chief was to consul in the ways that count. sailors with personal prob- “The Reverend’s ability lems and the crew started to keep a crowd going all calling him Reverend and night long is a matter of it stuck.
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