2009 Friday & Saturday AUGUST 21-22 WWW.GRAFTONBLUES.ORG • WWW.GRAFTONBLUES.ORG WWW.GRAFTONBLUES.ORG To Cheyenne Ave Cheyenne Country 2009 PARAMOUNT Inn Leeson & Suites* GRAFTON Shuttle Bus BLUES FESTIVAL Stop Friday, Aug. 21 Hwy 60 N 5:30 p.m. Michael Ammons Baymont Beech Street Inn* & The Water Street Hot Shots Shuttle Bus 7:00 p.m. Hounds Tooth e Stop Av 8:30 p.m. Perry Weber & The DeVilles Former site of Wisconsin With Special Guest Jimmy Voegeli Port Washington Rd Washington Port Chair Co. Factory Hampton Wisconsin Inn Falls Rd Saturday, Aug. 22 I-43 Fa lls Rd 12 Noon Fruteland Jackson 1:15 p.m. Honeyboy Edwards 2:30 p.m. Alex Wilson Band Festival Site 4:00 p.m. Diunna Greenleaf *Check Out These Lime Kiln Hotels for 5:45 p.m. Greg Koch & Nation Sack Park Green Bay Rd Special Discount Featuring Malford Milligan Festival Room Rates 7:30 p.m. Zac Harmon To Milwaukee and Chicago 9:15 p.m. Bernard Allison Shuttle buses sponsored by Cedarburg-Grafton Rotary Club (Artists and Times Subject to Change) Are you ready for a blues weekend in Grafton? Welcome to the fourth annual Paramount Blues Festival! wonderful time you’re having! Whether this is your first time in Grafton or you’ve been here be- Membership in the Grafton Blues Association is growing! We have great fore, you will notice changes throughout the area. Be sure to visit the supporters, including individuals, bands, venues and corporate members. Paramount Plaza and see the fountain and Walk of Fame. It’s a great The association’s mission is to encourage community involvement by place to take a moment to sit and enjoy a cup of coffee or sponsoring and hosting events, including a diverse realm food from one of the local businesses. of blues performers, educators and historians. By promot- Among them is the Paramount Grille & Bakehouse, ing Blues in the Schools programs, we hope to nurture an which has an assortment of music memorabilia. Just appreciation and understanding of blues music, its histori- around the corner, you will find the Milwaukee Ale House cal influence and importance as a watershed of American with interesting stories and beers dedicated to Grafton and popular music and its relevance to the history of Paramount Paramount music history. recordings made in Grafton. Be sure to pick up a Paramount Walking Tour booklet Did you know we also host other events and programs? in our merchandise area and step back in time as you stroll Our senior blues program is very successful, and the Grafton through Grafton. Blues Challenge — held this year for the second time — This year, we are trying out the month of August for will be sending Michael Ammons and the Water Street Hot the festival. Those of you who live in the area know Shots to Memphis in January 2010. Join us — it’s a fun September is questionable when it comes to the weather, time! and our inaugural festival was a prime example. We tried this date adjust- Want more information? Visit the festival merchandise booth or e-mail ment to hopefully keep us all dry and warm. us at www.graftonblues.org. In 2010, we will celebrate our five-year anniversary, and we’re still de- We hope you enjoy the festival and the changes made this year. We want ciding when the festival will be held. Whenever it occurs, we know you to hear from you. Send us your thoughts, compliments, suggestions and, will have a great time. yes, criticism. We host the festival for YOU, so we need to know what I personally want to take a moment to thank the festival team. Peter, you’d like to see, hear …. and eat! PK, Bradley, Bev, Cheryl and Jeff work all year to put this weekend Have a wonderful weekend! together, as well as all the other events we host. Without them, you would Kris Raymond not be reading this. When you see them, stop them and tell them what a President, Grafton Blues Association BunnySlipperServices.com Kohler Credit Union is a proud sponsor of BlueSKool! Visit our Mobile ATM at the Paramount Get 2 FREE adult tickets to Blues Fest when you bring a Blues Festival August 21 & 22 child to BlueSKool. BlueSKool Lime Kiln Park, Grafton tickets only available at Kohler Credit Union. G ood People to Turn To KAYSEN REALTY VALUATION COMPANY WISCONSIN AVE 262.268.7240 GRAFTON WI 53024 www.kohlercu.com 888.528.2595 262-377-6200 SPONSOR OF ZAC HARMON’S PERFORMANCE Kohler • Grafton • Howards Grove • Plymouth • Saukville • Sheboygan HENRY TOWNSEND MEMORIAL STAGE 12 Noon Saturday 4:00 p.m. Saturday 7:30 p.m. Saturday Friday Performances Sponsored by 5:30 p.m. Friday Fruteland Jackson Diunna Greenleaf Zac Harmon Mississippi native Fruteland throughout the country. He Sponsored by Foundations Bank Sponsored by Kasen Realty Valuation Michael Ammons & The Water Street Hot Shots Jackson is a three-time Blues created the award-winning Music Award nominee as well “All About The Blues Series” The leader of Blue Mercy, Diunna Greenleaf Zac Harmon is returning to his roots after Winners of the 2009 has a background steeped in gospel music. Grafton Blues Challenge, the as an accomplished storyteller for Blues in the Schools pro- several decades of expressing an unbiased love for and oral historian. grams and has earned wide- Influenced by the likes of Koko Taylor, Aretha music. Sheboygan-based Water Franklin, Rosetta Thorpe, Sam Cooke, Charles Street Hot Shots are a tradi- Fruteland specializes in per- spread praise for his research, Born and raised in Jackson, Miss., Harmon is forming acoustic blues — from curriculum and presentation. Brown and her parents, she combines jazz, gos- a disciple of the Farish Street blues sound. His tional blues string band that pel and soul to take blues lovers on an emotional draws from acoustic musical contemporary to traditional, As a performer, Fruteland early years included stints as guitarist for Z.Z roller-coaster ride. styles of the 1920s and ’30s. from early field-holler songs is a consistent crowd pleaser Hill, Dorothy Moore, McKinley Mitchell and Sam Diunna and her band have performed Their repertoire includes and work songs to Delta and whose music and humor puts Myers. After moving to Los Angeles in 1980, throughout the United States and internationally. old-time blues, ragtime, nov- Piedmont tunes — and is also a audiences at ease. Harmon worked as a studio musician and began She has opened for artists such as Bob elty and “hokum” party music. respected composer. He is one He was nominated for two to make a name for himself as a writer/producer, Photo by Gary Collver Margolin, Keb Mo, Pinetop Perkins, Hubert Listeners can expect to of a select group of musicians Blues Music Awards in 2008: crafting songs for Karyn White, Freddie Jackson, hear slide guitar in the style of dedicated to preserving and sage at hundreds of venues. Best Acoustic Artist and Best Sumlin, Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, James Cotton, Evelyn “Champagne” King, the O’Jays and others. masters such as Son House performing acoustic blues in all Fruteland imparts his knowl- Acoustic Album for “Tell Me Carrie Bell, Big Bill Morganfield, Smoking Joe Later, Harmon decided to pursue his longtime and Tampa Red, jug band forms and has shared his mes- edge of the blues to students What You Say.” Kubek, Odetta and many others. dream of recording his first blues project. The tunes and string band blues. Minneapolis Jug Band Battle. of early blues styles.” She was the first woman to serve as president result, “Live at Babe & Ricky’s Inn” (2002), was The group has opened for Leo Other favorites for the band Blues researcher, author 1:15 p.m. Saturday of the Houston Blues Society, produced the an electrifying testimonial to the blues. Kottke, Pinetop Perkins, include Fred’s Annual Corn and musician David Evans Willie Mae Thornton Blues Festival and has Harmon and the Mid South Blues Revue won Hubert Sumlin, Bob Stroger Roast and, of course, the Water noted the group has “a great Honeyboy Edwards supported Blues In Schools Program throughout the Blues Foundation’s 2004 International Blues and Willie “Big Eyes” Smith Street Pub in Sheboygan. repertoire. They sound like a Texas. Challenge as Best Unsigned Blues Band. and performed at the Henry David Freeland of Blues real band, not just a collection David “Honeyboy” Edwards is one of the last original acoustic Diunna was nominated for Traditional Blues Since then, there’s been no looking back, with Townsend Benefit Concert, Review Magazine called of individual talents, though Delta blues players. Female Artist of the Year at the 2009 Blues the release of the CD “The Blues According to 2007 Paramount Blues Ammons “an appealing per- there’s plenty of the latter to Born June 28, 1915, in Shaw, Miss., he has been a part of many Music Awards and received the honor for Best Zacariah,” appearances at U.S. festivals and inter- Festival and 24th annual former with a keen awareness appreciate as well.” New Artist Debut in 2008. of the seminal moments in American music history. His life has national tours. Photo by Dick Waterman 7:00 p.m. Friday been intertwined with almost every blues legend, including Robert 5:45 p.m. Saturday Johnson, Charley Patton, Big Joe Williams, Sonny Boy Williamson, 9:15 p.m. Saturday Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters and scores of others. Hounds Tooth After Alan Lomax recorded Honeyboy for the Library of Greg Koch & Nation Sack Showcasing the soulful Congress in 1942, he didn’t record again commercially until 1951.