BLUE INK www.BLUSD.org APRIL 2013 Vol 15- Issue 4 HEADLINES: FLOWER FIELDS “ DAY”... GATOR BY THE BAY... ANDY T & NICK NIXON... HOB JAM +

he 5th Annual BLUSD “Blues Day” at the Flower Fields happens Saturday April 27 from BLUSD T1-4pm. This is a special day when a variety of blues artists share their talents with blues lovers and Presents the general public in the colorful surroundings of the blooming Flower Fields. It’s an amazingly picturesque setting to relax and hear music. “Blues This years’ artists performing include guitarist/ vocalist Mike Reilly, vocalist Annette Da Bomb, Day” guitarist/vocalist Steve Burns, bassist Nathan Brown, harpman/vocalist Les “Big Daddy” Taylor, Mark “Doc” Holliday on keys/organ/vocals and drummer at The Tom Stewart. Kicking off the afternoon is a special performance by the “Kids Like Blues Band.” Flower The nearly fifty acres of Giant Tecolote Ranunculus flowers that make up The Flower Fields® at Carlsbad Ranch, in Carlsbad, California, are in bloom for Fields approximately six to eight weeks each year - from early March through early May. April 27 Celebrate Spring with a fun, musical afternoon at this charming, open-air venue. Music is included with admission to the Flower Fields located at 5704 Paseo Del Norte, Carlsbad. $11.00 adults, $10.00 seniors 60+, $6 children 3-10, children 2 and under free.

Bourbon Street Henkel, Whitney Shay, Billy Watson, Chet stage. A much- Cannon, Chase Walker Blues Band, Ben Color this lauded blues Powell, Michele Lundeen, Pat Ellis and more! harmonica player, At the heart of Gator by the Bay is the Gator Blue singer and good-time Cajun and zydeco music and songwriter since culture from Southwest Louisiana. Zydeco orget May gray---you’ll be his early teens, and Cajun headliners include Grammy seeing May in shades of Harman has been nominated Geno Delafose & French Rockin Fblues, when the 12th nominated for 19 Boogie, Lil Wayne & Same Ole Two Step, Annual Gator by the Bay Festival W.C. Handy Andre Thierry and Zydeco Magic and brings the joie de vivre of the Louisiana awards. Bamboo Porch features guitarist Lafayette Rhythm Devils. A number of bayou to Spanish Landing Park in San Nathan James, James Michael Tempo’s favorite local Cajun and zydeco bands will Diego on Mother’s Day weekend, May 10- Afro-Cuban percussion and Troy fill out the lineup. 12, with some of the hottest blues, Cajun, Sandow’s acoustic bass. New this year is a significant selection of and zydeco music around. Catherine Denise is a young guitarist, Latin music. Noted salsa bands will include Back once again is the legendary Elvin vocalist and song writer from San The Manny Cepeda Orchestra and Bishop. A founding member of the Antonio, TX, who began singing at the Orchestra Primo. Nortenia, Ranchera and groundbreaking Paul Butterfield Blues age of 3. In her teens, she discovered the Nueva Latina music will be well-represented Band. Elvin will be playing on Saturday music of Stevie Ray Vaughan. Catch her as well. afternoon with frequent collaborator and on Sunday afternoon, May 12. Tickets are available online in advance at star in his own right, Johnny Vernazza. Other blues artists tearing up the stages www.gatorbythebay.com or at the gate. On Friday night, James Harman and his at Gator By the Bay include Mama Tokus, Children 17 and under FREE with a ticketed Bamboo Porch Review will heat up the Bill Magee Blues Band, Sue Palmer, Robin parent or guardian. ~ Wendy Lemlin BLUES LOVERS BLUSD TABLE GIGS UNITED OF SAN DIEGO APRIL 27, 2013 ~ 1-4 pm EDITOR Michele Lundeen – [email protected] GIG CALENDAR [email protected] and/or post at www.BLUSD.org BLUSD or use Google Calendar and “invite” BLUSD WEB MASTER Position Open CONTRIBUTORS “BLUES DAY” Janine Harty, Wendy Lemlin, Michele Lundeen, DM, Rosa Lea Schiavone Deadlines for monthly newsletter: Articles/Events/Ads/Info should be submitted by the CARLSBAD 23th to [email protected] in order to ensure inclusion. BOARD OF DIRECTORS Janet Blair Nelly Burns FLOWER FIELDS Steve Burns – [email protected] Janine Harty Michele Lundeen Donna Mallen Rosa Lea Schiavone – [email protected] Ted Steuer PRESIDENT BANDS & VENUES: Janine Harty – [email protected] POST YOUR BLUES-BASED EVENTS ONLINE VICE PRESIDENT Ted Steuer TREASURER www.blusd.org/add-a-gig Nelly Burns – [email protected] SECRETARY or use GOOGLE Calendar Donna Mallen – [email protected] MEMBERSHIP [email protected] and “Invite” BLUSD BLUES IN THE SCHOOLS SO ALL CAN FIND YOU & SUPPORT YOUR SHOWS! Janet Blair – Director [email protected] *Fans, remind your favorite bands & venues to Michele Lundeen – BITS Assistant Deb Mech – Education Advisor Post their gigs ... or OFFER to post for them! ADVISORS Our overall calendar format & retrieval methods have changed. Michael Kinsman – Rand De Mattei HOWEVER... If you would ALSO like to email us your regional Blues related listings as well (or instead of) posting them,.

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BLUES www.BLUES.org IN THE SCHOOLS Live, interactive blues musical presentations available to share, inform and entertain! AFFILIATE Blues Lovers United of San Diego is a 501(c)3 non profit, membership driven corporation affiliated Contact: [email protected] with The Blues Foundation in Memphis, TN, an umbrella organization for Blues Societies worldwide. Blue Ink April 13 Page 2 BLUSD Presents “Jammingout the HOB”

LUSD and Jammingout.net presented the hard launch of “Jammingout The House of Blues” on Wednesday night, BMarch 27 in the HOB Voodoo Lounge from 8pm-12am. Rosalea Schiavone, Team member of JammingOut the House of Blues, BLUSD Board of Directors member and Wicked Harem Promotions guru exclaimed about the launch, "BIG OH-BOY-HOWDIE! The magical moments just kept happening. The place was full up and slammin! We came together and made a joyous sound. Our host band; Lafayette, Kevin Cooper, Billy Ray and Tony Agosta with special guest Bubba McCoy thank you! You boyz are some tight funky dudes... DAMN! Thanks to everyone who came and shared their talent. Ya'll brought it. ... You all added to the magic of this pot of musical stew. To all the fans thanks for your support '-- without you we all might as well be singing and playin in the shower. I can't thank Packy B enough for the stellar job that he did on the sound keepin' the jam running smooth as silk, your vision and facilitation of this night. Doyle Thomas... great job on the mic as our MC. Thank you for your vision and creation of jammingout.net, a network for people looking to jam. I couldn't have dreamed of a better evening to launch your site... Thanks also to the management and all the staff at the House of Blues. You all made us feel right at home..." The jam will continue each Wednesday night at the downtown House BACKLINE PROVIDED. INFO AND/OR SIGNUP AT of Blues on 5th Ave. Complete backline is provided. Find out more info WWW.JAMMINGOUT.NET and/or signup for the jam at www.jammingout.net or you can signup at the venue. There is plenty of street parking that's free after 6pm. 5th and Ash there’s is a huge parking lot, that’s only $4. If you’re not a musician, make a point to come down an experience something special here. Let’s show ‘em that BLUSD folk know how to do it up right. Andy T & Nick Nixon will bring it to 98 Bottles April 7

contract with the label. They will be musician in the room. His singing inspires performing their old-school, barn-burning me to play guitar at my best.” blues tracks from their recently released Andy T performed in various bands label debut, Drink Drank Drunk. around Southern California until 1996, when Andy T is a L.A./San Diego transplant. Los Angeles-based Smokey Wilson He and Nick’s union began on stage two practically plucked him off the stage for his years ago at the Nashville Blues Society’s first tour. In 1998 Andy also began playing regular Sunday night jam, where Andy with Guitar Shorty, the Houston TX native leads the house band. Given Music City’s known for his blistering six-string attack and population of killer players, Andy was on-stage acrobatics. Andy spent seven used to sharing the stage with high caliber years on the road with Smokey and Shorty. performers. But when he heard Nick, it Both men have decades-long resumes that ndy “T” Talamantez and James was love at first note. account for their mature, informed style. “Nick” Nixon are coming to town, “The first time Nick sang next to me on Showtime is 7pm. Tickets are $8 online at ASunday April 7th, live in The Back stage I got goose bumps,” he recalls. available at http://98blues.bpt.me until Room at 98 Bottles for an unprecedented “Nick sings like I’d like to be able to sing. midnight PST the night before the event. performance! The duo were winners of He’s a really fine guitarist, too, but when Tickets will be available at the door for $10. Delta Groove Productions “Blues Stimulas Nick steps up to the microphone, the bar Food and drinks served beginning at 6p; Program” which garnered them a recording is seriously raised for every other $10 minimum per person. Blue Ink April 13 Page 3 8th Annual Ventura BLUES JAMS Call venue to confirm SUNDAY: County Blues Festival • Downtown Cafe 2:30-5:30 pm (signup at 2 pm) ichael John's 8th Annual Ventura County Blues Festival 182 East Main St., El Cajon (619) 440-5687 takes place Saturday, April 27, 2013 at Moorpark College, Host: Chet and The Committee M7075 Campus Rd., Moorpark. Gates open 10am and music • Mr. Peabody’s “Best Damn Jam” 6 - 9 pm every other Sun starts 11am. Presented by the Ventura County Blues Society, this 136 Encinitas Blvd, Encinitas, CA 92024 (760) 753-7192 year's festival includes Johnny Rivers and Savoy Brown featuring Host: Gomez Blues Project Kim Simmonds, Kenny Neal, keyboardist-vocalist Dona Oxford, • Sky Box 6-10 pm (858) 273-1226 Preston Smith and the Crocodiles, Michael John and the Bottom Featuring a very Special Guest set 7-8pm Line and special guest emcee, actor/musician, Mickey Jones. 4809 Clairemont Dr., San Diego (Clairemont Square) Michael John's Ventura County Blues Festival, formerly the Simi Host: Jaz [email protected] Valley Blues Festival, is the vision of Simi Valley resident Michael • The Kraken 4 - 9 pm John Basowski. John, (who also recently founded the Ventura 2531 So. Coast Hwy, Cardiff (760) 634-6865 County Blues Society), has been a musician all his life and had Host: Blues Brokers (858) 481-6580 always dreamed that someday he could help make an impact on MONDAY: his community. • Humphrey’s Backstage “Pro Jam” 7 - 11 pm Tickets are $25 in advance, $30 day-of-show, kids 12 and under (Occasional Mons / call or check Humphrey’s calendar) free with adult. There’s food and craft vendors, a guitar giveaway 2241 Shelter Island Dr., Pt. Loma (619) 224-3577 signed by all the artists, a special kid's area and silent auction Host: The Committee & Friends including a new, autographed Fender guitar signed by Johnny • Gaslamp Speakeasy “Old School Jam” 8:30 pm - 12:30 am Rivers plus a photo opportunity with Rivers. 708 4th Ave. downtown San Diego (619) 239-9994 Find more information www.venturacountyblues.com or call the Host: Stoney B. Blues festival hotline: (805) 501-7122. Festival proceeds benefit the • The Kraken 8:30 pm American Diabetes Association and local charities. 2531 So. Coast Hwy, Cardiff (760) 634-6865 Host: Doug Allen TUESDAY: • The Kraken 8:30 pm 2531 So. Coast Hwy, Cardiff (760) 634-6865 Host: Doug Allen • Patrick’s Gaslamp Pub “Chicken Wing Jam” 8-11 pm Gaslamp (619) 233-3077 Host: Walter Gentry (all styles welcomed) WEDNESDAY: • Cafe La Maze 7 - 10 pm 1441 Highland Ave, National City (619) 474-3222 • House of Blues 8 pm -1 2 am 1055 5th Avenue Downtown (619) 299-2583 Host: BLUSD & Jammingout.net • Last Call 8 pm 4997 El Cajon Blvd, El Cajon (619) 287-9505 Host: Dana Garett [email protected] THURSDAY: • Kaminski’s BBQ 8-11 pm 12735 Poway Rd., Poway (858) 748-1106 Host: Alex Gomez & Best Damn Jam FRIDAY: • Del Cerro Rec “Slo-Jam” Acoustic 6:30 - 9 pm (every 3rd Friday) Host: Walt Richards (619) 589-8177 • Royal Dive “Happy Hour Jam” 6 - 9 pm (1st & 3rd Fri) 2939 San Luis Rey Rd., Oceanside (760) 733-1911 Host: “Mark of The Blues” Abbott

Blue Ink April 13 Page 4 performance. If you love slide like I do, you’ll be stomping and CD Reviews...... clapping and smiling to this one, which has deservedly gotten LONG WALK HOME frequent airplay on Sirius/XM. “Last Crossroad” is another great slide and drum collaboration that comes out just right. Kevin Selfe “Put Me Back in Jail” is a razzle-dazzle honky-tonk number, Delta Groove Music emphasized by piano and slide guitar. It sounds like a revved-up Another top-notch new release “High Heeled Sneakers.” When you get to this track, the eleventh, from Delta Groove! Kevin Selfe you’ll be wishing for a twelfth. Might as well replay Long Walk is a guitarist, vocalist and Home... it’s worth it. ~ DM songwriter who currently works out of the Portland, Oregon area with his blues band, Kevin Selfe I KNOW WHAT and the Tornadoes. They’ve IT'S LIKE won the Cascade Blues Andrew Jr. Boy Jones Association’s Muddy Award eight times, and have been inducted 43rd Big Idea Records into the CBA’s Blues Hall of Fame. Texas-born Andrew Jr. Boy On Long Wa;k Home, he’s backed up by an outstanding cast of Jones has been playing the artists from Delta Groove – Jimi Bott on drums, Mitch Kashmar on blues professionally for 50 harmonica and vocals, Alan Markel on bass, and , years, first as a band member alternating with Steve Kerin, on piano. Also joining him is a great for the likes of Freddy King, lineup of horn players – Doug James and Brad Ulrich (baritone Johnny Taylor, B.B. King, sax), Chris Mercer (tenor sax), and Joe McCarthy (trumpet), with Charlie Musselwhite and many Lisa Mann on backup vocals and Dover Weinberg on organ. other legends. His guitar skills The tracks range from a T-Bone Walker or West Coast Swing and his voice are equally impressive. He began his solo career in style, where the horns team up to produce some great, danceable 1996, releasing six recordings over the years. numbers, to the slide guitar pieces, where Selfe and the drummer His latest, I Know What it's Like, is a solid winner from beginning or harp player are the focus. to end. It features 12 original songs, 10 by Jones and two by guest All songs are written by Kevin Selfe. His lyrics and titles are vocalist Kerrie Lepai, who is a killer in her own right. The backing amusing and insightful. Every song is a good one. Some standouts band is spot on. The flavors range from Chicago blues to funk to are “Walking Funny,” a jumping swing tune where the horns and soul, all handled with equal aplomb. Every song is a keeper, so it's drums are artfully arranged to drive along like a rolling freight difficult to single out a favorite. In short, this is the real deal. Do train and “Midnight Creeper,” an excellent slide guitar number on yourself a favor and make this one the soundtrack for your next which Jimi Bott and Kevin Selfe mesh perfectly in their co- party! ~ Janine Harty Kids are diggin’ the Photocharity/BLUSD blues at Flower Fields music program he Carlsbad Flower Fields K-2nd grade he new Photocharity "Taking Music to The Streets" program Spring Education Program is in full bloom on Sunday from 4-6pm at the Episcopal Church Center in T through April. Blues vocalist Michele Ocean Beach has been a hit so far. The program offers free Lundeen and keyboardist Mike McGinty are T music lessons, dinner and eventually free instruments for homeless onhand representing BLUSD on Tuesdays and youth ages 12-24. This program is a partnership with BLUSD. Thursdays from 9am-noon from late March The program’s goal is to help improve self esteem, keep hope through April this season for their music portion. Interactive, call- alive and create trust with homeless youth and young adults ages and-responses songs that like “Mojo Workin’” and the “Funky 12-24 years old. This will result in youth coming into the shelter and ABC’s” plus songs about planting flowers, digging dirt and where going to programs to become self sufficient. does ice cream come from (indirectly... it’s dirt!) are put to bluesy Photocharity is a non-profit organization which, for the past 12 shuffles, boogies and swing beats. Guitarist/vocalist Andres years, has helped save over 1700 homeless youth aged 12-17 by Acuna will also be subbing. Over 200 to 400+ regional school placing them in long term safe housing with our partnership with children will pass through the Flower Fields each week day San Diego Youth Service’s Storefront Emergency Youth Shelter. exploring various nature “stations.” Along with fun sing-alongs, Besides funding other services, their partnership has created a the kids are led through rhythmic exercise by clapping to the beat very successful music program at Storefront. Youth in the shelter and some are invited up to be part of the “band” utilizing real as love it! Photocharity is committed to establishing a new shelter for well as re-purposed percussion instruments made from empty 18-24 year old homeless youth, to teach the life skills needed to containers. So far feedback from the staff and teachers has been help become self-sufficient. www.SaveHomelessYouth.org positive and the experience rewarding for all. Can ya dig it? Blue Ink April 13 Page 5 Blue Ink April 13 Page 6 Be a BLUSD Volunteer! Reap cool benefits! e encourage our members to volunteer. Get right in there, roll up your sleeves and start spreading the (blues) news W with us! We need volunteers for our BLUSD “Festival Team,” Regional IBC Team,” “Membership Party Team,” “Newsletter Team,” and “Blues In The Schools Team.” For detailed info see our many volunteer team opportunities at http://blusd.org/volunteer/ If you are already a member, either fill out the Volunteer Form at http://blusd.org/membership/or give us a call at (619) 630-9416. If you’re not yet a member or need to renew, just follow the steps at http://blusd.org/membership/ using PayPal’s secure credit card processing system ...THEN, fill out our Volunteer Form at http://blusd.org/membership/ and let us know how you can help out! Once you take the first step, our volunteer coordinator will contact you and see where your talents and availability will fit best. Thanks in advance or your interest!

BLUES 4/7 Andy T & Nick Nixon ~ 98 Bottles http://98bottlessd.com/calendars/andy-t-nick-nixon-band/ NOTES 4/26: Jr. ~ Ramona MainStage 4/27 & 4/28: Adams Ave. Roots Festival ~ www.adamsavenueonline.org 4/27: BLUSD presents :Blues Day” ~ Carlsbad Flower Fields

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