VOLUME TWENTY-ONE, NUMBER ONE • JANUARY 2016 SHEMEKIA COPELAND Saturday, Jan. 30th @ 8 pm Holland Performing Arts Center THE DANIELLE NICOLE BAND www.ticketomaha.com Wednesday, Jan. 6th @ 6 pm $10 adv., $12 dos Zoo Bar, Lincoln Thursday, Jan 7th @ 6 pm • $10 21st Saloon, Omaha Dec. 31st (N.Y.E.- 9 pm) .......................Moreland and Arbuckle ($15) Jan. 2nd (Sat. 8 pm) ...... Backfire with the McLaughlin Brothers ($5) Jan. 7th .................................................... Danielle Nicole Band ($10) Jan. 9th (Sat. 8 pm) ...................Hamilton Loomis ($12 adv./$15 dos) IBC Send Off Party for Hector Anchondo Band Adv. tickets @ www.hamiltonloomis.com Jan. 14th .................................................... The Nace Brothers ($10) Special Guest Gina Sicilia Jan. 16th (Sat. 6 pm) .....The Bel Airs with Electric Church @ 9:30 ($5) Jan. 17th (Sun. 6 pm) ........................Drew Jude and the Cool Tones Thursday, Jan. 21st @ 6pm $10 CD Release Party with the 21st Saloon, Omaha Rex Granite Band feat. Sarah Benck Jan. 21st ................................................. IBC Send Off Party with the Hector Anchondo Band and Gina Sicilia ($10) SWAMPBOY BLUES JAM Jan. 28th ............................................... Biscuit Miller & the Mix ($10) Feb. 4th ................................................ Nick Schnebelen Band ($10) Weekly Open Blues Jam Feb. 6th (Sat. 8 pm) .................................................. Dax’s Band ($5) Wednesdays 8 pm to 11 pm Feb. 11th ................................................................. Kelley Hunt ($15) Black Eye Dive • 72nd & Harrison, Omaha Feb. 18th ...............................Studebaker John and the Hawks ($10) PAGE 2 BLUES NEWS • BLUES SOCIETY OF OMAHA Please consider switching to the GREEN VERSION of Blues Notes. You will be saving the planet while saving BSO some expense. Contact Sher Dostal at [email protected] to switch to e-mail 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 – 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 “Highway Blues” BLUES NEWS • BLUES SOCIETY OF OMAHA PAGE 3 THE DANIELLE NICOLE BAND Wednesday, Jan. 6th @ 6 pm • $10 adv., $12 d.o.s. • Zoo Bar, 136 N. 14th Street, Lincoln, NE Thursday, Jan. 7th @ 6 pm • $10 cover • 21st Saloon, 96th & L Street, Omaha, NE As a founding member and bass could at clubs that would allow player for Kansas City blues- minors. At 16, she began sing- rock band Trampled Under Foot, ing lead in her father’s band, Danielle Nicole has spent years Little Eva and the Works – un- growing her fan base around til he became too sick to play. the world. In 2014 she decided In March of 1999, she start- to push her musical boundaries ed her own band, Fresh Brew, further by forming the Danielle with Kansas City music veterans Nicole Band, which also features Steve Gronemeyer, Steve Hicks, Mike “Shinetop” Sedovic (key- Chuck Payne and Terry Roney. board), Jan Faircloth (drums) and They performed for four years Brandon Miller (guitar). Born a and even represented Kansas natural performer, Danielle got her start singing in coffee- City in the International Blues Challenge. houses and at open mic events while growing up immersed During this time that Danielle and her brothers Nick and Kris in the local Kansas City blues scene. Her talent and on stage began talking about a family band that would eventually charisma played a major role in the success of Trampled become Trampled Under Foot. Not only did she and Kris Under Foot and helped the band earn numerous awards have to move to Philadelphia (where Nick was living), but and nominations over the years, including multiple Blues she would have to learn the bass guitar to keep it a family Music Award nominations for “Band of the Year” and a two band. It took a few years of lessons and saving money be- nominations recognizing her individual accomplishments as fore that could become reality. a musician for “Bass Player of the Year”. Drawing compar- isons to Susan Tedeschi and Etta James, Danielle delivers After several acclaimed self-released albums, Trampled Un- a sweeping vocal range and powerful telling of her lyrics der Foot released Badlands on July 9, 2013 on Telarc, a di- every time she hits the stage. vision of Concord Music Group. Toughened by years of non- stop roadwork, Badlands revealed a musical sophistication Danielle comes from generations of singers. Her grand- well beyond the band’s years. Badlands debuted at #1 on mother, Evelyn Skinner, was a big band singer. Her moth- Billboard’s Blues Chart and Trampled Under Foot performed er, Lisa Swedlund, taught her everything she knew while live throughout the United States and Europe in support of growing up, listening to all different kinds of music from the the album. Everly Brothers to the B-52s. As Trampled Under Foot wound down, Danielle formed It wasn’t until she was 12 that Danielle took to the stage for her own band and now makes her Concord Records solo the first time singing, Koko Taylor’s “Never Trust a Man” at debut with the September, 2015 release of a New Orle- a Blues for Schools program that her parents were playing ans-flavored, blues-soul based albumWolf Den, featuring at Englewood Elementary. From then on, she knew music Grammy® winning producer and guitarist Anders Osborne, would be her passion for the rest of her life. Galactic’s co-founding drummer Stanton Moore and her Danielle began singing in coffeehouses and at open mic regular keyboardist Mike “Shinetop, Jr.” Sedovic. events at age 14, jamming with her parents whenever she From the Danielle Nicole artist website BSO CORPORATE SPONSORS BLUE CLUB Steve & Lisa Krueger Mo Barry Greg and Leslie Nichols Dan and Lanae Grieb Roger & Sheri Slosson Glenn Bauer John Pollack & Karen Berry Kit & Pam Kelley Dan Van Houten Kenny & Linda Benton Mikel Schmidt & Leslie Eurek Royce M Kreitman Richard Wolken John Campbell Ann Scolaro Terry O’Halloran Bel Air Merchant’s Association Geoff Clark Sid Sidner Christy Rossiter & Jerry Cyza Tim Sorrell CORPORATE 112 North Duck David & Kristine Evans Ernest Sutherlin Mitch Bolte Mama’s Pizza West Paul Gerber Bob & Becky Swift Jim Bradford, Jr. Ra Neurological – RDS Skin Care Mike & Sally Hansen Rodney Thorngate Chick Ganz West Point Rack Rick Hillyard Greg Virant & Lynn Kost Virant Conrad Good Troy & Susan Krupicka Down Under Lounge Paul Scott Hoagbin Blues Band SPECIAL Jo Mach Hawk’s BBQ, Craig Kelley, Inserra & Bill Bahrke Vanessa Marie Chris & Brenda Hawkinson Kelley Law Firm Matthew Barges Daniel Meyer PAGE 4 BLUES NEWS • BLUES SOCIETY OF OMAHA What’s New with BluesEd? 2016 is an exciting year for BluesEd as we celebrate our perform in a band are requested to register on our website: 15th year! Many thanks to Doug Backer who had the fore- www.BluesEd.com. 2016 promises to be packed with per- sight and determination to start BluesEd in 2001 as the formance opportunities for our bands at many great area youth outreach program of the Blues Society of Omaha. We venues. have since grown to six performance bands with nearly 200 Some of our BluesEd alumni from various years have formed students involved in the program through the years. Many the band Electric Church. Their next show is at the 21st Sa- of our alumni have stated that BluesEd was one of the high- loon on January 16th following the Bel Airs. This will be a lights of their years in middle school and high school. great chance to hear these now grown men put their years In January we are sending one of our bands, Voodoo Vinyl, of experience together in an unique sound. to Memphis for the International Blues Challenge. Keep an We would like to hear from all of our Alumni as we celebrate eye on the BluesEd Facebook page for their venue and time our 15th year. We hope to have a reunion this spring or as they perform in the Youth Showcase. Voodoo Vinyl is a summer and would like BluesEd alumni (and alumni par- seven piece band featuring students ages 14-18. Audiences ents too!) contact us so we have your current email address. love their energy and enthusiasm. They will be sure to rep- Please send us an email at [email protected]. resent Omaha, BluesEd and the BSO very well. --Kevin & Chris Shouse, BluesEd Directors We are in the process of registering stu- dents for Auditions to be held in February. Vocalists and instru- mentalists that are proficient in their instrument and are ready to BLUES NEWS • BLUES SOCIETY OF OMAHA PAGE 5 HAMILTON LOOMIS Saturday, Jan. 9th @ 8 pm • $12 adv. $15 day of show Adv. tickets @ www.hamiltonloomis.com 21st Saloon, 96th L Street, Omaha “If blues, soul, and rock can be said plauded for being able to jam in several to form a triangle, you’ll find Hamilton music worlds, “comfortably, crossing sty- Loomis right in the center of it”, says listic boundaries with effortless precision. Guitar Player Magazine. There’s no reason to limit the man with a An apt description, as young Loomis is genre classification or tie him down with one of the young artists at the forefront old-school rules.” of bringing blues based American music Bridging the gap between generations of into the 21st century and redefining it music-lovers and redefining blues-based for a contemporary audience.