This Year's Lineup ...

Friday July 5, 2013
9:30pm - 11:00pm	Collective Soul In the 1990s, Collective Soul was the crack cocaine of rock. The most played band on radio, their patented 3-guitars power wattage, irresistible turbo-charged energy, well-crafted, catchy songs and thoughtful lyrics appeared to be forged from a telepathic connection with ... More	7:45pm - 9:00pm	The Steepwater Band When it comes to music, young men are always going to be young men. Invariably, they’re never going to be content to interpret their influences at face value for long before whisking them off on a more personal tangent. Need proof? Look no further than The Steepwater Band ... More

6:15pm - 7:45pm	Cliff Stevens Cliff Stevens has been playing guitar professionally for longer than he sometimes cares to admit, around 35 years to be vaguely precise. Like so many blues musicians before him, he spent much of his career displaying his significant talents in relative obscurity ... More	5:00pm - 6:00pm	Tracy K In a business where safety nets are non existent and successful female harmonica players are a rarity, you have to admire the plucky and positive spirit of Tracy K. Through shear force of determination and talent, she has stamped her versatility indelibly ... More
Saturday July 6, 2013
9:30pm - 11:00pm	Los Lobos Dreams can be a wistful indulgence in star gazing and wishful thinking. But for Los Lobos, dreams have been a life-long musical pursuit grounded in culture, hard work and the desire to escape the poverty of the barrio. Indeed, the uniqueness of their sound can be attributed to an ... More	7:45pm - 9:00pm	Los Lonely Boys Drawing their name from a song that their father, Enrique sang to them as children, Los Lonely Boys consists of the Garza brothers, Henry (guitar), Jojo (bass) and Ringo (drums). They grew up poor in the sleepy west Texas town of San Angelo where, under Enrique’s tutelage ... More

6:15pm - 7:15pm	Mingo Fishtrap Somewhere in northern Texas, near the town of Denton at the isolated intersection of Mingo Road and Fishtrap Road, Roger Blevins, Jr. found help with a flat tire and the name for his band. It was 1992 and Blevins was a student in the Jazz Studies program at the ... More	5:00pm - 6:00pm	Samantha Fish Sometimes, success gets it right and smiles on a young artist like Samantha Fish who really deserves its blessings. Sharp and intuitive, Fish, 23, is storming the blues world the old fashioned way, with talent, self confidence, a little risk taking and plenty of elbow grease. Growing ... More

3:45pm - 4:45pm	Melvin Taylor “I couldn’t afford a guitar,” recalls Melvin Taylor. “And I wanted one so bad that I started making guitars out of anything – a cigar box, a piece of wood. I’d use fishing string … just anything I could get a tone out of.” From the age of 8, the guitar has been a cosmos of wonders for ... More	2:30pm - 3:30pm	Quinn Sullivan From the perspective of someone with grey hair, logic would suggest that you shouldn’t be able to play the blues until you’ve had your heart broken or, at the very least, until you are old enough to drive. But logic must prostrate itself before the talent of Quinn Sullivan who ... More

1:15pm - 2:15pm	The Groove Merchants Live respected, die regretted. Big Walter Smith did not live those words by design. He lived them by nature. When he passed away in July 2012, he was sadly mourned and continues to be sadly missed. During a career that spanned 6 decades, he mentored dozens of musicians who became his ... More	12:00pm - 1:00pm	The Chain The Chain is an explosive and exciting contemporary blues band comprised of experienced musicians who draw inspiration from all genres of music. The Chain performs original material written by Chrissy Ewacha Klaas and Peter Gleeson as well as all your blues favorites ... More
Sunday July 7, 2013
9:30pm - 11:00pm	Great Big Sea While it was never the intention of Alan Doyle, Bob Hallett and Sean McCann of Great Big Sea (GBS) to become the poster boys for Newfoundland, events over the past 20 years have dictated otherwise. Proud of who they are and where they were born, the trio has ... More	7:45pm - 9:00pm	The Family Stone No other group of the 1960s brought together its disparate elements of racial tension, experimental drug use, changing sexual mores and awakening social conscience like Sly and the Family Stone. Comprised of blacks, whites and men and women of different ethnic backgrounds ... More

6:15pm - 7:15pm	Kim Mitchell Three-time Juno Award winner Kim Mitchell is a defining strand in the DNA of Canadian rock. Among the most influential and imaginative guitarist in the genre, a prolific song writer and one of the country’s favourite radio broadcasters he has sold over 1.5 million albums ... More	5:00pm - 6:00pm	Davina & the Vagabonds There’s a curious thing about so-called “retro” music. The shifting tastes that would so label the sexy and soulful sound that helped define golden-age Americana are such annoying anachronisms. Placed in nurturing hands and shown a little respect, this music’s appeal is truly ... More

3:45pm - 4:45pm	JW-Jones Blues Band Life must take mischievous delight watching our reaction as an innocent event blossoms into a life-defining occasion. What starts as a ripple on a pond surges into a motivational wave that sends us speeding towards new horizons. “It was seeing B.B. King perform in ... More	2:30pm - 3:30pm	Too Slim and the Taildraggers “When I was about 12 or 13, I started going to concerts and that really sparked my interest. I saw ZZ Top live and that was it! I borrowed my friends guitar, which was an awful guitar but I did not care. Once I started playing guitar I had the bug ... More

1:15pm - 2:15pm	Doug Deming and the Jewel Tones Bigger and much more influential, it’s easy to understand how Chicago’s blues scene stole most of the thunder and left Detroit in its shadow. But, from the 1930s to the 1960s, Motor City was a ... More	12:00pm - 1:00pm	Rebel Spirit If you believe in the old adage that “Good things are worth waiting for,” then Rebel Spirit stands as proof positive that the saying is true. This five-piece band from Thunder Bay can trace its origins back to 1983, when founding members John Olynick and Ron Fossum ... More

This Year's Lineup ...

Friday July 5, 2013

Collective Soul

In the 1990s, Collective Soul was the crack cocaine of rock. The most played band on radio, their patented 3-guitars power wattage, irresistible turbo-charged energy, well-crafted, catchy songs and thoughtful lyrics appeared to be forged from a telepathic connection with ...

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The Steepwater Band

When it comes to music, young men are always going to be young men. Invariably, they’re never going to be content to interpret their influences at face value for long before whisking them off on a more personal tangent. Need proof? Look nofurther than The Steepwater Band ...More

Cliff Stevens

Cliff Stevens has been playing guitar professionally for longer than he sometimes cares to admit, around 35 years to be vaguely precise. Like so many blues musicians before him, he spent much of his career displaying his significant talents in relative obscurity ... More

Tracy K

In a business where safety nets are non existent and successful female harmonica players are a rarity, you have to admire the plucky and positive spirit of Tracy K. Through shear force of determination and talent, she has stamped her versatility indelibly ...

More

Saturday July 6, 2013

Los LobosDreams can be a wistful indulgence in star gazing and wishful thinking. But for Los Lobos, dreams have been a life-long musical pursuit grounded in culture, hard work and the desire to escape the poverty of the barrio. Indeed, the uniqueness of their sound can be attributed to an ...More

Los Lonely Boys

Drawing their name from a song that their father, Enrique sang to them as children, Los Lonely Boys consists of the Garza brothers, Henry (guitar), Jojo (bass) and Ringo (drums). They grew up poor in the sleepy west Texas town of San Angelo where, under Enrique’s tutelage ...

More

Mingo Fishtrap

Somewhere in northern Texas, near the town of Denton at the isolated intersection of Mingo Road and Fishtrap Road, Roger Blevins, Jr. found help with a flat tire and the name for his band.

It was 1992 and Blevins was a student in the Jazz Studies program at the ... More

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Melvin Taylor

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Quinn Sullivan

From the perspective of someone with grey hair, logic would suggest that you shouldn’t be able to play the blues until you’ve had your heart broken or, at the very least, until you are old enough to drive. But logic must prostrate itself before the talent of Quinn Sullivan who ...More

The Groove Merchants

Live respected, die regretted. Big Walter Smith did not live those words by design. He lived them by nature. When he passed away in July 2012, he was sadly mourned and continues to be sadly missed. During a career that spanned 6 decades, he mentored dozens of musicians who became his ... More

The Chain The Chain is an explosive and exciting contemporary blues band comprised of experienced musicians who draw inspiration from all genres of music. The Chain performs original material written by Chrissy Ewacha Klaas and Peter Gleeson as well as all your blues favorites ... More

Sunday July 7, 2013

Great Big Sea

While it was never the intention of Alan Doyle, Bob Hallett and Sean McCann of Great Big Sea (GBS) to become the poster boys for Newfoundland, events over the past 20 years have dictated otherwise. Proud of who they are and where they were born, the trio has ...More

The Family Stone No other group of the 1960s brought together its disparate elements of racial tension, experimental drug use, changing sexual mores and awakening social conscience like Sly and the Family Stone. Comprised of blacks, whites and men and women of different ethnic backgrounds ...More

Kim Mitchell

Three-time Juno Award winner Kim Mitchell is a defining strand in the DNA of Canadian rock. Among the most influential and imaginative guitarist in the genre, a prolific song writer and one of the country’s favourite radio broadcasters he has sold over 1.5 million albums ...More

Davina & the Vagabonds

There’s a curious thing about so-called “retro” music. The shifting tastes that would so label the sexy and soulful sound that helped define golden-age Americana are such annoying anachronisms. Placed in nurturing hands and shown a little respect, this music’s appeal is truly ...More

JW-Jones Blues Band

Life must take mischievous delight watching our reaction as an innocent event blossoms into a life-defining occasion. What starts as a ripple on a pond surges into a motivational wave that sends us speeding towards new horizons. “It was seeing B.B. King perform in ...

More

Too Slim and the Taildraggers“When I was about 12 or 13, I started going to concerts and that really sparked my interest. I saw ZZ Top live and that was it! I borrowed my friends guitar, which was an awful guitar but I did not care. Once I started playing guitar I had the bug ...More

Doug Deming and the Jewel TonesBigger and much more influential, it’s easy to understand how Chicago’s blues scene stole most of the thunder and left Detroit in its shadow. But, from the 1930s to the 1960s, Motor City was a ...More

Rebel Spirit

If you believe in the old adage that “Good things are worth waiting for,” then Rebel Spirit stands as proof positive that the saying is true. This five-piece band from Thunder Bay can trace its origins back to 1983, when founding members John Olynick and Ron Fossum ...

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When it comes to music, young men are always going to be young men. Invariably, they’re never going to be content to interpret their influences at face value for long before whisking them off on a more personal tangent. Need proof? Look no
further than The Steepwater Band ...
More

Los Lobos
Dreams can be a wistful indulgence in star gazing and wishful thinking. But for Los Lobos, dreams have been a life-long musical pursuit grounded in culture, hard work and the desire to escape the poverty of the barrio. Indeed, the uniqueness of their sound can be attributed to an ...
More

It was 1992 and Blevins was a student in the Jazz Studies program at the ...
More

From the perspective of someone with grey hair, logic would suggest that you shouldn’t be able to play the blues until you’ve had your heart broken or, at the very least, until you are old enough to drive. But logic must prostrate itself before the talent of Quinn Sullivan who ...
More

The Chain
The Chain is an explosive and exciting contemporary blues band comprised of experienced musicians who draw inspiration from all genres of music. The Chain performs original material written by Chrissy Ewacha Klaas and Peter Gleeson as well as all your blues favorites ... More

While it was never the intention of Alan Doyle, Bob Hallett and Sean McCann of Great Big Sea (GBS) to become the poster boys for Newfoundland, events over the past 20 years have dictated otherwise. Proud of who they are and where they were born, the trio has ...
More

The Family Stone
No other group of the 1960s brought together its disparate elements of racial tension, experimental drug use, changing sexual mores and awakening social conscience like Sly and the Family Stone. Comprised of blacks, whites and men and women of different ethnic backgrounds ...
More

Three-time Juno Award winner Kim Mitchell is a defining strand in the DNA of Canadian rock. Among the most influential and imaginative guitarist in the genre, a prolific song writer and one of the country’s favourite radio broadcasters he has sold over 1.5 million albums ...
More

There’s a curious thing about so-called “retro” music. The shifting tastes that would so label the sexy and soulful sound that helped define golden-age Americana are such annoying anachronisms. Placed in nurturing hands and shown a little respect, this music’s appeal is truly ...
More

Too Slim and the Taildraggers
“When I was about 12 or 13, I started going to concerts and that really sparked my interest. I saw ZZ Top live and that was it! I borrowed my friends guitar, which was an awful guitar but I did not care. Once I started playing guitar I had the bug ...
More

Doug Deming and the Jewel Tones
Bigger and much more influential, it’s easy to understand how Chicago’s blues scene stole most of the thunder and left Detroit in its shadow. But, from the 1930s to the 1960s, Motor City was a ...
More