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TROMBONE SHORTY & ORLEANS AVE.
Friday, Sept. 17
Harlow's - 2708 J St.
Advance tickets: $ 20 @ harlows.com Available now!
Day of Show: $ 25

Trombone Shorty #1 Contemporary Jazz For 9th Week

Shorty Joins Lenny Kravitz and Mos Def on
Gulf Aid Benefit Song "Ain't My Fault"
Recurring Role on HBO's "Treme"

Trombone Shorty's new CD, Backatown, is #1 on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Album Chart for the 15th straight week since it's release.

Trombone Shorty's Summer News
Rolling Stone's glowing review of Trombone Shorty's Backatown, proclaimed that Trombone Shorty is "already a New Orleans MVP."

Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews was recently invited by Lenny Kravitz to join him at Preservation Hall in New Orleans to jam and record "Ain't My Fault" with Lenny, Mos Def and The Preservation Hall Jazz Band. The song will benefit Gulf Aid, the nonprofit established in response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

The band recently made their European debut in late May, performing in London, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin and Munich. Performances in the U.S. Include Bonnaroo and Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl among many others across the country. Later this Summer the band will make their Japan debut at the Fuji Rock Festival and in August they will tour Brazil for the first time.

"Blues On the Green 2"

starring
The Blues Broads
*Tracy Nelson * Dorothy Morrison
*Annie Sampson *Angela Strehli
AND
The Nick Gravenites Band
w/Horns!


@ The Green at Capital Public Radio

A swell afternoon of the real blues from the heroes of the music!
Advance tickets on sale August 1.

Swell Productions and Capital Public Radio announce "BLUES ON THE GREEN 2"
starring The Blues Broads
and the Nick Gravenites Band w/Horns!

Our sell-out concert last year was so much fun, we are doing it again.
Sunday, Sept. 26
The Green @ Capital Public Radio
7055 Folsom Ave./Sacramento
Doors 1 PM
Showtime: 2 PM
Tickets: $25 advance, $30 door (CPR members-$25)
Available beginning August 1 at inticketing.com,
all Dimple Records locations(including 16th & Broadway), the Beat (17th and J)
and at Capital Public Radio front desk.

Blankets and low back chairs only.
No outside food or drink-there will be wine/beer and food vendors inside!
FAQ coming soon!

With a wall of soul sound that could tumble Jericho, these four powerful women singers stand at the front of the stage and make believers of every audience member. The Blues Broads are legendary singers Tracy Nelson (Mother Earth), Annie Sampson (Stoneground), Dorothy Morrison (Edwin Hawkins Singers) and Angela Strehli. Each one of them have had successful careers and led their own bands for decades. Nelson wrote the classic "Down So Low" which has been covered by Linda Ronstadt, Etta James, Maria Muldaur and Cyndi Lauper; Morrison is the co-author and lead singer of "O, Happy Day." Sampson starred in the long -running production of "Hair" and Texan Strehli worked with Steve Ray Vaughan and every other Austin blues player of note through her work with Antone's -both the famous club and the record label. Now, as a vocal team with an all-star Bay Area band, they are having some of the most fun of their lives.

According to author and pop music critic Joel Selvin, Nick Gravenites is "the original San Francisco connection for the Chicago crowd." Gravenites is a singer, songwriter, guitarist, storyteller and producer who authored the classic "Born In Chicago" and the groundbreaking "East West" for The Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Gravenites scribed hits for Janis Joplin as well as blues giants Howlin' Wolf, Otis Rush, and James Cotton. He was also a songwriter for the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, which consisted of Elvin Bishop, Paul Butterfield, and Michael Bloomfield, then formed The Electric Flag with Butterfield guitarist Mike Bloomfield. When Gravenites steps on stage with his band, all the gravitas and legacy of the great Chicago blues masters step on stage with him.

NPR Feature on Tracy Nelson (7/31/10)!
Click here

Home of Legendary Blues Singer Tracy Nelson
Destroyed by Fire; Singer Escapes

Photo by Mindy Giles

(Burns, TN) In the late hours of Saturday, June 5, a substantial fire broke out in the home of legendary blues singer Tracy Nelson. She and her partner Mike Dysinger escaped, but the 100-year-old family farmhouse, situated on eight acres outside of Nashville, Tennessee, and most of its contents, were destroyed. Two of their nine pets died.

"Fivefire trucks were there in a matter of minutes," Nelson said.
"They asked us if there was one room to save what would it be? We said 'the studio.'"

Nelson has just completed recording her 25th album, as yet unreleased.
The title, a 1920's Ma Rainey song, is ironically,VICTIM OF THE BLUES.

For this week, Nelson and family are in a nearby hotel. Neighbors have offered a guest house
as temporary lodging until rebuilding can get underway.

Cyndi Lauper just recorded a version of Nelson's most famous song,
"Down So Low" on her new release, Memphis Blues.

Good wishes and communications to Nelson can be sent to P.O. Box 128, Burns, TN 37029.

http://www.tracynelson.com
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For further information, please contact Mindy Giles.
Mingiles@gmail.com (916)447-6508.