Big Mamma’s Door

THE YEAR OF WOMEN IN BLUES AND JAZZ

Dirty Blues with Soul: “It's all about performing for me. Singing is the truest and most honest way I have of communicating.” (Fiona McElroy)

Where: Festival Pavilion
When: Monday 3rd May
Time: 7.30–8.45pm (followed by the Hamsters, 9.15–11.30pm)

Big Mamma’s Door made a big impression supporting Sean Webster at the 2009 festival. This year they are back on a bigger stage, opening for the Hamsters. Come early and don’t miss ’em: their brand of sexy 50s R’n’B is refreshingly different – and very entertaining!

The story so far: it’s amazing what can happen if you hang around a blues bar long enough! Of course, it isn’t just any old blues bar we’re talking about: it’s Ain’t Nothin’ But in Soho, where on a good Monday night you can see just about the best musicians in London jamming together on stage.

And that’s where Big Mamma’s Door opened a chink, when green-eyed Irish songstress Fiona McElroy, Mal Barclay and a couple of other guys thought about jamming on a more regular basis. Then the rockin’ Rob Pokorny joined the equation, and, with some personnel changes along the way, finally Big Mamma’s Door was open for business.

 

 

Fiona McElroy – vocals

Mal Barclay – guitar/vocals

Henri Herbert – keys

Rob Pokorny – drums

John Culleton – bass

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