Maggie Bell with Dave Kelly and The BBQ

THE YEAR OF WOMEN IN BLUES AND JAZZ

The BBQ: a great band with big reputations and fabulous voices. Their show is a review of soul, blues and classics, with some thumping rock'n'roll thrown in.

Where: Festival Pavilion
When: Friday 30th April
Time: 9.15–11.30pm (following the Sean Webster Band, 7.30–8.45pm)

An evening with two stalwarts of the British R&B scene, two great voices, two great reputations. Their voices work magically together, and audiences have loved their concerts and their rapport with each other and with the crowd.

Maggie Bell – Scotland’s Queen of the Blues, founder member of Stone the Crows, who later had an incredibly successful solo career on both sides of the Atlantic, returned to the music scene after a 20-year lay off. She was a resounding hit at the Led Zeppelin reunion concert in 2007.

Dave Kelly – London’s slide guitar king, having learned his trade in the backing bands of (and while recording with) Son House, Howlin’ Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Buddy Guy and Junior Wells, to name just five blues legends, was a founder member of The Blues Band (an unforgettable headline act at the 2007 Admiral Mumbles Mostly Jazz & Blues Festival). He is still wowing audiences after some 30 years.

Zoot Money – vocalist, keyboardist and bandleader, best known for his playing of the Hammond organ in the legendary 1960s Big Roll Band. His long and remarkable career has included spells with Alexis Korner, the New Animals, Kevin Coyne, Kevin Ayers and the Alan Price Band.

Miller Anderson – multi-talented vocalist, guitarist and songwriter, played with the Keef Hartley Band at the legendary Woodstock festival in 1969, worked with Savoy Brown, Chicken Shack, Marc Bolan’s T-Rex, Donovan, the U.S. band Mountain, and Deep Purple. He has been a member of the Spencer Davis Group for the past fifteen years.

Colin Hodgkinson – one of the most innovative electric bassists in the world, worked with Alexis Korner for almost 20 years, then toured extensively with the likes of Brian Auger, Chris Farlowe and Spencer Davis. In 1999 he was invited by Bill Wyman to be the opening act on his Rhythm Kings tour with a 30-minute solo set.

Colin Allen – founder member of Zoot Money’s Big Roll Band, playing with many legendary U.S. blues musicians such as Memphis Slim, John Lee Hooker, Sonny Boy Williamson, and soul singer Solomon Burke. Then moved on to Georgie Fame’s Band, John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, with whom he played on the acclaimed album ‘Blues from Laurel Canyon’, and then joined Stone the Crows. After that the list goes on and on: Rod Stewart, Bob Dylan, working on over 50 albums...

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