Freedom Blues Festival
Date: Friday-Sunday, January 17-19,
2003
Location: Bradfordville Blues
Club
7152 Moses Lane, Tallahassee
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An Apalachee Blues Society Production |
"Music,"
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Music,
Vendors, Films
Workshops, and more!! |
Now, some of the
headliners….
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Pinetop Perkins |
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Bob Margolin Band |
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Willie "Big Eyes" Smith |
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Precious Bryant |
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Carey Bell |
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"1999 Grammy
Nominee,"
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1999 Grammy Nominee, "Best
Traditional Blues Recording" |
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1999 Recipient NEA Award for
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1999 Recipient W.C. Handy Award,
"Best Piano" |
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Pinetop Perkins admittedly wasn't the
originator of the seminal piano piece "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie,"
but it's a safe bet that more people associate it nowadays with Pinetop
Perkins than with the man who devised it in the first place, Clarence
"Pinetop" Smith. |
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Willie "Big
Eyes" Smith
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Willie played drums with Muddy Waters
for fifteen years. His traditional "shuffle" style has been
regarded as the heart and soul of the Chicago blues sound, with Willie laying
the beat behind
many of the blues classics. |
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Precious Bryant
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Precious Bryant’s guitar work is
brilliant, marked by bottomless bass notes, chiming arpeggios on the high
strings and gently driving rhythms, while her singing is simply amazing, full
of joy and sly wit. |
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Blues harmonica legend
Carey Bell is one of the very few players today who didn't learn his craft by
listening to old records, but by studying directly under the masters.
"Little Walter, he showed me a lot of things," says Bell, "but
Big Walter, he was crazy. He did all kinds of shit other harp players couldn't
do."
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"Bell has set the mark for the
harp kings to beat. Stunningly great, haunting." -- ASSOCIATED PRESS |
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For more information or
to purchase tickets, click to e-mail: info@apalacheebluessociety.org
or click to visit:
www.freedombluesfest.org
Freedom Blues Festival
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