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Travis Haddix
And his Cleveland All-Star Blues and Soul Band
LIVE at Stamford Arts Centre,
27 St Mary's Street,
Stamford,
Lincs.
PE9 2DL
Friday 26th September
LIVE at Castor Village Hall,
Peterborough Road,
Castor,
Peterborough
PE5 7AX
Saturday 27th September
Travis Haddix was born in Hatchie Bottom, Mississippi in 1938, the son of the multi-instrumentalist bluesman Chamus ‘Rooster’ Haddix and his wife Sylvia. Travis’s first instrument was the piano but he switched to guitar after seeing B.B King in the studio of Radio WDIA in Memphis. He moved to Milwaukee after graduation and then went on to Cleveland two years later and has remained there ever since. more ...
Tommy Brown
Atlanta Georgia's Jump & Jive Black Bomber with The Catfish Kings
LIVE at Stamford Arts Centre,
27 St Mary's Street,
Stamford,
Lincs.
PE9 2DL
Friday 24th October
LIVE at Castor Village Hall,
Peterborough Road,
Castor,
Peterborough
PE5 7AX
Saturday 25th October
Born May 27th 1931 in Atlanta, Georgia. His father was a Methodist Preacher but it was his uncle – a Buck Dancer – who gave him a liking for the limelight and taught him how to dance. At the age of six he began his professional career dancing at ‘The Top Hat Club’ and the ‘Five O’clock Supper Club’. His earlier influences were Louis Jordan and Cab Calloway. The latter’s brother, Elmer, was a teacher at Tommy’s school and he nurtured the boy’s interest in R&B. Tommy’s first instrument was the piano but he eventually switched to playing drums in the school band. He formed his first R&B band ‘The Maroon Notes’ after enrolling into the Booker T Washington High School and they soon began to make noise locally. more ...
Elmore James Jnr
with Big Joe Louis Band
LIVE at Stamford Arts Centre,
27 St Mary's Street,
Stamford,
Lincs.
PE9 2DL
Friday 28th November 2008
LIVE at Castor Village Hall,
Peterborough Road,
Castor,
Peterborough
PE5 7AX
Saturday 29th November 2008
Earnest Johnson (Elmore James Jnr) was born in Four Mile, Mississippi, a small place close to Isola just outside of Clarksdale. His mother, Norah Mae, was still carrying Elmore James’ son when she married Earnest Johnson Snr and it wasn’t until his step father was killed in 1952 that he learnt who his biological father was. Two years later Elmore turned up at Earnest’s mothers’ house and took ‘the boy’ with him to Richland, Mississippi. From then on he moved between the homes of his mothers and his fathers’ extended families. Earnest was one of Elmore’s 30 plus children but none of the others appear to have inherited their fathers’ talent. more ...
David 'Dee' Eckford
with The Dave Thomas Band - Brilliant East St. Louis Soul Blues artist
LIVE at Castor Village Hall,
Peterborough Road,
Castor,
Peterborough
PE5 7AX
Saturday 13th December
Born in Greenwood, Mississippi in 1940, David Eckford moved with his parents as an infant to East St. Louis. His first musical experience was singing in the church with a spiritual quartet at the age of 12. The family moved to Chicago in 1956 but returned to East St. Louis seven years later where he spent a short time in the army before forming a vocal group ‘David and the Temptations’. The group practised regularly for quite some time but gigs were difficult and they disbanded during the first year. David, however, was not discouraged and had ‘picked up the entertaining bug’. He soon began visiting local clubs like Franks Tavern on 21st St, in Polack Town, where he would sit in with the resident bands who initially tried to dissuade him due to his somewhat erratic timing. Eventually, his timing improved and a meeting with drummer Clyde Jones, who was working at the Y Club, led to him being hired as the vocalist for the ‘House Band’. more ...