Last of the blues festivals
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- Last of the blues festivals
- 2006 winner performs first spot at blues competition
- Saturday ‘” February 16
- Melody Gardot: Worrisome Heart
- Rock ‘n’ roll ‘n’ roux
Last of the blues festivals
NEWS.com.au – Feb 16, 2008
"It’s one of my favourites because you are playing to a packed audience a really diverse crowd who love their music" Broomhall says. "It’s a great format with two stages non-stop music people come in for the afternoon start and it’s still rocking at midnight. "I’ve worked hard not to be put not in the blues category because my music covers a wider spectrum than that but on a night like this it’s great to throw in some traditional blues tunes into the set because people are so up for it. "Last year was a big one for Broomhall with the release of his third independent CD Homemade a US and Canada tour and events such as the Queenscliff Music Festival in Victoria. And all under his own steam as manager artist recording engineer and record company. "It’s been a lot of miles and work to get to this point but I’m stubborn and I’ve just kept hammering" he says. "It took a while for me to understand that becoming a polished musician is great for impressing other musicians and getting gigs.
2006 winner performs first spot at blues competition
Parkersburg News – Feb 16, 2008
?I like coming back to Marietta. ? This year he wasn?t certain he?d be able to be here but a last-minute change in schedule made it possible. The popular blues competition this weekend at the Lafayette Hotel in downtown Marietta is sponsored by the Blues Jazz and Folk Music Society of Marietta. Tickets are $10 for BJFMS members and $15 non-members this afternoon and tonight while a weekend pass is $25 for members and $40 for non-members. ?This is fun phenomenal? said Jim Weber with the Western Pennsylvania Blues Society. ?Here you have 15 bands we?ve never seen in our lives and they?ll give us their best for 20 minutes each. ? Weber and his wife Jonnye who live in the Pittsburgh area planned to stay in Marietta for the weekend and take it the entire event.
Saturday ‘” February 16
NEWS.com.au – Feb 16, 2008
Noon The Science Show. 1pm All In The Mind. 35 The Philosopher’s Zone… 8 Rhythm Stick (spotlight on percussion). 9 The Deep End (global underground). Midnight Democracy Now.
Melody Gardot: Worrisome Heart
Times nline – Feb 16, 2008
You’re an average singer an K pianist. Then you getknocked off your bike by a Jeep and suffer near fatal injuries to brain andbody. During your recovery someone suggests music therapy as a way to repairthe neural pathways. Lying half-paralysed on your back you teach yourselfguitar and write a song about the accident – Some Lessons. You write somemore tunes and without your permission someone puts some songs on the web. There is a big response to your music and you play some gigs; people crywhen you sing ver the Rainbow. Then the major labels come knocking but youare slightly shocked at the speed of events and still suffering lingeringdisability (there’s also the slight problem that you owe $100000 in medicalbills)… ”Elsewhere Gardot muses on life and love. The title track is a late-nightblues about a lonely woman with a messy past looking for affection. Thegently rolling Sweet Memory with its lazy dobro could have come from Brother Where Art Thou? But just as it seems we’re slipping into tastefulbut undemanding Americana along comes the stand-out track – Love Me Like aRiver Does. Introduced with a piano flourish it’s a torch song worthy ofBillie or Ella that many a wizened songwriter would have been delighted tocall theirs. html”–>Buy this album because it’s a charming debut by a remarkable talent – or ifyou like just to help out a young woman with her medical bills.
Rock ‘n’ roll ‘n’ roux
St. Petersburg Times – Feb 16, 2008
"I like sharing (and) I'm doing my own thing – totally. " Wharton 60 who is soft-spoken when he's not belting out a song is an rlando native who has been playing professionally since he was 14. He spent years traveling around the United States Canada and Europe playing original music and some blues written by others. Somewhere along the way he invented a hot sauce Liquid Summer made with the datil pepper a Florida product. The sauce "just kind of wormed its way into my act" he said. The gumbo came later after he spent an evening watching Shirley Neal the wife of fellow entertainer Raful Neal make the soup. "I watched her like a hawk" he said.
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