Bikes and blues music take to San Bernardino city streets
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- Bikes and blues music take to San Bernardino city streets
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Bikes and blues music take to San Bernardino city streets
Press-Enterprise – Apr 29, 2008
The San Bernardino Convention and Visitors Bureau has teamed with the San Bernardino City Professional Firefighters – Local 891 for the Bikes and Blues Rendezvous on Friday and Saturday on the downtown streets. "Our thought is to bring a springtime early summer event to the city of San Bernardino" said Wayne Austin president and CEO of the San Bernardino Convention and Visitors Bureau. He said the event is "somewhat fashioned in the same way the (Route 66) Rendezvous is to have sort of a kick off into summertime. " Part of what sets the event apart from the Route 66 Rendezvous in September is its focus on motorcycles.
Theater music highlight trolley event Saturday
AZ Central.com – Apr 29, 2008
29 2008 10:25 AM The Arizona Republic SCOTTSDALE – Scottsdale will offer free rides May 10 to those seeking an afternoon of theater authentic New Orleans blues music and an evening to name the next Downtown Idol karaoke singer. “Going Downtown” is an all-day celebration highlighting the area’s artistic flair. Participants can use the city’s free Downtown Trolley. Events begin at 11 a.
Steve Winwood | Music Artist | Videos News Photos & Ringtones |…
MTV.com – Apr 29, 2008
Stephen Lawrence Winwood was born May 12 1948 in the Handsworth area of Birmingham England. First interested in swing and Dixieland jazz he began playing drums guitar and piano as a child and first performed with his father and older brother Muff in the Ron Atkinson Band at the age of eight. During the early ’60s Muff led a locally popular group called the Muff Woody Jazz Band and allowed young Steve to join; eventually they began to add R&B numbers to their repertoire and in 1963 the brothers chose to pursue that music full-time joining guitarist Spencer Davis to form the Spencer Davis Group. Although he was only 15 Steve’s vocals were astoundingly soulful and mature and his skills at the piano were also advanced beyond his years. Within a year he’d played with numerous American blues legends both in concert and in the studio; in 1965 he also recorded the solo single “Incense” as the Anglos crediting himself as Stevie Anglo. Meanwhile the Spencer Davis Group released a handful of classic R&B-styled singles including “Keep on Running” “I’m a Man” and the monumental “Gimme Some Lovin’” which stood with any of the gritty hardcore soul music coming out of the American South. Winwood eventually tired of the tight pop-single format; by the mid-’60s the cutting edge of rock & roll often involved stretching out instrumentally and with his roots in jazz Winwood wanted the same opportunity… During the early ’60s Muff led a locally popular group called the Muff Woody Jazz Band and allowed young Steve to join; eventually they began to add R&B numbers to their repertoire and in 1963 the brothers chose to pursue that music full-time joining guitarist Spencer Davis to form the Spencer Davis Group. Although he was only 15 Steve’s vocals were astoundingly soulful and mature and his skills at the piano were also advanced beyond his years. Within a year he’d played with numerous American blues legends both in concert and in the studio; in 1965 he also recorded the solo single “Incense” as the Anglos crediting himself as Stevie Anglo. Meanwhile the Spencer Davis Group released a handful of classic R&B-styled singles including “Keep on Running” “I’m a Man” and the monumental “Gimme Some Lovin’” which stood with any of the gritty hardcore soul music coming out of the American South. Winwood eventually tired of the tight pop-single format; by the mid-’60s the cutting edge of rock & roll often involved stretching out instrumentally and with his roots in jazz Winwood wanted the same opportunity. Accordingly he left the Spencer Davis Group in 1967 to form Traffic with guitarist Dave Mason horn player Chris Wood and drummer Jim Capaldi all of whom had played on “Gimme Some Lovin’. ” The quartet retired to a small cottage in the Berkshire countryside where they could work out their sound — a unique blend of R&B.
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