A Tribute to the Blues of Christmas

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Friday, November 27th, 2015
7:30 PM

Presented by the Sid Williams Theatre Society

This show is a tribute to the amazing blues tunes of Christmas from the 30’s, 40’s, 50’s and 60’s. The show features Victoria’s own Uncle Wiggly’s Hot Shoes Blues Band who just recently won the right to represent BC and Victoria in the 2015 International Blues Challenge held in Memphis, Tennessee.

Formed in 1978 in Victoria British Columbia, Uncle Wiggly’s Hot Shoes Blues Band started out playing the various pubs and dance halls around Victoria and on the Gulf Islands. In 1979, they released their debut album of mostly original tunes. The album was produced by Powder Blues’ Tom Lavin in his Blue Wave Studios in Vancouver. After some very strong sales the band was signed to RCA Records and in 1982 the band release their second CD, Here Come’s Another. The band toured across the country and opened shows for likes of Muddy Waters, Joe Cocker, James Cotton, Paul Butterfield, and Koko Taylor to name a few.

The band dissolved in 1983 and everyone went their separate ways… about 10 years ago “Uncle Wiggly “Hank Lionhart called up the other members of the band with the idea of doing an annual reunion tour which we have now been doing very year since. The tour features all the original members, Hank Lionhart “Uncle Wiggly – Lead Vocals, Norm “the Doctor” Piercy – Bass, Mark “Westcoast” Comerford – Guitar, Dave “the Duck” Rowse – Sax, Brent “Watermelon” Hutchinson – Sax and now on drums replacing original Drummer Mark Johnson is Tyler “Kid Cadillac” Piercy.

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