Harpdog Brown & The Uptown Blues Band

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Friday, March 22nd, 2019
8:00 PM

$20 advance tickets at Eventbrite or Osborne Bay Pub
$25 at door
Canada’s Classic Blues icon, Harpdog Brown is back on the road again bringing
his new Uptown Blues Band to Osborne Bay Pub. See Harpdog Brown like you’ve
never seen or heard before!

Harpdog Brown has grown a reputation as a real-deal purveyor of classic electric
blues. Think of the old Chess Records and Sun Records of the late 40's and early
50’s. These days he’s been touring more and more as Harpdog Brown & the
Uptown Blues Band - a vintage New Orleans Blues sound featuring, piano,
clarinet, sax, upright-bass and drums.
Still a vintage vibe, just a different vintage! This music will move you! They perform
mostly originals yet they often include great songs of the masters from that era.
Think Louis Jordan, Satchmo, Sonny Boy Williamson, Wynonie Harris, even Duke
Ellington. Audiences are raving about this new show! He’s been called a Blues
Evangelist, and that’s a very fitting moniker. "I speak the blues like it's the truth,
and it is”, he was recently quoted. "I do feel like I'm a servant of the people. A
missionary if you will. Music can heal people if they pay attention to the messages
in these songs.” He delivers those messages using the vintage sound whether it
be with his lowdown classic blues band the Travelin’ Blues Show or with his new
Uptown Blues Band. Harpdog says "Blues has a healing power. It's a beautiful
celebration of our perfectly flawed lives. We help people forget about their issues
of the moment and then, they might just realize that we all have our issues, and
that's OK."
Harpdog Brown is a gifted vocalist and an imaginative harmonica player. Piano
man Dave Webb has been working with Harpdog over the years and they share
an intuition that only comes with many hours and miles shared on and off stage.
Local sax extraordinaire, Colin Perry with be joining the band with both Baritone
and Alto sax. Rounding out the band is one of the best drummers in the land, Bob
Grant!
Harpdog has won three consecutive Maple Blues Awards for Harmonica Player of
the Year (2014/2015/2016), the Fraser Valley Music Award, has three consecutive
Western Canadian Music Awards Nominations, a Juno Nomination and is the only
Canadian to win the coveted Muddy Award. In 2016, he was nominated for 3
Maple Blues Awards (Harmonica Player, Male Vocalist and Album of the Year) for
his latest release Travelin’ With The Blues. Travelin' With The Blues released in
2016 is still sitting in the top roots and blues charts and follows his Top 20 charting
2014 release What It Is (Roots Music Report International Blues Albums). Get off
the couch and some see some seriously vintage blues that’s lots of fun!