Powder Blues Band in Campbell River

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Thursday, September 15th, 2011
7:30 PM

For over three decades Powder Blues has been Canada's premier blues band. They mix Swing, Blues, Jazz, Rock & Roll and R & B into their unique sound. This has resulted in an appeal so wide that people from seven to seventy often swing side by side at a Powder Blues concert. Over the years the band has toured ceaselessly throughout Canada, the United States and overseas, spreading the joy of a music that makes people smile and dance.

Band highlights include winning Canada's most prestigious music award, the Juno, headlining and recording live at the world-famous Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, winning a W.C. Handy Award in Memphis, Tennessee and touring Europe and the Soviet Union. They have appeared in concert with legends like Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, James Brown, Albert Collins, James Cotton, Stevie Ray Vaughn, the Who, ZZ Top, the Doobie Brothers, Edgar Winter and Tower of Power.

Leader, Tom Lavin has written many of the band's best-known songs including 'Doin' It Right'['On the Wrong Side of Town'] and 'Boppin With the Blues'. Born in Chicago where he learned his craft by watching and working with local bands and 'blues legends', Tom moved to Vancouver in the late sixties to study filmmaking. By night he worked as a musician in the thriving downtown nightclub scene. This eventually led to working as a studio musician and subsequently, to his role as record producer and studio owner.

The current Powder Blues line-up includes veterans Mike Kalanj on keyboards and vocals, Tony Marryatt on bass, Jerry Cook on tenor sax, Vince Mai on trumpet and Daryl Bennett on drums.

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