Vocal workshop with Victoria blues legend �Auntie Kate� Roland

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Saturday, October 26th, 2013
2:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Victoria blues singer �Auntie Kate� Roland will work with aspiring vocalists on a broad range of vocal techniques at a workshop presented by the Victoria Blues Society, Oct. 26.

The workshop will take place at the Long and McQuade Music Education Centre on Nanaimo Street, as part of a free-to-the-public series of continuing blues study workshops presented by the VBS in partnership with Long and McQuade.

Auntie Kate began her career in the early 1980s, alternating her time between west coast rhythm and blues band, Club Mongo�where she met long-time musical partner and guitarist, Tom Bowler�and singing jazz ballads with Patrick Dickson at Benihaha�s in the Waikiki Hilton.

With her band The Uncles of Funk she has release five CDs: Food For Thought, Snapshot, Do You Have This In Blue?, Aunthology and most recently, a live CD, In the House, which was recorded largely at Hermann�s Jazz Club.
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Previous VBS workshops have included boogie-woogie piano with David Vest; blues guitar with Bill Johnson ; and, dobro guitar with Doug Cox and Sam Hurrie, among others. The next workshop is on Nov. 23, featuring guitarist Dallas Harlan teaching �how to be an accompanist.�

The Victoria Blues Society is an affiliate of the Blues Foundation, based in Memphis Tennessee, and as such, is dedicated to preserving blues music; celebrating recording and performance excellence; and, supporting blues education. The VBS was incorporated in Jan. 2007.

http://www.victoriabluessociety.ca/