Gladstone Summertime Bluesfest 2011

JUNE 10 & 11

2011

OAK GROVE PARK

FEATURING Lionel Young Band

International Blues Challenge Winner

Stacy Mitchhart Tab Benoit Jason Vivone KCBS Solo Winner

Mary Bridget Davies Group KCBS Band Winner

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Performance Schedule Friday, June 10 Park opens at 5 p.m.

Live music at 6 p.m. ◆ International Blues Challenge Winner Lionel Young Band ◆ Stacy Mitchhart ◆ Tab Benoit

Saturday, June 11 Park opens at 1 p.m.

Live music at 2 p.m. ◆ KCBS Solo Winner Jason Vivone ◆ KCBS Band Winner Mary Bridget Davies Group ◆ Lonesome Hank & The Heartaches ◆ Marquise Knox ◆ Kelley Hunt

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The music of the Gladstone Summertime Bluesfest will return to Oak Grove Park for the 15th year in 2011 during the second weekend in June.

Gates open at 5 p.m. Friday, June 10, and 1 p.m.

Saturday, June 11.

Organizers expect more than 15,000 music lovers to come to the park for the free performances.

The Gladstone Area Chamber of Commerce and the City of Gladstone host the annual outdoor festival.

There is plenty of room to enjoy great food and beverages, and outstanding music from the best of regional and national blues bands.

The live music will begin Friday night with the Lionel Young Band, winner of the International Blues Challenge, followed by Stacy Mitchhart and Tab Benoit.

Saturday afternoon, Jason Vivone will get things started again. Mary Bridget Davies Group, Lonesome Hank & The Heartaches, Marquise Knox and Kelley Hunt are all on the lineup, too.

Oak Grove Park is at 76th Street and Troost Avenue. No dogs are allowed in the park by city ordinance.

All coolers will be subject to search, and no alcoholic beverages may be brought into the park. Designated smoking areas will be available.

Admission to the Summertime Bluesfest is free, and parking is $5.

Performer bios and photos provided by the performers.

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Photo by Gretchen Troop

Lionel Young Band www.lionelyoung.net Lionel Young is a high-energy performer with a bent for the blues. His Lionel Young Band, winner of numerous awards for best in and around the Colorado region, has won the 2011 International Blues Challenge band competition. Added to his victory at the 2008 IBC in the solo-duo catagory, that makes Lionel Young the first double champion in the history of the IBC. Fans of the driven, classically trained Young love his distinctive brand of blues on the electric violin. His show features not only Young originals but interpretations of blues classics by Willie Dixon, Leadbelly and Stevie Ray Vaughan. His performance also

features the strength and passion of Young’s playing, as well as his smooth vocals and unique translations.

The songs, which include his awardwinning composition “Brown Cloud Over Denver” and “Hey, O.J.,” a controversial little gem, alternately stir up social concerns and soothe the weary soul. It’s prime. It’s fun. It’s Lionel Young.

Born in Rochester, N.Y., Lionel Young began taking violin lessons at the age of 6 with Anastasia Jempelis at the Eastman School of Music.

He was a member of the Pittsburgh Opera-Ballet Orchestra and the National Repertory Orchestra, which commissioned him to play bluegrass

and blues for its summer festival and on a tour of Japan, Taiwan and Korea during the 1988 Summer Olympic Music Festival.

Throughout his career Lionel Young has won numerous awards including: The Young Artist Award (Pittsburgh Symphony); The Concerto Contest (Carnegie-Mellon); The Passamenic Award (Branchwood String Quartet); and the award for the Best Blues Band in Westword’s Best of Denver. He’s

also won a position with The Denver Chamber Orchestra and premiered a solo piece by William Hill.

He has had the honor of working with such show biz luminaries as Count Basie, Stevie Wonder, Jimmy Paige and Robert Plant, Doc Severenson, Linda Ronstadt, Living Color, Billy Taylor, Woodie Herman, Stanley Turrentine, Homesick James, Homer Brown, Hamlet Bluiett, Chief Bae and Johnny Long.

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Stacy Mitchhart

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www.stacymitchhart.com Stacy Mitchhart has built a worldwide fan base actively touring in the U.S. and abroad. His masterful guitar work and strong vocals have been the driving forces behind his successful career. He has won numerous industry awards; released nine CDs, one DVD/ CD and one documentary; and holds 13 major endorsements.

Mitchhart moved to Nashville in 1996 and took up residency as the house band for the hugely popular Bourbon Street Blues and Boogie Bar in historic Printer’s Alley.

“Moving to Nashville has been fantastic. I lived in Los Angeles and New York and made a good living, but I’ve played with cats here that I wouldn’t have been able to (play with) anyplace else— James Brown, Keb’ Mo, Steven Stills, Gatemouth Brown, Joe Sample and other cats like that. I even played

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with John Entwhistle of the Who,” Mitchhart says with a chuckle. “I’m a Yankee in Nashville doing the most non-country thing I can do.”

Stacy comes from a musically talented family. His grandfather played the fiddle, his uncle played drums and his grandmother played piano.

“I grew up listening to my parents’ albums — Wes Montgomery, Al Hirt, Herb Alpert, Boots Randolph, Ink Spots and the Mills Brothers. While my friends were listing to R&R, I was tuning into soul stations and jazz. I went to rock concerts, but the music never thrilled me at all. I would have rather listened to Sam Cooke.”

Mitchhart has appeared on numerous television shows including “Jubilee Concert Series” on PBS and “Dinner and a Movie” on TBS. Independent filmmaker Tim Hardiman has released a

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Mitchharts awards include The Music City Blues Society’s Blues Entertainer of the Year, Blues Male Vocalist of the Year, Blues Guitarist of the Year, Electric Blues Act of the Year and Acoustic Blues Act of the Year; Albert King Most Promising Guitarist Award at the Blues Foundation’s International Blues Challenge; and being nominated for the Little Milton Campbell Best Guitarist Award from the JusBlues Awards.

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Tab Benoit

www.tabbenoit.com Tab Benoit is a Cajun man who’s definitely got the blues.

A guitar player since his teenage years, he hung out at the Blues Box, a ramshackle music club and cultural center in Baton Rouge run by guitarist Tabby Thomas. Playing guitar alongside Thomas, Raful Neal, Henry Gray and other high-profile regulars at the club, Benoit learned the blues first-hand from a faculty of living blues legends.

The nightly impromptu gigs were enough to inspire Benoit to assemble his own band — a stripped down bassand-drums unit propelled by his solid guitar skills and leathery, Cajun-spiced vocal attack. He took his show on the road in the early 1990s and hasn’t stopped since.

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recordings, beginning in 1992 with “Nice and Warm,” an album that prompted comparisons to blues guitar heavyweights like Albert King, Albert Collins and even Jimi Hendrix. Despite the hype, Benoit has done his best over the years to maintain a commitment to his Cajun roots.

An environmental activist as well as a stellar blues musician, Benoit has made the preservation of the endangered delta wetlands his personal crusade. He serves as president of Voice of the Wetlands, an environmental organization he co-founded in 2003, and he appeared prominently in “Hurricane on the Bayou,” a 2006 documentary by filmmaker McGillivray Freeman that chronicles life in Louisiana after Katrina. “Hurricane on the Bayou” played in IMAX theaters in the U.S., Canada and Europe throughout 2007.

Benoit’s latest 2007 CD “Night Train To Nashville” was recorded at The Place On Second Street in Nashville in May 2007. The 11-track set captures the magic and intensity of Benoit in a live setting, joined by his faithful backup unit and New Orleans mainstay, Louisiana’s LeRoux, and a series of guests representing some of the most talented voices on the current blues, Cajun and country scenes: harpist/ vocalist Jimmy Hall (Wet Willie), guitarist/vocalist Jim Lauderdale, harpist/ accordionist Johnny Sansone, fiddler/ washboard player Waylon Thibodeaux and harpist/vocalist and Fabulous Thunderbirds frontman Kim Wilson.

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Jason Vivone

www.reverbnation.com/jasonvivone Before he was even old enough to enter the local blues clubs, Kansas City’s Jason Vivone would sneak backstage to haunt legendary blues greats for guitar lessons — among Hubert Sumlin, Big Smokey Smothers, Maxwell Street, Jimmy Davis, Son Seals and Jessie Mae Hemphill. Frustrated after a stint in Branson backing up an Elvis impersonator, Vivone quit music for nearly a decade.

In his absence from music, Vivone co-founded Kansas City’s premiere avant garde theatre troupe directing plays by Brecht, Shakespeare and O’Neill. Vivone started a theatre group Cinnamoneye, for whom he not only wrote and directed shows but wrote music, including a stage biography of horror film director Tod Browning.

While directing a production of “The Colored Museum,” he hired himself to play the music for the show and was soon writing songs and performing again. He leads The Billy Bats and is a frequent accompanist of singer/songwriter Paula Crawford.

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Mary Bridget Davies www.marybridgetdavies.com Involved in the arts since before school age, Mary is definitive of “the total package.”

As a dancer, vocalist, and former member of Cleveland’s own Something Dada Improvisational Comedy Company, she seriously knows her way around the stage.

She began dancing at age 3 and has excelled ever since. A recipient of the Debbie Reynolds Scholarship for Jazz in Los Angeles at age 15, Mary was not only dancing. Her talents as a songstress were now beginning to emerge.

She got hip to the blues jam nights. She went and watched with her parents. She asked to sit in, but she was encouraged to listen that week and come back next week to sing. She listened and came back. She was in the last group of the jammers and she sang, “Please Send Me Someone to Love” by Percy Mayfield, which is one of her signature songs. She was asked to be in the band Blues Explosion that same night.

She learned as she went, and started building a solid reputation. Mary Bridget hasn’t stopped chirping since.

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Mary Bridget made her Off-Broadway debut in the smash musical “Love, Janis” at Playhouse Square’s Hanna Theatre in Cleveland. She continued on in the role of Janis Joplin in Aspen, San Francisco and Kansas City.

Mary made her Broadway debut in the Tony Award-nominated musical “It Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues.”

Lonesome Hank & The Heartaches www.lonesomehank.com Lonesome Hank & The Heartaches was founded by Henry “Lonesome Hank” Hart in 1997. Lonesome Hank fronts the band on vocals, harmonica and guitar. Joining Hank is Greg “Hack” Harding on guitars and vocals, Max “Moon Man” Simmon on upright bass and vocals, and Tim Osburn on drums and vocals.

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Marquise hails from a musical family deeply entrenched in the blues. He learned how to play guitar from his grandmother, whose family were sharecroppers and whose great-great-grandparents were slaves.

For Marquise, blues is his heritage and a way of life. He spent his early teenage years in St. Louis mentoring under the late great blues legend N.E.A. Heritage Fellowship recipient and Grammy Award winner Henry James Townsend.

Marquise’s talents have earned him performing rights with some of America’s most notable blues performers such as blues legend and Grammy Award winners B.B. King, Pinetop Perkins and David “Honeyboy” Edwards (the latter two also NEA Heritage Fellows). He has also performed at dozens

Rare is the little girl who finds it natural as breathing to dash over to a piano and pound out her own jumping, two-handed version of Ray Charles’ R&B groundbreaker “I Got a Woman” or Chuck Berry’s “Maybellene.”

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Rarer still is what she grew into — a real, live roots R&B singer-songwriter.

In the world of bluesy, bodily music, there are plenty of people known for their singing, or for their playing, but few recognized for songwriting. Hunt has a rich, full-bodied voice and knows how to use it; she can churn out authoritative grooves on the keyboard and be her own muscular rhythm section; and she can write with the musical intelligence to absorb an array of early, plugged-in popular music and make it new. She does it all, gets

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Knox’s debut album, “Manchild,” was nominated for a Blues Music Award for Best New Artist Debut.

The album was recorded when he was 16, in two nights, during an ice storm in a church with the worldrenowned Michael Burks and his band. There is even a song called “Ice Storm” on the album. The release received worldwide acclaim. Marquise then recorded a direct-to-disc album while in town for the following year’s Crossroads.

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