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FESTIVAL JULY 26 – AUGUST 2 JERRON PAXTON ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

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SUMMER FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

CENTRUM WASHINGTON’S HOME FOR CREATIVE ARTS AND EDUCATION

FORT WORDEN STATE PARK, PORT TOWNSEND, WA Supplement to the July 22, 2015 Port Townsend & Jefferson County Leader

welcome to centrum Welcome to Centrum’s 42nd Summer Season! In partnership with Fort Worden State Park, Centrum serves as a gathering place for creative artists and learners of all ages seeking extraordinary cultural enrichment. OUR MISSION is to foster creative experiences that change lives. From exploring the roots of the blues or jazz, to the traditions of American fiddle music or our award-winning writers’ workshops—Centrum’s summer festivals transform the majestic, inspired setting of Fort Worden State Park into a unique arts destination.

Hello friends! It’s a great pleasure to welcome you all to this year’s Port Townsend Acoustic Blues Festival. I have been fortunate to have spent the last seven of my 26 years teaching at Centrum. Growing with and learning from this festival has been one of the biggest pleasures of my life. Being made artistic director is a great honor and I’ll do my best to live up to it. I’m glad to have so many friends join me as my friend Daryl Davis passes the reins of the festival to me. With Mary Hilts’ lovely and capable hands guiding me and plenty of friends and faculty eager to help, it’s a safe bet that this year is going to be a hoot. Blues, and the culture surrounding it has been a part of my life since the beginning. My forebears came from the plantations of Louisiana and Arkansas, bringing their culture and music with them and instilling it in me. The both lively and lowdown music that was the soundtrack of their lives should not be preserved as an old relic, but be kept as alive and vibrant as it was when it was in its heyday. Life seems to have given me the task and responsibility to be a steward of the music and culture of my progenitors as they pass into the new bright world. With cultural liveliness as part of my goals, I look forward to doing and learning as much as possible to add a bit of my ﬂavor to the week. Peace, Love & Blessings

Jerron Paxton

JOIN US and discover a full array of mainstage performances, nightclub events, vital literary readings, lectures, dances and more. OUR PROGRAMS welcome participants from across the globe. Last year alone we served individuals from 17 countries, 46 out of 50 states, and 77% of the counties in Washington. 27% of those we serve are age 18 or younger and our participants were aged 4 to 97! We present our programs with support from the Washington State Arts Commission, State Parks Commission, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, National Endowment for the Arts and the Fort Worden Public Development Authority. We thank the many donors and generous sponsors who support Centrum and our unique role in our Puget Sound community, and I hope you will too! Please join us for cultural experiences you simply cannot find anywhere else on earth. See you this summer at Centrum!

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Centrum’s Port Townsend Acoustic Blues Festival was founded in 1993 with focus and intention on early Country Blues – blues before it found its way to the city. Education and preservation are goals of the program while honoring offshoots of these early traditions and their evolutions. This music and its history are the primary focus but the down-home back-porch vibe of the culture lends a family gathering feel to the week. County Blues evolved in the Americas through the cultures of African slaves shipped to territories or colonies in the ‘New World’. They told stories, danced and sang to keep alive the rhythms of their homeland. When Western religions were imposed upon them, their rhythms found their way into hymns from Europe. This meeting of African and European musical cultures had a major effect on the development of modern music. It gave rise to black church songs or ‘spirituals’, old-time, country blues, gospel, jazz, Rhythm & Blues, rock & roll and soul. Under the leadership of new artistic director Jerron Paxton, this year carries an essence of a wit and charm that bridges generations. As Frank Matheis, publisher of thecountryblues. com says of Jerron, “The virtuoso is a joyous entertainer, humorous with a smooth vernacular, dazzling wit, a terrific storyteller, exuding an affable excitement. He’s witty, fast rhyming, poetic, fun, exciting and wonderfully skilled as a musician and a fine singer, he is the continuation of a proud tradition.” Jerron came on late in the year so the artist line-up this year is a combination of folks who have become Centrum’s tradition bearers, some new folks we’ve had an eye on, along with some new blood brought in by Jerron. We look forward to sharing the talents of these fine tradition bearers with you.

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BLUES in the clubs July 31-August 1

$25 with wristband* 1st set: 8-9 p.m. 2nd set: 9:15-10:15 p.m. 3rd set: 10:30 p.m. – 12 a.m.

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DOWNTOWN PORT TOWNSEND *IMPORTANT NOTE Blues in the Clubs is a moveable feast of great music in various downtown venues, with each venue operating on a first-come first-served basis. Your wrist band is an all-night access pass, and we encourage you to move around throughout the evening to gain the full benefit of the clubs experience. Venue hosts will help direct you to available seating or standing room options. Please read our wristband policy online.

Friday, July 31

Saturday, August 1

AMERICAN LEGION

1. Tom Feldmann 2. Samuel James 3. Terry Harmonica Bean, Rich DelGrosso, Leroy Etienne, Dean Mueller, Julie Amici & Micah Kesselring

1. Valerie & Ben Turner 2. Sunpie Barnes, Leroy Etienne, Dean Mueller & Orville Johnson 3. Sunpie Barnes, Leroy Etienne, Dean Mueller & Orville Johnson

BOILER ROOM

1. Valerie & Ben Turner 2. John Miller 3. Paul Asbell

1. Micah Kesselring 2. Lightnin’ Wells & Mark Puryear 3. Terry Harmonica Bean

CELLAR DOOR

1. Cyd Smith & Johnny Ward 2. Lauren Sheehan & Zoe Carpenter 3. Andy Cohen & Jerie Choi

1. Paul Asbell 2. Tom Feldmann & Rich DelGrosso 3. Steve James

COTTON BUILDING

1. Michael Jerome Browne & Phil Wiggins 2. Mark Puryear & Jay Summerour 3. Mary Flower & Pat Donohue

1. Cyd Smith 2. Samuel James 3. Lauren Sheehan & Jay Summerour

KEY CITY PUBLIC THEATRE 1. Alice Stuart & Orville Johnson 2. Lightnin’ Wells 3. Steve James

1. Andy Cohen, Jerie Choi & Jerron Paxton 2. Michael Jerome Browne 3. Pat Donohue & Mary Flower

PUBLIC HOUSE

1. Terry Waldo & Jerron Paxton 2. Gene Taylor 3. Daryl Davis

1. Daryl Davis 2. Terry Waldo & Beareather Reddy 3. Gene Taylor

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*Programs and artists subject to change. Centrum offers profound thanks to the foundation and government entities that support our distinctive mission. Their grants help fuel our programming, and their imprimatur assists Centrum’s efforts to broaden support for its services throughout the state and nation.

Centrum’s corporate sponsors include regional, national, and international corporations that understand the value of supporting the arts. Their contributions foster the creativity and sense of kinship that has thousands of workshop participants and audience members converging for Centrum’s 2015 Port Townsend’s Acoustic Blues Festival.

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Featured Performers Artistic Director, Jerron Paxton

Concert Schedule Wednesday, July 29, 7:30 p.m.

Rag, Blues & Zydeco Dance USO Building · Tickets $20 Featured Artists: Alice Stuart; Andy Cohen; Beareather Reddy; Dean Mueller; Gene Taylor; Jay Summerour; Jerie Choi; Jerron Paxton; Leroy Etienne; Orville Johnson; Phil Wiggins; Sunpie Barnes; Terry Waldo & friends.

Friday, July 31, Noon

Free Fridays at the Fort Fort Worden Commons · Free Admission Featuring Ben Hunter & Joe Seamons Special thanks to our sponsors First Federal, KPTZ 91.9FM, Peninsula Daily News, Steve and Cheryl Rafoth

Saturday, August 1, 11 a.m.

Gospel Participants Concert Fort Worden Chapel · Free Admission Featuring The Sherman Holmes Project

Saturday, August 1, 1:30 p.m.

Acoustic Blues Showcase McCurdy Pavilion · Tickets $43, $33, $23 Featured Artists: Artistic Director Jerron Paxton; Alice Stuart; Andy Cohen; Beareather Reddy; Cyd Smith; Gene Taylor; Jerie Choi; Lightnin’ Wells; Michael Jerome Browne; Samuel James; The Sherman Holmes Project with Brooks Long and Cora Harvey Armstrong; Terry Waldo; Tom Feldmann & special guests.

Acoustic Blues Performance Package Includes reserved seating at the Acoustic Blues Showcase in the McCurdy Pavilion and general admission to Blues in the Clubs. McCurdy Pavilion Seating: Section A: $80 • Section B: $70 • Section C: $60

Purchase tickets online at Centrum.org or call (800) 746-1982.

PIANO, VIOLIN, BANJO, GUITAR, ETC. • Jerron Paxton plays in the true songster tradition: ragtime, hokum, old-time, French reels, Appalachian mountain music, blues and more. A vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, Jerron’s style draws from blues and jazz music before World War II. Jerron hails from an African American Jewish family with mixed Creole / Choctaw Indian ancestry who moved from Louisiana to South Central Los Angeles, where Jerron grew up. He is a highly capable multi-instrumentalist who picks banjo and guitar, plays harmonica, piano and other instruments, including the fiddle, his first instrument. “For me, music is not an academic experiment. I play it the way I feel like it, because it should be an expression of how I see things. I am just learning to have a good time, so that the audience can have a good time. Music shouldn’t be forced. It’s upsetting to me that so much music is technique, just skill and not enough feeling. I am happy to play so that the audience feels like I am in their living room. I want people to be enjoying themselves.” Jerron was named Artistic Director of Centrum’s Port Townsend Acoustic Blues Workshop and Festival in 2014. He succeeded musicians Daryl Davis, Corey Harris and Phil Wiggins in the role.

Alice Stuart GUITAR • Alice Stuart celebrated her 70th birthday in 2012 at two sold out shows in Seattle. Her energy that night made it easy to tell why her nickname is the “energizer bunny”. After migrating to California from her native Washington State, Alice performed at the prestigious 1964 Berkeley Folk Festival. She met and performed with folk and blues legends Joan Baez, Doc Watson, Mississippi John Hurt, Lightnin’ Hopkins, and many others. After touring and playing folk music for four years, Alice, not unlike Bob Dylan, was itching to play electric guitar. She briefly joined forces with Frank Zappa, during the formation of the Mothers of Invention. She then went on to form her own bands. Alice has toured the US and Europe with Van Morrison, played bass and sang with Commander Cody, and shared the stage with Michael Bloomfield, John Prine, Jerry Garcia, Richard Greene, Elvin Bishop, Albert King and Tower of Power.

Andy Cohen GUITAR • Andy Cohen plays blues and country ragtime with fingerpicks on guitar hard enough to be heard in a noisy juke, without a mic. He lives in Memphis when he’s not living in his car, which is most of the time. Although not strictly speaking a bluesman, he has eked out a living playing for more than 50 years, playing all over the country, and has been an advocate, lead boy, agent and friend to a solid gang of “source” bluesmen and gospel musicians in those years. He feels he hasn’t wasted his time. Andy calls himself a “guitar picking fool” whose repertoire derives largely from the pre-war Blues, Gospel and Old Time Music catalogs. A lot of this material was learned directly from “source” musicians. He says he is folk-famous, good for filling obscure workshop spots at festivals, and has played every kind of gig imaginable.

Beareather Reddy VOCALS • Beareather Reddy is a native of Sylvania, Georgia, and has sung and performed in numerous plays throughout the New York metropolitan area. She has worked with such great musicians as Archie Shepp, Max Roach, Avery Sharp, Abdullah Ibrahim, Sheila Jordan, Jimmy Sigler, Gerry Eastman, George Gee & the Jump Jivers, Mferghu, Michele Rosewoman, Donald Smith, Rachim Sahu, Atiba and the Befo’ Quotet, bassist Kim Clarke, and Bertha Hope. Beareather is writer/producer/actress/vocalist of three ongoing projects. “The Classic Blues Women—An Historical Tribute” gives an historical outlook of the era of the Classic Blues Women 1920-1930 when the black female blues singer was queen and African Americans were first introduced to the recording industry. The second project is “Dinah’s Blues”, which depicts a day in the life of the legendary Blues/Jazz vocalist, Dinah Washington. And lastly—a tribute to the great American heroine, Harriet Tubman— “Ain’t Life Funny?”

Brooks Long GOSPEL • In late 2013, Wendell Holmes of The Holmes Brothers began working with a young and talented guitarist, singer, and songwriter, Baltimore blues and soul musician, Brooks Long. Wendell has formally mentored Brooks with the assistance of a Maryland Traditions Apprenticeship Award. The Award is a program of the Maryland State Arts Council’s folk life program, and is designed to honor master traditional artists, while enabling them to pass their skills on to the next generation. The result has been transformative, enabling Brooks to move into a creative, collaborative space with one of R&B’s wisest and talented singers, songwriters, and instrumentalists. Brooks’ parents encouraged him to pursue creative outlets. Attracted to a wide range of music from an early age and spending much of his youth in various gospel choirs (including one

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that found him on stage backing Shania Twain), he grew to meld his singing talent with guitar and songwriting. “Songs. I just ate, slept and breathed songs.”

Cora Harvey Armstrong GOSPEL • Cora Harvey Armstrong is from the Newtown District of King and Queen County, Virginia and has been playing the piano for more than 50 years. She portrayed gospel great, Mahalia Jackson at the Swift Creek Mill Theatre, Chester, Virginia and the Gottwald Theater in Richmond, Virginia. She has traveled to Kobe and Tokyo, Japan to sing and teach as a guest of the Gospel Music Workshop of Japan and has toured many cities in Italy with Min. Earl Bynum. As Cora says, she is blessed to be a member of New Kingdom Christian Ministries in Richmond, under the pastorate of Rev. Dr. Leonidas B. Young, II and is a licensed and ordained minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and is a first year student at the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University in Richmond. To God be the Glory!

Cyd Smith GUITAR • Cyd Smith began studying classical guitar in her early teens, then majored in music at Stanford University. While living in the Bay Area, she was introduced to the rich treasury of American folk music, especially bluegrass and vintage country music. From there it was a smooth transition into 20s, 30s, and 40s swing music, and she has delved deeply since into the guitarists, vocalists, and songwriters of that era. Bands have included stints with such musical luminaries as Matt Glaser, Rebecca Kilgore, Bob Brozman, and Howard Armstrong. Cyd has mined her background in classical guitar, swing jazz, and American folk and pop music to produce songs sparkling with wit, beauty, and surprises. Also well known as a music educator, Cyd has been teaching guitarists how to swing for decades at prestigious music camps around the country, including Puget Sound Guitar Workshop, California Coast Music Camp, Augusta Heritage Festival, WinterSongs West and Centrum.

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Daryl Davis PIANO • The son of a Foreign Service officer, Daryl Davis is a native of Chicago, but was raised in Europe and Africa. He earned a bachelor of music degree from Howard University, where he was a member of the Howard University Choir and Jazz Vocal Ensemble. In addition to being a vocalist, guitarist, keyboardist, and composer, Daryl is a celebrated lecturer, actor, and author of, “Klan-Destine Relationships: A Black Man’s Odyssey in the Ku Klux Klan,” the story of his quixotic journey into the heart of the KKK. As a performer, Daryl has worked with Elvis Presley’s Jordanaires, B.B. King, Chuck Berry, Percy Sledge, and many others. He was the featured pianist on Cephas & Wiggins’ 1992 Grammy-nominated album, Flip Flop and Fly and in 1985 boogiewoogie pioneer Pinetop Perkins selected Daryl to succeed him in the piano and vocal slot of the Muddy Waters Legendary Blues Band.

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Dean Mueller BASS & BAND LAB • This Chicago-born and Portland-based bassist says being a musician is “what I was meant to do.” Dean Mueller is originally from Chicago, and had played electric bass since he was a kid. He picked up the upright bass and put his talent to good use. You’ll often find Dean on stage with his upright bass and his aggressive yet simple approach. The ultimate compliment you can give to a blues rhythm section is that they play together almost as one musician, one voice. Dean does just that. He plays regularly in the Northwest. Over the past couple years, Dean has produced and played shows in Manzanita and Portland with The Duffy Bishop Band, Julie Amici, Curtis Salgado, LaRhonda Steele, Rae Gordon, and Kevin Selfe. Dean has taught and performed at Centrum’s Port Townsend Acoustic Blues workshop for many years and feels fortunate to have accompanied and learned from so many legends of the blues.

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Gene Taylor PIANO • At the age of eight, Gene Taylor came under the influence of a family of blues and boogie-woogie players who moved in next door to his Los Angeles home. Starting out on drums, he switched to piano and guitar at age 10. At 16, Gene started finding local work with blues legends Big Joe Turner, T-Bone Walker, Lowell Fulson, and Pee-Wee Crayton and met both James Harman and Phil and Dave Alvin—who later formed The Blasters. After working for James Harman, Gene was asked to join Canned Heat. In 1981, he joined the Blasters recording four critically-acclaimed albums. Gene relocated to Austin, Texas, and joined The Fabulous Thunderbirds. During almost-14 years with the T-Birds, he toured the world and recorded three albums. In 2003, Gene released a self-titled CD and toured and recorded the “Original Blasters Reunion”. He appeared on a recording with bluesman, Carlos Guitarlos and continues to record and perform with his friend of over 35 years, “Icepick James” Harman.

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P R E S E N T E D B YVIOLIN • An ardent student of such early blues greats as Andrew Baxter, Eddie Anthony and Henry Sims, Jerie Choi originally hails from New Orleans, but has roots the world over. Her fiddle playing focuses on the acoustic country blues tradition, where the relationship Port Townsend Paper • Thefiddle Business Guides • SKL Architecture between and guitar is informed by a distinct old-time style. A violinist since early childhood, she put down her instrument at the age of 12 due to a sustained injury, only to pick it up again a decade later with the intention of learning every Mississippi Sheiks tune. Since then, she has studied fiddle styles from Louisiana, Georgia, and Cape Verde, as well as, the Mississippi Delta, and is fortunate enough to have played alongside some of the country’s most knowledgeable figures in blues and old-time music. Jerie is a member of the Brooklyn-based Brotherhood of the Jug Band Blues and a co-founder of The Hoodoo Honeydrippers.

John Miller GUITAR • John Miller has been singing, playing and teaching Country Blues for over 45 years. He made his first solo album at the age of 21 and continued to record in the intervening years. John has filmed a host of instructional DVDs teaching Country Blues. He has a passion for the music and for teaching and his enthusiasm is infectious. Raised in a musical family, John started listening to Folk Music, Country Blues, Old-Time and Bluegrass at an early age. Growing up in Southeastern Pennsylvania in the 60s; he had an opportunity to see many of the great performers of that period, including the New Lost City Ramblers, Maybelle Carter, the McGee Brothers and Arthur Smith, Son House, Skip James, Rev. Gary Davis, Shirley Griffith, Connie Williams, Bukka White and many more. He got his first guitar at the age of 16 and began working out Country Blues from records.

Lauren Sheehan GUITAR, MANDOLIN • With sandy-edged vocals and sparkling guitar, mandolin and banjo picking, Roots Americana musician Lauren Sheehan plays from an old Songster tradition, combining blues, country, folk, ballads and standards, popular music and her own compositions. Her shows are unusual for their stylistic breadth and emotional range, masterfully delivered with warmth, humor and passion for the music and its history. Inspired by study with elders, oral tradition and scholarship, Lauren creates the intimacy of a back porch, where singing and playing were regular events. She clearly loves the music she performs, shape shifting through the moods of familiar and the obscure, howling with the werewolf and weeping with the willow. Lauren began playing guitar at 10, discovered traditional, social and dance music in her early 20s, then jumped into living acoustic blues in her 30s, picking up mandolin and banjo along the way.

Leroy Etienne PERCUSSION/WASHBOARD • Leroy Etienne was born in St. Martinville, Louisiana and now resides in Lafayette. Although everyone spoke Creole in his household growing up, Leroy learned much of the language from his mother, Odelia Porter Etienne. She was fluent in Creole and had to teach herself how to speak English “back yard style”. Leroy fondly recalls that whenever someone would walk into the house, she would greet that person by saying, “Look who’s there!” Leroy’s father, Lawrence Etienne, was a sharecropper and excellent hunter. He taught Leroy the Bamboula or rumba rhythm commonly used in the older Creole musical forms of juré and la la music. Both juré and la la are musical predecessors to zydeco. Leroy’s sisters Cecile and Lucille used to “dance the la la” at local Catholic Church fairs. Leroy has a deep connection to Creole and Zydeco music and currently plays drums with Sunpie and the Louisiana Sunspots.

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UKULELE • Lightnin’ Wells breathes new life into the vintage tunes of the 20s and depression era America employing various appropriate stringed instruments in a dynamic style which he has developed in over 40 years of performing experience. Raised in Eastern North Carolina, Lightnin’ learned to play harmonica as a young child and he taught himself to play the guitar as he developed a strong interest in traditional blues and folk music. His many years of public performance began in Chapel Hill, Nort Carolina, in the early 70s. During the following decades, he has presented his brand of acoustic blues throughout North Carolina, the United States and Europe. He is a life-long student and devotee of the pioneering performers in the Piedmont blues tradition which once thrived in the Carolinas, including such artists as Blind Boy Fuller, Rev. Gary Davis and Elizabeth Cotton; deceased musicians whose influence seems only to grow with time.

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Mark Puryear HISTORY/GUITAR • Mark Puryear has performed a variety of musical styles including blues, jazz, and Afro-pop. Over the years, he has performed at Smithsonian Folklife Festivals, the Montpelier Cultural Arts Center, and the D.C. Blues Society Festival. He has toured the East Coast and recorded with the acoustic blues trio BluesWorks. While residing in Micronesia, Mark led a jazz trio and played many styles of popular music. He has had the pleasure of working with blues artists such as Phil Wiggins, Gaye Adegbalola, Nat Reese and Daryl Davis. More recently, he performs in trio format with Harold Anderson and Phil Wiggins and in duos with harmonica players Phil Wiggins and Jay Summerour. Mark is also a lecturer in the African American Studies Department at the University of Maryland, and has worked in public programming for the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Council for the Traditional Arts, and the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County.

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Mary Flower GUITAR • An internationally known and award-winning picker, singer/songwriter and teacher, Mary Flower relocated from Denver to the vibrant Portland, Oregon, music scene. She continues to please crowds and critics at folk festivals and concert stages domestically and abroad, ones that include Merlefest, Kerrville, King Biscuit, Prairie Home Companion and the Calgary Folk Festival, among many. A finalist in 2000 and 2002 at the National Fingerpicking Guitar Championship, a nominee in 2008 and 2012 for a Blues Foundation Blues Music Award, and many times a Portland Muddy Award winner, Mary embodies a luscious and lusty mix of rootsy, acoustic-blues guitar and vocal styles that span a number of idioms—from Piedmont to the Mississippi Delta, with stops in ragtime, swing, folk and hot jazz. Mary’s 10 recordings, including her last four for Memphis’ famed Yellow Dog Records, show her deep command of and love for folk and blues string music.

Micah Kesselring BAND LAB • Micah Kesselring, 21, has performed acoustic blues music since he was 14 years old when he began researching, listening to, and performing the music of the great blues singers and musicians of the 20s and 30s. He quickly became very passionate about this music and first started performing it in small restaurants and venues near his home, before he was out of high school. Raised in the Appalachia foothills of Southeastern Ohio, Micah has been blazing the trail for the next generation of blues players all over the country, even venturing down to Colombia, South America to headline the Cali Blues & Folk Festival in 2014. Known for his passionate, soulful vocals, heartfelt slide guitar, and versatility in pre-war blues music, Micah is a devoted student of artists such as Charley Patton, Son House, Corey Harris, and Alvin Youngblood Hart. A participant at Centrum since 2009, Micah will be performing and teaching this year.

Michael Jerome Brown GUITAR/BANJO • Michael Jerome Browne is a multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter, and living encyclopedia of American Roots music. Whether he’s gliding a slide across his National guitar, pulling his bow over the fiddle strings to play a lively Creole waltz, playing a driving blues on the mandolin, or “hammering with the claw” on his gourd banjo, Michael’s passion and virtuosity always shine through. In the true tradition of folk music, his performances inspire us to see the interconnections between the many cultures and influences that gave birth to American Roots Music—Gospel, Blues, Old-Time, Country, Soul and Cajun—expect to hear all of this and more from a performer who’s been called a street-smart archivist and an absolute treasure. Michael has won two Canadian Folk Music Awards and a Maple Blues Award. He was a Kerrville New Folk Finalist, a nominee at the Independent Music Awards, and a three-time Juno Award Nominee.

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Orville Johnson GUITAR • Orville Johnson grew up in a small farming town in Illinois not far from the banks of the Mississippi River. He moved to Seattle in 1978, and was a founding member of the legendary Northwest folk/rock group The Dynamic Logs. Over the years, he has played with a diverse list of artists including Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett, John Hartford, Maria Muldaur, Richie Havens, Laura Love, blues artists John Cephas, Howard Armstrong, Sam Andrew (Big Brother and the Holding Company) and Mick Taylor (Rolling Stones). Known for his dobro and slide guitar stylings and soulful vocal acrobatics, Orville has guested on over 400 albums, appeared on Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion, Jay Leno’s Tonight Show and was featured in the 1997 film Georgia with Mare Winningham and Jennifer Jason-Leigh. He is also in demand as a teacher and author, writing for Acoustic Guitar and Fretboard Journal and teaching at prestigious workshops worldwide.

Pat Donohue GUITAR • Pat Donohue’s musical tastes are eclectic. Though he considers himself foremost a folk guitarist, Pat’s influences are rooted in bluesmen Blind Blake, Robert Johnson, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Muddy Waters and Miles Davis. He manages to blend jazz and blues with folk, and the mix is seamless. Over the years, he has captivated audiences with his unique original compositions, dazzling instrumentals and humorous song parodies. Honors include a 2005 Grammy for his participation on Pink Guitar, a compilation of Henry Mancini tunes on acoustic guitar, several Minnesota Music Awards, and the title of 1983 National Finger Picking Guitar Champion. His original tunes have been recorded by Chet Atkins, Suzy Bogguss and Kenny Rogers. Pat has also been a featured performer at major music festivals including the Newport, Telluride and Philadelphia Folk Festivals. Pat joins a legendary list of notables, as The Martin Guitar Company recently introduced a Custom Signature Edition Series OM-30DB guitar designed to his specifications.

Paul Asbell GUITAR • Paul has earned an underground reputation as a true “musician’s musician”. He has played and recorded with Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Howlin’ Wolf, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Otis Rush, Magic Sam, Earl Hooker, Lightnin’ Slim, Paul Butterfield, Sam Lay, Pops Staples, Donny Hathaway, and numerous others while in his hometown of Chicago. In 1978, he formed Kilimanjaro, and recorded two albums which led to appearances at the Kool Jazz Festival, the Atlanta Jazz Festival, the Montreal Jazz Festival, the Montreux Jazz Festival, and the Roskilde Festival. In 1981, he and other members of Kilimajaro joined forces with a legendary saxophonist/blues singer to form Big Joe Burrell and the Unknown Blues Band until Big Joe’s passing in 2005. Performance/recording credits in recent years include David Bromberg, Paul Butterfield, Betty Carter, Joshua Redman, James Carter, Kermit Ruffins, Michael Ray, the Sun Ra Arkestra, The Wild Magnolias, John Stowell, Julian Lage, Dave Grippo and former student Trey Anastasio.

Phil Wiggins HARMONICA • Phil Wiggins is arguably America’s foremost blues harmonica virtuoso. Rooted in the melodic Piedmont blues of the Chesapeake region, his mastery of the instrument transcends stylistic boundaries. During his development, Phil was constantly playing with and learning from some of the most notable acoustic blues musicians that made their homes in the Washington D.C. area: Flora Molten, Mother Ester Mae Scott, Wilber “Chief” Ellis, John Jackson, Archie Edwards, John Cephas, and others. He was also mentored by musicians who frequented the area: Johnny Shines, Sam Chapman, Sunnyland Slim, Henry Townsend, Robert Lockwood, John Dee Holeman, Algia Mae Hinton, Howard Armstrong, Ted Bogan, Etta Baker, and others. Phil performed with Flora Molten at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival from 1972-1976 where he met and joined Chief Ellis on piano, John Cephas on guitar, and James Bellamy on bass, forming the group Chief Ellis and the Barrelhouse Rockers. Not long after, Phil and John Cephas formed the duo Cephas and Wiggins.

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MANDOLIN • Rich DelGrosso is widely regarded as the leading exponent of mandolin blues. For over 30 years, DelGrosso has written articles for Blues Revue, Living Blues, Mandolin Magazine, Frets, and Sing Out!, and has published mandolin and guitar instruction books for Hal Leonard. Blues historian Mark Hoffman calls Rich “the greatest living blues mandoman.” His expansive repertoire includes the music of Chicago blues legends Johnny Young and Yank Rachell, the Dallas String Band, as well as, dance tunes and classic repertoire from the early black string bands. Rich covers all aspects of the blues, from slide playing to adapting guitar rags for mandolin. As Tom Clarke of Hittin’ The Note says of Rich’s performance, “his box o’ rocks voice, locomotive riffs, and sparks-a-flyin’ licks doing nothing but right.” Rich has presented workshops across the Americas and Europe, earning him a Keeping the Blues Alive Award from the Blues Foundation in Memphis.

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Samuel James GUITAR • With a voice of grit and gravel, roots musician Samuel James sings with an authenticity lost in time. A modern guitar master, his skill has a depth and range that seems impossible for a man with only two hands. An award-winning songwriter, one of the world’s most innovative guitar players, and a Moth-featured storyteller, Samuel brings all of this to his amazing stage show. His live performance is not just a concert, it’s an event. Samuel was born the last in a long line of performers including dancers, story tellers, choir singers, jazz pianists, and porch-stomping guitar thumpers dating back to the 1800s. His songwriting has been compared to Leonard Cohen’s and his guitar skills to those of Jimi Hendrix. His critically acclaimed trilogy of albums has gained him praise not only for carrying on great traditions, but for being a true innovator.

Sherman Holmes GOSPEL • Sherman Holmes is renowned for his deeply soulful baritone voice and his unique, blues to jazz to funk, bass style, and he has been called an American Treasure. As a member of The Holmes Brothers, Sherman has released 12 albums and toured the world, performing in all 50 states and more than 50 countries. In 2005, The Holmes Brothers won Band of the Year from The Blues Foundation, followed by Soul Blues Album of the Year in 2008 for State of Grace. The most recent album is 2014’s Brotherhood on Alligator Records. Sherman has performed and recorded with such artists as Van Morrison, Peter Gabriel, Joan Osborne, Odetta, Willie Nelson, Levon Helm, and Rosanne Cash. The Holmes Brothers were honored with a National Endowment for The Arts National Heritage Fellowship in 2014, the highest honor the United States bestows upon its folk and traditional artists.

Steve James MANDOLIN/GUITAR • Steve James is a Centrum Acoustic Blues workshop recidivist who first taught and performed here over 20 years ago and has done so regularly ever since. An autodidact who sees roots music history as a circle rather than a line, Steve has toured extensively and internationally, including work as an arts envoy for U.S. embassies in Bulgaria, Guatemala and Finland. His original style on guitar, slide guitar, mandolin and vocals is informed by influences that include blues cornerstone Furry Lewis, rock’n’roll inventor Bo Diddley, and Centrum Blues godfather Howard Armstrong (with all of whom he has played). Heard on broadcasts including NPR Morning Edition and A Prairie Home Companion, Steve has supplemented his activities as a performing and recording artist by creating numerous instructional books, DVDs and on-line lessons and participating in over a hundred music camps and workshop programs.

Sunpie Barnes ACCORDION • Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes is a veteran musician, park ranger, actor, former high school biology teacher, former college football All-American, and former NFL player (Kansas City Chiefs). Sunpie Barnes’ career has taken him far and wide, and he has traveled to over 35 countries playing his own style of blues, zydeco and Afro-Louisiana music incorporating Caribbean and African influenced rhythms and melodies. He is a multiinstrumentalist playing piano, percussion, harmonica, and he learned to play accordion from some of the best, including Fernest Arceneaux, John Delafose, and Clayton Sampy. With his musical group Sunpie and the Louisiana Sunspots, he has played festivals and concerts across New Orleans, the U.S. and internationally. Sunpie is deeply involved in New Orleans parade culture and takes his music to the streets. Currently, he is the full-time accordion and harmonica player in the Paul Simon Band, touring 22 countries with Paul and Sting in 2015.

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HARMONICA • Terry Harmonica Bean is one of Mississippi’s hidden treasures, a contemporary hill-country bluesman. A lifelong resident of Pontotoc, Mississippi, Terry has created his own distinctive version of the harp-blowing, guitar-grooving one-man band. He came up in a world filled with country jukes and late house parties. “I always did love the sound of the blues,” he says. “Ever since I was a little bitty boy that’s the music I heard. My daddy used to play with B.B. King, but he had to stay at home and couldn’t go on the road.” Terry’s father, Eddie Bean, was a blues guitarist and encouraged his son to play both harmonica and guitar. A sharecropper, he also enlisted his children in assisting in picking cotton. One of 24 kids, Terry is the only one still playing blues. “I just like to play, I can’t let the blues die—I don’t want to let it go.”

Terry Waldo PIANO • Terry Waldo, the protégé of the legendary Eubie Blake, is a virtuoso ragtime, stride, and blues pianist. He is also a vocalist, composer of show tunes, film and TV scores, and has led many highly regarded musical groups. His ‘This is Ragtime’ was just republished with a new introduction by Wynton Marsalis by Jazz at Lincoln Center Library Editions. His 26-part radio series of the same title was produced for NPR and fueled the 1970’s ragtime revival. Recently, he has been teaching courses on early jazz and ragtime piano styles for Jazz at Lincoln Center. Terry has performed in numerous theatrical projects and concerts all over the world and has produced over 50 albums, including a solo album for Tomkins Square Records and is working on a PBS music documentary on ragtime (www.ThisIsRagtime.com). He regularly performs in New York at several prestigious venues including The Rum House, The Dead Rabbit, and Chez Josephine.

GUITAR • Minnesota native Tom Feldmann taught himself to play guitar at age 17 after hearing “The Country Blues of John Lee Hooker” and soon developed the rare talent of being able to accurately transcribe the amazing playing of legendary bluesmen Charley Patton, Son House, Robert Johnson, Fred McDowell, Blind Willie Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt and many others. Tom released his first CD in 1999, at the age of 21, and began logging countless highway miles touring throughout North America with over 150 shows a year. Tom has since self-released 13 CD’s which have received rave reviews from top publications around the world, as well as, international radio airplay. In the past few years, Tom has been most active as a guitar instructor. His popular lessons for Stefan Grossman’s Guitar Workshop covering the guitar playing of Robert Johnson, Son House, Charley Patton, Fred McDowell, and many others, have made him a respected figure in the acoustic guitar community.

Valerie Turner GUITAR • Valerie Turner is a native New Yorker with southern roots and is the co-founder of the “Piedmont Bluz Acoustic Duo.” She plays finger style Country Blues guitar and her eclectic repertoire has been greatly influenced by her studies with both John Cephas and Woody Mann. Valerie’s earliest influences were Mississippi John Hurt and Elizabeth Cotten, and her specialty is the Piedmont style of fingerpicking. Valerie has performed in a variety of festivals and clubs including the Richmond Folk Festival, Brooklyn Folk Festival, Riverside Blues Festival, Hampton Acoustic Blues Revival, American Folk Art Museum, ArtsWestchester, Archie Edwards Blues Heritage Foundation, Howland Cultural Center, The Jalopy Theatre, and Towne Crier Café to name a few. She has also been a featured guest on Horses Sing None Of It with Ralph Litwin, The Blues Break with Big Joe Fitz on Radio Woodstock, and on Wes Houston Presents on QPTV.

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Centrum’s 2015 Event Schedule Port Townsend Acoustic Blues Festival Wednesday, July 29, 7:30 PM Rag, Blues & Zydeco Dance USO Building

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