Author: Lauren Leadingham

Educators who sign up for the workshop sessions before the concert will receive a free ticket to that evening’s show.

“I believe that the lineup we have this year is probably one of the strongest, if not the best, that we’ve ever produced in our past 24 years.”

“And that’s the nice thing about the blues is you can tell your stories through words and music.”

“I want to honor Muddy and give his fans all I can about him musically and historically, even as I make my own music.”

“I don’t necessarily try to emulate any particular type of singer; I just sing the way it comes naturally to me.”

“I couldn’t be happier that I grew up in the time that I did, musically, because the music from the ‘40s on — it’s like taking off in a rocket.”

“I was hungry. If they wanted me to play a club opening for the Allman Brothers, I would have done it. There’s no glory in being a street musician, trust me.”

The debut single is the Willie Dixon classic, “Wang Dang Doodle.”

Happy birthday to the man who says nothing but speaks volumes, a champion of the misunderstood.

“I saw a movie called It Might Get Loud… I saw that, and I saw Jack White in it. I went down that rabbit hole for a while and dove into what he was doing. And he was really into Robert Johnson.”