2024 Cool Blues Show
Presented By The Georgia Straight
Friday, July 26, 2024
4-11pm at Fort Langley Community Park
9089 Nash St, Fort Langley
FINAL EARLY BIRD TICKET OFFER!
The month of April is your last chance to get early bird pricing for the blues show before regular ticket prices take effect on May 1. Save $10 using the code Save10 at checkout when you purchase two regularly priced tickets!
You won't want to miss our star-studded lineup of world-renowned blues bands and musicians including…
⭐ Tom Lavin & the Legendary Powder Blues Band
️⭐ Rick Estrin & The Nightcats
⭐️ Silent Partners, a tribute to B.B. King,
⭐️ Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne
⭐️ And the recently announced…Miss Emily!
The Cool Blues Show isn't just a lineup of incredible music...you’ll be able to check out our beer garden, food trucks, vendor market, games, art installation, and so much more!
Get your pair of tickets today before early bird pricing comes to an end → https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/2024-cool-blues-show-tickets-764908400617
Single tickets are available for $60/ticket.
Youth tickets are available for $30/ticket.
Tickets for kids under 12 are free accompanied by an adult.
Plus, all early bird ticket buyers will be entered into a draw for one of five VIP Show Packages in July that will include:
⭐ Backstage visit and photo
️⭐ 2 Festival t-shirts
⭐️ CD package
⭐️ 2 drink tickets
Spectacular Blues, Brews, and Beyond at The 2024 Cool Blues Show!
Fort Langley Community Park will come alive with five fantastic blues bands, a beer garden, food trucks, vendor market, art installation, games and more.
Join thousands of blues music fans for this incredible event! You won’t be disappointed!
2024 Cool Blues Show Line-Up
Tom Lavin and the Legendary Powder Blues
For over four decades Powder Blues has been Canada’s leading blues band. The mix of swing, blues, jazz, rock & roll and R&B has an appeal so wide that people from seven to seventy swing side by side at a Powder Blues concert. Over the years the band has toured non-stop through Canada, the United States and overseas, spreading feel-good music that makes folks dance and shout.
Powder Blues debut album, ‘Uncut’, was ignored by major labels who said there was ‘no market for the blues’. Undiscouraged, the band sold it off stage and sent it to radio stations whose switchboards lit up with calls asking, ‘who’s that?’ After selling 30,000 copies in a few weeks, the same record labels competed to distribute this ‘non-commercial’ product. To date Powder Blues have sold over a million records worldwide.
Band highlights include winning Canada’s Juno, headlining the world-famous Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, winning the Blues Foundation Award in Memphis, Tennessee and touring the US and Europe with legends like Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, James Brown, Albert Collins, James Cotton and Stevie Ray Vaughn.
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 worked with local bands and blues legends, Tom moved to Vancouver gigging in the downtown nightclub scene. This led to work as studio musician, songwriter, band leader, record producer and film composer.
Tom has won BCMIA awards for ‘Guitarist, Singer, Songwriter and Producer of the Year’, a Juno award for ‘Best New Band’ and the American W.C. Handy award. He has over a dozen gold, and platinum records for Powder Blues, Prism, April Wine, Long John Baldry, Amos Garrett, and many others.
Learn more at https://powderblues.net/
Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne
One of the finest blues piano players around, the talented and legendary Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne is hailed by LIVING BLUES magazine as “an artist bringing the piano back to the front ranks of contemporary Blues“.
With a career that spans more than six decades, Kenny is known for his distinctive blues piano style and cool and soulful vocals. He is on a wonderful roll these days making critically acclaimed albums, winning prestigious awards and traveling the globe playing for audiences around the world.
His many awards include a three-time Juno Award winner/nominee for Best Blues Album, multiple Maple Blues, Western Canada Music and Living Blues magazine awards. He is also an inductee into the Boogie Woogie Piano Hall of Fame.
At the Blues Blast Music Award show in September 2023, Kenny was voted Keyboard Player of the Year by Blues Blast readers and also recently received The Bobby “Blue” Band Lifetime Achievement Award from the Jus’ Blues Music Foundation.
Over the years he has performed with and shared the stage with a great many of the world’s most influential blues and rock pioneers, including Jimmy Reed, Pinetop Perkins, Johnnie Johnson, Big Joe Duskin, Joe Louis Walker and Floyd Dixon, and as a guest performer with well-known rock and soul artists that have included Ike Turner, Sly and the Family Stone, Delaney and Bonnie and members of Santana and the Doobie Brothers.
Learn more at: https://kennybluesboss.com/
RICK ESTRIN and THE NIGHTCATS
Blues music award-winning, Alligator recording artists, RICK ESTRIN and THE NIGHTCATS are set to play at the Fort Langley Jazz & Arts Festival Cool Blues Show on Friday, July 26.
This is a band you do not want to miss! They provide a show that is unprecedented in the blues world.
Singer, songwriter, and virtuoso blues harpist Rick Estrin has played with the legendary Muddy Waters, Sam Lay and Eddie Taylor. The band has toured worldwide, won the prestigious Blues Music Award for Band of the Year (twice), and is one of the most highly entertaining and musically fearless bands on the blues scene today. On stage, the band’s ability to deliver a no-holds-barred show is unmatched.
Forbes called them “America’s greatest musical showmen” and said “Estrin is a world-class musician … the most colorful and entertaining showman around.”
RICK ESTRIN and THE NIGHTCATS are comprised of Rick Estrin on vocals and harmonica; Kid Anderson (Charlie Musselwhite Band) on guitar and vocals; Lorenzo Farrell (Elvin Bishop Band) on piano and organ; Derrick D’Mar Martin (Little Richard’s drummer for 17 years) on drums.
Check them out here: https://rickestrin.com/home
Listen to them here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmPHdhdY-FA
Tribute to B.B. King by Silent Partners
If you love the music of B.B. King, you'll love our fourth headliner at the Cool Blues Show, Silent Partners, in a Tribute to the King of the Blues, B.B. King.
Silent Partners are bringing back the legendary sounds of B.B. King at the Cool Blues Show!
This band knows their B.B. King…
🎤 Tony Coleman (drums and vocals) played with B.B. King for 30 years!
🎤 Russell Jackson (bass and vocals) played with B.B. King for 7 years!
We're stoked that they'll be joined by Yuji Ihara (guitar), Brad Shigatata (trombone), Vince Mai (trumpet), and our very own Dave Quinn (sax)!
Silent Partners Tony Coleman (drums and vocals) and Russell Jackson (bass and vocals) played with B.B. for many years, but did you know that they met each other in the U.S. Army in 1974?
Along with their other army friend, Welton Everette, they formed the band Solid Funk and performed in Kansas City alongside musicians like Charlie Parker and John Coltrane. They later joined Otis Clay's band in Chicago and caught the eye of B.B. King!
Silent Partners was formed with Mel Brown and Andrew “Jr. Boy” Jones years after leaving King, and although they took a hiatus in 1990, we can thank keyboardist Jim Pugh for encouraging the band to reunite in 2022!
Their recently recorded album “Changing Times” marks a musical journey spanning over five decades.
Silent Partners are ready to wow festival goers with a Tribute to the legendary B.B. King at the Cool Blues Show on July 26!
Read more about Silent Partners here
Listen to them here
Miss Emily
Get ready for a musical adventure in soul, jazz, blues, Motown, old-school R&B and rock and roll with the foot-stomping, heart-wrenching musical force, Miss Emily.
Juno Award-nominee for Blues Album of the Year in 2022, three-time winner of the Maple Blues Female Vocalist of the Year and winner of the Maple Blues New Artist and Sapphire Blues Video of the Year Awards, Miss Emily knows how to pack a musical punch.
“Miss Emily’s voice has got to be heard to be believed - raw, expressive, transitioning flawlessly from a plaintive cry to a sonorous growl, weaving blues, country and rock while she does it... “
Rob Baker - The Tragically Hip
Miss Emily has captivated listeners for over 20 years with her incomparable voice and impassioned vocals. and can't wait to do the same for blues music lovers at the Cool Blues Show.
This year she started studio work on a new album project called “The Medicine” Grammy & JUNO Award Winning Colin Linden will produce the album and writing collaborations include Guy Davis, The Tragically Hip’s Rob Baker and Colin Linden himself.
Listen to her here
Learn more here
