[NEohioPAL]Blues Festival & Alana Davis

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THIS WEEKEND!!
 
 

2nd ANNUAL
WESTERN RESERVE
BLUES FESTIVAL
Featuring 
Robert & Jack Kidney,
Wallace Coleman,
and Frankie Starr


Saturday, April 23
8:00 PM

Robert and Jack Kidney of the Numbers Band playing as a duo. Seeing and hearing them perform together is touching, not because they are brothers, but because it portrays the naked reality of their music. It is in rememberance of the singer/song writer sitting on the porch in the hot delta sun, the musician and his instrument, and whatever God gave him. The brothers rely on each other's instincts and individual experience to creat an evening of pleasure. Blues favorites and some stripped-down versions of their own music are on the play list. They do not perform "unplugged".

The Kidney brothers toured Holland as a blues act in 1991 and 1992. During the first tour they played as a duet. On the second tour a rhythm section from Amsterdam joined them. The boys from Amsterdam had tought themselves the music from tapes so they would be ready when the Kidney brothers arrived. They learned the hard way how complex the music of the Numbers Band really is.

As a youth in eastern Tennessee where country & western music still prevails, Wallace Coleman was instead captivated by the sounds he heard late at night from Nashville's WLACÉ.the Blues.

Coleman left Tennessee in 1956 to find work in Cleveland, Ohio. He found steady work and, to his delight, an active Blues community where Jimmy Reed, Sonny Boy Williamson, Muddy Waters, Elmore James, B.B. King and others came to perform. 

A self-taught musician, Coleman played the harmonica on his breaks at work. One day a co-worker brought his cousin to the jobsite to hear Coleman play. That meeting sparked a year-long pairing with Cleveland's Guitar Slim at the Cascade Lounge.

It was there that Coleman caught the ear of audience member Robert Jr. Lockwood. Asked by Lockwood to join his band, Coleman expressed that he first wanted to retire from his day job. Two years later, in 1987, a newly-retired Coleman did indeed contact Lockwood. That call initiated a 10 year position in Lockwood's band. Wallace Coleman remains the only harmonica player invited by Lockwood to join his band.

It was an honor to take the stage with the guitarist who had created some of the classic guitar parts on the recordings of Coleman's harmonica heroes---the same recordings he first heard over WLAC's airwaves some 30 years earlier. An innovator himself, Coleman created 3rd position harmonica parts for several Robert Johnson songs performed by Lockwood (Johnson's step-son and student). Performing and traveling in the U.S., Canada and overseas with Lockwood were ColemanÕs first steps onto his own professional musical path. 

By 1996, bandmates formed the Wallace Coleman Band and later informed Coleman himself! This simply confirmed what his fellow musicians already knewÉ.that people wanted to hear more from Wallace Coleman. In 1997, Coleman left Lockwood's band and graduated to the post of full-time bandleader. Shortly before leaving, Coleman performed on Lockwood's Grammy-nominated CD, "I Gotta Find Me A Woman."

Blues guitarist Frankie Starr is one of the hardest working musicians in Northeast Ohio. Frankie has played hundreds of gigs every year since he exploded on the scene as a hot-shot teenage guitar-slinger in the late-80's. 

Since then, he has matured into a consummate Bluesman whose songs, sometimes venturing from a more traditional blues format, remain "true blue" to the genre. As one of Frankie's songs tells us, "The Blues is Good for You."

Advance discount tickets: $12.00
Day of Show: $15.00



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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ALANA DAVIS


Sunday, April 24
8:00 PM

Alana's music, which whips up its own genre with a combination of urban beats and folk sound, is inspired by her own life. Growing up the daughter of a black father and a white mother, Alana never identified with just one race. "IÕm an individual, which makes me part of both cultures and neither at the same time. I figure I exist as an eraser for the lines that are drawn between the races." Alana dealt with ridicule in school, mostly for being different than her mostly wealthy classmates. Her music spreads the word about the importance of being yourself, taking chances and having fun while doing it. Check out her newest album "Surrender Dorothy" when it hits stores in February and find out for yourself what Alana is all about. 

The daughter of jazz chanteuse Ann Marie Schofield and the late jazz pianist Walter Davis, Jr., Alana Davis made her own stand as a singer and songwriter. Born and raised in New York's Greenwich Village, Davis learned to play the guitar as a youngster. Music remained an avocation, however, until her late-teens. Although she began writing songs at the age of eighteen, Davis didn't turn to music as a career until briefly attending Mohawk Valley Community College in Utica, New York. Leaving school to devote her full attention to music, Davis recorded a demo tapes of her original tunes. Signed by Elektra, she released her first single, a remake of Ani DiFranco's "32 Flavors", and it reached the top forty of Billboard's ÒHot 100" in early 1998. The single's success also led to an invitation to participate in the Lilith Fair. But Davis and Elektra disagreed about the direction of her career. While the label hoped for a straightforward R&B sound, Davis was more interested in fusing her rich
 mix of influences. Her 2001 sophomore effort Fortune Cookies was powerful, original, and unique; it also went un-promoted, and drove a wedge between she and the label. Striking out on her own, Davis formed Tigress Records imprint to release her third album, 2005's critically-acclaimed Surrender Dorothy.— Craig Harris, All Music Guide 

Though music has always been a huge part of Alana's life, she only started learning to play the guitar at the age of eighteen. Since then, she's recorded three albums, starred in a major Sony Super Bowl commercial, and even started her own record label, Tigress Records.

Advance discount tickets: $12.00
Day of Show: $15.00



 

 

 

 

 

 



The Kent Stage is located at 175 East Main Street in downtown Kent, Ohio.  There is FREE parking behind the theater and on all city streets.  Advance tickets are available at Woodsy's Music and Spin-More Records in Kent, Little Mountain Music in Middlefield at www.kentstage.org or at 330-677-5005.  Tickets will also be available at the door.  Doors open one hour before event time.  If you have any questions, please call 330-677-5005. 







































		
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<P align=left><B><FONT size=+3>2nd ANNUAL<BR>WESTERN RESERVE<BR>BLUES FESTIVAL</FONT><FONT size=+2><BR>Featuring <BR>Robert & Jack Kidney,<BR>Wallace Coleman,<BR>and Frankie Starr<BR></FONT></B></P>
<P align=left><B>Saturday, April 23<BR>8:00 PM</B></P>
<P align=left><B>Robert and Jack Kidney</B> of the Numbers Band <B>playing as a duo. </B>Seeing and hearing them perform together is touching, not because they are brothers, but because it portrays the naked reality of their music. It is in rememberance of the singer/song writer sitting on the porch in the hot delta sun, the musician and his instrument, and whatever God gave him. The brothers rely on each other's instincts and individual experience to creat an evening of pleasure. Blues favorites and some stripped-down versions of their own music are on the play list. <B>They do not perform "unplugged".</B></P>
<P align=left>The Kidney brothers toured Holland as a blues act in 1991 and 1992. During the first tour they played as a duet. On the second tour a rhythm section from Amsterdam joined them. The boys from Amsterdam had tought themselves the music from tapes so they would be ready when the Kidney brothers arrived. They learned the hard way how complex the music of the Numbers Band really is.</P>
<P align=left>As a youth in eastern Tennessee where country & western music still prevails, <B>Wallace Coleman</B> was instead captivated by the sounds he heard late at night from Nashville's WLACÉ.the Blues.</P>
<P align=left>Coleman left Tennessee in 1956 to find work in Cleveland, Ohio. He found steady work and, to his delight, an active Blues community where Jimmy Reed, Sonny Boy Williamson, Muddy Waters, Elmore James, B.B. King and others came to perform. </P>
<P align=left>A self-taught musician, Coleman played the harmonica on his breaks at work. One day a co-worker brought his cousin to the jobsite to hear Coleman play. That meeting sparked a year-long pairing with Cleveland's Guitar Slim at the Cascade Lounge.</P>
<P align=left>It was there that Coleman caught the ear of audience member Robert Jr. Lockwood. Asked by Lockwood to join his band, Coleman expressed that he first wanted to retire from his day job. Two years later, in 1987, a newly-retired Coleman did indeed contact Lockwood. That call initiated a 10 year position in Lockwood's band. Wallace Coleman remains the only harmonica player invited by Lockwood to join his band.</P>
<P align=left>It was an honor to take the stage with the guitarist who had created some of the classic guitar parts on the recordings of Coleman's harmonica heroes---the same recordings he first heard over WLAC's airwaves some 30 years earlier. An innovator himself, Coleman created 3rd position harmonica parts for several Robert Johnson songs performed by Lockwood (Johnson's step-son and student). Performing and traveling in the U.S., Canada and overseas with Lockwood were ColemanÕs first steps onto his own professional musical path. </P>
<P align=left>By 1996, bandmates formed the Wallace Coleman Band and later informed Coleman himself! This simply confirmed what his fellow musicians already knewÉ.that people wanted to hear more from Wallace Coleman. In 1997, Coleman left Lockwood's band and graduated to the post of full-time bandleader. Shortly before leaving, Coleman performed on Lockwood's Grammy-nominated CD, "I Gotta Find Me A Woman."</P>
<P align=left>Blues guitarist <B>Frankie Starr</B> is one of the hardest working musicians in Northeast Ohio. Frankie has played hundreds of gigs every year since he exploded on the scene as a hot-shot teenage guitar-slinger in the late-80's. </P>
<P align=left>Since then, he has matured into a consummate Bluesman whose songs, sometimes venturing from a more traditional blues format, remain "true blue" to the genre. As one of Frankie's songs tells us, "The Blues is Good for You."</P>
<P align=left><B><FONT color=#990000>Advance discount tickets: $12.00<BR></FONT></B><B>Day of Show: $15.00</B></P>
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<P align=left><B><FONT size=+3>ALANA DAVIS</FONT><FONT size=+2><BR></FONT></B></P>
<P align=left><B>Sunday, April 24<BR>8:00 PM</B></P>
<P align=left>Alana's music, which whips up its own genre with a combination of urban beats and folk sound, is inspired by her own life. Growing up the daughter of a black father and a white mother, Alana never identified with just one race. "IÕm an individual, which makes me part of both cultures and neither at the same time. I figure I exist as an eraser for the lines that are drawn between the races." Alana dealt with ridicule in school, mostly for being different than her mostly wealthy classmates. Her music spreads the word about the importance of being yourself, taking chances and having fun while doing it. Check out her newest album "Surrender Dorothy" when it hits stores in February and find out for yourself what Alana is all about. </P>
<P align=left>The daughter of jazz chanteuse Ann Marie Schofield and the late jazz pianist Walter Davis, Jr., Alana Davis made her own stand as a singer and songwriter. Born and raised in New York's Greenwich Village, Davis learned to play the guitar as a youngster. Music remained an avocation, however, until her late-teens. Although she began writing songs at the age of eighteen, Davis didn't turn to music as a career until briefly attending Mohawk Valley Community College in Utica, New York. Leaving school to devote her full attention to music, Davis recorded a demo tapes of her original tunes. Signed by Elektra, she released her first single, a remake of Ani DiFranco's "32 Flavors", and it reached the top forty of Billboard's ÒHot 100" in early 1998. The single's success also led to an invitation to participate in the Lilith Fair. But Davis and Elektra disagreed about the direction of her career. While the label hoped for a straightforward R&B sound, Davis was more interested
 in fusing her rich mix of influences. Her 2001 sophomore effort Fortune Cookies was powerful, original, and unique; it also went un-promoted, and drove a wedge between she and the label. Striking out on her own, Davis formed Tigress Records imprint to release her third album, 2005's critically-acclaimed Surrender Dorothy.— Craig Harris, <I>All Music Guide </I></P>
<P align=left>Though music has always been a huge part of Alana's life, she only started learning to play the guitar at the age of eighteen. Since then, she's recorded three albums, starred in a major Sony Super Bowl commercial, and even started her own record label, Tigress Records.</P>
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