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Sedalia Blues Society and the Central Virginia Blues Society are proud to present: An Elegant Night of Acoustic Blues and Roots Music as a Benefit for Pancreatic Cancer Research at the University of Virginia

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June 29th, 2014 at the Chemistry Auditorium (rm 402), McCormick Rd, Charlottesville, VA, 22903, 6pm – 9pm with doors opening at 5:30pm.

We cordially invite you to enjoy an elegant evening of some of the world’s finest acoustic blues musicians coming together as a fundraising effort for Pancreatic Research at UVA. This is a very special show that only comes along once in a lifetime, especially in this area.

In the tradition of John Hammond, Jr (American record producer, civil rights activist), this will be an acoustic blues review that will cover many varieties of the genre blues, including Jump Blues, Country Blues, Piedmont Blues, Delta Blues, North Mississippi Blues and others. We hope that you will attend this very entertaining, informative and beneficial blues review for this worthy cause.

We declared war on cancer in 1971, yet in the past 40 years, fatality rates from pancreatic cancer have remained unchanged. It is the diagnosis that is practicality a death sentence with a 5% survival rate. Recently, many have recognized that a different type of research needed to emerge. Enter UVA’s Dr. Todd Bauer, a surgeon with a research lab, who is studying the disease using unique mouse models that accurately reflect human disease. Dr. Bauer’s lab is implanting each patient’s tumor into mice to unlock the secrets for a personalized cure. UVA Bioengineer Kim Kelly has discovered a revolutionary bio-marker for pancreatic cancer and has collaborated with Dr. Bauer to develop the first molecular early detection scan, which could transform the survival from this disease by catching it earlier.

BIO:

Dr. Bauer is an Associate Professor of Surgery in the Division of Surgical Oncology at the University of Virginia. He joined the faculty in the Department of Surgery in the School of Medicine at UVA in 2005.

Blues Artists:

Dom Turner (Australia Bluesman)

Dom Turner (Backsliders) and Ian Collard (Collard Greens and Gravy) – Debut album “Mama Thinks We’re Crazy Too” 2012

“Turner and Collard show here why they’re at the forefront of blues in the modern age, re-crafting these songs with a passion that will never die” Samuel J Fell, Sydney Morning Herald, 2012

Take your mind back to a time before mindless 120 beats per minute pop dominated the airwaves - to the early 20th century – when the raw sounds of harmonicas and guitars meant real music for the people. This was a deep, dark, and tantalizingly evil mix of rural blues that was played and recorded by musicians throughout the southern states of the USA and broadcast over the radio waves even further.

Meanwhile – quite a few years later – and even further down south, in Australia, Dom Turner (Backsliders) became obsessed with the sound and spent most of their adult lives studying and playing it.

Dom Turner is best known as guitarist/ vocalist, founding member and key songwriter of the iconic Australian blues group, The Backsliders. Dom’s influences are many and varied – a blend of delta blues, piedmont blues, rock, dub and sounds of Asia. He is a highly regarded speaker on blues music and has guested on ABC radio programs (including guest presenting Radio National’s ‘Music Deli’) and presented music workshops at festivals and in universities (both nationally and internationally). In 2004 Dom was voted ‘Blues Songwriter of the Year’ at the Australian Blues Awards. Dom Turner was the artist in residence on ABC radio 702 Morning’s program in July 2009 an in 2013 ABC radio on a number of occasions, including contributing to the ‘Encounter’ program with renowned US musicologist Peter B. Lowry.

Dom has toured as a solo artist in the USA, playing and teaching blues guitar at Augusta Blues week in West Virginia, and in 2006, touring Mexico with US blues greats, Del Ray and Steve James. His trademark ‘slide’ guitar sound can be heard on myriad session recordings and his songs have featured on the ABC TV programme 'Seachange’, as well as the soundtrack to Tim Winton’s best-selling novel, ‘Dirt Music and the 2013 Channel 9 TV series ‘Underbelly - Squizzy Taylor’.

In 2008 Dom was invited onstage to play with slide guitar legend Derek Trucks at the Adelaide international Guitar Festival. Most recently, in addition to touring and recording with Backsliders, Dom recorded and released a cross-cultural music recording with Vietnamese stringed instrument master, Kim Sinh’. Ian Collard is a gifted vocalist and harmonica player and winner of the Australian Harmonica championship in 1996.

Working as a Guitar/Harmonica duo, Dom Turner and Ian Collard strip the music back to its rural beginnings. At the heart of their sound is the north Mississippi hill-country music of Mississippi Fred McDowell and Johnny Woods mixed in with the pre-war blues sounds of artists such as Skip James, Blind Willie Mc Tell and Lead Belly.

Phil Wiggins

Phil Wiggins was born on the 8th of May, 1954 in Washington, D.C. His parents had moved to Washington from Titusville, Alabama in 1941. “The closer the time came for „going home‟, the stronger my mother’s southern brogue got. Whenever my mother used the word home she was talking about Titusville. Phil spent many of his childhood summers in Titusville and cites the time he spent there as one of the main reasons for his strong connection with blues. “I would walk my grandmother around the corner to the church on Thursday evenings for prayer meeting. I would wait outside and hear the elder women of the church singing prayers and praises. The context was religious, but the sound was deep blues.”

During the early years of his development as a musician, Phil was constantly playing with and learning from some of the most notable acoustic blues musicians that made their homes in the Washington area: Flora Molten, Mother Ester Mae Scott, Wilber “Chief” Ellis, John Jackson, Archie Edwards, John Cephas, and others. He was mentored as well by many other musicians who frequented the D.C. 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. “I have always been amazed by and grateful for the generosity of these masters of traditional blues. They welcomed me and shared freely of their knowledge and abilities."

Phil performed with Flora Molten at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, D.C. every summer from 1972-1976. It was there in 1976 that he met and joined with Chief Ellis on piano, John Cephas on guitar, and James Bellamy on bass, forming the group Chief Ellis and the Barrelhouse Rockers. The Group performed at several venues and festivals in the D. C. area until Chief retired and moved back home, coincidentally to Titusville, Alabama. Soon after returning home, Chief suffered a heart attack and passed on. Not long after Chiefs passing Phil and John Cephas formed the duo Cephas and Wiggins. This duo performed together for over 30 years, becoming Americas premier blues duo. As ambassadors of the Piedmont blues, Cephas and Wiggins took their music all over America as well as all over the world. “John and I have performed on every continent except Antarctica.” Some venues of note include Carnegie Hall, Sydney Opera House, Royal Albert Hall, and the White House.

Eli Cook

The legendary Son House (1902-1988) was known to say “Blues is a feelin’”. Eli Cook’s music expresses that same raw honesty in a unique blend of contemporary and old-school styles, creating an original sound at the fore-front of modern Blues and Rock.

Eli took up the guitar as a teenager in the Blue Ridge foothills of Virginia. Following the tradition of the great blues men, he performed in churches and late-night gospel revivals with only his acoustic and deep baritone voice, while playing every hole-in-the-wall bar that could handle his electric power trio. Blending the influences of John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Fred McDowell, Bukka White and Lightning Hopkins with the likes of Clutch, Soundgarden, C.O.C, and Rage against the Machine, he forged a fresh sound, alive with the southern blues tradition.

Eli recorded and released his first two albums between 2004 and 2007: the all-acoustic, original-roots album “Miss Blues’ Child” on the Sledgehammer Blues label, and a heavy blues-rock release “Electric Holy Fire Water”. During this time he was invited to open for B.B. King on King's east coast tour. Since then, Eli has shared the stage with Johnny Winter, Robert Cray, Parliament-Funkadellic, Gary Clark JR, Roomful of Blues and many others. In 2008, Eli released his third self-produced album, “Static in the Blood", a modern R&B/Rock crossover project featuring ornate experimental studio production. The follow up album, “Ace Jack & King", a return to roots-blues and heavy guitars, received critical acclaim. The All Music Guide proclaimed that Eli could be “the best blues singer of his generation.”

In 2013, Eli signed with LA-based label Cleopatra Records to begin work on his 5th studio album, featuring guest appearances by rock legend Leslie West of Mountain, Artimus Pyle (Lynyrd Skynyrd) Reese Wynans of Double Trouble, Vinny Appici (Black Sabbath, Ronnie James Dio) and Tinsley Ellis. The album is set for release in spring 2014.

Proffitt and Sandidge

Amherst’s own bluesmen, Proffitt and Sandidge formed in 2000. This traditional country blues duo play their authentic renditions of classic blues tunes for venues, festivals, parties, backyard get together and churches throughout the state and beyond.

Pulling from the traditional sounds of the blues greats such as Muddy Waters, Big Bill Broonzy, Mississippi Fred Mcdowell and Robert Johnson, this award-winning duo has opened for such greats as Big Jack Johnson, Eddy “The Chief” Clearwater, Bob Margolin, Drink Small, Jimmy Thackery and others. In 2004, this duo won the Sedalia Blues Competition and were Semi-Finalists in the International Blues Challenge in Memphis.

Proffitt and Sandidge have carved a place for themselves in Central Virginia as a great force in upholding traditional blues in our area. You won’t hear any Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton or Johnny Lang from these guys, but you will hear the original music that inspired the songs of Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton and Johnny Lang!

Lisa Miller and the Juke Joint Junkies

Hailing from Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, Lisa Miller has been playing guitar and singing for over 3 decades. With her powerful vocals and her strong and witty writing abilities, she has brought back the art of lyric composing to the genre of the Blues. Following and covering great songs by Sippie Wallace, Dina Washington, Ma Rainey and Skip James, just to name a few, Lisa has shared her brand of blues through out Virginia playing at festivals, Wineries, clubs and house parties. Having released her latest CD of all original Songs, “Out of the Blues”, in 2010, she is ready to please her audience with tunes that run the spectrum from High Energy to slow, personal and meaningful melodies. Richie Babb of Chesapeake’s WFOS FM 88.7 stated about Lisa’s latest release… “The production values are high, the musicianship is fantastic and, finally, your (Miller’s) voice and delivery are a real treat”. Rounding out the group is master harmonica virtuoso Kevin Chisnell, who has been professionally performing for decades with bands such as Wanda and the White Boys and the Cyrstal Armentrout Band ……. And Jack Roy, two time IBC semifinalist playing his delta driven slide guitar as a member of a The Biscuit Rollers and a soloist. Kevin and Jack have both performed with Big Bill Morganfield and Mud Morganfield. The Juke Joint Junkies are here to take you by a Blues Storm….

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