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PORTSMOUTH BLUES FESTVAL 2002
2002 FESTIVAL PHOTOS
Click below to view Slides of our 2002 Blues Festival
DATE:.....Saturday August 17th 2002
TIME:.....11AM to sundown
LOCATION:.Strawbery Banke Museum grounds
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SCHEDULE:
11:00am T J Wheeler & Hatrack Gallagher
11:35am Lonley Gus & The One Night Stand
12:15pm Mary Flower
1:00pm Maria Muldaur
2:15pm Reverand Robert Jones
3:00pm Music Maker Blues Revival
5:15pm Taj Mahal
FEATURE PERFORMER: Taj Mahal
There are people who play music, and then there are artists who use music as their medium. Blues legend Taj Mahal is such a musician.
In the course of his unique 30-year career, Taj has embraced the blues, folk, reggae, R&B, gospel, rock'n'roll, Zydeco, Caribbean, African and Hawaiian music, and has worked with and influenced some of the greatest musicians of our time. Mick Jagger, John Lee Hooker, Linda Ronstadt, Bonnie Raitt, and Keb' Mo' are just a few of the stars who tell their own stories of Taj. Others recount tales of touring in an African war zone; of putting together revolutionary bands; and of playing "inside a song" with Taj.
Taj's lifelong quest has been to get closer to his roots music. Realising as a child that the songs he was hearing bore fragments of ancestral songs, he strove to popularise this authentic music, often in the face of crippling opposition from a blinkered music industry.
Off-stage, the double Grammy award-winner steps out of the shadows and invites the reader into his private life. He tells of personal tragedies previously not revealed. His immediate family talk of their brother, their husband and their father with frank sincerity. The result is this astonishing but, above all, honest account of the life of a bluesman.
CLICK HERE FOR TAJ MAHAL WEBSITE
MARIA MULDAUR
Blues veteran Maria Muldaur will join the Festival as she tours behind her much acclaimed 2001 CD, "Richland Woman Blues." A duo and trio "guest" album, the production taps the early twentieth-century songbook, and features Taj Mahal, as well as Bonnie Raitt, Dave Matthews and John Sebastian.
Many fans remember Muldaur for her rendition of "Midnight at the Oasis," a cut from her debut album, the 1974 "Maria Muldaur." Since then she has recorded 18 albums, all the while refining her ability to interpret early blues songs, many of which were made famous by female singers, such as Memphis Minnie and Ma Rainey.
CLICK HERE FOR MARIA MULDAUR WEBSITE
MUSIC MAKER BLUES REVIVAL
The Music Maker Relief Foundation, based in Hillsborough, NC, raises funds to help grass-roots Southern Blues artists meet expenses for medical and daily needs. The MMRF will be represented by Cootie Stark, an authentic Piedmont Blues guitarist. Stark learned his trade from medicine show musicians, and played for many years as a street musician in the Carolinas.
Other Music Makers artists performing: "Cool John" Ferguson, Beverly "Guitar" Watkins, Neal Pattman, and "Mudcat."
CLICK HERE FOR MUSIC MAKER RELIEF FOUNDATION WEBSITE
ALSO BOOKED:
MARY FLOWER
LONELY GUS & the ONE NIGHT STAND
Rev. Robert Jones
T. J. Wheeler & Hatrack Gallagher
A FULL WEEK OF BLUES ACTIVITIES TO PRECEED PORTSMOUTH BLUES FESTIVAL
PORTSMOUTH, NH - The Blues Bank Collective, producer of the Portsmouth Blues Festival on August 17, recently announced "Blues Week" -- related community outreach events starting on Sunday, August 11. All events and activities will be in Portsmouth. In addition to the events listed below, T.J Wheeler and Music Maker Blues Revival artists will perform at area nursing homes. Sunday, August 11, 1-3 pm, City Hall. Very Kool Volunteer Kids Awards. Presented by Family Services. Supported by Portsmouth Police Department Youth Division. T.J. Wheeler will perform. Ice cream, food & prizes will be offered. For information, call 436-0641. Sunday, August 11, 3-5 pm, The Pearl, 45 Pearl Street. Benefit for The Pearl's steeple restoration. Presented by Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail. The Funky River Blues Band will perform with T.J. Wheeler. $10 donation; kids are free.
Education Programs & Mini-Concerts At Strawbery Banke Museum
Monday, August 12 through Thursday, August 15, 12:30-2 pm, jug band class, meets at Stoodley's Tavern. Also Monday through Thursday, 3:00-4:30 pm, sixth grade to adult guitar class, Stoodley's Tavern. ($85 per person) Wednesday, August 14, 7:00 pm, "The Stories Behind the Songs." An acoustic show featuring Music Makers Blues Revival artists, Cootie Stark, Captain Luke, "Cool John" Ferguson, and Lightnin' Wells. Thursday, August 15, 7:00 pm, the civil rights documentary film, "Out of Obscurity," will be shown, hosted by Beth Ann Schmitt of Strawbery Banke Museum. Friday, August 16, noon to 2:00 pm, a free children's brown bag picnic and mini-concert under the big shade tree, featuring members from the week's jug band and guitar classes, plus Music Maker Revival artists and The Funky River Band. Finally, Blues Week will culminate with the day-long Portsmouth Blues Festival at the Strawbery Banke Museum grounds on Saturday, featuring Taj Mahal. For more information about the Blues Festival, and about Music Maker Blues Revival, visit www.bluesbankcollective.org, or call 603-610-0020
CONTACT:
CREA
93 High St.
Portsmouth, NH 03801
Voice: 603-610-0020
Email: events@cuzinrichard.com
The Blues Bank Collective is a W.C.Handy Award
winning blues education organization whose mission is:
To further awareness of Blues Music and its African American heritage
To show the historic context that gave birth to the Blues
To use the music as a means of positive social change
And, whenever possible, to eliminate all forms of racism, intolerance and
prejudice.
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DRAWING: B. J. Johnson (1906-1986) was a great Portsmouth bluesman and teacher, as well as an inspiration to all who knew him. Art by Steven Lee.
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