Weekly BSO Update

**tsedivy** · 08-07-2008

Thursday, 8/7/08

Greetings Blues Fans,

If you want to subscribe, or unsubscribe, to this free weekly Blues e-mail, please follow this link to the Blues Society of Omaha’s website and follow the simple prompts: http://omahablues.com/index.php?page=mailinglist

Please try to think of one person to forward this e-mail to. We need to continue to grow or we will die.

Thanks to David Dotson, if you Google Blues Society of Omaha , the top result is now our website: OmahaBlues.com. Thanks Dave!!!
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Follow this link to listen to Rick Galusha’s latest PS Blues Show: http://kiwrblues.podomatic.com/entry/2008-08-06T13_33_33-07_00

Rick wants me to the spread the word about the return of The Indigenous Jam: Saturday, September 20th. This years iJam08 features three national recording acts including; Shannon Curfman, Kim Richey and Indigenous (whose new album is terrific).

So join us at Soaring Wings Winnery, just 8 minutes south of Interstate I-80 at 144th Street...bring your picnic baskets, bring the kids (14 & under are FREE) and park on-site for an afternoon among the gentle rolling hills of Sarpy County in the great outdoors. OH - and bring your lawn chair too since youre on a field of soothing green grass.
Advance tickets are available for just $15 at www.ETIX.com.
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WIN A PLACE ON THE WORLD'S GREATEST BLUES CONCERT TOUR

BLUZAPALOOZA, the world-famous Blues concert tour that goes to Iraq to entertain our troops, is providing a once in a lifetime opportunity for one Blues fan to go on an all-expense-paid BLUZAPALOOZA celebrity Blues tour to Iraq and experience the Blues as few ever have.
The winner will fly with some of your favorite Blues artists nonstop from Washington 's Dulles International Airport on United Airlines to Kuwait City . You will spend 2 days in this historic city, stay at a world-class hotel with the entire BLUZAPALOOZA team and on your second day you will be taken by our U.S. military hosts to one of our bases in Kuwait for our first concert.
During the concert you will have an All-Access Back Stage Pass and a front row seat to be an official BLUZAPALOOZA embedded journalist or photographer with full media access on our tour.
After the concert you will join all of the performers in meeting the troops, signing autographs and taking photos with them and then you and our Blues artists will be issued camouflage Kevlar vests and helmets and flown by an Air Force C-130 transport plane directly into The Green Zone in Iraq where you will be housed in one of Saddam Hussein's palaces deep inside one of our military bases.
You and all of our Blues performers will spend the following week touring various U.S. military installations in Iraq , meeting and greeting our troops, learning about what they do and seeing things that most Americans never see.
Follow this link for all the details on how to win this trip: http://www.bluzapalooza.com/node/26/
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Terry Sedivy passed this message to me: Iowa Blues Hall of fame vocalist Steve George will be in Omaha Saturday at Downtown Blues. Some of you should remember Steve from a Murphy's Lounge set a few years ago....he was a big hit! Steve has been teaming up with Lil' Joe and Big Trouble...the result is a VERY fun combination of music! See Steve's website: http://www.bluesforever.com/
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Here is a link to an article re: Buddy Guy reaching new heights on the U.S. charts: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080801/people_nm/buddyguy_dc
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I hope you didn’t go and get a date for Valentine’s Day to see Robert Cray. Apparently I dreamt that he was coming because I cannot find any verification of his tour coming to Omaha ??? However, Bettye LaVette is coming on February 14th as part of the Playing with Fire Winter Series! She is a very soulful performer that has been performing since the Sixties.
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Next Playing with Fire: Sat. 8/16 featuring Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush, Ricky Paquette, Runaway Slide, and The Side Effects. Be ready to rock!
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Very tough decision this afternoon: JoAnna Connor ($8) at Murphy’s or Rick Estrin and The Nightcats at The Zoo Bar? If you drive really fast, you can probably catch a set of each band w/ Connor starting at 5:30pm and Estrin at 6pm.
The Joanna Connor Band is a frequent attraction not only at leading blues nightspots but also as a featured act at major festivals in the USA and Canada . Joanna has also developed a strong following in Europe, South America and Japan . As a result of many overseas appearances, in Germany she became very popular after being featured several times on national television.
Joanna Connor is a complete electric guitar package and vocalist extraordinaire. She covers the range of modern blues, slide guitar and blues rock with her own compositions very much influenced by funk, rock, jazz and world music as well as delta blues. Her sense of melody, phrasing and dynamics along with a very modern technique make her a very funky, soulful and compelling guitarist. As for vocal abilities, if Joanna wasn't a guitarist, she could easily be a lead singer in any band.
Rick Estrin fronted the jumping, swinging Little Charlie & The Nightcats, featuring guitarist Little Charlie Baty, for more than 30 years and nine albums. But now, with Baty's recent retirement from touring, Estrin -- along with the Nightcats longtime rhythm section of J. Hansen and Lorenzo Farrell and fiery guitarist Kid Andersen -- is ready to take the lead on his own. Rick Estrin & The Nightcats' sound, while still swinging the blues, is a harmonica-driven, rocking, guitar-fueled rave-up. The band performs the well-known, well-loved songs from Estrin's massive catalog, and will introduce plenty of new material along the way.
Rick's seemingly effortless command of the harmonica is matched only by his soulful vocals and remarkable original songs. Ever since he started performing his own material, it has become increasingly clear that Rick Estrin is a songwriter of unparalleled skill. His quick wit, coifed hair, pencil-thin mustache and sharp attire inform his songs in a way Cab Calloway, Louis Jordan, Willie Dixon and Elvis Presley would all be proud of. Blues Revue declared, "Estrin sits on one of the finest blues catalogs of any band on the planet. His carefully wrought lyrics penetrate human weakness with the precision of a boxer, though more often than not, he chooses to leave you laughing after the blow's been struck."
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If you dig horn bands that play originals and blues favorites, Blue House has free shows Friday and Saturday night at Two Fine Irishmen.
Saturday night, The Kris Lager Band brings their Blues Rock with a Jam Band attitude to BarFly for a rare Omaha Show. Andrew’s Avenue opens the show at 9pm. Admission is $8.
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Another tough decision next Wed 8/13: Ana Popovic at Murphy’s or John Nemeth at The Zoo Bar. Both will be fabulous and both are early shows.
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CJ Chenier, son of Zydeco legend Clifton Chenier, brings his hot Louisiana band to Murphy’s Thursday Matinee on 8/14. I have been trying to book him for years. This one will be special!
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Advanced Warning: Two great shows!

Sunday August 17th

JAMES INTVELD, with Rosie Flores
The Sunday RoadhouseAmericana Series
Mick's Music and Bar 5918 Maple Street in Benson
Show: 5:00 p.m.
Doors: 4:00 p.m.
Tickets $13:00 in advance or $15.00 at door

Intveld's One of the Last Old-School-Swoonworthy Idols We Have Left
-New York Times

"Intveld's Lyrical Prowess Is A Cut Above The Crowd"
-Guitar Player Magazine

Also Sun. 8/17
Mike Zito at BarFly at 7pm
Admission $8
"Mike’s soul shines brightly through his sweet bluesy guitar tone, rich vocals, and well crafted songs." - Aaron Lee (“Stone Blue” on XM’s Bluesville)
Zito has been featured as track #1 and is on the cover of 'A Taste Of Triple A' Compilation. This compilation places Zito alongside fellow artists; Amy Winehouse and Mark Ronson, Jim Bianco, Ben Arthur and many more. "A Taste Of Triple A is a CD sampler that introduces an eclectic mix of new music to more than 370 Triple A Program Directors, Music Directors and specialty show hosts nationwide." -atasteoftriplea.c
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Get out and get into it,

Terry O'Halloran
BSO Prez and e-mailer

Thu 8/7
Joanna Connor (05:30pm)......................................... ............Murphy's Lounge,96th & L
Lil' Joe and Big Trouble........................................... ...................Downtown Blues
Rick Estrin and The Nightcats (06:00pm).................Zoo Bar,136 N. 14th St. Lincoln,402-435-8754
Tim Keohn and Swampboy Blues............................................. ..........Night Park Lounge

Fri 8/8
Allendales........................................ ......Zoo Bar,136 N. 14th St. Lincoln,402-435-8754
Blue House And The Rent To Own Horns........................................Two Fine Irish Gentlemen
Jumpin Kate (07:00pm)......................................... .......................The Perfect Cup
Mikey T and Wanton Destruction....................................... .............Vertigo @ Harrah's
Pat Gehrman, Michael Campbell, Tim Wildsmith........................................M ick's Music Bar
The Blues Orchestra......................................... .....................Roadhouse (Lincoln)
The Darlings.......................................... ..........................Cunningham's-Kearney
Tim Keohn and Swampboy Blues............................................. ...........Dog House Saloon
Tommy K and The OK Blues Band.............................................T he Center, Council Bluffs
Yabba Griffith (reggae).......................................... ......................Glacier Omaha

Sat 8/9
Accoustic Groove............................................ .............................120 Blondes
Blind Dog Fulton............................................ ........Ruli's Party at the Fair Grounds
Blue House And The Rent To Own Horns........................................Two Fine Irish Gentlemen
Copper Blues Band.............................................. ....................Elk's Lodge in CB
Damon Dotson............................................ ............................Mick's Music Bar
Executive Steel Band (Reggae)...........................Zoo Bar,136 N. 14th St. Lincoln,402-435-8754
Kris Lager Band..........................................BarF ly,114th and Dodge (fka Shag Vodka Bar)
Lil' Joe and Big Trouble w/Steve George............................................ ...Downtown Blues
Mikey T and Wanton Destruction....................................... .............Vertigo @ Harrah's
The Darlings.......................................... ..........................Cunningham's-Kearney
Tim Keohn and Swampboy Blues............................................. ..........Night Park Lounge
Tommy K and The OK Blues Band.............................................. Coon's Corner-Neola, Iowa

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tsedivy BSO Staff Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 311	Weekly BSO Update Thursday, 8/7/08 Greetings Blues Fans, If you want to subscribe, or unsubscribe, to this free weekly Blues e-mail, please follow this link to the Blues Society of Omaha’s website and follow the simple prompts: http://omahablues.com/index.php?page=mailinglist Please try to think of one person to forward this e-mail to. We need to continue to grow or we will die. Thanks to David Dotson, if you Google Blues Society of Omaha , the top result is now our website: OmahaBlues.com. Thanks Dave!!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Follow this link to listen to Rick Galusha’s latest PS Blues Show: http://kiwrblues.podomatic.com/entry/2008-08-06T13_33_33-07_00 Rick wants me to the spread the word about the return of The Indigenous Jam: Saturday, September 20th. This years iJam08 features three national recording acts including; Shannon Curfman, Kim Richey and Indigenous (whose new album is terrific). So join us at Soaring Wings Winnery, just 8 minutes south of Interstate I-80 at 144th Street...bring your picnic baskets, bring the kids (14 & under are FREE) and park on-site for an afternoon among the gentle rolling hills of Sarpy County in the great outdoors. OH - and bring your lawn chair too since youre on a field of soothing green grass. Advance tickets are available for just $15 at www.ETIX.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WIN A PLACE ON THE WORLD'S GREATEST BLUES CONCERT TOUR BLUZAPALOOZA, the world-famous Blues concert tour that goes to Iraq to entertain our troops, is providing a once in a lifetime opportunity for one Blues fan to go on an all-expense-paid BLUZAPALOOZA celebrity Blues tour to Iraq and experience the Blues as few ever have. The winner will fly with some of your favorite Blues artists nonstop from Washington 's Dulles International Airport on United Airlines to Kuwait City . You will spend 2 days in this historic city, stay at a world-class hotel with the entire BLUZAPALOOZA team and on your second day you will be taken by our U.S. military hosts to one of our bases in Kuwait for our first concert. During the concert you will have an All-Access Back Stage Pass and a front row seat to be an official BLUZAPALOOZA embedded journalist or photographer with full media access on our tour. After the concert you will join all of the performers in meeting the troops, signing autographs and taking photos with them and then you and our Blues artists will be issued camouflage Kevlar vests and helmets and flown by an Air Force C-130 transport plane directly into The Green Zone in Iraq where you will be housed in one of Saddam Hussein's palaces deep inside one of our military bases. You and all of our Blues performers will spend the following week touring various U.S. military installations in Iraq , meeting and greeting our troops, learning about what they do and seeing things that most Americans never see. Follow this link for all the details on how to win this trip: http://www.bluzapalooza.com/node/26/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Terry Sedivy passed this message to me: Iowa Blues Hall of fame vocalist Steve George will be in Omaha Saturday at Downtown Blues. Some of you should remember Steve from a Murphy's Lounge set a few years ago....he was a big hit! Steve has been teaming up with Lil' Joe and Big Trouble...the result is a VERY fun combination of music! See Steve's website: http://www.bluesforever.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is a link to an article re: Buddy Guy reaching new heights on the U.S. charts: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080801/people_nm/buddyguy_dc --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I hope you didn’t go and get a date for Valentine’s Day to see Robert Cray. Apparently I dreamt that he was coming because I cannot find any verification of his tour coming to Omaha ??? However, Bettye LaVette is coming on February 14th as part of the Playing with Fire Winter Series! She is a very soulful performer that has been performing since the Sixties. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Next Playing with Fire: Sat. 8/16 featuring Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush, Ricky Paquette, Runaway Slide, and The Side Effects. Be ready to rock! ----------------------------------------------- Very tough decision this afternoon: JoAnna Connor ($8) at Murphy’s or Rick Estrin and The Nightcats at The Zoo Bar? If you drive really fast, you can probably catch a set of each band w/ Connor starting at 5:30pm and Estrin at 6pm. The Joanna Connor Band is a frequent attraction not only at leading blues nightspots but also as a featured act at major festivals in the USA and Canada . Joanna has also developed a strong following in Europe, South America and Japan . As a result of many overseas appearances, in Germany she became very popular after being featured several times on national television. Joanna Connor is a complete electric guitar package and vocalist extraordinaire. She covers the range of modern blues, slide guitar and blues rock with her own compositions very much influenced by funk, rock, jazz and world music as well as delta blues. Her sense of melody, phrasing and dynamics along with a very modern technique make her a very funky, soulful and compelling guitarist. As for vocal abilities, if Joanna wasn't a guitarist, she could easily be a lead singer in any band. Rick Estrin fronted the jumping, swinging Little Charlie & The Nightcats, featuring guitarist Little Charlie Baty, for more than 30 years and nine albums. But now, with Baty's recent retirement from touring, Estrin -- along with the Nightcats longtime rhythm section of J. Hansen and Lorenzo Farrell and fiery guitarist Kid Andersen -- is ready to take the lead on his own. Rick Estrin & The Nightcats' sound, while still swinging the blues, is a harmonica-driven, rocking, guitar-fueled rave-up. The band performs the well-known, well-loved songs from Estrin's massive catalog, and will introduce plenty of new material along the way. Rick's seemingly effortless command of the harmonica is matched only by his soulful vocals and remarkable original songs. Ever since he started performing his own material, it has become increasingly clear that Rick Estrin is a songwriter of unparalleled skill. His quick wit, coifed hair, pencil-thin mustache and sharp attire inform his songs in a way Cab Calloway, Louis Jordan, Willie Dixon and Elvis Presley would all be proud of. Blues Revue declared, "Estrin sits on one of the finest blues catalogs of any band on the planet. His carefully wrought lyrics penetrate human weakness with the precision of a boxer, though more often than not, he chooses to leave you laughing after the blow's been struck." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you dig horn bands that play originals and blues favorites, Blue House has free shows Friday and Saturday night at Two Fine Irishmen. Saturday night, The Kris Lager Band brings their Blues Rock with a Jam Band attitude to BarFly for a rare Omaha Show. Andrew’s Avenue opens the show at 9pm. Admission is $8. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Another tough decision next Wed 8/13: Ana Popovic at Murphy’s or John Nemeth at The Zoo Bar. Both will be fabulous and both are early shows. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CJ Chenier, son of Zydeco legend Clifton Chenier, brings his hot Louisiana band to Murphy’s Thursday Matinee on 8/14. I have been trying to book him for years. This one will be special! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Advanced Warning: Two great shows! Sunday August 17th JAMES INTVELD, with Rosie Flores The Sunday RoadhouseAmericana Series Mick's Music and Bar 5918 Maple Street in Benson Show: 5:00 p.m. Doors: 4:00 p.m. Tickets $13:00 in advance or $15.00 at door Intveld's One of the Last Old-School-Swoonworthy Idols We Have Left -New York Times "Intveld's Lyrical Prowess Is A Cut Above The Crowd" -Guitar Player Magazine Also Sun. 8/17 Mike Zito at BarFly at 7pm Admission $8 "Mike’s soul shines brightly through his sweet bluesy guitar tone, rich vocals, and well crafted songs." - Aaron Lee (“Stone Blue” on XM’s Bluesville) Zito has been featured as track #1 and is on the cover of 'A Taste Of Triple A' Compilation. This compilation places Zito alongside fellow artists; Amy Winehouse and Mark Ronson, Jim Bianco, Ben Arthur and many more. "A Taste Of Triple A is a CD sampler that introduces an eclectic mix of new music to more than 370 Triple A Program Directors, Music Directors and specialty show hosts nationwide." -atasteoftriplea.c --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Get out and get into it, Terry O'Halloran BSO Prez and e-mailer Thu 8/7 Joanna Connor (05:30pm)......................................... ............Murphy's Lounge,96th & L Lil' Joe and Big Trouble........................................... ...................Downtown Blues Rick Estrin and The Nightcats (06:00pm).................Zoo Bar,136 N. 14th St. Lincoln,402-435-8754 Tim Keohn and Swampboy Blues............................................. ..........Night Park Lounge Fri 8/8 Allendales........................................ ......Zoo Bar,136 N. 14th St. Lincoln,402-435-8754 Blue House And The Rent To Own Horns........................................Two Fine Irish Gentlemen Jumpin Kate (07:00pm)......................................... .......................The Perfect Cup Mikey T and Wanton Destruction....................................... .............Vertigo @ Harrah's Pat Gehrman, Michael Campbell, Tim Wildsmith........................................M ick's Music Bar The Blues Orchestra......................................... .....................Roadhouse (Lincoln) The Darlings.......................................... ..........................Cunningham's-Kearney Tim Keohn and Swampboy Blues............................................. ...........Dog House Saloon Tommy K and The OK Blues Band.............................................T he Center, Council Bluffs Yabba Griffith (reggae).......................................... ......................Glacier Omaha Sat 8/9 Accoustic Groove............................................ .............................120 Blondes Blind Dog Fulton............................................ ........Ruli's Party at the Fair Grounds Blue House And The Rent To Own Horns........................................Two Fine Irish Gentlemen Copper Blues Band.............................................. ....................Elk's Lodge in CB Damon Dotson............................................ ............................Mick's Music Bar Executive Steel Band (Reggae)...........................Zoo Bar,136 N. 14th St. Lincoln,402-435-8754 Kris Lager Band..........................................BarF ly,114th and Dodge (fka Shag Vodka Bar) Lil' Joe and Big Trouble w/Steve George............................................ ...Downtown Blues Mikey T and Wanton Destruction....................................... .............Vertigo @ Harrah's The Darlings.......................................... ..........................Cunningham's-Kearney Tim Keohn and Swampboy Blues............................................. ..........Night Park Lounge Tommy K and The OK Blues Band.............................................. Coon's Corner-Neola, Iowa

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