We kick off the Festival and first-ever “Silver Spring Blues
Week” with a fundraising/ticketed event at Pyramid Atlantic. Silver Spring Town Center, Inc. Executive Director, Lisa Martin, has arranged an exciting
three-hour program that includes food, drink and live music performed by Jonny
Grave. Tickets are $10 in advance, $15
at the door. Get advance tickets for this event on PayPal
Our first-ever “Silver Spring Blues Week” includes live
blues performances, and food and drink specials throughout downtown Silver
Spring. As of today, the venues include Fire
Station 1, Zev’s Café, McGinty’s, and more. SSTCi has plans to present blues bands on
Veterans Plaza during that week, and we expect to present popular
singer/songwriter Patty Reece & David Chappelle at McGinty’s on Thursday
night.
The Festival takes place on Saturday, June 16, from 10 am to
9 pm on two stages—the Fountain Stage on Ellsworth Drive, and the Market State
on Veterans Plaza at the Fenton Street Market.
Like last year, we’ll have acoustic blues music on the Market Stage,
with some incredible performers including Eleanor Ellis, Ruben Dobbs of
Swampcandy, Sheryl Sears, Gina DeSimone, and the Archie Edwards Blues
Ensemble. Our thanks go to the Archie
Edwards Blues Heritage Foundation for producing the Market Stage program. Performances on the Market Stage go from 10
am to 3 pm.
On the Fountain Stage, we’ll have a dizzyingly array of
acoustic & electric blues performances from 2 pm to 9 pm. Starting at 2 pm, we have a solo guitar
performance from NEA honoree Warner Williams, followed by the School of Rock,
Nate Foley & FLLD, the Moonshine Society, Fast Eddie & the Slowpokes,
The Unruly Blues Band, the DC Blues Society Band featuring Ayaba Bey, and, for
the finale, Clarence “The Blues Man” Turner. Our celebrity hosts for the 4th Annual Blues Festival are Ida Campbell of WPFW-FM, returning for her 4th Festival, Majic 102.3 radio personality Cortney Hicks, and Ted Kelly of andmagazine.com.
There will be an after-party at McGinty’s featuring the
popular group “Hard Swimmin’ Fish” starting at 10 pm.
For more information, visit www.silverspringblues.com
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