The Jack Hadley Band

Saturday, Oct .15 - 10pm

“left-of-center / eclectic blues… a monster blues guitarist / singer with an amazing sum of influences: North Mississippi drone blues- meets Jimi / BB / Albert / Curtis Mayfield / Marley filtered - through - Haight Ashbury…” ~Bob Lohr, Producer, San Telmo Media

Jack Hadley (guitar, vocals), Bill Larson (drums), Stephen Whitfield (bass)

The Kent Burnside Blues Band

Friday, Oct. 21 - 7pm & 9:30pm

Kent Burnside was born in 1971 in Memphis Tennessee, and spent his early years in Holly Springs, Mississippi. He is the oldest Grandson and one of the closest pupils of legendary R.L. Burnside.

The first lesson RL taught Kent was that to be a bluesman you have to find your own rhythm on the guitar. You can’t play someone else’s rhythm - as rhythm comes from your heart.

Kent Burnside (guitar, vocals), Matt Fuller (guitar), Colin Best (bass), Jacob Best (drums)

Colorado Blues Challenge: Finals

Sunday, Nov. 13 - 1pm

Hosted by the Colorado Blues Society

The Delta Sonics

Thursday, Dec. 1 - 7pm

The Delta Sonics music takes a Chicago Blues base and seasons it with Swing, Delta, N’awlins R&B and some early Rock n’ Roll. They were Westword’s best blues band in Denver six years in a row (2012-2018). The band made the semi-finals in the Memphis International Blues Challenge in 2012.

Al Chesis (vocals & harmonics), Bob Pellegrino (slide guitar), Alissa Chesis (bass), Stefan Flores (drums)

Otis Taylor

Thursday, Dec. 29 - 5:30pm & 8pm

Otis Taylor grew up in Denver, but like the old blues song said, he was born in Chicago in 1948. Taylor drew inspiration from time spent at the Denver Folklore Center founded by Harry Turt, where he first heard Piedmont, Delta, country, and Chicago blues artists like Son House, Muddy Waters, and Mississippi Fred McDowell. He learned to play guitar and harmonica and while still in his teens formed a band called the Butterscotch Fire Department and later the Otis Taylor Blues Band.