. . . and Sri Lanka and India
and Thailand and Indonesia proper
and Malaysia
and Maldives and Somalia and Myanmar . . .
The
Connecticut Blues Society's
(Rescheduled) Tsunami Relief Benefit
www.ctblues.org
Check www.tsunamiblues.com for updates and recent news
As many of you know, the original benefit went on, in abbreviated form,
in the midst of a blizzard on Jan. 22 with Debbie Davies headlining!
Since we had so much fun -- and the goal is to raise
lots of money for tsunami relief--- we're doing it again!
Sunday, February 20
The Playwright
144 Temple Street, New Haven, CT. 3 p.m. - midnight
Suggested donation:
$10
(bigger donations happily accepted)
To donate online via Paypal, click here
AmeriCares and Save the Children
FEATURING:
"New York Blues
Queen" Roxy Perry
www.roxyperry.com
"Blues Power"
Mark
Naftalin
(former keyboard player for the Paul Butterfield Blues Band)
www.bluespower.com
All-Star Harmonica Jam
CONNECTICUT BANDS:
The Hoodoo Band
www.thehoodooband.com
"The Deepest Shade of Blues"
The
Cobalt Rhythm Kings
www.cobaltrhythmkings.com
2003 Connecticut Blues
Challenge winners
Ryan Hartt &
the Blue Hearts
www.ryanhartt.com
1999 CT Blues Challenge winners -- from eastern CT
The Mike Crandall Band
www.mikecrandallband.com
CONNECTICUT ACOUSTIC ACTS:
"New Haven's world-traveled, top-shelf bluesman"
Rocky Lawrence
www.rockylawrence.com
2004 CT Acoustic Blues Challenge winner
"Ramblin' Dan" Stevens
www.danstevens.net
from the Chili Blues Band
Dave "DC"
Jones
www.dcjonesblues.com
"Acoustic Blues Summit"
Chris "Smokin'
Opey" D'Amato
www.chrisdamato.net
and
Pete Scheips
www.bignoisenow.com/scheips
with Garry Segal of Garry & the Moodswingers on blues harp
www.moodswingers.com
SPECIAL GUESTS:
"World Class Blues Harp"
Gary "Sonny Jr"
Onofrio
www.sonnyjr.com
2001 Connecticut Blues Challenger winners
Dave Armstrong
and Ken Melillo of
DW Armstrong and the Rent Party Band
www.dwarmstrongandtherentparty.com
"The Chairman of Connecticut Blues"
Chris DePino
veteran blues guitarist, formerly of The Hornets
Tom Sanders of The
Patriot Act
(aka The Known Unknowns)
www.the-patriot-act.org
2004 CT Blues Challenge finalists
Mike Law and Carl Ricci
of Mike Law and the Playboys
www.mikelawblues.com
"Killer harmonica"
George Dudack
"high-octane blues -- on the jazzy side of the street"
George Lesiw of Ol'
Boy
www.georgelesiwband.com
"Keepin' the Blues Alive"
Michael and "Dangerous
Don" Payton
of
The Brotherhood
Blues Band
www.brotherhoodbluesband.com
"Search for Something Sweet"
Vinny Cervoni of Bluzberry Pi
www.bluzberrypi.com
"XY Eli Band has taken the blues out of the Mississippi delta and sent it to Mars"
"XY Eli" Williams
www.xyeli.com
Hot Rhythm and Rockin' Blues
members of Mamma Jamma
www.sonictonic.com/MammaJamma.htm
... and lots of other great, big-hearted Connecticut blues musicians
After-party to follow at Cafe Nine, 200 State St., featuring Rocky Lawrence Band with some of the benefit performers sitting in!
Also featuring a grand prize raffle to win a brand new, jet-black Squier by Fender Telecaster from Sam Ash Music! Other raffle prizes to include a Connecticut Blues Society watch and gift certificates to some of Connecticut's top restaurants and clubs -- including Black-Eyed Sally's in Hartford, the Timbers at Foxwoods Casino, La Boca in Middletown and Sally's Apizza, Bentara, Cafe Nine and Indochine Pavilion in New Haven, as well as boutiques such as Dava of Hamden.
Interested in donating something?
Click here: raffle@tsunamiblues.com
Donate online to the Connecticut
Blues Society's Tsunami Relief Fund
To donate online via Paypal, click here
Please make out checks to "Connecticut Blues Society -- Tsunami Relief."
For directions to The Playwright CLICK HERE
Visit the Connecticut
Blues Society's web site
www.ctblues.org
Proudly sponsored by
www.playnewhaven.com
Contact us
info@tsunamiblues.com