
•
“The Elders Paved The Way” Guest – James Lane – Community Scholar, Folklorist and Archie Green Fellowship Winner

•
Damion Kereem Pearson, aka ‘Yella P,’ is a multifaceted artist from Memphis creating a sound rooted in the Delta blues with shades of soul, gospel, and hip-hop. Mostly self-taught, Damion began playing harmonica at age 13, saving up his lunch money for a month to purchase the instrument. Adding to his arsenal, Damion later…

•
KING” SOLOMON HICKS IS A 22-YEAR-OLD GUITARIST/VOCALIST FROM THE UPPER WEST SIDE OF NEW YORK CITY AKA HARLEM, NY. At the age of 13 Solomon, NYC Blues Musician, started playing with the Cotton Club 17-piece band as Lead Guitarist and still continues to perform there. Along with being called “Lil’ B.B.” he played the…

•
Apache Brown Band brings Mississippi Hill Country, Delta, and Chicago Blues up North. Apache Brown Vocals and Guitar, Krulii Eytina on Bass, Isaiah Pierce on Drums. All hailing from Brooklyn NY. Apache Brown is a current Black Traditional Blues Practitioner! Contact m.me/apachebrownband apachebrownband@gmail.com WEBSITE FACEBOOK

•
THE SON OF SOUL AND BLUES BROCK LIGHTNING: The Son of Soul And Blues: Brock Lightning, a Gospel Blues singer, has walked a long way, from his days as the Lead Singer of R&B SOUL group Perfect Pitch, a crew of his truly best friends Brock Lightnin, Sheldon, James, Alex & O’neil were the…

•
Joshua Brittingham, Hailing from the fields of Delaware, brings to you the Pentecostal Blues. The Pentecostal Blues is the roots and fruit of our original traditional expressions, Field Hollers, Black Spirituals and the Blues! Beltin’ Blues with the urgency of life and death, Joshua Brttingham encapsulates the essence of African American Traditional Music. Joshua…

•
Ms. Johnnie Nathan is a native of Bessemer, Alabama. Though her birthplace was in Hillman hospital in Birmingham, Alabama, she lived the first thirty-one (31) years of life in her native home, the city of Bessemer. Bred as a singer of Soul, Rythmn & Blues, Gospel, and many other genres of music, she began…

•
Michael Murch POWERS has recorded, performed with, or opened for Johnny Winter, Pinetop Perkins, Buddy Miles, Expensive Winos, Stanley Jordan, Tom Jones, Bruce Springsteen, Chambers Brothers, Canned Heat, Gunhild Carling, Jackie Flavelle, Hubert Sumlin, HoneyBoy Edwards, John Lee Hooker, Cherelles, The Holmes Brothers, Buckwheat Zydeco and even James Brown. Michael Murch Powers Mom traded in…

•
The Perry’s are Blues Royal Family! Bill HowlNMADD Perry was born in rural Lafayette County; his father was a cotton sharecropper and moonshiner–”a country hustler,” according to his son–and young Bill Perry spent his share of time in the fields. He moved to Chicago as a young man and spent time in the clubs…