Here are some mini-previews of the Pittsburgh Blues Festival lineup for Saturday, along with some videos. I'm disappointed that I couldn't find much on our own Eugene Morgan. If anyone has a video link, please send it along. All in all, it looks like a fine day's work. Now if Bluzer will just stop fretting about the rain, everything will be fine.
Saturday – gates open 1:00 pm – 11:00 pm
1:45 pm – (Giant Eagle Express Stage) Eugene Morgan & the Nightcrawlers
It's hard to find much on the web about Morgan,a very talented old-school singer and guitarist who moved to the Pittsburgh area from Georgia years ago. Here's a BlueNotes review of his current CD, "Enough is Enough." You'll just have to take my word for it and check him out.
2:45 pm – (Main Stage) – Shannon Curfman
Curfman is a big-voiced, scorching guitar player, who at 23, is proving she wasn't a flash in the pan at 14.
4:15 pm – (Giant Eagle Express Stage) – Ron Yarosz & the Vehicle
The Vehicle is a tough little blues band out of Erie, and Ron does yeoman's work on a variety of instruments. They were finalists at this year's International Blues Challenge for the Blues Society of Western Pa. Here's a video of them in the competition:
5:15 pm – (Main Stage) – Shawn Kellerman
Kellerman is a hard-driving blues, blues-rock guitarist who seems to have a reputation for leaving his audiences drenched in sweat.
6:45 pm – (Main Stage) – Curtis Salgado
Salgado is a very, very fine harp player and singer, moving around easily in the overlapping worlds of soul, R&B and blues. An even more amazing blues story: He's coming off a liver transplant a couple years ago that had him about as far down as the blues can go.
8:30 pm – (Main Stage) – Los Lobos
Los Lobos is, very simply, one of the greatest bands going, and going for nearly 40 years. They play it all, from Tex-Mex to blues and back. Are they a blues band? Not really. Will they give blues fest fans their money's worth? Most likely.
Posted
Jul 22 2009, 01:00 AM
by
Jim White