Keyboardist Lulu Phillips plays in blues bands, David Bowie tribute
Versatility is an important trait to any successful musician. The more styles and genres a player can play, the more opportunities will open up. South shore keyboard player Lulu Phillips is certainly well versed in many styles. Phillips can be seen playing her keyboards in the Lickity Split blues band or working her synthesizers in […]
Mr. Nick discusses his Dirty Tricks, career; shares insight into blues scene
Mr. Nick of the blues band The Dirty Tricks and formerly of the Blues Mafia recently checked in to discuss his band’s upcoming CD. The singer/harmonica player also discussed his career to this point, including why he folded the seven year old Blues Mafia. When asked how the new album was coming along, Mr. Nick […]
Delta Generators are on a roll
Delta Generators just released a CD and it is already in a top ten competition held by the Blues Foundation. The four-piece has been racking up such recognition in the Boston area blues scene since winning the Boston Blues Society’s Blues Challenge in August 2008, after the band had only been together a year. Delta […]
Storied local guitarist Erick Preston restarts 25 year old Hendrix tribute show
Roll over Rover, and let Erick Preston take over. Preston is a guitar slinger with 180,000 fans worldwide. Among his many accomplishments over the last 45 years, his biggest may be his Purple Haze show, a tribute to the music of Jimi Hendrix. Preston fronts his Jimi Hendrix tribute band with backing from state of […]
Monster guitar player Dan Lawson rocks South Shore, the nation
Powerhouse guitar player Dan Lawson has been a popular road musician across the United States for many years. Although he is still not that well known in the greater-Boston area where he resides, he has been a fixture on the national music festival circuit for quite some time, having shared the stage with everyone from […]
Jen Kearney; still funking, writing new songs
For five solid years, Jen Kearney has been funking up the greater-Boston music scene with her keyboard driven sexy soul music. Kearney recently moved into the city of Boston from Lowell after playing out from Lowell as her base. The Merrimac Valley are was very supportive of her. Early in her career in Lowell, there […]
Guitarist Brad Faucher takes This Is Soul Sunday to greater recognition
Guitarist, songwriter, arranger, and band leader Brad Faucher has been a fixture on the Boston music scene since he graduated from Merrimack College in 1994. Right now Faucher’s biggest thing is called This Is soul, a Sunday night event held every week at The Beehive on Tremont Street in Boston. Faucher has assembled a band […]
Professor Harp gears up for new CD; talks the blues
Hugh Holmes has gone by the title and moniker The Undaunted Professor Harp for many years. And with good reason. He knows his stuff well enough to get an honorary PhD and he isn’t afraid to try different things no matter how dire the circumstances. The Professor, who has made a name for himself […]
Rose Kula re-enters Manchester music scene
Rose Kula recently reentered the southern New Hampshire music scene after a long absence. She was recently featured at a Wan-Tu Blues Jam at Johnny Bad’s on Elm Street in the Queen city. Kula was invited by the Wan-Tu promoter because Wan-Tu was hosting a reunion of players who were associated with what is widely […]
Saxophonist Kat-Lee Newton; raised in New Hampshire, learned in New Orleans
Kat-Lee Newton has been kicking around the music circles of her native Dover, New Hampshire since moving back from New Orleans a few years ago. Her band Dixie Kats has been playing Kate O’Shea’s in Seabrook, New Hampshire this past summer. Newton plays sax and accordion for the two year old band. Surf, rockabilly, old […]
