The Performers

Mary Bridget Davies

Headlining the Bluewater Blues Festival at 9:00 p.m., coming to us from Kansas City, is the Mary Bridget Davis Group

Mary has been honored many times for her talents and performed many a venue. Most recently in 2010, she toured the USA, Canada, and Europe fronting for Big Brother and the Holding Company. Also in 2010, she won the Kansas City Blues Challenge and placed 2nd at the 2011 International Blues Challenge at the Orpheum Theater in Memphis, Tennessee.

No doubt you'll be reminded of the likes of Janis Joplin, Etta James, Aretha Franklin and Chakra Kahn, but you'll definitely notice she also has an element all her own. Mary has shared the stage with groups like Big Brother and the Holding Company, Jefferson Airplane, Leon Russell, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, Bobby Rush, Huey Lewis and the News, W.C. Clark, Renee Austin, Walter Trout, Delbert McClinton and the list goes on.

Links

www.marybridgetdavies.com

SolFedJoe

"...Get out yer seat and shake it contagious..." is what the Colorado Blues Society said about SOL~FED~JOE's first release in 2000. Since that time, the band has performed hundreds shows around the rocky mountain and midwest regions.

Mixing original material ranging from sultry, jazzy blues to soulful funk/r&b and rockabilly - and only the hippest, coolest non-cliché covers, they’ve developed an authentic, yet uniquely fresh style that Denver fans have termed the Sol Fed sound.

With a new cd set for release this spring, the band sees 2011 as a pivotal year for the band. The initial buzz is exciting; with recent and upcoming performances at local blues festivals including an invitation to perform at the Bluewater Rhythm & Blues Festival in Lewellen, NE this Labor Day weekend.

Links
www.SolFedJoe

Lionel Young

Denver, Colorado

Violin meets the Blues. Winner of the 2008 International Blues Challenge (IBC) in Memphis, TN for solo performer, Lionel Young has won numerous other awards including: The Young Artist Award -Pittsburgh Symphony, and Westword's Best of Denver 1989 for his band the Last Fair Deal. In 1992 he won a position with the Denver Chamber Orchestra and premiered a solo piece by William Hill. Lionel also won another award for Best Blues Band in Westword's Best of Denver in 1996 and 1997 for his current incarnation - The Lionel Young Band. Releasing their first CD - As the Sun Goes Down - in December 1997, the disc has received excellent reviews regionally & nationally. Lionel has played in concerts with Count Basie, Stevie Wonder, Jimmy Paige/Robert Plant, James Taylor, Doc Severenson, Linda Ronstadt, Living Color, Billy Taylor, Woodie Herman, Stanley Turrentine, Homesick James, Homer Brown, Hamlet Bluiett, Chief Bae, and Johnny Long. If world class and refined are keywords in your opinion – The Lionel Young Band has the Midas touch.

Links
http://www.road-dawg.com/talent_Lionel_Young.html