Cherry Lee Mewis
The Academy Buckley – 26 Mar 2010
Ironworks, Oswestry – 27 Mar 2010
When you think of blues, you don’t tend to think 5 foot nothing brunette women. From Wales. Who are 24 years old. And very attractive. With a powerful, soulful voice and model looks, Cherry Lee Mewis is the perfect candidate to be an X Factor winner, but she has eschewed such gratuitous commerciality in favour of playing and writing the kind of real music that makes her tick. The blues.
And in doing so she has managed to turn roots and blues music into a cool swinging fusion that is both classic and yet contemporary. Her music is a heady mix is a heady mix of foot-stomping barnburners to bluesy slow-cooked rockers with even a spoonful of jazzy shuffle all helping to secure Cherry Lee Mewis place as one of the rising stars on the UK blues and roots music scene.
Whilst packed with great original blues numbers, Cherry’s sets also feature new arrangements of many classic blues numbers that are red hot and smoking, proving not to be just an echo of their original raw originators. The soft and sultry vocal delivery on Travellin’ Light, the rockin’ All You Need and wonderful swing-blues of Shake That Thing all showcase those signature Cherry growls and tender vibratos.
So while Cherry is something new and exciting in the world of Blues, she is also very much focused on what makes blues so fascinating and capturing its rawness and its this dichotomy that makes her such a fascinating artist to see.
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Published on
Tuesday 27 October 2009 in
Gigs.
Tags: Anglesey, Bangor, birkenhead, blues, cheshire, club, gig, Harlech, lancashire, live, Menai, merseyside, north wales, oswestry, poulton-le-fylde, poynton, shropshire, venue, wirral.
A mammoth tour as ever for Catfish Keith. Here are the ones in Northwest England and North Wales.
October 28th – Bluefunk, Poynton
October 31st – Community Hall, Poulton-le-Fylde, nr. Blackpool
2nd November – Victoria Hotel, Menai Bridge, Anglesea
3rd November – Guitar workshop, Menai Bridge, Anglesea
4th November – Theatr Harlech, Harlech
5th November – The Ironworks, Oswestry
17th November – Pacific Road, Birkenhead (part of the International Guitar Festival of Great Britain)
21st November – Powis Hall, Bangor University, Bangor
Full details at www.catfishkeith.com
EARL GAINES – OCTOBER 15th £10/£8 adv
Grammy Award winning soul/blues singer from Nashville EARL GAINES (Grammy Award winner 2005)
Notwithstanding its reputation as the home of country music, Nashville also has a powerful tradition of blues and soul – represented no more strongly than in the figure of Earl Gaines. As lead singer with Louis Brooks and His Hi-Toppers, Earl had a number two Billboard hit in 1952 with “24 Hours A Day”, a song which has become a standard of the blues repertoire.
Grammy-winning Nashville Blues Man EARL GAINES, with The Catfish Kings.
Not many people truly deserve the title ‘legendary’, but Earl Gaines has to be one of them; he beat Johnny Cash to a Grammy in 2004 in the Best Historical Record category.
“Earl might be 73 years old but he sounds as good as ever” said British-based soul magazine In The Basement about Earl’s 2008 CD ‘Nothing But The Blues’. Come and see for yourself on a jumping night of Southern Soul and Blues presented by The Catfish Kings. Book now to avoid disappointment.
Published on
Monday 10 August 2009 in
Gigs.
Tags: blues, cheshire, club, colne, crewe, gig, lancashire, live, oswestry, shrewsbury, shropshire, venue.
Aug. 21st 2009 The Old Post Office, Shrewsbury SY1 1SZ
Aug. 28th 2009 The Great British R&B Festival, Colne, Lancashire. 10pm.
Aug. 29th 2009 The Two Henrys, Beer and Blues Festival, Shrewsbury. SY4 3EQ.
Sep. 11th 2009 The Ironworks, Oswestry. Tickets £5.
Sep. 26th 2009 The Vine, Shavington, Crewe, CW2 5DT
Oct. 2nd 2009 The Old Post Office, Shrewsbury SY1 1SZ
http://rhythm-zoo.com
The Cadillac Kings
Live show and live CD recording session
Fri 22 May – The Ironworks, Oswestry
This is an open invitation to all bluesinthenorthwest.com readers to attend the upcoming concert and recording session for the Cadillac Kings at that lovely venue The Ironworks in downtown Oswestry.
‘33′ Records will be releasing a live album from the upcoming show.
In the words of lead Cadillac Mike “Come on down and have a little raucousness immortalised on CD”.
The attached flyer allows for free admission to the gig. Please print and take it to the venue on the night.
Music-wise, on the night,the lads are hoping to record a bunch of favourite covers which haven’t appeared on any of the CDs plus quite a few new numbers which should give them a whole album’s worth of previously unrecorded material.
http://www.myspace.com/thecadillackings
http://www.the-ironworks.co.uk/
http://www.33jazz.com/wm33jazz.htm
DOWNLOAD THE FLYER FROM HERE. FLYER GUARANTEES FREE ADMISSION.
THE MUSTANGS
Friday 20th February 9pm live at The Ironworks, Oswestry
The new album from The MUSTANGS, regarded by many as the UK’s most exciting blues rock band, has been released.
Entitled NOTHING STAYS THE SAME, the album is The Band’s second release under BLUESMATTERS, the UK’s biggest dedicated blues label.
NOTHING STAYS THE SAME has 13 brand new, original Mustangs songs, showcasing The Band’s ability to mix a range of blues inspired styles on one album, yet maintain a sound and voice that is all their own.
THE MUSTANGS’ unique brand of blues rock is cut from a different stone than other blues bands: combining the edge and tight punch of traditional r’n’b with a more melodic and lyrical slant, the four-piece Hampshire based band sounds like no other.
“Entertainment, quality of musicianship and songwriting craft – The Mustangs are a band that can get a crowd up on their feet or enthrall a sitting audience and that is a great combination to have in your musical armoury”…..Blues Matters
Performing a selection of blues tunes it’s easy to see why they were voted best band of the year in respected music magazine GigBase.Frontman Adam Norsworthy draws his charismatic voice from some dark corner of his soul, and presumably rips his dynamic guitar mayhem from the same scary place” ……… Blues Matters
http://www.themustangs.co.uk/
Here’s your last chance to see Catfish Keith in this region on the current tour.
Catfish Keith plays The Ironworks, Oswestry on 05 Nov 2008. £6.
Catfish Keith truly is a superb blues guitarist, with performances that are comfortable, compelling and entertaining.
“Breaking new ground for Blues, Catfish Keith is a solo revelation” …..The Guardian
http://www.the-ironworks.co.uk/
Flickr photo by charlesholley67.
One of the finest blues outfits in the UK will be making a rare trip up north this Friday. It’s the first time north of Birmingham with the new regular line-up featuring Mal Barclay on guitar (wait til you hear THIS guy!!!) plus the 23 year old boogie-woogie sensation that is Henri Herbert on piano, (the fire brigade in Monaghan, Ireland is still damping down the flames on the pianos he played at the Harvest Time Blues Fest two weeks ago).
The Cadillac Kings – The Ironworks, Oswestry – Friday 26th September.
£5 on the door or £4 in adv.
http://www.the-ironworks.co.uk/
http://www.myspace.com/thecadillackings
Just a reminder to all the Doug MacLeod fans in the area that he is appearing at Number 35, the superb bistro/ wine bar in Willow Street, Oswestry on thursday 18th September. Pay on the door for a 9pm start or get down earlier and enjoy a pre-gig meal. Tickets are £8 and can be reserved by ringing 01691 661114.
This Thursday sees another outing for the individual talents of Tommy Allen and Johny Hewitt playing together as a phenomenal blues duo.
I saw them for the first time at the Worthenbury Festival this year and I thought that they were great.
They will be at 35 in Oswestry next Thursday.
Apart from Benny Gallagher in Worthenbury on Friday, there are a couple more gigs of interest in the south of the area.
On Thursday 08 May, Karac appear at No 35 in Willow Street, Oswestry. Doors 8pm, on stage 9pm – £5 on the door
On Saturday 10 May at The Goulbourne, Borras Park, Wrexham, The Blues Missiles with Tommy Allen – no charge.
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