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EOH Gets a Roomful of Blues

Sun, May 23, 2010

EOH Gets a Roomful of Blues

Roomful of Blues appears at Earlville Opera House Saturday, June 5 at 8 p.m. with their horn-powered blues in an eight-piece band.

Led by guitarist Chris Vachon, Roomful of Blues features new vocalist Phil Pemberton, who is backed up by upright bassist John Turner, drummer Ephraim Lowell, keyboardist Travis Colby, baritone and tenor saxophonist Mark Earley along with long-time member tenor and alto saxophonist Rich Lataille and trumpeter Doug Woolverton.

Roomful has earned multiple awards for their swinging 'jump blues'. Twice, the prestigious Down Beat International Critics Poll selected Roomful of Blues as Best Blues Band. Roomful's horn section has won The Blues Foundation's W.C. Handy Award for "Best Instrumentalist" three times and in 2004 won the prestigious W.C. Handy award for "Best Blues Band. Their recordings have received multiple Grammy nominations.

The band is touring in support of their latest Alligator CD, Raisin' A Ruckus.

General admission is $25 and $23 for EOH members and students are discounted to $20.  Premium seating in the first four rows is an added $5.

Source: EOH

 

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