Event Details
Date: Thursday, June 21, 2012
Start Time: 8:30 PM
Event Type: Special Events, Concerts
Last Updated: June 19, 2012
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Delta Grooves Dance PartyFeaturing Howell Devine Aaron Leese & The PanhandlersHowell DevineHowellDevine is an outstanding blue combo that features Joshua Howell on slide guitar/harmonica/vocals & Pete Devine (Jugtown Pirates/Gaucho) on drums. HowellDevine's songs are naturally played in a "gritty Mississippi" blues style, and cover tunes from Kokomo Arnold to Jimmy Reed...as well as playing their own originals! Joining them on upright bass will be Sam Rocha (Hot Le Jazz)Happily, they played together around SF for several months as a duo. Then in the fall, they recruited upright bassist Sam Rocha and recorded a CD titled 'Delta Grooves" as a trio. Soon, Sam went off to war to a (not so) foreign land. So enter current upright bassist Safa Shokrai. (Actually HowellDevine is a 3-deep upright bass group, with either Big Joe Kyle Jr. or Kenan O'brian subbing for Safa when he is off touring the world with Rupa & The April Fishes.) Since then, HowellDevine has been providing Northern California and The Bay Area with the kind of blues that makes folks whoop, holler and hump.....well, dance!Just recently elwood's (dan akroyd) nationally syndicated radio show "the blues mobile" has chosen a tune from the delta grooves record to be elwood's "blues breaker pick of the week!" not too shabby! Anyways, please stay tuned...there will be much more to come