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Thursday July 29 & Friday 30th
Lucky Peterson 8PM & 10PM   $20
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As a child prodigy, Lucky was somewhat of a novelty act. Now he is a true blues veteran. Over the last three decades, Lucky has played to audiences all over the world, dazzling both fans and critics with his multi-instrumental talents (he plays keyboards, guitar, bass, drums and trumpet), his soulful vocal style and his youthful approach to the blues.

Saturday July 31
The Delgado Brothers 8PM & 10PM   $20
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The Delgado Brothers are one of the best-kept secrets in L.A. In the 15 years since the much-lauded release of their debut on High Tone, periodic sightings have been reported with exhuberant approval by fans and respectful colleagues, and the band has developed a rep for giving shows that are like spontaneous musical parties.

Wednesday August 4
Elvin Bishop 8PM & 10PM   $35
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Bishop is a slide guitar great with 45-years of blues under his belt. Rolling Stone has praised his "careening slide and razor-edged bursts, all delivered with unflagging enthusiasm and wit. “The Blues Rolls On” is another defining moment in Bishop’s long career and a welcome reminder that the blues is still alive and well.

Thursday August 5
Steve Lucky & The Rhumba Bums 8PM & 10PM   $15
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Led by the jumping swing-blues piano of Steve Lucky, Steve Lucky and the Rhumba Bums are one of the few new-swing acts to re-invent the genre while also staying true to the past. Teaming up with talented Miss Carmen Getit, the chemistry is hot enough to melt metal, which brings the excitement level that much higher.

Friday August 6
Todd Morgan 8PM & 10PM   $20
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Todd Morgan and the Emblems are a four piece Rock & Roll band, lead by singer/songwriter/pianist Todd Morgan. The band's sound is influenced by nearly every faction of American popular music, but with an emphasis on the 50's/60's sound, mixed with modern pop/rock, and 20's/30's Jazz, without excluding anything in between!

Saturday August 7
Gino Matteo 8PM & 10PM   $20
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Perhaps it's his vibrato and time-warping note bending that draws them in - it's certainly worth watching him throw his stocky frame, body and soul into passionate storytelling. Now's your chance to catch this eclectic axeman and his "urban blues."
Chris Gill of Guitar World Magazine described Gino's performance at the 2006 Guitar Center national finals of “The King of the Blues” competition as follows : "...impressed in seconds with his huge tone and B.B. worthy vibrato and note bends. Wearing a slick suit, this sharp dressed man led the band through a swinging uptown performance, dropping to his knees to wrench every last drop of emotion from his Epiphone."

Sunday August 8
Zac Harmon 8PM & 10PM   $15
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In appearance, Zac Harmon could be mistaken for a preacher. His love of gospel and the way he plays gospel songs is proof of how much time he has spent in church. However, the gospel Harmon is preaching around the world is that of the blues. In many ways, it is not so far fetched to call him a preacher.

Monday August 9
Tuesday August 10
Michael Burks 8PM & 10PM   $20
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The unstoppable, heartfelt intensity that Michael brings to the stage lies at the very core of his appeal. Dedicated fans around the country and in Europe, Australia and South America already know and appreciate the sweat, passion and intensity he pours out each night. A constant string of performances at premier festivals and clubs continues to add even more word-of-mouth fuel to the fire. Burks’ deep, soul-infused music and undeniable charisma make him an overwhelming force in the blues. The music on the new CD – forged by his unquestionable talent and fueled by the experience of years on the road – proves that electric guitar blues is alive and well in the skillful hands of the Iron Man, Michael Burks.

Thursday August 12
Laurie Morvan Band 8PM & 10PM   $15
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Laurie Morvan, according to a Southland Blues Magazine Article: "Few Blues Guitarists pour as much energy into their performance...she brought the house down...one fiery burst of rock-solid Blues fireworks after another." With so much emphasis on chops these days, however, Morvan cautions against losing sight of the importance of playing with taste, and telling a story within a solo, which is exactly what she does with her blistering rock blues chops.

Friday August 13
Rod Piazza and The Mighty Flyers    8pm & 10pm      $22
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The blues of Rod and Honey Piazza is universal. Sure, we call it Chicago blues, but their magic formula has spread all over the world. He sings and plays a mean harp, while Honey drives hard with a boogie-woogie piano attack that brings on a party all night long.

Saturday August 14
Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers     8PM & 10PM    $20
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Lavay Smith is internationally recognized as The Queen of classic Jazz & Blues in the authentic style of the 1940's and 1950's. Lavay's last album received a prestigious 4 & 1/2 Star review in Downbeat magazine and reached the top 10 on the National Billboard Jazz Charts. This is one of San Francisco’s favorite swing and jump blues band.

Sunday August 15
Nick Moss & the Flip Tops  8pm & 10pm  $18
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"... his approach to this music makes him arguably the most exciting young blues player on the scene today ... It's a combination of talents that allows the best bands to transcend their genres, and that's they key to Nick Moss & the Flip Tops' appeal. They play with fire and fury but also with control, constructing a brilliant set that never gets boring."
- Blues Revue Magazine

Tuesday August 17
Fat Tuesday Band  8pm & 10pm  $15
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The FTB presents the great funky vibe of New Orleans’ best music from groups like The Meters, The Neville Brothers, Fats Domino, Rebirth Brass Band, Satchmo, and Professor Longhair. The Fat Tuesday Band also features a series of exciting guest musicians including; New Orleans piano man Randy Craig, and soul singer Edna Love among others.

Wednesday August 18
Craig Horton    8pm & 10pm  $15
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Craig Horton is an Oakland-based, celebrated blues guitarist. Voted Best Blues Guitarist by the Bay Area Blues Society, it was noted that he’s also a very talented musician and singer, and a great band leader. Tom Mazzolini, producer of the San Francisco Blues Fest, reported after last year’s event that, “Craig Horton gave one of the most memorable sets that had people talking. It was impressive and it was deep mountain high! The real thing!”

Thursday August 19
Bill Ortiz 8PM & 10PM   $15
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Bill Ortiz, a legendary name synonymous to San Francisco’s music scene, announces the release of his debut CD, From Where I Stand, July 14, 2009. Bill’s sweet full tone, and clear, distinctive and assertive style has made this San Francisco native one of the most in-demand trumpet players on the Bay Area Music Scene, as well as the entire west coast, for the past 25-years.
Bill states, "I consider myself a jazz musician, but I'm not a purist at all, as my musical upbringing contains a wide variety of musical styles, including Latin, African, and Rhythm and Blues/Soul and Blues. My musical voice in From Where I Stand reflects all of those elements of who I am as a musician and a person. Music is not only what I do, music is who I am."

Friday August 20
Johnny Rawls 8PM & 10PM   $20
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Johnny Rawls was born in Columbia, Mississippi in 1951 and raised in Purvis and Gulfport, Mississippi.  He acquired an early interest in music when hearing his grandfather play the blues guitar one Christmas morning.  He began playing professionally while still in high school with such stars as ZZ Hill, Little Johnny Taylor, Joe Tex and the Sweet Inspirations.  In the mid-70's, Johnny went to work for OV Wright as Wright's band director.  After Wright's death in 1980, Johnny led Little Johnny Taylor's band until 1985, when he began touring as a solo artist and made his first solo recording under the Rainbow label.

Saturday August 21
Chris Cain Band    8pm & 10pm  $20
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Chris Cain's jazz-tinged, blues-soaked guitar, and deep, warm vocals have the maturity and authenticity of bluesmen many years his senior. His expressive style is the result of a lifetime of study and the relentless pursuit of music mastery. His passion and intensity are a blend of his mother's Greek ancestry and his father's soulful black heritage. 

Tuesday August 24
Alvon   8pm & 10pm  $15
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Alvon Johnson is the winner of the 2005 Guitar Player of the Year Award and former member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame vocal group, The Coasters. His rich voice helped to recreate all the wonderful and familiar songs such as, Charlie Brown, Yakety Yak, and Poison Ivy. Alvon is a versatile, multi-talented blues entertainer with years of experience on stage.

Wednesday August 25
Rolando Morales   8pm & 10pm  $15
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"Passionate."  "Sophisticated."  "Powerful." 
These are just some of the words critics have used to describe Rolando Morales’ unique blend of Latin jazz, flamenco, samba and Afro Cuban grooves. Rolando's stellar abilities on the Spanish and synthesizer guitars have attracted the very best to perform with him, including musicians who played or recorded with Tito Puente, Lauryn Hill, Airto, Dizzy Gillespie, Tower of Power, Santana, Spearhead, Stevie Wonder and Rubén Blades. 
Rolando, living in the San Francisco Bay Area, has performed throughout Spain, England, Italy, Ireland, Mexico and Hawaii. His diverse talents span the musical spectrum. His driving Latin grooves are infused with an exciting rock/funk edge. 
Prepare to be moved by this artist's captivating sound and energy.
 "Morales turned his guitar into a relentless explorer of the rhythms and melodies of the Americas.”

Thursday August 26
Jason King Band  8pm & 10pm  $15
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Led by Jason King Roxas on lead guitar and vocals, the Jason King Band deals only in the heartiest of blues. Backed by the talents of Tommy Stiles (guitar, lap slide, pedal steel), Wilbert Banks (Bass) and Michael Patrick Moore (drums), the Jason King Band is a focused, power-packed blues quartet determined to make you move. Jason’s guitar is an extension of his soul. He only approaches song writing with his six-string partner strapped over his shoulder. He crafts his melodic songs from his extensive musical past. Jason’s influences, ranging from the Allman Brothers to Zeppelin, provide the color in all of the band’s memorable songs.

Friday August 27
Cafe R&B   8pm & 10pm  $22
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The blues-based, hard-rocking Los Angeles band Cafe R&B is fronted by Roach, who sings rock and blues with great force. Belting out hard rocking blues, the diminutive Roach, with a voice the size of Mt. St. Helens, fronts the band with a self-assured confidence born of ability. Roach's guitarist husband, Byl Carruthers, is a fret board master and is also considered a blues expert. Along with the rest of the band, they grind out a gritty, sexy mix of blues, R&B and soul.

Saturday August 28
Earl Thomas & The Blues Ambassadors    8pm & 10pm  $22
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Earl Thomas has tapped into the spirit that created the classic R&B/soul sound. Not only is the production free of almost all contemporary flourishes but the songwriting and playing -- especially the horn section -- is so authentic you'll be checking the credits for the recording date. The singer's voice –emotive, smooth but gutsy -- nails these tracks, but he never hogs the show or the arrangements, which are crisp and tight.

Monday August 30
Eden Brent Trio     8pm & 10pm  $18
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Eden Brent's piano playing and singing style ranges from a melancholic whisper to a full-blown juke joint holler. She's simultaneously confident and confiding, ably blending an earthy meld of jazz, blues, soul, and pop as she huskily invites listeners into her lazy, lush world.

Tuesday August 31
Fat Tuesday Band     8pm & 10pm  $15
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The FTB presents the great funky vibe of New Orleans’ best music from groups like The Meters, The Neville Brothers, Fats Domino, Rebirth Brass Band, Satchmo, and Professor Longhair. The Fat Tuesday Band also features a series of exciting guest musicians including; New Orleans piano man Randy Craig, and soul singer Edna Love among others.

Saturday September 4
Walter Trout 8PM & 10PM   $22
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It's where Trout's compelling music resides — in a territory that unites the worlds of blues, rock and pure sonic adventurism, where inspiration and technique meet to create a unique, soulful language. In a sense, the title also describes Trout's personal geography. Although he lives in California, he spends much of his life on the road bridging the U.S and Europe, where he's so well-known and respected that the United Kingdom's BBC Radio One placed the Stratocaster master at number six on their list of the Top 20 guitarists of all time. Legendary BBC disc jockey, Bob Harris, in his book "The Whispering Years" calls Trout: "The world's greatest rock guitarist." (p. 186)

Sunday September 5
Otis Taylor 8PM & 10PM   $18
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It’s the ideal project for the architect of a sparse and hypnotic style that has come to be known as “trance blues.” Taylor has spent his career crafting songs that are wide open to interpretation — thematically as well as structurally. “I give people a starting point, and then they can take it where they want to take it,” he explains. “That’s true for the people playing my music as well as the people listening to it. That’s how art should be. A person looking at a painting should be able to interpret it in whatever way he wants. The more words you put into a song, the less freedom the listener has to decide what it means...”

Thursday September 9
John Nemeth 8PM & 10PM   $18
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John Németh is a rising blues star; a singer steeped in the tradition and reminiscent of B.B. King, Ray Charles and Junior Parker, and a harmonica player of riveting intensity and virtuosity. His decade long career has found him opening for Robert Cray, Keb Mo', and Earl Thomas.

Friday September 10
Kevin Russell 8PM & 10PM   $20
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Kevin is a contemporary artist known in hip musical circles and by fans worldwide.   He is a provocative player whether you listen to him playing smooth jazz, soul, rhythm and blues or burning rock guitar.  His versatility and daring spirit are always apparent in his playing.  Kevin has been a well respected player for many years by innovators in the music industry and fans alike.  Kevin has always believed you must grow musically and continue to strive forward and always remember the best is yet to come.  He will continue to develop new ideas musically and touch audiences worldwide.

Saturday September 11
Charlie Musselwhite 8PM & 10PM   $35
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It's Charlie's mix of wild country abandon seasoned by years of playing urban electric blues in Chicago that spurs the likes of Ben Harper, Tom Waits and Gov't Mule to welcome Musselwhite onto their stages and records. That same brash, blues/rock rebel vibe was Dan Aykroyd's inspiration for his Elwood Blues persona, and it's what has won Musselwhite a pile of blues awards and earned the admiration and respect of his own heroes: Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters. John Lee was even the best man at Charlie's wedding.

Wednesday September 15
Opening Night of the 35th Annual San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competetion
8PM  $20
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Harkening back to when our space was once an Improv Comedy Club,
Biscuits and Blues will be hosting opening night of the 35th Annual
San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition on Wednesday, 9/15. Sixteen
very promising comedians from around the country, chosen from
hundreds of applicants by producers Anne and Jon Fox, will be on hand
to each offer up their very best five to seven minute routine. The
show will kick off 23 performances throughout northern California
over a four-week period with the contestants vying for $25,000 in
prize money.
Alumni of this famous event include Dana Carvey, Louis C.K., Ellen
DeGeneres, Patton Oswalt, Sinbad and Robin Williams, to name just a
few. Judges will score each act in the areas of material, delivery,
stage presence, technique, audience rapport and their own gut feeling
about who they're watching. The audience will also play an important
role as ist applause will determine if an act is worthy of receiving
a very important extra "encore" point. Further information can be
obtained at sanfranciscocomedycompetition.com

Thursday September 16
Bobby Radcliff Trio 8PM & 10PM   $15
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"Bobby doesn't just perform the blues. He's possessed by them. He plays so angry and sings so hurt, it's like a catharsis - maybe even an exorcism - for both him and the audience... Be glad he's on your side. He's fierce all right, but he won't attack you; he'll drive away your demons. If, on the other hand, you fancy yourself a guitar player... be afraid. Be very afraid."
Steve Hoffmann for WDCU-FM, Washington, DC 
"Unencumbered by style restrictions, Radcliff brings a sense of intensity and conviction, both instrumentally and vocally (the latter being an area where many 90s interpreters fall face down) that puts his, and this, live performance into a very special league of its own."
Dave Hussong for "Vintage Guitar" magazine

Wednesday September 22
Joanne Shaw Taylor 8PM & 10PM   $15
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Friday September 24
Shane Dwight 8PM & 10PM   $20
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Shane Dwight is a charismatic and supremely talented guitarist, soulful vocalist, prolific songwriter and one of the brightest young up-and-coming stars on the rock/blues scene today. In the last two years, the Shane Dwight Band has been catapulted to the forefront of the West Coast Blues Scene.

Friday October 8
The Nighthawks 8PM & 10PM   $20
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Over the last 30+ years, The Nighthawks have earned a reputation as one of the best and hardest working bands around. They have gotten their widest acclaim for being one of the first and best white boy blues bands of their generation, and for putting on a great live show. But their acclaim and accomplishments go far beyond that. The Nighthawks have released over 20 albums and have toured the U.S., Canada, Europe and Japan. They have played over 200 shows a year for 20 of their years together. They continue to tour actively and put on an energetic live show that has featured the same lineup since 1995—Mark Wenner (vocals/harp), Pete Kanaras (guitar), Jan Zukowski (bass) and Pete Ragusa (drums)

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