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International touring vocalist and harmonica player Brandon Santini is a 7-time Blues Music Award nominee and Blues Blast Music Award winner. Raised in the Piedmont region of North Carolina, he later moved to Memphis where he absorbed the sounds and culture of the Delta and Mississippi Hill Country. He is endorsed by Hohner Harmonicas.
Melbourne, Australia-based piano virtuoso Damon Smith self-released his debut blues album, 'Skeletons Skeletons Skeletons,' on June 17, 2022. After debuting on the Australian Blues & Roots Airplay Chart at #2, it remained on the chart for a total of three months. Additionally, the album was nominated for Best Blues Work in the Music Victoria Awards (previously known as the Age Music Awards) and was awarded a Silver Medal for Outstanding Achievement from the Global Music Awards.
A finalist in the solo/duo category of the 2017 International Blues Challenge and two-time semi-finalist (2018, 2020), Ruth Wyand holds a degree in music theory and composition from Stockton University (New Jersey). She owns and operates her own music school in Kitty Hawk, NC, where she teaches guitar, voice, songwriting and music theory. Wyand has toured extensively throughout the US, Britain, New Zealand, Kuwait and France, and has won numerous awards for guitar and songwriting including the Gamble Rogers Fingerstyle Guitar Competition, the South Florida Folk Festival Songwriting Competition and the Hank Williams Songwriting Award.
In his 30-year career as both musician and producer, Ginty has worked with artists such as Santana and Citizen Cope, and is often seen guesting with jamband luminaries such as the Allman Brothers, Govt. Mule, Widesread Panic and more. A founding member of Robert Randolph and the Family Band, Ginty garnered two GRAMMY nominations during his time with the band. Ginty joined the Allman Betts Band in 2019, and recently completed an 18-date nationwide tour with the Allman Family Revival in December 2022.
Dustin Douglas & The Electric Gentlemen’s dynamic, heavy, swagger-
injected, sexy & dirty, blues-influenced rock n’ roll brings vintage sound and vibe to modern ears. The trio commands the stage with virtuosic musicianship and classic-rock spirit mixed with punk rock attitude that leaves even the most discerning music fans falling in love with their style at the end of any live show. A multi Steamtown Music Award nominee and two-time winner (Blues Artist of the Year, Album of the Year), the band has also been nominated for Blues/Rock Song of the Year in the Independent Blues Awards, and is a two-time nominee for Central PA Music Hall of Fame’s Blues Rock Band of the Year.
Two-time International Blues Challenge semi-finalists, Rochelle & The Sidewinders is an award-winning, high-energy blues rock band based in Austin, Texas and fronted by the dynamic and striking Rochelle Creone, “The Texas Songbird.” Their third album and MoMojo Records debut, 3rd Time's a Charm, was named one the of the best albums of 2022 by AustinBluesRadio.net. Blues Blast Magazine reviewer John Mitchell observes, “On the basis of this album it is not hard to see why the band holds down regular gigs on the highly competitive Austin scene.” The band also received a bronze medal from the Global Music Awards for their song, “My Baby Came Back.”
2012 Pennsylvania Blues Hall of Fame inductee Scott Weis, a northern New Jersey native, learned from the best during his early years working at the legendary House of Music to earn studio time with Charlie Conrad. Throughout the '80s and '90s, he worked as a touring guitarist for over 300 bands before ultimately creating his own group, the Scott Weis Band, in 2005. Weis has released six full-length albums and continues to collaborate with other musicians and sounds for future projects. Soul Krewe members are Andy Pace, drums (C&C Music Factory, Gary US Bonds, Taylor Dane, Kim Simmonds and more) and Todd Lanka, bass.
Doug Oscard, drummer and founding member of The Drifter Kings, boasts a musical pedigree which includes years of full-time work in New York City, playing on many national commercials, Broadway, off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway shows. He has toured the US with esteemed acts including Luther Allison, Johnny Winter, Big Bill Morganfield, Bo Diddley, Gary US Bonds, Johnny Rivers, Little Anthony (The Imperials) and many more. Bassist and vocalist Tony Harp has been playing for twenty-five years, working with numerous well-known artists, including Kenny Neal and Steve Amedee of the Subdudes. The newest member of the Drifter Kings, guitarist and vocalist John Simon has toured the US playing guitar in the Army Band. A fixture on the Dayton music scene for the past 10 years, he has opened for the comedian Robin Williams, country artist Travis Tritt, rocker Ted Nugent, and more. His style reflects the many influences of Americana music.
Born in Elgin, Texas on July 18, 1944, Jabo's early years were spent exploring the streets of Austin's East Side while his mama managed a beer joint. It was listening to the 45's from the jukebox at the beer joint that ultimately inspired Jabo's blues pursuits. "The blues just came out of me," he says. During that time, his mother bought him his first drum kit and he got a gig playing drums for T.D. Bell, one of the best in the Austin blues scene. In addition to drums, Jabo picked up the bass and learned to play it on the job. His first band, Chef Houston and the Cooks, started playing at Cheatham Street. Later, his band name changed to "The Ol' Dogs," a name that he proudly carries today. Over the years, he played bass for T.D. Bell, Hosea Hargrove, Blues Boy Hubbard and GRAMMY winner Pinetop Perkins, who loved the authentic old style he played. Five years ago, back surgery put Jabo in a wheelchair, and today he plays organ in the band, saving his bass playing for the lesser physical demands of a church gig on Sundays.
New Orleans native Beverly Conklin (BC) began playing the piano by ear at age 3, leading to 13 years of classical training throughout high school. Upon completion of graduate school at Penn State, she moved to Allentown, PA and was asked to front a blues band, which she named BC & The Blues Crew (now The BC Combo). Conklin's musical inspirations are extremely diverse, encompassing Classical, R&B, Soul, Blues, Rock, Country and more. In 1998, BC & the Blues Crew advanced to the International Blues Challenge finals in Memphis, TN, a first for a band representing the Billtown Blues Association (Hughesville, PA) to receive this honor. In 2010, Conklin was very honored to be asked to fill-in for lead singer Mary Dunbar and returned to Memphis to compete with Friar's Point Band in the International Blues Challenge. While there, they recorded LIVE From Sun Studio, the band's second album. Among her many contributions to her local blues scene, Conklin founded the Woman's Blues Alliance and the Lehigh River Blues Jam.
Paddy Smith began exploring the harmonica at a young age before performing in talent shows and refining his skills beginning at the age of 15. His mother's free tickets to a Rolling Stones concert at Slane Castle, received during a chance encounter with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards in a Dublin pub, provided Smith with his first chance to see a live band. Although the Stones gave a great performance, it was opening act George Thorogood that stole the show for Smith, and his love of blues was born. After performing in venues across Ireland and ultimately moving to the US and performing in Chicago and California, Smith returned to his homeland, where he lives and plays the blues both onstage and off.
