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Boo’s, a new blues club inside Mr. B’s on
Main Street in downtown Royal Oak, has a new performance space that will be
hosted by a familiar face: blues musician and radio personality Mark
"Pazman" Pasman. who hosted the “Motor City Blues Project” on
WCSX-FM for 26 years before the station canceled the show in February.
Pazman will serve as Boo’s host and musical
director, booking the acts for the 100-person capacity room. Pazman kicks things off Saturday, Nov. 15 with a free Pazman's Supersession show.
Click here to see
music writer Gary Graff's story about the new club.
LADY SUNSHINE AND THE X BAND
The Southfield Public Library will feature Lady Sunshine and The X Band at
the next Jazz & Blues @ Your Library performance at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov.
19.
The band is a two-time winner of the Detroit
Blues Challenge; finished second at the International Blues Challenge in
Memphis, Tenn., in 2005; made it to the IBC semifinals in 2013; and has twice
been named best blues band in Washtenaw County by Current magazine.
General admission is $5 and there is no
admission charge for children under 12.
MARCIA BALL CELEBRATES NEW RELEASE
Texas-born, Louisiana-raised
pianist/vocalist/songwriter Marcia Ball celebrates the release of her new
Alligator Records CD, "The Tattooed Lady and the Alligator Man," with
a live performance on Nov. 22 at Callahan's Music Hall in Auburn Hills.
"The Tattooed Lady and the Alligator
Man" is her sixth release for the label. Four of her previous
five releases received Grammy Award nominations.
Ball received the 2012 Blues Music Award for
the Pinetop Perkins Piano Player Of The Year. She has received 42 BMA
nominations and has nine wins. She received a 2014 Living Blues Readers'
Poll Award for Most
Outstanding Musician (keyboard) and has seven
Living Blues Awards in all.
For info, click atcallahans.com.
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