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Silver Spring Town Center, Inc.
Presents
 
The First Annual
Silver Spring Blues Festival
at Downtown Silver Spring
 
Saturday May 9, 2009

from 2 pm to 6 pm
 
For Festival photos visit

 For Slide Show visit

http://tinyurl.com/qphgaa

featuring

Memphis Gold

with Charlie Sayles and Black Betty

 

Capital Blues Ensemble

The DC Blues Society Band

Three Chords and the Truth

Jonny Grave

 
On the Stage*
 
2:00-2:20pm
Three Chords and the Truth -- student-led Delta blues band
 
2:25-2:55pm 
Jonny Grave -- acoustic blues from the Heartland, steeped in the traditions of R.L. Burnside, Fred McDowell and others.

3:05-3:50pm 
Capital Blues Ensemble - winners of the DCBS Festival Competition -- they take the blues, some R&B, and add a bit of a swing jazz finesse for a  foot-stomping, blues-based dance show!
 
4:00-4:50pm
DC Blues Society Band -  DCBS brings you one of the area’s hottest, funkiest, most entertaining bands to grow out of the local blues scene!
 
5:00-6:00pm
Memphis Gold - deep Memphis blues -- currently featured on the cover of Living Blues Magazine, America's oldest and most authoritative blues magazine.

* Schedule Subject to Change
 

Under the Big Top Tent  2pm - 6pm

DCBS Musical Petting Zoo brought to you by Dr. S.O. Feelgood and Dale Music, Face Painting, Stokey the Clown, and more.

 

  • The Silver Spring Town Center, Inc, in partnership with the DC Blues Society, Three Keys Music, Montgomery College, the Silver Spring Voice, the Silver Spring Penguin, PFA Silver Spring LLC, and the Silver Spring Regional Services Center  presents an afternoon of blues music by some of the area's most popular bands.
  • The free one-day event will feature international and regional blues stars playing acoustic and electric blues. Among the festival activities will be crafts, face painting, magicians, clowns, and a musical petting zoo. 
  • Silver Spring acoustic blues guitarist, Jonny Grave, will perform on the stage near the Silver Fountain on Ellsworth Drive along with Three Chords and the Truth, an exciting youth blues band.
  • The exciting electric blues line up includes international blues sensation "Memphis Gold," the DC Blues Society Band, and the Capital Blues Ensemble, winners of the 2009 DCBS Festival Audition competition. 

 

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Jonny Grave
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 Visit our partners online

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 Silver Spring Regional Services Center

 

See Silver Spring Blues Festival photos here!