Friday, March 18 @ 8:30PM Chateau Lacombe Ballroom

A NIGHT AT THE FILLMORE: Mark Hummel & Gary Vogensen

Opening act: Mbira Renaissance Band

Mark Hummel: Mark Hummel started playing harmonica in 1970 and is considered one of the premier blues players of his generation, He’s also released thirty plus recording since 1985, including the Grammy-nominated 2013 release Remembering Little Walter, Mark Hummel’s Blues Harmonica Blowout started in 1991 and has featured a number of major legends including John Mayall, Charlie Musselwhite, and James Cotton. Mark has been playing Edmonton regularly since 1987 and his most recent appearances have been at the Edmonton Blues Festival. What Edmonton audiences may not know, is that Mark, who has long called the Bay Area home, is a big fan of the San Franb psychedelic sixties scene and of course the great blues that found a home at the Fillmore auditorium. Mark and San Francisco guitarist Gary Vogensen, and company will be rocking the Chateau Ballroom during Dead Ends Live.

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Gary Vogensen: The 60s were exciting times musically in the San Francisco Bay Area at the celebrated Fillmore Auditorium, Avalon Ballroom, and Keystone Corner. Gary Vogensen had front row access to it all. Learning to play guitar and he began hanging out at rehearsal halls where he rubbed shoulders with the musicians of the time. “There was so much excitement around live music at that time… and so many talented musicians around the Bay Area… it was infectious.” Vogensen met guitarist Mike Bloomfield at a jam session and the legend became Gary’s mentor which led to gigs, recording sessions with Elvin Bishop, Mark Naftalin, Nick Gravenites, Norton Buffalo, and Maria Muldaur.

Forty years on Gary has toured the world and/or recorded with the likes of Maria Muldaur, Commander Cody, Boz Scaggs, Steve Miller, Etta James, Rick Danko, and Carlene Carter.

For Dead Ends Live Gary brings all this experience to our event, plus his long run with the John Dawson fronted New Riders of the Purple Sage with whom he recorded two terrific albums, Live In Japan and Midnight Moonlight.Gary last appeared in Edmonton at the Blues Festival with Angela Strehli.

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The Mbira Renaissance Band: will have any audience on its feet and dancing! Based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, the band delivers an afro-fusion, Thomas Mapfumo, Andy Brown and Bhundu Boys inspired sound that pays homage to the rich, ancient, musical genre of mbira music which has its roots in Zimbabwe. The members make up an eclectic group; drawing on their musical backgrounds in jazz, rock, Mediterranean, traditional Zimbabwean, and reggae music.

Upbeat, hypnotic songs weave elements of traditional mbira, jazz, reggae and afro-pop. The lyrics are sung predominantly in Shona and tell stories of love, migration, African – Canadian connections and a love of culture and tradition. The band features Geo Koufogiannakis on guitar, Vinay Jhass on drums, James Stuart on bass and Munya Vialy on keyboards. The Mbira Renaissance Band experience is a blend of visually appealing traditional and contemporary dancing by lead vocalist and mbira player Chaka Zinyemba and vocalist Chiedza Zinyemba.

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