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CURTIS SALGADO
"Salgado’s performances start at excellent before memorable songs. From the defiant opener The
segueing into goose bumps, ecstasy, and finally… Longer That I Live to the bouncy New Orleans crime
nirvana.”
- Blues Revue magazine
Headlining our 2022 BLUES REVUE on Friday,
September 30th, is 7-time Blues Music Award Winner
for Soul Artist of the year, CURTIS SALGADO!
In 2022 Award-winning vocalist, instrumentalist and
songwriter Curtis Salgado won his 11th Blues Music
award and 7th for Soul Artist of the year. Salgado,
the man NPR calls “an icon” with “a huge voice,” is
revered worldwide for his ability to wring every
ounce of soul out of every song he performs. He is
famed not only for his powerhouse live shows and
ten previous albums, but also for his passionate and
insightful original songs.
He has been nominated three times for the Blues
Music Award for Song Of The Year, winning in 2018 for
Walk A Mile In My Blues from The Beautiful Lowdown.
In total, he has won nine Blues Music Awards,
including the B.B. King Entertainer Of The Year, Soul
Blues Album Of The Year, Song Of The Year and Soul
Blues Male Artist Of The Year. DownBeat calls his
songwriting skills “an impressive gift.” Billboard says
Salgado’s music is “inspired and powerful.” Now,
after 40 years of recording, performing, touring and
songwriting, Salgado is back with Damage Control,
his first full band album in four years, and it’s packed
with fresh, original material.
With Damage Control, Salgado has created what
he calls “a rock ’n’ roll record with lyrics that hit.”
The 13 songs—12 originals and a raucous cover of
Larry Williams’ Slow Down (famously covered by
The Beatles)—will surprise and delight longtime
Salgado fans. Salgado has crafted a soul-searching,
street-smart collection of vividly detailed, instantly
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MICHAEL DOUCÉT
FRIDAY NIGHT SOUL
9:00 - 10:30 pm
EUREKA THEATER
BLUES, SOUL, R&B
story You’re Gonna Miss My Sorry Ass to the foot-
tapping history lesson of Hail Mighty Caesar to the
plaintive honesty of Always Say I Love You, Salgado’s
vocals weave, bob and soar, at times jabbing with
nuance, and then striking with unlimited power.
Damage Control was produced by Salgado and
recorded in three studios with three different groups
of musicians, featuring some of the very best players
in the business. At Nashville, Tennessee’s Rock House
Recording, top notch support included guitarist
George Marinelli (Bonnie Raitt), keyboardist Kevin
McKendree (Brian Setzer, Delbert McClinton, Tinsley
Ellis), singer Wendy Moton (Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton)
and special guest Cajun accordionist and vocalist
Wayne Toups. At Studio City, California’s Ultratone
Studios, guitarist/ bassist Johnny Lee Schell (Otis
Rush, B.B. King, Bonnie Raitt), pianists Mike Finnigan
(Jimi Hendrix, Paul Simon) and Jim Pugh (B.B. King,
Etta James, Robert Cray), drummer Tony Braunagel
(B.B. King, Bonnie Raitt) brought the goods. And at
Greaseland in San Jose, California, guitarist/bassist
Kid Andersen (Rick Estrin, Charlie Musselwhite),
bassist Jerry Jemmott (B.B. King, Aretha Franklin)
and drummer Kevin Hays (Robert Cray) added their
fuel to the fire.
Stop by and welcome this one-time regular Humboldt
County player back to the Redwood Coast Music
Festival. You will not be disappointed.
www.curtissalgado.com
SPONSORED BY jack & barb mccown and
leo presser & maureen murphy
SATURDAY NIGHT BLUES REVUE
6:00 - 7:30 pm
EUREKA THEATER
with Tom Rigney & Flambeau
CAJUN, AMERICANA
MICHAEL DOUCET, fiddler, composer, and in 1977. With Beausoleil, Doucet blended elements
bandleader, is perhaps the single most important of traditional Cajun music with zydeco, adding hints
figure in the revitalization of Cajun music in the of jazz, blues, and country. In 2005, Doucet and
United States. A Louisiana native, Doucet is widely Beausoleil received a National Heritage Fellowship
regarded as the world’s best Cajun fiddler and from the National Endowment of the Arts, and in
leads the globetrotting band BeauSoleil, featured in 2007 they were awarded a United States Artists
documentary films and movies such as Belizaire the Grant. The band has been nominated many times for
Cajun and The Big Easy. Grammy awards, and won for Best Traditional Folk
Since the mid-'70s, Michael Doucet has been one Album with 1997's L'Amour Ou La Folie.
of the dominant figures of the Cajun music revival, Among many pieces Doucet has composed for
respected for his scholarship and admired for his his band are Chanson D’Acadie, Bunk's Blues,
showmanship. On the one hand, Doucet dredges Conja,Newz Reel, Quelle Belle Vie, L'Ouragon, and
up ancient Cajun tunes with medieval French roots, Freeman’s Zydeco, the latter in collaboration with
and on the other, plays flamboyant fiddle with Fremont Fontenot.
Beausoleil. Aside from Beausoleil, singer and fiddler
Doucet has performed frequently in concert and
Doucet has performed and recorded with the more on record in a trio, the Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band,
purely traditional Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band. He is as with Marc and Ann Savoy. He has also worked with
passionate about Cajun tradition as he is eager to Bruce Molsky, Darol Anger, and Rushad Eggleston
drop-kick it into the 21st century, and for that reason,
Doucet has earned the applause of both purists and as Fiddlers 4, and has recorded several solo albums.
Since 1997, Doucet has been involved in education
plebians who just want to boogie.
and has been adjunct professor at the University of
Following a family tradition, Doucet played music Southwestern Louisiana in Lafayette.
from his earliest years, mastering banjo at the age www.beausoleilmusic.com
of five and guitar at eight. Like others of the era,
he was influenced by rock music, although Cajun SPONSORED BY chevron
music was ever-present. Doucet played in folk-rock
bands with his cousin, Zachary Richard, at the age
of twelve, then joined a Cajun rock group. In 1974,
he and Richard visited France and after his return to
the U.S., he learned violin, which quickly became his
principal instrument. Additionally, he plays guitar as SATURDAY
well as mandolin and accordion, and also sings. 9:00 - 10:00 pm - EAGLE HOUSE
Deeply influenced by older musicians such as Amédé with Tom Rigney & Flambeau
Ardoin and especially Dennis McGee (who became SUNDAY
a friend), Doucet and a group of like-minded friends
3:00 - 4:30 pm - ADORNI CENTER
formed a band in 1975, naming it Coteau. He also with Tom Rigney & Flambeau
formed Beausoleil with Kenneth and Sterling Richard
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