FRIDAY SOUL NIGHT
FRIDAY MASTERS - JAZZ MEETS BLUES
SATURDAY - REDWOOD ROUNDUP
SATURDAY - BLUES REVUE
SATURDAY SEQUOIA SWING
FRIDAY SOUL NIGHT
9:00 pm - 10:30 pm
Curtis Salgado
Headlining our 2022 Soul & Blues show on Friday night Sept 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. MORE
7:15 pm - 8:30 pm
Bishop Mayfield & Friends featuring Dave Storie
Bishop Mayfield has been a fixture up and down California & Canada since 1966. Bishop is currently appearing with noted guitarist & songwriter Dave Storie in the powerfully dynamic “Bishop Mayfield & Friends Band” (R&B, Funk, Blues-Rock, Fusion) based in Southern Oregon.
He has toured with, jammed with, or opened for such greats as Albert Collins, B.B. King, Al Wilson, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, Tower Of Power, Jr. Walker & The All-Stars, Charlie Musslewhite, Ike & Tina Turner, Milo. Sugar Pie Desantos, John Lee Hooker, Willie Littlefield, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Jose Feliciano, James Brown, Robert Cray, Graham Central Station, Bo Diddley, Etta James, Barbara Morrison, Crackin', Neal Schon, Sonny Terry & Brownie Magee, The Neville Brothers & many, many more. MORE
5:30 pm - 6:45 pm
Jenni & David and The Sweet Soul Band
Jenni & David and the Sweet Soul Band are a soulful, funky, and bluesy band. We believe in and seek The Groove whenever and in whatever we play. We like to keep it fresh. No performance is ever the same!
The influences that have shaped the members of this band include old timey music, bluegrass, big band, rag time, singing in church choirs, blues, r and b, soul music, funk, country, Mexican music, Lebanese percussion, classical, jazz and alternative music, to name a few. MORE
FRIDAY MASTERS - JAZZ MEETS BLUES
Introducing
Friday Masters Sets - Jazz meets Blues
“Blues, Jazz and Country music it’s all in the same family, it’s like a big bowl of pasta or gumbo - they all go together in some form or another”. Sugar Ray Norcia.
In these new Master sets we're bringing together some of the world's finest musicians from their respective genres in special one of a kind performances that you will only find here at Redwood Coast Music Festival.
9:00 pm - 10:00 pm - Adorni Waterfront Center
Sugar Ray Norcia with Cornet Chop Suey
Three time Grammy nominee Sugar Ray Norcia will be teaming up with Emmy award winning band leader Brian Casserly and the mighty horns of St. Louis’ jazz band extraordinaire Cornet Chop Suey in a first time collaboration that you'll never see anywhere else.
Sugar Ray Norcia has received a total of twenty two Blues Music Award nominations including winning two Blues Music Awards in 2014. Sugar Ray has been on over sixty recordings with the likes of Roomful of Blues, J. Geils, Michelle Willson, Otis Grand, Pinetop Perkins and he is a featured vocalist on the two critically acclaimed Knickerbocker All-Stars recordings.
Hailing from St. Louis, Cornet Chop Suey is one of the most popular jazz bands in the country. This well-traveled band has toured across the country playing festivals as well as performances in Europe, South America, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand and Germany among others. Chop Suey applies its own exciting style to traditional jazz, swing, blues and "big production" numbers. Every performance by Cornet Chop Suey is a high-energy presentation and is always a memorable experience for the audience.
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm - Adorni Waterfront Center
Duke Robillard Swings with
Marc Caparone's Back O'Town Allstars
Widely recognized as one of the premier swing and blues guitarists in the world, Duke Robillard's resume is decorated with Grammy nominations, Handy Awards and Blues Music Awards. Since starting his musical career in 1967 by founding and fronting Roomful of Blues, Duke Robillard has been at the forefront of Blues, Swing and classic R&B/Jump blues for over 50 years, earning him his international legendary status as one of the most respected blues and roots music guitarists working today.
Backing up Duke will be ringleader and trumpet master Marc Caparone who has brought together his Back O'Town Allstars for this special performance.
This group is made up of acclaimed Swing and Traditional Jazz musicians from around the US: pianist Dan Walton and guitarist Jamey Cummins keep the dance floors packed in Austin, Texas. Trombonist Charlie Halloran is one of the most sought after musicians in New Orleans. Bassist Steve Pikal from Minneapolis is a string bass legend and Jacob Zimmerman is one of the most creative and accomplished young reed players in Seattle. Drummer Josh Collazo calls Los Angeles home but travels the world as one of the most respected swing drummers in the world. The sweet vocals by Dawn Lambeth will be the icing on this musical layer cake.
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm - Adorni Waterfront Center
Joel Paterson Trio with Carl Sonny Leyland and Jonathan Doyle
Joel Paterson, guitar master, vocalist, songwriter is one of the very bright lights in the world of American roots music. One of the most fluid, stylish pickers on the planet, Joel’s versatility is beyond compare as he is equally proficient in jazz, blues, country, rockabilly and more. His blues recordings include teaming up with Oscar Wilson, Jim Liban and The Cash Box Kings. Paterson's trio includes some of Chicago’s most versatile session musicians, Beau Sample on upright bass and Alex Hall on drums.
Inducted in the Boogie Woogie Hall of Fame in 2010, Carl SonnyLeyland is a tour de force musician and a headliner at jazz, ragtime, blues, western swing and rockabilly festivals worldwide. Specializing in early American piano styles including boogie woogie, blues, ragtime, jazz and swing, Leyland is undisputedly one of the finest in the world.
Master reedman Jonathan Doyle’s journey has included time in three of the famous music cities in the US – Austin, TX, New Orleans and Chicago – there he played with the finest musicians each scene had to offer. His time in Austin was spent as a freelance in Central Texas’ vibrant traditional jazz, swing, and western swing scene, playing with well-established acts such as Willie Nelson, Asleep at the Wheel, and the Jim Cullum Jazz Band. His time in New Orleans introduced him to the hot jazz and traditional blues band, Tuba Skinny. And his connection to Chicago led to playing with the amazing Fat Babies as well as guitar maestro, Joel Paterson. More recently he can be found leading his own Jonathan Doyle Swingtet.
SATURDAY - REDWOOD ROUNDUP
7:45 pm - 9:15 pm
Dale Watson & The Lone Stars
Headlining our 2022 Redwood Roundup show on Saturday night October 1 is the keeper of the true Country flame, Honky Tonk legend Dale Watson
Dale Watson has flown the flag for classic honky-tonk for over two decades. He’s christened his brand of American roots “Ameripolitan” to differentiate it from current crop of Nashville-based pop country. He's a country music maverick, a true outlaw who stands alongside Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and George Strait as one of the finest country singers and songwriters from the Lone Star State.. MORE
6:00 pm - 7:15 pm
Western Swing Allstars
Featuring Dave Stuckey, Paul Anastasio and James Mason.
2020 Ameripolitan Music Award Winner for Best Western Swing, multi-talented Dave Stuckey is a band leader, producer, singer, songwriter, drummer, and swingin' guitarist extraordinaire.
For Redwood Coast, Dave has put together an amazing combination of some of the finest Western Swing musicians in the Country for a special evening.
The Allstars feature the reunion of two of the finest Western Swing fiddle players in the world. Swing Fiddle legend Paul Anastasio (Asleep at the Wheel, Larry Gatlin, Loretta Lynn) and two time Bob Wills National Fiddle Champion James Mason.
Western swing drummer extraordinaire Hal Smith, country piano allstar Dan Walton (Willie Nelson, Asleep at the Wheel, Lyle Lovett), Rusty Blake (Lucky Stars, Barn Door Slammers) on pedal steel, Swingin' Steve Pikal on bass fiddle, Chris Wilkinson (Zazou Cowboys, Tropicali Flames, Sweet & Low Melody Co, Jive Aces) on guitar, Marc Caparone on trumpet, Nate Ketner on sax and vocalist Dawn Lambeth all join in for a red hot eleven piece BIG band.
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Joel Paterson Trio
Joel Paterson, guitar master, vocalist, songwriter is one of the very bright lights in the world of American roots music. One of the most fluid, stylish pickers on the planet, Joel’s versatility is beyond compare.
Paterson's trio includes some of Chicago’s most versatile session musicians, Beau Sample on upright bass and Alex Hall on drums. Collectively they spend time playing and recording with a variety of local and not-so-local musical-types including JD McPherson, Pokey LaFarge, Robbie Fulks, The Fat Babies, The Flat Five, The Western Elstons, The Cactus Blossoms, Chris Foreman and a host of other notables. MORE
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Geoffrey Miller
Boogie woogie cheating songs, love-lamenting ballads, rockabilly country bops, lonesome melodic soliloquies—the tones of Geoffrey Miller’s debut solo album “All Night Honky Tonk Man”—tell a story reaching back to Miller’s childhood.
Miller bends crying notes from his fender telecaster over a room full of two-steppers and swing dancers on a hardwood dance floor. The worlds of country and rockabilly meld in a crowd topped with cowboy hats, pompadours, and pin-up style hairdos. Between the occasional classic by his favorites, Merle, Johnny Horton, and Faron Young, MIller’s original songs fill the room and make a direct connection to the moment. The clacking of a stand-up bass, the break-up of a 50s tweed guitar amplifier, and the slight rasp in Miller’s voice burrow into the audience with something real. MORE
10:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Dave Bennett & The Memphis Speed Kings
Closing our show is one of the most exciting Rockabilly bands that we've ever hosted - Dave Bennet and the Memphis Speed Kings!
These outstanding musicians always have the crowd at the edge of their seats and on the dance floor! Since 2012 the Memphis Speed Kings have performed at festivals and concerts across the U.S., playing high-energy Rockabilly music of the 1950s and early 1960s. Pianist/vocalist Dave Bennett may be best known as a jazz clarinet virtuoso, but he is also one of the very best interpreters of the piano style of “The Killer” – Jerry Lee Lewis. Guitarist Tommy Harkenrider and bassist Joe Jazdewski have worked with top Blues performers and drummer Hal Smith is a veteran of numerous traditional jazz and swing groups MORE
SATURDAY - BLUES REVUE
9:30 pm - 11:00 pm
Sugar Ray & the Blue Tones with Duke Robillard
Rhode Island Blues Legends take the stage when Sugar Ray brings his celebrated band The Bluetones to The Historic Eureka Theater where they are joined by Grammy nominated guitar master Duke Robillard for a tour de force evening of traditional blues.
Sugar Ray & the Bluetones have been a traditional blues powerhouse collaboration for 40 years. By 2017 the band and its members had been nominated for SEVEN Grammy awards and a jaw dropping 36 BMA nominations. The Bluetones are not limited to one style, but able to play Chicago Blues in the style of Muddy Waters. Little Walter and Billy Boy Arnold; Kansas City Swing in the style of "Big" Joe Turner; Texas Blues like "T" Bone Walker and Freddie King; and the swampy Louisiana sounds of "Lazy" Lester-all played with distinctive originality.
Joining forces with Sugar Ray and the Blue Tones is legendary guitar master Duke Robillard. Whether it's a song, a style, an idiom or an image, Duke Robillard will render it with mastery, power, nuance and an unerring grasp of its essence. Duke's resume is decorated with Grammy nominations, Handy Awards and Blues Music Awards, and other honors for his artistry, recordings and productions within the United States and internationally. MORE
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Jontavious Willis with Carl Sonny Leyland and Joel Paterson
A special showcase of amazing blues roots musicianship that you won't want to miss. Grammy nominated Jontavious Willis joins up with Carl Sonny Leyland, Joel Paterson's Trio, and allstar horns Marc Caparone and Jacob Zimmerman. A special showcase of amazing musicianship.
Every generation or so a young bluesman bursts onto the scene. Someone who sends a jolt through blues lovers. Someone who has mastered the craft for sure, but who also has the blues deep down in his heart and soul. JONTAVIOUS WILLIS may be the one.
The 24-year-old multi-instrumentalist was nominated for a GRAMMY in 2020 thanks to his latest album, Spectacular Class. Through original lyrics written by Willis himself, the gifted musician delivers a timeless album that features dynamic vocals and all types of blues: Delta, Piedmont, Texas, and Gospel. His stand-out fingerpicking, flat-picking, and slide prowess are also on display. GRAMMY award-winning artists Taj Mahal and Keb’ Mo’ played an active role in producing Spectacular Class with Taj Mahal credited as Executive Producer and Keb' Mo' as the Producer
Carl Sonny Leyland - Inducted in the Boogie Woogie Hall of Fame in 2010, Leyland is a tour de force musician and a headliner at jazz, ragtime, blues, western swing and rockabilly festivals worldwide. Specializing in early American piano styles including boogie woogie, blues, ragtime, jazz and swing, Leyland is undisputedly one of the finest in the world.
Joel Paterson, guitar master, vocalist, songwriter is one of the very bright lights in the world of American roots music. One of the most fluid, stylish pickers on the planet, Joel’s versatility is beyond compare as he is equally proficient in jazz, blues, country, rockabilly and more. His blues recordings include teaming up with Oscar Wilson, Jim Liban and The Cash Box Kings. Paterson's trio includes some of Chicago’s most versatile session musicians, Beau Sample on upright bass and Alex Hall on drums. MORE
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Michael Doucet with Tom Rigney & Flambeau
Two of the finest fiddlers in the roots music world, Michael Doucet and Tom Rigney, come together for an exciting evening consisting of Cajun, blues, and roots music. They'll be playing a second set Saturday Night on the Eagle House stage at 9:00pm.
2 time Grammy winner and ELEVEN time Grammy nominee, fiddler, composer, and bandleader, Michael Doucet is perhaps the single most important figure in the revitalization of Cajun music in the United States. A Louisiana native, Doucet is widely regarded as the world’s best Cajun fiddler and leads the globetrotting band BeauSoleil, featured in documentary films and movies such as “Belizaire the Cajun” and “The Big Easy.”!
There is no question that Tom Rigney has become one of the premier blues and roots music violinists in the world, and continues to be a prolific composer of powerfully compelling music for the violin, music whose influences come from an extremely wide range of musical styles within the broad boundaries of American Roots Music.
Rigney has been a part of the San Francisco Bay Area roots music scene for more than thirty-five years. His band Flambeau is a collection of some of the finest roots musicians on the West Coast. The repertoire is original, eclectic, passionate, and filled with a musical and emotional intensity that will come as no surprise to followers of Rigney’s career. MORE
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
The Uptown Kings with Andy Widman and special guest Tommy Harkenrider
Boogie woogie cheating songs, love-lamenting ballads, rockabilly country bops, lonesome melodic soliloquies—the tones of Geoffrey Miller’s debut solo album “All Night Honky Tonk Man”—tell a story reaching back to Miller’s childhood.
Miller bends crying notes from his fender telecaster over a room full of two-steppers and swing dancers on a hardwood dance floor. The worlds of country and rockabilly meld in a crowd topped with cowboy hats, pompadours, and pin-up style hairdos. Between the occasional classic by his favorites, Merle, Johnny Horton, and Faron Young, MIller’s original songs fill the room and make a direct connection to the moment. The clacking of a stand-up bass, the break-up of a 50s tweed guitar amplifier, and the slight rasp in Miller’s voice burrow into the audience with something real. MORE
SATURDAY SEQUOIA SWING
Saturday Sequoia Swing
The beautiful Sequoia Center venue has an 1800 sq ft professional, sprung dance floor and we'll be filling it up on Saturday night. A night full of Trad Jazz and Swing by some of the finest swing and dance bands in the country.
10:30 pm - 11:30 pm - Sequoia Center
Dave Stuckey & The Hot House Gang
Dave Stuckey & The Hot House Gang is a hard-swinging, take-no-prisoners aggregation, playing standards and not-so-standards from the 1920's & 30s...and whose main objective is to bring the heat, get you out of your seat, and provoke you to move your feet.
Bringing with him a Murderer’s Row of torrid trad jazz operators from the wilds of Los Angeles, Stuckey’s outfit channels an Eddie Condon small-group drive with jiving vocals that may conjure thoughts of Wingy Manone or Fats Waller. Calling all cats - that stuff is here and it's anything but mellow!
Dave Stuckey - guitar, vocals
Carl Sonny Leyland - piano, vocals
Josh Collazo - drums
Nate Ketner - clarinet, sax
Marc Caparone - trumpet, trombone
Katie Cavera - bass
9:00 pm - 10:00 pm - Sequoia Center
Charlie Halloran & The Quality 6
Tribute to the Louis Armstrong Allstars
New Orleans Trombonist Charlie Halloran brings his Armstrong Allstar Tribute from Jazz Fest in New Orleans here to the Redwood Coast for this special show.
Halloran seems to be everywhere at once in New Orleans. A fixture of the Crescent City's traditional jazz and Frenchmen Street scene, Charlie's 60’s-style Caribbean lounge band, the Tropicales, entertain regularly at Zony Mash, The Spotted Cat and DBA. He’s recorded prolifically, appearing on Jon Cleary’s Grammy winning Go-Go Juice and followup Dynamite and Maria Muldaur’s Grammy nominated Don’t You Feel My Leg. Charlie has released 5 albums under his own name, and made countless records alongside the Squirrel Nut Zippers, John Boutte, Rickie Lee Jones, Meschiya Lake and the Little Big Horns, the Panorama Jazz Band, The Shotgun Jazz Band, the Palmetto Bug Stompers, Pokey Lafarge, Luke Winslow King, Alex McMurray, you name it.
Here at Redwood Coast his Quality 6 is a collection of some of the finest jazz musicians in the country with Jonathan Doyle on reeds, Dave Kosmyna on trumpet, Jamey Cummins guitar, Kris Tokarski piano, Tyler Thomson bass and world renowned swing drummer Josh Collazo.
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm - Sequoia Center
Clint Baker's Jazz Band
With John Gill
Clint Baker is one of the most respected traditional jazz musicians and band leaders in the country. Baker is a powerhouse multi-instrumental traditional jazz musician performing on cornet, trumpet, trombone, clarinet, saxophone, guitar, banjo, tuba, string bass, and drums.
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For Redwood Coast “Clint Baker’s Jazz Band” is a collection of some of the finest and most recognized traditional jazz musicians in the country. However, just because you see a set don’t think that you’ve seen this band. This band is traditional improvisational jazz at its highest levels. Every musician is a multi-instrumentalist and the lineup changes with different musicians joining in each performance - a tribute to the expert leadership of Clint Baker. Appearing during the weekend with the Clint Baker Jazz Band at Redwood Coast will be Katie Cavera, Nate Ketner, Sam Rocha, Jessica King, Ryan Calloway, John Gill, TJ Muller AND Clint’s son, Riley Baker, a rising multi-instrumenal star in his own right.
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm - Sequoia Center
Jonathan Doyle Four Horn Septet
Jonathan Doyle has swung with just about every exciting twenty-first century outfit one could name, as well as a host of bona fide legends. The saxophonist, clarinetist, and jug player has blown horn with Tuba Skinny, JD McPherson, The Fat Babies, Naomi and Her Handsome Devils, and Asylum Street Spankers (to name but a few) since leaving DePaul’s School of Music in the mid-1990s. He has shared stages/studios with Pinetop Perkins, Big Jay MacNeely, and Willie Nelson—as well as busking across Europe and Australia.
The Swingtet is Doyle’s own pet project—a vehicle through which he explores small band arrangements of big band classics and original old-school compositions. Peppered throughout are Doyle’s own creations, which blend seamlessly with these iconic standards.
Joining Doyle on the four horn front line are New Oleans Trombonist Charlie Halloran, Seattle reed master Jacob Zimmerman and St Louis Trumpeter TJ Muller. Backing them will be New Orleans Pianist Kris Tokarski, Austin, TX guitarist Jamey Cummins, and Los Angeles Bassman Riley Baker.