Date/Time
Monday Feb 25 2019
7:00 PM
FOLK CLUB DOUBLE BILL: DAVID VEST & BAND, AND BLUE MOON MARQUEE
Although he’s a Maple Blues Award winner, living on Vancouver Island, David Vest is an authentic, Southern-bred boogie-woogie piano player, blues shouter and entertainer.
Born in Huntsville, Alabama in 1943, David grew up in Birmingham near Tuxedo Junction. He played his first paying gig in 1957, and by the time he opened for Roy Orbison on New Year’s Day 1962, he was a seasoned veteran of Gulf Coast roadhouses and honky-tonks.
Over the last 60 years he’s shared the stage with just about every great blues musician around. And on Monday Feb 25th he brings his boogie woogie piano to the Salt Spring Folk Club and Fulford Hall.
David and his band will be sharing the bill with Blue Moon Marquee a new young and amazing duo who are deep into “Gypsy Blues”.
Two people with the energy and sound of a full band, Blue Moon Marquee – A.W. Cardinal on vocals & guitar and Jasmine Colette (a.k.a. Badlands Jass) on vocals, bass and drums – write and perform original compositions influenced by anything that swings, jumps or grooves.
Colette provides a big swinging groove while Cardinal burns and hollers with thick and smoky vocals, his guitar crackling with the energy of jazz tinged blues.
Doors open at 6:15 and Three Blind Mice offer delicious dinners and desserts.