Art by Grego Anderson
www.mojohand.com
grego@mojohand.com
Supporting Maine Musicians that perform Blues, Roots, Swamp Rock, Funk, Jazz, Americana, Bluegrass & Rockabilly.
Musicians & Venues please send Gigs by Tuesday for inclusion.
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Feb
4
Fri
2022
Contact
207-370-0629
VenueFore River Brewing
Address45 Huntress Ave South Portland, ME 04106
Contact
(207) 319-5553
VenueTuck's
AddressFarmington
Feb
6
Sun
2022
Feb 6 @ 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Contact
(207) 319-5553
VenueThe Red Parka
AddressGlenn, NH
Feb
11
Fri
2022
Contact
207-371-7000
VenueBruno's Wood Fired Pizzaria
Address190 Water Street , Hallowell, Me
Feb
13
Sun
2022
Contact
207 689 3030
VenueSide by Each
Address1110 Minot Ave, Auburn, ME 04210-
Feb
18
Fri
2022
Contact
207-370-0629
VenueFore River Brewing
Address45 Huntress Ave South Portland, ME 04106
Feb
20
Sun
2022
Feb 20 @ 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Contact
(207) 344-1800
Venue1800 Club
Address34 Court Street, Auburn, ME 04210
Feb
24
Thu
2022
Contact
VenueMaine Craft Distilling
Address123 Washington Avenue, Portland
NotesKris Day with a different band every week playing Swing, Rockabilly, Bluegrass, Country, and Soul music.
Feb
27
Sun
2022
Feb 27 @ 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Contact
(207) 344-1800
Venue1800 Club
Address34 Court Street, Auburn, ME 04210
Mar
4
Fri
2022
Contact
207-370-0629
VenueFore River Brewing
Address45 Huntress Ave South Portland, ME 04106
Mar
10
Thu
2022
Contact
VenueMaine Craft Distilling
Address123 Washington Avenue, Portland
NotesKris Day with a different band every week playing Swing, Rockabilly, Bluegrass, Country, and Soul music.
Mar 10 @ 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Contact
207-761-1757
VenueOne Longfellow Square
Address181 State St, Portland, ME 04101-3701
Notes7pm doors - 8pm show
$25 adv. - $30 day of
Born in 1958, the son of famed blues harmonica player Carey Bell, Lurrie Bell picked up his father’s guitar at age of five and taught himself to play. He was clearly gifted.
In addition, he grew up with many of the Chicago blues legends around him. Eddie Taylor, Big Walter Horton, Eddie C. Campbell, Eddie Clearwater, Lovie Lee, Sunnyland Slim, Jimmy Dawkins and many more were frequent visitors to his house. They all helped to shape and school him in the blues, but none as much as his father’s long-time employer Muddy Waters.
At seven years old, Bell left Chicago to live in Mississippi and Alabama with his grandparents. During this time he played mostly in the church, immersing himself in the passionate expressiveness of the gospel tradition. At fourteen he moved back to Chicago and continued to play in church as well as forming his first blues band while attending high school.
By seventeen Lurrie Bell was playing on stage with Willie Dixon. In 1977 he was a founding member of The Sons of Blues with Freddie Dixon (son of Willie) and Billy Branch. The band recorded three standout tracks for Alligator Records’ Grammy nominated Living Chicago Blues series. In 1978 Bell joined Koko Taylor’s band and stayed for several years, honing his chops and learning the ropes of being a traveling musician. He continued to work with his dad as well, recording the 1984 Rooster Blues album Son Of a Gun and several other titles for UK’s JSP Records. Not only was Bell recognized as an exceptionally talented guitarist and musician, his knowledge of different blues styles, his soulfulness and his musical maturity delivered write-ups in publications such as Rolling Stone and The New York Times.
Battling and defeating a series of personal demons kept him out of the studio and off the road for a long spell in the late 1980’s, but Bell persevered and re-surfaced in the mid-1990’s with a succession of four highly acclaimed records for Chicago’s Delmark label.
Since the onset of the new millennium, Bell’s profile has been steadily rising. 2002 saw the release of the CD Cutting Heads and in 2004 Alligator Records released Second Nature an acoustic duet record with his father Carey Bell that was nominated for a WC Handy Award Acoustic Record of the Year by the Blues Foundation in Memphis.
In 2007 Bell started his own label Aria B.G. Records and released Let’s Talk About Love, which has been called his most accomplished, deeply heartfelt album yet. On the strength of this record, he was voted Most Outstanding Guitar Player in the 2007 Living Blues Magazine’s Critic’s Poll, and in 2008 and 2012 he was named the magazine’s Male Blues Artist of the Year. Since 2007 he has received multiple Blues Music Award nominations as Best Guitarist and Best Traditional Male Blues Artist by the Blues Foundation.
2009 found him pairing up with Billy Boy Arnold, John Primer, Billy Branch on the recording Chicago Blues: A Living History which garnered him his first official Grammy nomination for Best Traditional Blues Recording. In 2011 a follow-up was released; Chicago Blues: A Living History (The Revolution Continues) featuring Buddy Guy, Magic Slim, and Ronnie Baker Brooks.
And in 2012 came the arrival of his second CD on Aria BG Records The Devil Ain’t Got No Music, a collection of acoustic blues and gospel songs that recollect the music he often played with his dad and at church in Mississippi and Alabama as a child. In January 2013 The Devil Ain’t Got No Music was honored with the Prix du Blues award from the prestigious French L’Academie du Jazz for the Best Blues Recording of 2012 and the title song (written by producer Matthew Skoller) received a nomination from the Blues Foundation for song of the year.
In 2013 Bell re-signed with Delmark and enlisted famed Chicago producer Dick Shurman to make the record Blues in My Soul. For this project he wanted to get back to the solid foundation of Chicago-styled traditional guitar blues. Blues in my Soul features three new Lurrie Bell originals plus songs by Little Walter, T-Bone Walker, Jimmy Rogers, and Big Bill Broonzy and others. In 2016 Bell returned to studio with Dick Shurman for his next Delmark CD “Can’t Shake This Feeling.”
At last count Lurrie Bell has now appeared on over 50+ recordings either as leader or featured sideman. Lurrie Bell’s elegant and intense guitar playing and passionate vocals have made him a favorite at clubs and festivals around the world and have earned him a reputation as one of the “leading lights” in the future of the blues.
The Blues Prophets will be Lurrie's backing band for this show and the Old Blues Kats (members of the Blues Prophets) will open the night.
Covid-19 Policy:
We are very excited to be hosting live music shows again in our listening room. OLS is committed to providing a safe environment for all who work, listen, or perform live music in our venue. Because our venue is so small, we will require all staff, volunteers, performers, and patrons to show proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 when they attend OLS events AND to wear masks indoors unless they are actively drinking, eating, or performing.
Proof of vaccine must come directly from the health care provider that performed the vaccination and can be a photo or physical copy of the vaccination card or record with an accompanying photo ID. Full vaccination means that the date of the performance you are attending is:
*at least 14 days after your second dose of an FDA or WHO authorized two dose COVID-19 vaccine, or
*at least 14 days after your single dose of an FDA or WHO authorized single dose COVID vaccine.
We hope we can ease these restrictions once further progress has been made reducing transmission of the virus. Until then, we greatly appreciate your patience and cooperation.
Mar
13
Sun
2022
Mar 13 @ 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Contact
(207) 344-1800
Venue1800 Club
Address34 Court Street, Auburn, ME 04210
Mar
14
Mon
2022
Mar 14 @ 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Contact
207-935-4172
VenueTop of The 9th Fryeburg House of Pizza
Address11 Portland Street, Fryeburg, ME
Mar
17
Thu
2022
Contact
VenueMaine Craft Distilling
Address123 Washington Avenue, Portland
NotesKris Day with a different band every week playing Swing, Rockabilly, Bluegrass, Country, and Soul music.
Mar
18
Fri
2022
Contact
207-370-0629
VenueFore River Brewing
Address45 Huntress Ave South Portland, ME 04106
Mar
21
Mon
2022
Mar 21 @ 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Contact
207-935-4172
VenueTop of The 9th Fryeburg House of Pizza
Address11 Portland Street, Fryeburg, ME
Mar
24
Thu
2022
Contact
VenueMaine Craft Distilling
Address123 Washington Avenue, Portland
NotesKris Day with a different band every week playing Swing, Rockabilly, Bluegrass, Country, and Soul music.
Mar
26
Sat
2022
Contact
VenueThe Roost - CD Release Party
Address62 Chicopee Rd., Buxton, ME 04093
Mar
27
Sun
2022
Contact
(207) 319-5553
VenueBigelow Brewing
Address473 Bigelow Hill Rd, Skowhegan, ME 04976
Mar 27 @ 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Contact
(207) 344-1800
Venue1800 Club
Address34 Court Street, Auburn, ME 04210
Mar
28
Mon
2022
VenueSandy River Music Festival
Address123 Narrow Gauge Sq. 04938 Farmington, ME
Mar 28 @ 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Contact
207-935-4172
VenueTop of The 9th Fryeburg House of Pizza
Address11 Portland Street, Fryeburg, ME
Mar
31
Thu
2022
Contact
VenueMaine Craft Distilling
Address123 Washington Avenue, Portland
NotesKris Day with a different band every week playing Swing, Rockabilly, Bluegrass, Country, and Soul music.
Apr
1
Fri
2022
Contact
207-370-0629
VenueFore River Brewing
Address45 Huntress Ave South Portland, ME 04106
Apr
4
Mon
2022
Apr 4 @ 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Contact
207-935-4172
VenueTop of The 9th Fryeburg House of Pizza
Address11 Portland Street, Fryeburg, ME
Apr
6
Wed
2022
Contact
(207) 344-1800
Venue1800 Club
Address34 Court St Auburn, ME 04210
Apr
7
Thu
2022
Contact
VenueMaine Craft Distilling
Address123 Washington Avenue, Portland
NotesKris Day with a different band every week playing Swing, Rockabilly, Bluegrass, Country, and Soul music.
Apr
8
Fri
2022
Venue1800 Club
AddressAuburn
NotesDouble Check Times at 1800 Club Facebook Page
Apr
10
Sun
2022
Apr 10 @ 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Contact
(207) 344-1800
Venue1800 Club
Address34 Court Street, Auburn, ME 04210
VenueKing Eiders Pub
AddressDamariscotta
Apr
11
Mon
2022
Apr 11 @ 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Contact
207-935-4172
VenueTop of The 9th Fryeburg House of Pizza
Address11 Portland Street, Fryeburg, ME
Apr
12
Tue
2022
Venue1800 Club
AddressAuburn
NotesDouble Check Times at 1800 Club Facebook Page
Apr
14
Thu
2022
Contact
VenueMaine Craft Distilling
Address123 Washington Avenue, Portland
NotesKris Day with a different band every week playing Swing, Rockabilly, Bluegrass, Country, and Soul music.
Apr
15
Fri
2022
Contact
207 571 9777
VenueRicetta’s Saco
Address512 Main St, Saco, ME 04072-1530
Contact
207-370-0629
VenueFore River Brewing
Address45 Huntress Ave South Portland, ME 04106
Apr
16
Sat
2022
Contact
207 613 9068
VenueMaine Craft Distilling
Address123 Washington Ave, Portland, ME 04101
Apr
18
Mon
2022
Apr 18 @ 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Contact
207-935-4172
VenueTop of The 9th Fryeburg House of Pizza
Address11 Portland Street, Fryeburg, ME
Apr
20
Wed
2022
Venue1800 Club
AddressAuburn
NotesDouble Check Times at 1800 Club Facebook Page
Apr
21
Thu
2022
Contact
VenueMaine Craft Distilling
Address123 Washington Avenue, Portland
NotesKris Day with a different band every week playing Swing, Rockabilly, Bluegrass, Country, and Soul music.
Apr
23
Sat
2022
Contact
207 213 6634
VenueBruno's Hallowell
Address192 Water St, Hallowell, ME 04347
