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Genre: Blues

Annika Chambers Deslauriers & Paul Deslauriers

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2019 SOUL BLUES FEMALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR ANNIKA CHAMBERS~~~The dynamic monster vocalist from Houston Texas along with a host of talented musicians continue to shock and amaze many blues lovers who have the opportunity to hear their music. With a variety of soulful, heartwarming and ground stomping tunes, Miss Chambers is sure to rise above and beyond your expectations. 

The beautiful and talented Annika Chambers hails from Houston, Texas. And, like many of the great soulful singers of the past, she started singing in church at a young age. She always wanted to sing, but her dreams of enlisting in the Army and attaining a degree in radio and TV broadcasting took her in that direction. However, that path would start her on her musical journey. While serving in Kosovo, her first deployment, Annika entered a talent contest on base and sang lead in a song. Right after the competition, a guitar player approached her and introduced her to the blues. She’s been in love with the Blues ever since. Annika describes her style as a little bit of Aretha, Etta, Koko and Shemekia and includes as influences – Otis Redding, Shemekia Copeland, Joan Osborne, Robbin Ford, Adele, Etta James, Eryka Badu, Bobby Blue Bland & James Brown

Since completing her 7 1/2 year term with the US Army, Annika has been blazing the Houston blues music scene. With her self-motivated career taking the city by storm, Annika has had the opportunity to work with many of the well-known talents in the area such as Brad Absher, Paul Ramirez, The Mighty Orq, and many others. In the fall of 2012, Annika along with The House Rules Band entered the International Blues Competition. Although they did not proceed past the final round, she has had numerous opportunities to showcase her talent. After the city-wide competition, Annika took advantage of an opportunity to create a demo CD with Larry Fulcher of the Phantom Blues Band and Richard Cagle, both of whom were judges for the IBC Competition. To everyone’s surprise, this has turned into what will be a professionally produced album from Cagle’s ‘Montrose Studios’. The album “Making My Mark” features numerous Grammy Award winning musicians and artist who graciously offered their time and patience to make this project a success. With the album still in the works, Annika has gained a large amount of publicity, allowing her to host a listening party with most of the musicians from the album, prior to the album release for purchase. There is nothing that can prepare the world for the debut of Annika Chambers’ “Making My Mark”, so take a moment and enjoy the Annika Chambers experience and make sure you do what she says when she says…”Shake it for Me”.

David Julia

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David Julia is in his teens and dead serious about the blues. He began performing at the age of seven, and over the next ten years has grown in a blues powerhouse who is beginning to establish himself far beyond his Florida home. David has been touring regionally and has already participated in the Memphis-based Blues Foundation’s International Blues Challenge four years in a row, drawing rave notices from the worldwide crowd.

Bridget Kelly Band

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Bridget Kelly Band is an electric blues band that rocks the house with their unique blend of hot smokin’ blues. The Bridget Kelly Band will release Blues Warrior in the summer of 2018 and will be touring this summer to support the new release! Blues Warrior is an emotional body of work that taps into important issues concerning women. The Bridget Kelly Band’s “Bone Rattler” CD was released in May of 2017 on Alpha Sun records. The eclectic 2-disk CD, comprised of 22 all-original songs that cover a fairly wide spectrumof “Electric Blues” and “Blues-Rock” styles, the CD has been well-received by critics and fans alike. A summer tour 2017 included shows in Florida and Georgia, a CD release party at Darwin’s in Atlanta, as well as club and festival dates throughout the Midwest (including a standing- ovation performance at the Northwood Blues Festival).

John Long

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John Long was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1950 & was first exposed to the music he’d make his life’s work not long after. By the late 1950s John was absorbing the sounds of Jimmy Reed, Buster Brown, Muddy Waters, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Junior Parker, and all the rest of the R&B and jump blues of the day, & working on recreating those sounds with his own guitar.

Magnolia Boulevard

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“When we’re onstage we play with a lot of emotion.” Noelle says.  “And then we feed off the crowd’s emotional reaction to us and we git it right back to them.”

Central to the Magnolia Boulevard experience is a sound that flows easily and seamlessly from a multitude of stylistic tributaries.  There’s plenty of blues, soul and rock ’n roll in the mix, but also elements of funk, jam band, folk, country, bluegrass and psychedelia.  It’s all fueled by the rhythm section’s elastic grooves. shot through with Erwin’s expressive and incisive slide guitar licks and topped by Noelle’s soul-stirring, powerhouse vocals.

“I think it was Gregg Allman who once said, ‘If there’s 10,000 people in the audience and they have one-and-a-half problems each, that’s 15,000 problems out there,” says Erwin. “So if you can put your heart into something and get onstage and help the audience forget about those problems for a couple of hours, then, you know, your job’s done. That’s the greatest satisfaction one can achieve, I believe.”

Mike Tozier

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Mike Tozier is one of the longest-running acoustic musicians in the Bay area.  Mike plays with a barrelhouse-style reminiscent of John Hammond and guitar prowess to spare on his dobro and acoustic guitar. A Best of the Bay award-winning artist, Mike remains a down-to-earth, salt-of-the-earth fellow that puts on a heck of a show merging country, folk, Delta Blues and Americana.

The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band

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The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band is a three-piece American country blues band from Brown County, Indiana. They play more than 250 dates per year at venues ranging from bars to festivals. To date, they have released ten albums and one EP

Rockin’ Jake Band

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Veteran harpist Rockin’ Jake has more than three decades of training and performance-from his New England roots to a long tenure in New Orleans that built his prowess.

JUke

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JUke is a four-piece, “post-blues,” hybrid with a high motor and bottomless soul. Spearheaded by frontman/harmonica-whiz/singer, Eric Garcia, JUke’s content toucheson non-traditional subject matter while simultaneously keeping their crowd moving with a smile on their faces. The addition of Sonny East on guitar, Korian Hannah on the drums, and Marcel Salas on bass now have the band firing on all cylinders. 

JUke’s high-energy live performances and imaginative lyrical depth have thrilled music fans at festivals such as Wanee, Hulaween, AURA, Magnolia Fest, and Orange Blossom Jamboree. Now, with that powerful new lineup behind Eric Garcia, JUke prepares to take their stories and shows to the next level!

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