The Cavell Leitch New Zealand Jazz & Blues Festival presents:
Charlie Musselwhite
Charlie Musselwhite has been inducted in the Blues Hall of Fame, won 32 Blues Music Awards, has 11 Grammy nominations, including for 2013 Best Blues Album, and was voted the Most Outstanding Musician (Harmonica) at the 2013 Living Blues Awards.
Mississippi born, he is regarded as one of the most revered blues musicians in the world. The harmonica master, also a respected singer and songwriter, has performed and recorded with Bonnie Raitt, Tom Waits, John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters, to name just a few, and in 2012 teamed up with Ben Harper to record the album Get Up, which won the Grammy for Best Blues Album this year.
In this special Christchurch performance, the blues legend will be playing numbers from his latest album Juke Joint Chapel with his band Matt Stubbs (guitar), Steven Froberg (bass) and Wirtford Core Jnr (drums).
Wednesday, 23 April 2014 8:00 p.m.
$45
The Bedford, CPSA, Madras St
