Mulebone is virtuosic multi-instrumentalist John Ragusa and New York Blues Hall of Fame inductee Hugh Pool. The launching pad for their musical expression is traditional blues played with guts, technique and a without-a-net sense of adventure. The word is transcendent.

W.C.Handy winning author Don Wilcox wrote, "Mulebone takes old blues and folk music into space as well as anyone since Led Zeppelin covered Sonny Boy Williamson.”

Hugh Pool plays the National Steel, electric, cigar box and acoustic guitars, harmonica, stomps on a boot-board, and sings lead vocals all with a mouth full of whiskey and a giant heart. John Ragusa plays all manner of flutes, fifes and tin whistles, the cornet, conch shell, jews harp, and well…anything he can put his lips on. He also sings harmony vocals, perfectly complimenting Pool's. The result is a sum greater than the parts; more sound, texture and groove than 2 people should be legally allowed to make.

Grammy Nominated Songwriter, NYC Blues Hall of Fame, Christine Santelli has been on the NYC music scene for more than 2 decades. She has toured around the world and has released 9 CD’s over her career.

The Dirty Water Dogs (named after the mystery morsels that are vended on street corners in their native New York City) are somewhat of a roots rock supergroup. Being a hybrid of the swamp rock monsters Loup Garou and folk heroes 5 Chinese Brothers, the Dirty Water Dogs perform a mix of rollicking zydeco blues, cajun and heartfelt originals.With Neil Thomas on accordion and vocals, Homeboy Steve on guitar and vocals, Skip Ward on Dirty Water Doghouse bass and abetted by Tom Tom Club percussionist Bruce Martin, the Dirty Water Dogs are sure to knock your socks off

Hugh Pool and John Ragusa acoustic Blues & Roots, high wire act. They’ll take you higher

Anya Alferis and Dylan Keefe of Marcy Playground fame. Roots, soul, rock, country

New Moon Acoustic Blues Band performs traditional acoustic blues, and spiritual tunes. Performing hill country, Piedmont and more by artists such as the Reverend Gary Davis, Robert Johnson and Mississippi John Hurt, in effort to emulate this feeling of the early 1900's in its prevalence today. Karl Schwarz on Guitar/Vocals.

Grammy Nominated Songwriter, NYC Blues Hall of Fame, Christine Santelli has been on the NYC music scene for more than 2 decades. She has toured around the world and has released 9 CD’s over her career

Singer, composer, master lyricist and multi-instrumentalist Sasha Dobson has performed across the world as both a leader and first-call collaborator. The stylistic chameleon has released projects with such defining voices as Norah Jones, Chris Byars, Don Was, Jay Lane, Jesse Harris, and Peter Bernstein. She has composedwith Bill Murray, opened for Willie Nelson and toured with Neil Young. Sasha will debut original music alongside long-standing collaborator and legendary bassist guitarist Tony Scherr and special guests!

Blues

Funk, New Orleans 10pm-1am

Doc French is a New York-based Blues band. The band plays a wide variety of styles, all firmly rooted in the blues. Ranging from the Delta to Chicago, back down to Texas and Louisiana "second line", we add our own unique touch to present a new look at this vital American art form. The band also play an extensive selection of original titles, presenting the Blues in a more contemporary vein while preserving the essence that is the core of the music.

A long time resident of the West Village Eve received much of her training in the Village, under the tutelage of guitar great Dave Van Ronk, as well as in the accompaniment of the great dames of Grove Street: Marie Blake, and Mable Godwin. She carries out her love affair with the American Songbook in a swinging fashion, and with the traditional joy of the traditional jazz era. Eve released an album of oringal songs ("In My Life and Times") derived and dedicated to her studies with Dave Van Ronk. Continuing her guitar training with virtuosos Frank Christian and Roni Ben Hur, . More recently she released "Wasn't There A Dream", an album of original and standard jazz tunes. A jazz singer, guitarist and songwriter Eve Silber performs a repertoire of standards and substandards regularly in and around New York City, including New York City's oldest jazz club. Eve extends her music to good causes, eager students, and appreciative audiences.

“NYC someday will brag about its great legends of country music, that’s right we said country, and among those names will be the engaging, hardworking, witty, and schmoozin’ and boozin’ Grace.” — Village Voice

Roots Blues, Grammy Nominated artist, Jason Green Guitar, Tim Tindall Bass

Acoustic Blues 10-1am

Since she was 12 years old, Samoa Wilson has been captivating audiences with a voice the New York Times calls “sweet, effortless, old-timey”. Raised in the riverbed of traditional North American folk music, she came up in the Boston scene, under the wing of jug band and folk legend Jim Kweskin. Her current duo, the Four O’Clock Flowers, a stark and electrifying exploration of gospel, blues and jazz, with slide guitar maestro Ernie Vega, has become a staple of the thriving New York City folk community. Her choice of repertoire makes the difference: torchy and honeyed renditions of haunting little-known tunes, from a woman’s perspective. From the source of the traditional and classic material, she poses a modern complaint, salutes the transformation of women’s work and suffering into women’s triumph.

Photo credit Arnie Goodman

…musical director for the 1992 Rhythm and Blues Foundation Awards with some of the award recipients being Aretha Franklin, Bobby Bland, Sam Moore, The Staples Singers, Rufus and Carla Thomas. The Danny Draher Band performed for the Radio America documentary, The Blues Story, An American Art Form, featuring B.B. King, Ruth Brown and Buddy Guy at the Whitney Museum. He and his band were also in the 1994 first annual VH-1 Awards with BonnieRaitt. He performed with Buster Poindexter, Bo Diddley and the Uptown Horns at the Palladium for the Democratic Convention party in New York City with President Clinton on sax. Danny played many jazz and blues festivals including “The Montreaux JazzFestival” and “The North Sea Jazz Festival”. He was the producer for Cephas & Wiggin’s CD, Blues Men, on Chesky Records. He also worked with producer John Snyder as a session guitarist for Polygram and Verve Records and has appeared in several recent releases, including Lucky Peterson’s last two gold CD’s. This journeyman of multi-faceted talent and passion has mesmerized audiences internationally including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and Madison Square Garden. Danny also appeared on Delmark Records Fifty Year Anniversary Jazz and Blues Collection CD. He has a great reputation within the industry and he is known for his style and finesse. He’s due for a Grammy of his own.

Blues at its Finest with Jake Walker guitar and vocals and Arthur Neilson Guitar

"Over the past decade, Chris Bergson has become one of the most interesting blues-inspired songwriters. He describes the streetscapes and nightscapes of city life, painting small, memorable pictures, a kind of Edward Hopper of the blues."

- The Blues Magazine (UK)

"Chris Bergson plays the kind of guitar you can build a house on - it's B.B. meets Steve Cropper meets John Scofield."

- ROLL Magazine

"Authentic but not stifled by tradition...Bergson is the classic triple threat."

- Jambands.com

American born guitarist, singer and songwriter. Chris Bergson was inducted into the New York Blues Hall of Fame as a Master Blues Artist in 2015.

Springing from its roots as a blues band called Joe Taino and The Blue Flames, The Joe Taino Group plays a unique mix of blues, R&B, Latin jazz, reggae, calypso, and classic rock. Each member of the band has been in the music business for over 30 years, ha performed with hundreds of famous artists, and has toured all over the world. As The Blue Flames, the band toured Europe, Japan, the U.S., and South America for many years.

Taino himself has been recording and performing since 1972. He has shared the stage with a host of notable artists, including Peter Frampton, Judas Priest, Rick Derringer, Cindy Lauper, Gregg Allman, Carlos Santana, Jaco Pastorious, Johnny Winter, Robin Trower, Pat Travers, King Crimson, and many more. He is one of the hottest and most respected guitarists in the Tri-State area and still performs every week. His newest release Incognito is a mix of all of his influences, tinged with a distinctly Latin jazz flavor

Blues, country and rockabilly, with R&B and complex jazz rhythms and voicings, "all with a twist of Latin flavor.

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Mississippi native Lynn Drury moved to New Orleans in 1995 with the dream of becoming a singer/songwriter. Picking up the guitar in 1996, she hit the ground running and began performing coffee shops and clubs, landing a weekly at Margaritaville in 1998 where she cut her teeth not only as a singer and songwriter, but also as an entertainer. She continued her residency for five years, landing her first band slot at the N.O. Jazz& Heritage Festival in 2003. She's been a regular performer ever since and has amassed a die-hard fan base.

With her catchy melodies and burnished voice, Drury has been called "A one woman army of soul" - Caleb Guillotte - Her unique style is the product of her country music raisin' mixed with her love R&B and Pop, and twenty plus years of soaking up the sounds of the Crescent City. She started out calling her music, Twang 'n Groove, then "Mississippi Grit, New Orleans Groove," settling finally on "NOLAmericana." Over the past two decades, that meticulously cultivated style – NOLAmericana® – has brought Drury’s original music to stages all over the world. With a distinctive voice, this is definitive New Orleans Americana created in a city that moves to its own groove.

Jake Walker is a native New York Blues singer and guitarist. A regular on the European touring circuit, Jake Walker is known for his sweet, melodic, and dynamic guitar phrasing, as well as his soulful vocals and strong original material. Jake began his professional career in the Blues backing JSP recording artist James Peterson, and his son, Lucky Peterson, in clubs and restaurants on the west coast of Florida. Returning to New York, Jake established his own voice in the competitive NYC Blues scene, fronting bands such as the neo-burlesque NYC Blues Devils (weekly house band at The Cutting Room), and running several popular local Blues Jams. A simple live recording of one of these jams, posted on Myspace, caused no small buzz in 2006, earning Jake "Artist of The Week" at Big City R&B Magazine, regular airplay on blues FM and internet radio, and three overseas tours, all before Jake had recorded his first proper album! In 2008, multi-platinum producer and engineer Elliot Mazer (Neil Young, "Harvest", The Band, "The Last Waltz) showed up at one of Jake Walker's shows at Ashford and Simpson's Sugar Room club, and signed Jake to his new label, LeftTurn. The result was the "Confidence Man" LP, which Mazer also produced. The CD earned universal critical praise, and helped take Jake's presence in the international Blues circuit to a new level, earning him the sobriquet "The Ambassador of New York Blues", after many subsequent tours in England, France, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Italy, and Serbia

Heather Lil' Mama Hardy

Heather Lil' Mama hardy is a Soul/ Blues singer known mostly for her Electric and Acoustic Blues