Freedom Blues Festival

Date:Date: Friday-Sunday, January 17-19, 2003 Friday-Sunday, January 17-19, 2003

Location:Location: Bradfordville Blues Club Bradfordville Blues Club7152 Moses Lane, Tallahassee7152 Moses Lane, Tallahassee

An Apalachee Blues Society Production

Freedom Blues Festival

Music,Music,Vendors, FilmsVendors, FilmsWorkshops, Workshops, and more!! and more!!

Now, some of the headliners….

Pinetop Perkins

Bob Margolin Band

Willie "Big Eyes" Smith

Precious Bryant

Carey Bell

• 1999 Grammy Nominee, "Best Traditional Blues Recording"

• 1999 Recipient NEA Award for Traditional Artist • 1999 Recipient W.C. Handy Award, "Best Piano" • Pinetop Perkins admittedly wasn't the originator of the

seminal piano piece "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie," but it's a safe bet that more people associate it nowadays with Pinetop Perkins than with the man who devised it in the first place, Clarence "Pinetop" Smith.

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Pinetop

STEADY ROLLING BOB MARGOLIN is a veteran of the Muddy Waters band from 1973 through 1980.

Using the Delta slide guitar style of his mentor, Margolin unleashes his ferocious guitar playing, heartfelt singing and clever songwriting to define his own intense style - a style that is at once contemporary and deeply rooted.

Willie "Big Eyes" Smith

Willie played drums with Muddy Waters for fifteen years. His traditional "shuffle" style has been regarded as the heart and soul of the Chicago blues sound, with Willie laying the beat behindmany of the blues classics.

Precious BryantPrecious Bryant’s guitar work is brilliant, marked by bottomless bass notes, chiming arpeggios on the high strings and gently driving rhythms, while her singing is simply amazing, full of joy and sly wit.

Blues harmonica legend Carey Bell is one of the very few players today who didn't learn his craft by listening to old records, but by studying directly under the masters. "Little Walter, he showed me a lot of things," says Bell, "but Big Walter, he was crazy. He did all kinds of shit other harp players couldn't do."

"Bell has set the mark for the harp kings to beat. Stunningly great, haunting." -- ASSOCIATED PRESS

FridayCarey Bell

SaturdayBob Margolin Band

Willie "Big Eyes" Smith

Pinetop Perkins

SundayPrecious Bryant

Anson Funderburgh & the Rockets with Sam Myers

A peek at some of the schedule…

For more information or to purchase tickets, click to e-mail:

info@apalacheebluessociety.org

or click to visit: www.freedombluesfest.org

Freedom Blues Festival Sponsors

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