Bob Corritore & Dave Riley, Blue Velvet Rhythm & Blues Dance Revue W/ Karen Lovely, Nick Vigarino, Mark Pickerel

Bob Corritore and Dave Riley will appear with drummer Andrew Cloutier and bassist Scott Simmons, the same killer rhythm section they appeared with last year at the Gray Sky Blues Festival in Tacoma!
BOB is one of the most active and highly regarded blues harmonica players on the scene today. His style passionately carries forward the old school of playing that he learned as a young man directly from many of original pioneers of Chicago Blues. His sympathetic, yet fiery harmonica playing is featured… Show more on over 50 releases to date. Many of Bob's acclaimed releases have been nominated or winners for various Handy, Grammy, and Blues Music Awards and Blues Blast Music Awards. Bob is also widely recognized for his many roles in the blues, as band leader, club owner, record producer, radio show host, arts foundation founder, and occasional writer. Born in Chicago 1956, Bob first heard Muddy Waters on the radio at age 12, an event which changed his life forever. Within a year, he was playing harmonica and collecting blues albums. He would see blues shows in his early teens, including attending a Muddy Waters performance at his high school gymnasium. He would cut his teeth sitting in with John Henry Davis on Maxwell Street until he was old enough to sneak into blues clubs. He hung around great harp players such as Big Walter Horton, Little Mack Simmons, Louis Myers, Junior Wells, Big John Wrencher, and Carey Bell. In 1981 he moved to Pheonix and in '91, opened the now famous blues and roots concert venue, The Rhythm Room. His house band, the Rhythm Room All-Stars, has backed Bo Diddley, Little Milton, John Brim, Jimmy Rogers, Henry Gray, Pinetop Perkins, Henry Townsend, Honeyboy Edwards, Big Jack Johnson, Ike Turner, Smokey Wilson. Lil' Ed, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, Nappy Brown, R.L. Burnside, Robert Lockwood, Jr., Sam Lay, Barbara Lynn, John Primer, Eddy Clearwater, and numerous others. The Mayor of Phoenix officially proclaimed September 29, 2007 to be "Bob Corritore Day" in honor of his musical contributions to the community. Also that year, Bob received a "Keeping The Blues Alive" award from the Blues Foundation.
Bob's 2007 collaboration with Dave Riley, Travelin' The Dirt Road, was nominated for a Blues Music Award. Bob also contributed harmonica work on the 2008 Grammy(c)-nominated CD/DVD by Pinetop Perkins, On The 88s In 2011 he was nominated for a (Blues Music Award and a Living Blues Award for best harmonica player and his CD Bob Corritore & Friends / Harmonica Blues won a Bma for Best Historical Blues Release. Also In 2011 the State of Arizona awarded Bob a Certificate Of Recognition for his work in blues music. 2012 brings about the release of Tail Dragger & Bob Corritore / Longtime Friends In The Blues, as well as the Corritore-produced Mud Morganfield's Son Of The Seventh Son (the debut CD of the eldest son of Muddy Waters) and a guest appearance by Mud and Bob on the Mannish Boys release Double Dynamite. Bob performs regularly across the country and around the world with numerous projects including Dave Riley & Bob Corritore, Tail Dragger, Mud Morganfield Blues Band, The Rhythm Room All-Stars, Henry Gray, Sam Lay, Bob Margolin, Diunna Greenleaf, The Bob Riedy Blues Band, and others. Bob has also become well known for organizing multi-artist showcase sets and events featuring traditional blues revues.
BLUE Velvet Rhythm & Blues Dance REVUE
starring
KAREN Lovely your host, lead vocals, master of ceremonies
THE Shanghai Pearl (burlesque)
INGA Ingenue (cabaret, 2011 Miss Viva Las Vegas)
NICK Vigarino - is a Pacific Northwest treasure. One of the world's greatest slide guitar players, he has been riveting audiences worldwide with his distinctive fusion of Chicago and Delta style Blues, and his ability to play slide with literally any object in the room.
MARK Pickerel - a Musical Renaissance Man and a Seattle icon, Mark's career began as the original and longtime drummer for late 80s and early 90s rock pioneers Screaming Trees, a longtime fixture in the national American Music scene whose solo albums have been released by the standard-bearing Bloodshot Records
$20 includes a complimentary admission pass for any show on or before March 31, 2013, subject to availability. VIP packages available, inquire within at reservations@highwayninetynine.com

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