The Pittsburgh Blues Festival kicks off tonight featuring Terrance Simien & the Zydeco Experience.
The Pittsburgh Blues Festival, presented by Peoples Natural Gas, takes place July 20-22, 2012 at Hartwood Acres. This is the 18th year for this fundraiser, which benefits Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank.
The line-up of blues musicians includes a variety of blues styles, from zydeco to boogie. The weekend begins with a Mardi Gras party. Admission to Friday (only) is FREE with the donation of a
bag of nonperishable groceries for the Food Bank, thanks to sponsors Giant Eagle, Fox 53, and WDVE 102.5 fm. Terrance Simien is billed as a fierce guardian of true Zydeco blues temming from his 8th generation Creole heritage. Anthony Gomes will warm up the evening – a past winner of the Blueswax “Blues Guitarist of the Year” award. In past years the Food Bank has collected as much as 12 tons of food on free Friday.
The rest of the line-up is pretty classic – Canned Heat, Mavis Staples, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Bernard Allison Group, Jimmy Thackery & the Drivers, Albert Cummings and Barbara Blue. Canned Heat stormed onto the music stage as the headliner at Woodstock and became known as “kings of the boogie.” Mavis Staples, of the famous gospel family singers, is one of blues’ remaining first ladies; she won a Grammy in 2010 for her latest release You Are Not Alone. Bobby “Blue” Bland started out with B.B. King, and is the inspiration of record for dozens of today’s best blues musicians...
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