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Sioux Falls Jazz & Blues is currently seeking submissions from local musicians to perform at the Sioux Falls Jazz & Blues Festival – JazzFest 2012, July 26-28 at Yankton Trail
JazzFest 2009 Performers
You can always count on a fantastic mixture of music at JazzFest, and this year is no different. Check out what’s in store…
7.17.09 Main Stage Line-Up
Blues Bashers – 6pm
A force as powerful as a Midwest tornado is gathering steam and rolling out of America’s forgotten state and into your eardrums—The Blues Bashers. The band features a man who’s forgotten more musical adventures than most of us will ever have: Bobby Berge. Wanting to add some new blood to the mix, Bobby hooked up with Jesse Christen. Derek Snow is on harmonica and vocals. And rounding out the group on piano is Terry Brooks.
Tommy Castro – 8pm
Tommy Castro is respected by many as a firmly established and highly acclaimed force in the American Roots/Blues arena. Tommy expressed interest in learning to play the guitar at age ten and was initially inspired by the likes of Eric Clapton and Elvin Bishop. Later, wanting to know who their influences were, Tommy became enthralled with the guitar playing of B.B. King, Buddy Guy, and Muddy Waters. His prowess as a recording artist is reinforced by a charismatic and powerfully charged stage performance. Years of touring, writing, and recording have resulted in a masterful blend of the musical genres that he loves: blues, soul and rock. Prominent observers of the blues have extolled Tommy’s dynamic musicianship and pointed to him as being among a small few that represent the future of the Blues.
Elvin Bishop – 10pm
Bishop is a slide guitar great with 45 years of blues under his belt. Rolling Stone has tagged Bishop’s music as “raucous,” praising his “careening slide and razor-edged bursts, all delivered with unflagging enthusiasm and wit.” While attending the University of Chicago he came across Paul Butterfield, and they collaborated in 1965 to record the Paul Butterfield Blues Band album, which turned out to be a sea–change record for thousands of rock fans and musicians. The 70s saw Elvin hit the charts with solo tracks like “Travelin’ Shoes,” “Sure Feels Good,” and what would become his biggest hit, “Fooled Around and Fell in Love.” Elvin’s brand new release The Blues Rolls On, harks back to Bishop’s roots, paying tribute to the musicians who helped give him his start.
7.18.09 Main Stage Line-Up
T. Wilson King – 12noon
A performer since the age of three, singing and tap dancing as his mother played piano, T. Wilson King incorporates a style that is unique and engaging. Self–taught, his music is a synthesis of folk, rock, country, gospel, jazz and blues. After being discharged from the Army in 1970, King began playing in the San Francisco and Monterey Bay area and south to San Diego. Dubbed South Dakota’s “King of the Guitar” by the National Music Museum, he is a frequent performer at the museum’s “Brown Bag” concert series.
Dakota Jazz Collective – 1:30pm
Dakota Jazz Collective is a Sioux Falls ensemble rooted in the classic and contemporary sounds of jazz. Featuring a horn driven ensemble, members of DJC have developed a strong reputation as some of the region’s finest and most recognized jazz musicians. Some have shared a stage together for over 12 years. Celebrating the local jazz scene, committed to jazz education, and performing across the region, Dakota Jazz Collective shares their passion for jazz with every performance.
Northlanders Jazz Band with Jeff Jarvis & Chris Vadala- 3pm
The Augustana’s Northlanders Jazz Band was started in 1954 with Earl Colgan as its student leader. It continued as a student–run organization until Dr. Harold Krueger assumed its leadership in 1965. Since then the ensemble has performed for many campus and community events as well as being featured with numerous guest soloists in the annual Jazz on the Upper Great Plains Festival. Dr. Paul Schilf will direct the ensemble with special guest artists Chris Vadala and Jeff Jarvis.
The Bad Plus – 4:30pm
For the better part of a decade, the progressive jazz trio known as The Bad Plus have been stirring up a musical stew that defies easy description. Forget categories and catch phrases—the sound of The Bad Plus is distinctive, eclectic and formidable. In short, a diverse array of music lovers have been seduced by The Bad Plus and their earnest, dizzying musicianship. Returning to Sioux Falls after performing as part of the Sioux Falls Jazz & Blues Society’s concert series to a near sell-out audience in 2006, drummer David King, bassist Reid Anderson and pianist Ethan Iverson have just released their eighth album, For All I Care, featuring an interesting mix of tunes from Kurt Cobain, Igor Stravinsky, and Pink Floyd, to name a few.
Bettye LaVette – 6pm
Bettye LaVette is one of the greatest soul singers in American music history. She’s possessed of an incredibly expressive voice that one moment will exude a formidable level of strength and intensity and the next will appear vulnerable, reflective, and reeking of heartbreak. In 2004, she won a prestigious WC Handy Award for “Comeback Blues Album of the Year” and soon after was signed by Anti Records, where she released her most acclaimed album yet, 2005’s “I’ve Got My Own Hell to Raise.” A Grammy nominee and the reigning “Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year” LaVette recently performed a show–stopping version of The Who’s “Love Reign O’er Me” at the Kennedy Center Honors in December, and “A Change Is Gonna Come” with Jon Bon Jovi at Barack Obama’s Inaugural Celebration.
Keb’ Mo’ – 8pm
Singer–songwriter and guitarist Keb’ Mo’s music is a living link to the seminal Delta blues that traveled up the Mississippi River and across the expanse of America—informing all of its musical roots—before evolving into a universally celebrated art form. Mo’s music is a purely post–modern expression of the artistic and cultural journey that has transformed the blues, and his own point of view, over time. His distinctive sound embraces multiple eras and genres, including pop, rock, folk and jazz. Mo’s music owes as much to contemporary music’s singer–songwriter movement, encompassing his longtime friends and collaborators Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne, as to the spirit of the blues godfather Robert Johnson that dwells in his work. For Keb’ Mo’, the common bond between these influences is the underlying storytelling ethic, the power of song to convey human experience and emotional weight.
Lil Brian & The Travelers – 10pm
Lil Brian & The Zydeco Travelers are living up to their reputation as the most innovative and musically accomplished young Zydeco band on the scene today. For the past decade and more, Lil’ Brian & The Zydeco Travelers have developed a reputation, and are brilliantly drawing upon contemporary urban black sounds while remaining respectful and true to their Zydeco roots. The 27–year–old is serious about showing how this instrument can be as hip as any in contemporary music. There are no limits to this music, he says. “I love the roots of Zydeco, but we listen to the music that’s happening today, and my music is the way I feel the music today.”
2nd stage lineup
7.17.09
- Coltcockers – 6pm
- Blue in Green – 7:30pm
- Liquid Thin – 9:15pm
7.18.09
- Jami Lynn and the Aquila Band – 12 noon
- Kyle Knutson – 1:30pm
- Tri-Dimensional – 3pm
- Body Electric – 4:30pm
- Truth & Adapt – 6pm
- Chris Saub – 8pm
- TIM the Band – 9:15pm
* Artists and schedule subject to change