Greenwood Blues Cruise Line-up Announced
8th Annual Greenwood Blues Cruise Presented by The Index Journal
May 30, 2008
Greenwood, SC - A Blues Empress from Atlanta, Harlem street musicians, and a quartet with a cardboard box are just a few of the unique highlights of the 8th Annual South Carolina Festival of Discovery Greenwood Blues Cruise taking place July 10-12, 2008 in beautiful Uptown Greenwood, South Carolina.
“The Greenwood Blues Cruise celebrates great Blues in a true Southern cultural setting,” said Gary Erwin, aka Shrimp City Slim, Artistic Director of the Greenwood Blues Cruise. “What better way to enjoy the Blues with the backdrop aroma of barbecue,” said Erwin.
The Cruise kicks off Thursday, July 10 at 5:30 PM with a Live After 5 concert at the Countybank Plaza featuring Atlanta’s “Empress of the Blues” Sandra Hall. Hall has been on stage with the likes of Blues greats John Lee Hooker, Denise LaSalle, Clarence Cater, Tyrone Davis and Albert King.
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Award winning Harlem Blues duo Satan and Adam take the Festival main stage Friday and Saturday. -
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"From the streets of Harlem to the sidewalks of the world, this irrepressible Blues tag team has a sound like no one else,” said Erwin of Satan and Adam.
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Adam Gussow, an award-winning scholar and memoirist, associate professor of English and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi, spent more than a decade working the streets of Harlem and the international club and festival circuit in the 1980’s and 90’s with Mississippi-born bluesman Sterling “Mr. Satin” Magee as the duo Satan and Adam. |
Adam Gussow (left) and Sterling Magee (right) in the late 1980's in Harlem. | They are back together in the summer of 2008 with a limited tour and CD entitled ‘Word on the Street.’
- Columbia, SC's Delta Swagger
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A new Greenwood Blues Cruise venue for 2008 is the Arts Center at the Federal Building. Columbia, SC’s Delta Swagger plays Friday, July 11 from 6 – 8 PM. This exuberant roots music and down home Blues quartet is comprised of guitar, bass, harmonica, and cardboard box! | Playing their first time for the Greenwood Blues Cruise, but not their first time in Greenwood, is the Rickey Godfrey Blues Band. Known to many for his beach sound, Godfrey’s roots are actually deep in the Blues. Godfrey will be joined by a 4 piece Blues band from Nashville.
Additional first time Greenwood Blues Cruise artists include Jeff Norwood and the Matt Walsh Duo. Returning are Cruise favorites Miss Wanda Johnson, ‘The Blues Doctor’ Drink Small, Shelly MaGee & the Bad Deeds, MacArnold & Plate Full O' Blues and Shrimp City Slim.
The Greenwood Blues Cruise is one component of the South Carolina Festival of Discovery - a weekend of food, music and fun wrapped around the history of the Greenwood area and entire state of South Carolina. Visitors can learn about traditions, folklore, arts and crafts, music and dance and culture. Carolina barbecue and traditional Black Kettle Hash have made the festival a tasty stop for local and national barbecue enthusiasts.
For more information on the Greenwood Blues Cruise visit www.greenwoodbluescruise.com or call Uptown Greenwood at (864) 942-8448.
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