August 2010
The DelRayz
Friday, August 6, 2010 @ 7:30pm
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After tearing up Valley gin joints for the better part of two decades in mainly all-female bands, blueswomen Rochelle Raya and Nancy Dalessandro have relaxed their ladies-only policy and launched a new group with some help from the less-fair sex. Both are inductees of the Arizona Blues Hall of Fame, and both were founding members of Sistah Blue, one of the Valley's most decorated and commercially successful funk-soul-blues acts. After playing their final Sistah Blues show last year, singer/harmonicist Raya and guitarist Dalessandro made it an all-gender affair by joining forces with a trio of talented journeymen: guitarist James Robertson (formerly of Sweetfinger), bassist Scott Alamprese (Whiskey River) and drummer-vocalist Dale Loyola, who once did a stint with Ray Charles. The resulting band — named, presumably, after a short-lived Chevrolet car model from the late '50s — plays the same mix of classic covers and soul-infused originals that made the old band so popular.
Bad Cactus Brass Band
Friday August 13, 2010 @ 7:30pm
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Bad Cactus Brass Band is a New Orleans style second line jazz band. Founded by sousaphonist Benjie Messer, their members include many of the fieriest jazz musicians in the Phoenix area. Their repertoire includes original dance music, funky street beats, traditional Dixieland, gospel, swing and pop songs that are reinterpreted with a brass band sound. Powered by tuba, drums, trumpets, saxophones, and trombones, the Bad Cactus Brass Band brings a Mardi Gras energy to every performance.
Brad Richter
Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 7:30pm
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Brad Richter (b. 1969, Enid, OK) began teaching himself to play guitar and compose at age 12. At 19, having had no formal musical training, he was awarded the Presidential Scholarship to the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago. Brad studied with guitarists Paul Henry and Carlos Bonell and has performed around the globe as a soloist, with renowned chamber ensembles, and in duos with artists such as David Finckel, cellist of the Grammy-winning Emerson String Quartet and director of chamber music at Lincoln Center. Brad’s concerts and those of The Richter Uzur Duo (with cellist Viktor Uzur) are featured frequently on NPR broadcasts of American Public Media’s Performance Today as well as Guitar Alive.
