Upcoming Events at Maxine Barritt Park
Description
The event is held at Sarasota County's Maxine Barritt Park, Venice, Florida. The Park overlooks the Gulf of Mexico, only a short distance to the local beach. As the sunset to the west folks will enjoy our headline act Little Jake and the Soul Searchers.
Event Details
Venice Blues Festival 2018
Little Jake Mitchell is an authentic blues child prodigy and R&B singer who works as hard today as he did in his appearances at the Apollo Theater; as hard as he did on tour as "Mr. Excitement" with R&B immortals James Brown, Jackie Wilson, Sam Cooke, and Bobby Blue Bland.
Little Jake & The Soul Searchers—that's what you get when you combine Jake with The Silver-Sonic Horns and a powerful rhythm section. The band recalls authentic R&B stagecraft in support of a classic repertoire of soulful songs. Depending on the venue, Jake and the band treat audiences to sights and sounds seldom seen or heard since the golden age of R&B: opening singers, Tran “The Piano Man” Whitley and drummer, Hal "Halag8r" Saylor; a dynamic, audience-walking lead singer; a strolling horn section; a full-time emcee/announcer, Kenny "The Conductor" Eunice; and one of the funkiest rhythm sections around. The band's roots are deep, featuring sidemen who worked with Ike and Tina Turner, Billy Joe Royal, Ernie K Doe, Hues Corporation, and other R&B and rock pioneers.
James "Super Chikan" Johnson is an American blues musician, based in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Super Chikan is a genuine, one of a kind, Mississippi blues man – a real Mississippi blues treasure. Johnson’s album for Bluestown Records, Chikadelic, is well awarded and a real gem. Super Chikan is the nephew of the late blues great Big Jack Johnson.
Super Chikan has achieved much success in his own career. Nominated for a W. C. Handy Award in the category of Best New Artist in 1998, he is the recipient of five Living Blues Awards and an Excellence in Performance Governor's Award from Mexico City. He received a Mississippi Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts in 2004. In 2010 his album Chikadelic was awarded Traditional Blues Album Of The Year at the Blues Music Awards in Memphis, Tennessee. He was also nominated in the categories B.B. King Entertainer of the Year and Song Of The Year for the song “Fred’s Dollar Store”.
Super Chikan enjoys several kinds of music that are reflected in his own songs, and he is inspired by artists like Jimmy Reed, Elmore James, Lightin' Hopkins and Slim Harpo, but his style and delivery are uniquely his
Little Jake Mitchell is an authentic blues child prodigy and R&B singer who works as hard today as he did in his appearances at the Apollo Theater; as hard as he did on tour as "Mr. Excitement" with R&B immortals James Brown, Jackie Wilson, Sam Cooke, and Bobby Blue Bland.
Little Jake & The Soul Searchers—that's what you get when you combine Jake with The Silver-Sonic Horns and a powerful rhythm section. The band recalls authentic R&B stagecraft in support of a classic repertoire of soulful songs. Depending on the venue, Jake and the band treat audiences to sights and sounds seldom seen or heard since the golden age of R&B: opening singers, Tran “The Piano Man” Whitley and drummer, Hal "Halag8r" Saylor; a dynamic, audience-walking lead singer; a strolling horn section; a full-time emcee/announcer, Kenny "The Conductor" Eunice; and one of the funkiest rhythm sections around. The band's roots are deep, featuring sidemen who worked with Ike and Tina Turner, Billy Joe Royal, Ernie K Doe, Hues Corporation, and other R&B and rock pioneers.
James "Super Chikan" Johnson is an American blues musician, based in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Super Chikan is a genuine, one of a kind, Mississippi blues man – a real Mississippi blues treasure. Johnson’s album for Bluestown Records, Chikadelic, is well awarded and a real gem. Super Chikan is the nephew of the late blues great Big Jack Johnson.
Super Chikan has achieved much success in his own career. Nominated for a W. C. Handy Award in the category of Best New Artist in 1998, he is the recipient of five Living Blues Awards and an Excellence in Performance Governor's Award from Mexico City. He received a Mississippi Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts in 2004. In 2010 his album Chikadelic was awarded Traditional Blues Album Of The Year at the Blues Music Awards in Memphis, Tennessee. He was also nominated in the categories B.B. King Entertainer of the Year and Song Of The Year for the song “Fred’s Dollar Store”.
Super Chikan enjoys several kinds of music that are reflected in his own songs, and he is inspired by artists like Jimmy Reed, Elmore James, Lightin' Hopkins and Slim Harpo, but his style and delivery are uniquely his
