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11 November 2011 at 21 : 42 PM
2011 South Orange Blues Festival – Popa Chubby
Popa Chubby, born Ted Horowitz in 1960, is a native son of The Big Apple. His parents were candy store owners in the Bronx. The young Chubby would play the jukebox endlessly listening to the hits of the day. Motown, Stax Volt, Chess and Atlantic records spun endlessly through the young boy’s head. “The defining… Read More
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11 October 2011 at 21 : 46 PM
South Orange Blues Festival – Dave Stryker
Whether you’ve heard guitarist Dave Stryker fronting his own group (with 20 CD’s as a leader to date), or as a featured sideman with Stanley Turrentine, Jack McDuff, and more recently Kevin Mahogany, you know why Gary Giddins in the Village Voice calls him “one of the most distinctive guitarists to come along in recent years.”
When asked why a blues festival, festival Founder and internationally-acclaimed bassist Griot responded, “Rock and jazz and rap
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festivals are all around us, while the blues genre is an underappreciated, yet seminal, American tradition. I’ve found that people who
didn’t even know what the style was will instantly like the blues when they first hear it and recognize that much of their favorite music
has its roots in the blues.”