Father's Day Weekend Blues Fest
June 19 – June 20 @ 7pm
The Albuquerque Museum Amphitheater
2000 Mountain Road NW

Father's Day Weekend Blues Fest features Chris Dracup, Tommy Elskes and Hillary Smith of Soul Kitchen, Levi & The Plateros, The HooDoos, Gerome Fragua, Marvin Jaramillo, the Memphis P. Tails and MORE! Father's Day Weekend Blues Fest June 19th and 20th Albuquerque Museum Amphitheater at 2000 Mountain Road, NW. The unified curtain time for all evening performances is 7:00 p.m. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. All concerts occur rain or shine. Admission $15 Adults; $13 Seniors (60+) and Students w/ID; $12 New Mexico Jazz Workshop (NMJW) and Albuquerque Museum Members. Children under 12 get in FREE!

Blues man Leon Redbone says, “The Blues ain't nothing but a good man feelin' bad.” No matter how low you go, the rhythm and whine of the Blues has a way of digging you out of the hole you dug yourself-- sets you to right. Join New Mexico Jazz Workshop on Friday, June 19 and Saturday, June 20 for a Father's Day weekend of music that will lift your spirits and warm your soul.

On Friday evening features:
Soul Kitchen
The Memphis P.Tails
Marvin Jaramillo and Gerome Fragua

NMJW welcomes the funkified Blues of Soul Kitchen-- a relatively new band made up New Mexico music veterans Chris Dracup, Tommy Elskes and Hillary Smith, winner of the 2009 Mic Award in five categories. Smith, who is also performing on Friday, June 12 at the 2009 Women's Voices Festival has great things to say about her new band. "We started things up last Fall and have been blessed with enthusiastic audiences and a steady stream of work," Smith says. Smith explains that it took a bit of persuasion to get Elskes and Dracup to form Soul Kitchen but they finally came around. " I heard Tommy and Chris play for the first time last summer, and I fell in love with those beautiful brothers," Smith adds.  "I pretty much just asked if I could be in the "boy's club" and kept asking till they said yes!" Soul Kitchen continues to thrill New Mexico audiences-- don't miss this concert in a setting befitting the stature of theses of artists. Also on the bill for Friday night is The Memphis P. Tails.  Self-described as a powerful blues experience, The Memphis P. Tails draw energy and raw power from the fathers of the genre, while staying true to their own Southwest heritage. According to the Memphis P. Tails, Blues is BLOOD!  Friday night also features Marvin Jaramillo and Gerome Fragua and their soulful harmonica and addictive guitar rifts with a twinge of rockabilly will take you back to days gone by.

Saturday evening features:

Levi & the Plateros
The HooDoos
Marvin Jaramillo and Gerome Fragua

NMJW welcomes the winners of the 2009 New Mexico Music Awards for Best Blues, Levi & The Plateros as they blow into town, whilst on their whirlwind Hard Rock Cafe tour. Levi & The Plateros, is a family Blues band from a Tohajiilee Indian Reservation west of the Rio Grande. Over the past few years, The Plateros have built a solid reputation of delivering a unique hybrid of blues rock on the festival curcuit from California to New York, Seattle to Nashville and all manner of points in between. Audiences can expect an exciting performance, with a hard bluezy Tex/Mex sound. The band is led by seventeen-year-old Levi Platero, a young man with guitar chops that defy his age.

Local and regional favorites, The HooDoos also make an appearance on Saturday evening. The HooDoos have a voodoo that they do so well. Billy D. on guitar and vocals, bassist Jeffery Sipe and Mickey Chavez on drums have been providing hip-shaking Rhythm & Blues for years. Their extremely popular songs and driving rhytms will have you on the dance floor in no time. You won't want to miss this weekend of Blues Under the Stars--  powerful events like this appear and are then swept away, leaving little trace, like dust tracks on a road.

Father's Day Weekend Blues Fest June 19th and 20th Albuquerque Museum Amphitheater at 2000 Mountain Road, NW. The unified curtain time for all evening performances is 7:00 p.m. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. All concerts occur rain or shine. Admission $15 Adults; $13 Seniors (60+) and Students w/ID; $12 New Mexico Jazz Workshop (NMJW) and Albuquerque Museum Members. Children under 12 get in FREE.