Bay City Blues Festival – Michigan Rocks!

It always makes me smile when I see how crazy the tour schedule is for some of these blues musicians.  Take Sugar Blue, the grammy award winning blues harp player that has been on the scene for some time, but has a renewed passion and fire to his performances lately. 

He was in our home town of Ottawa, Canada and Cisco Systems Bluesfest on the July 17th where he put on a terrific show – coming from Mt Tremblant the night before (a ski resort about 2-hours from Ottawa).  Then I see that he played the Bay City Blues Festival in Michigan on the 19th and brought the house down on a night that saw blues legend Kenny Neal and blues guitar great Johnny Winter in the headliner slot. 

I still recall a special evening in downtown Ottawa at the Rainbow – one of our mainstay blues venues in the city – seeing Sugar Blue, it must be more than 15-years ago.  That too was an incredible show of blues standards with the fire and passion than Sugar Blue brings to every performance.

From all reports it turned out to be a magical evening of music where three very different artists managed to communicate their passion for blues music to the crowd, each in their own way. 

You’ve got to love the summer – remind me next year, I’m going to take 3-4 months and just travel from blues festival to festival – to hell with working!