MARK HUMMEL
FRIDAY NIGHT BLUES MARK HUMMEL & BILLY FLYNN with the BLUES SURVIVORS & ETHAN LEINWAND 5:30 pm HISTORIC EAGLE HOUSE SATURDAY NIGHT BLUES MARK HUMMEL'S CHICAGO BLUES PARTY 8:30 pm HISTORIC EUREKA THEATER
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California and included bigger names like William Clarke, Norton Buffalo and Paul DeLay. By the year 2000, the Blowout was headlining Yoshi's in Oakland as a four night show with Rod Piazza, Kim Wilson, Rick Estrin, James Harman and Billy Branch. These shows were recorded for Mountain Top Records. Sincethenit’sbecomeawho’swhoofolderandyounger players, black, white, male and female, national and international. From icons like Snooky Pryor, Carey Bell, James Cotton, Charlie Musselwhite, John Mayall, John Hammond, Little Sonny, Lazy Lester, Billy Boy Arnold, Magic Dick, Huey Lewis, Lee Oscar, and Paul Oscher to younger players like Sugar Ray Norcia, Jason Ricci, Aki Kumar, Curtis Salgado, Kenny Neal, Sugar Blue, Annie Raines, and Carlos Del Junco, just to name a few. The selection of guitarists has also been a stunner including Duke Robillard, Rusty Zinn, Bob Welsh, Little Charlie Baty, Anson Funderburgh, Jr. Watson, Billy Flynn, Steve Freund, Mike Keller and many more. Year after year Mark Hummel's Blues Harmonica Blowout™ continues to play festivals nationally and internationally as well as sold out venues coast to coast. www.markhummel.com SPONSORED BY CHEVRON ALSO ON SATURDAY 11:30 am ADORNI CENTER Acoustic Blues with Billy Flynn, Joe Beard & Oscar Wilson 4:00 PM ADORNI CENTER Duke Robillard, Joe Beard & Mark Hummel “Mark Hummel is one of the very top notch guys on the Blues Harmonica scene today. He’s a great traditional player.” - Billy Boy Arnold
Grammy Nominee, Blues Music Award Winner, Author, and Harp Man MARK HUMMEL started playing harmonica in 1970 and is considered one of the premier blues harmonica players of his generation. Hummel has released over thirty recordings since 1985, including the Grammy-nominated 2013 Blind Pig recording Remembering Little Walter (part of the Blues Harmonica Blowout CD series). Hummel is a road warrior - a true Blues Survivor. Along the way, he has crafted his own trademark harmonica sound - a subtle combination of tone, phrasing and attack combined with a strong sense of swing. Mark has been with Electro Fi Records since 2000, releasing five CDs. Thanks to Mark's earlier albums, constant touring and appearances at the major blues festivals, he's firmly established his solid reputation around the US and Europe. Born in New Haven, CT but raised in Los Angeles until he graduated high school, Mark moved to Berkeley at age 18 to pursue a career in blues music, where he felt the music was taken more seriously. Mark started the Blues Survivors in 1977 with Mississippi Johnny Waters. By 1984 Hummel began a life of non- stop touring of the US, Canada and overseas, which he still continues at least 130-150 days out of each year. Hummel has toured or recorded with blues legends Charles Brown, Charlie Musselwhite, Lowell Fulson, Billy Boy Arnold, Carey Bell, Lazy Lester, Brownie McGhee, Eddie Taylor, Luther Tucker and Jimmy Rogers. Mark Hummel’s Blues Harmonica Blowout™ started on a Sunday night in 1991 at Ashkenaz in Berkeley with four harmonica players - Rick Estrin, Mark, Dave Earl and Doug Jay. Each player performed a twenty to thirty minute set and everyone jammed together with Hummel’s Blues Survivors as backup. Over the next five years it grew to become a multi-venue event around
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