Live Events!
Every Thursday Friday and Saturday
Ray Charles Tribute Band
Location:
Beatniq Jazz Club
Featuring:
Donald Ray Johnson, Lead Vocal, John Gray - Acoustic Bass, Sheldon Zandboer, Spencer Cheyne - Drums, Gareth Hughes - Saxophones, Kim Beachum - Trumpet, Brian Wally - Trombone, Background Vocals; Melissa Jarvis, Andria Stephens, and Oaitse Hellard. Donald Ray Johnson has spent a lifetime dedicated to music. After some 40 years this Texas born bluesman is still going strong. A Grammy Award winner and twice Maple Blues Award nominee was voted Best Male Blues Vocalist 2007 by Real Blues Magazine. Donald has toured with Blues and R&B artists Phillip Walker, Big Mama Thornton, Smokey Wilson, Teddy Pendegrass, and The Isley Brothers.
John Gray has been a fan of the music of Ray Charles as long as he can remember and has played with the likes of Nat Adderley, Chet Baker, Lenny Breau, Ray Charles, Eddie Daniels, Eddie " Lockjaw" Davis, Jack DeJohnette, Herb Ellis, Sonny Fortune, Dexter Gordon, Steve Lacy, Frank Mantooth, Butch Miles, Frank Rosolino, George Shearing, Woody Shaw, Jack Sheldon, Buddy Tate, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Eddie " Clean head" Vinson and Jack Walrath.
TICKETS: $20 AT THE DOOR. DOORS 8 P.M., SHOW @ 9:15...RUSH SEATING.
