Announcing Blowin' Smoke's Big 20th Birthday Bash
Blowout
At Harvelle's...And You're
Invited!
Saturday,
March 28, 2015 from 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.
Blowin' Smoke
Rhythm & Blues Revue Band Leader Larry "Fuzzy" Knight Proudly Fronts The
Same 11-Piece Ensemble He First Started In 1995
(Santa Monica, CA) - On Saturday,
March 28, from 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m., there's going to be a huge 20th Birthday
Bash Blowout presented by, and featuring, Larry "Fuzzy" Knight's Blowin' Smoke Rhythm & Blues Revue featuring The Fabulous
Smokettes, at that Bastion of Blues by the beach, Harvelle's, located at 1432 4th St., in Santa Monica.
Admission is $10. Info: (310)
395-1676 or http://santamonica.harvelles.com
.
Do You
Remember Where You Were & What You Were Doing In 1995, The Year Blowin'
Smoke First Formed & Started Playing Live in
SoCal?
Two decades ago - 1995, to be exact - a gallon of
gasoline was $1.09, a dozen eggs were 87 cents, postage stamps were 32 cents
each, and the average cost of a new car was $15,500.00. Also that year, longtime
Southern California musician Larry "Fuzzy" Knight formed the Blowin' Smoke Rhythm & Blues Revue, a unique,
multi-instrumental band with a big lineup and an even larger sound, augmented by
three superb female vocalists collectively known as The Smokettes.
Their debut
album "Beyond The Blues Horizon" was hailed by the L.A. Times, L.A.
Weekly, Music Connection and more for it's smart blend of blues, R&B, and
soul, utilization of a rich-sounding horn ensemble and of course, those
ever-present Smokettes on vocals.
Two decades
later, much has changed (especially those aforementioned prices!). but one thing
has remained constant - Knight and Blowin' Smoke are still going strong,
entertaining audiences at festivals and better nightclubs throughout the
Southland, often accompanied onstage by renowned guest musicians. "Blowin' Smoke
conveys a welcome reminder to all people with a beating heart that putting a
full horn section in front of a smoking rhythm section, then layering three
charismatic and powerful vocalists on top of that - all live and at the same
time - is music at its most enriching," writes MUSIC CONNECTION. "Bandleader
Larry "Fuzzy" Knight reminds all of us in the modern technological era that real
people with real instruments and real personalities are playing music that hits
the gut and forces the knees to bend."
Knight
- whose
impressive musical resume' includes a decade-plus stint as bassist for one of
the great SoCal bands to emerge from the psychedelic era of the Sixties, Spirit
- recently
announced the addition
of a new member to the Blowin’ Smoke lineup, Don Preston.
Preston is a former original member of Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention and
co-founder of the “GrandMothers”, of which he
recorded a total of thirty-plus albums.
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