Released on = April 5, 2007, 9:00 am

Press Release Author = imajinnWEST

Industry = Entertainment

Press Release Summary = From Chicago to Russell City will Celebrate Pinetop Perkins
94th Birthday

Press Release Body = From Friday July 6 through Sunday 8, 2007 11:00 am to 7:00
pmthe Bay Area Blues Society's 8th year of the Hayward-Russell City Blues Festival
will feature the greatest stars of Chicago Blues ever in California at one time.
The theme this year is "From Chicago to Russell City" and will feature the world's
oldest blues piano player, Mr. Pinetop Perkins, widely recognized as the world's
best Blues piano player. We will celebrate his 94th Birthday on July 7th at the
Hayward-Russell City Blues Festival. Other special features for this From Chicago to
Russell City performance include the Reunion of the "Sons of the Blues" which
include Billy Branch, Lurrie Bell and Carl Weathersby. This show will have the
legendary Eddie Shaw and Mr. Chicago, Taildragger. Other great top blues artists
from the Windy City include Willie Big Eye Smith, Big Time Sarah, Nellie Tiger
Travis, Vance Shaw, and on his first visit to the San Francisco Bay area, Doug
McDonald.
The followup to a hugely successful 2007 West Coast Blues Hall of Fame and Award
Show in Oakland last month where Oakland resident, Tower of Power vet Lenny
Williams, Teddy \"Blues Master\" Watson, Terrible Tom Bowden and Big John Evans and
R&B legends, Ike and Tina Turner were inducted, the Hayward-Russell City Blues
Festival is touted as one of the top blues festivals in California and the number
one music event in the Tri-valley area.
For the past 17 years the Bay Area Blues Society, a non-profit, 501 © (3)
organization, has been dedicated to the perpetuation, preservation, promotion and
representation of Blues, Jazz and Gospel as Classical indigenous American art forms.
We are dedicated to educating the world to this rich American musical heritage.



Tickets are $15 in advance; $30 2-day in advance; $20 at the door per day, $10
students/seniors in advance; $15 students/seniors at the door per day, Group Rates
of 10 or more and available through highsierratickets.com or tickets.com
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Web Site = http://www.bayareabluessociety.net

Contact Details = RONNIE STEWART
BAY AREA BLUES SOCIETY
408 13th Street, Suite 512, Oakland, CA 94612
Phone: 510-836-2227/707-647-3962
Email: hipwayblues@hotmail.com