Fri Sep 3
at 9:00 PM
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NY Funk Exchange
The NEw York FUnk ExchaNge hailing to you from Brooklyn, NY is an 8pc FUNK PHENOM that combines the roots of funk, soul, R&B, and jazz with their own unique arrangements and dynamic rhythms.
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Sat Sep 4
at 9:00 PM
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Soul Tsunami w/ Klokwize
Ray Morant's Soul Tsunami and a great new act called Klokwize.
www.klokwize.com
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Wed Sep 8
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PETE SCHEIPS OPEN JAM
LIVE MUSIC
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Fri Sep 10
at 9:30 PM
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Bronze Radio Return 
“I just fell in love with a forty-five (rpm record) been kept alive in a box over 30 years old,” sings 24-year-old Chris Henderson, the front man of the Hartford, CT, band BRONZE RADIO RETURN. This lyric, from their full-length debut album, OLD TIME SPEAKER, begins to paint the picture that enables your understanding of the group and their music. Like listening to old Bluesmen on your iPod Touch, BRONZE RADIO RETURN is about the juxtaposition of the old and the new. The love for these old records is a mutual feeling shared by the band members, who attribute their sound to the music that came long before their childhoods.
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Sat Sep 11
at 9:00 PM
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Christine Ohlman & Rebel Montez
The Beehive queen is back. When she isnt touring w/ her band or working on SNL, Christine likes to come back to Sally's to see her fans.
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Wed Sep 15
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ED BRADLEY OPEN JAM
LIVE MUSIC
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Fri Sep 17
at 9:30 PM
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Jeff Pitchell & Texas Flood
Jeff Pitchell is an internationally acclaimed dynamic singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor. Jeff achieved national recognition when his last CD, Heavy Hitter (Pyramid Records/EMI) reached #7 on the Billboard Charts, selling more CDs than Delbert McClinton, Robert Cray, Etta James, Johnny Lee Hooker & Muddy Waters. Jeff has recorded with such greats as Rick Derringer, Dave Mason, james Cotton and Clarence Clemons. Jeff received international recognition when he toured Europe and then was asked to join the Commitments as a special guest
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Sat Sep 18
at 9:30 PM
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Lucky Peterson
Lucky Peterson played his first gig at age three. By the time he was five, he had already recorded his first single, produced by none other than the legendary Willie Dixon. Before Lucky turned six, his career had been propelled into the national spotlight with television appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and even What’s My Line?
As a child prodigy, Lucky was somewhat of a novelty act. Now he is a true blues veteran. Over the last three decades, Lucky has played to audiences all over the world, dazzling both fans and critics with his multi-instrumental talents (he plays keyboards, guitar, bass, drums and trumpet), his soulful vocal style and his youthful approach to the blues.
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Wed Sep 22
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TOMMY WHALEN OPEN JAM
LIVE MUSIC
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Fri Sep 24
at 9:00 PM
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Chris Beard Blues Band
When you grow up in a house filled with the blues, when your father grew up on Beale Street, when music was in your DNA, then blues is who you are and what you do.
Chris Beard is a modern blues guitarist and singer like few others. His personal connections to the blues were forged with the living blues men he’s sat with since childhood.
Born in 1957, Beard is the son of Joe Beard, a fine blues guitarist who grew up on Beale Street in the 1950’s before moving to Rochester, NY. When family friends like Matt “Guitar” Murphy and Buddy Guy stopped by, young Chris became their willing pupil.
After years playing the clubs in and around Rochester, Chris was offered the opportunity to record. In 1998, he released his debut recording, Barwalkin’, on JSP Records. That record earned Beard a W.C. Handy nomination as Best New Blues Artist. Chris produced his follow-up disc, Born To Play The Blues in 2001 to the critical acclaim of the blues press and earned Beard the title, Prince of the Blues. Then, in 2005, Beard released Live Wire, a stirring combination of live and studio performances for Northern Blues
“Blues is my roots,” says Chris. “I grew up as Joe Beard’s son in the house of the blues. I grew up around Buddy Guy and Matt Murphy. The influence of Buddy has been major. All he has to say to me is ‘Keep on doing what you’re doing.’ Matt always told me that the guitar has to become an extension of you. That will always stick with me.”
But on this new record, Beard, a world class guitarist, devoted time and energy into establishing his unique and compelling voice.
With the combination of Beard’s assertive voice and his exciting guitar, this record is a seamless combination of traditional blues with a contemporary edge.
On the title cut, Chris called upon his dear friend Ronnie Baker Brooks, another talent who grew up in a blues house. In fact, Beard and Brooks teamed up to write three of the first six songs. Ronnie once told me how Bernard Allison gave him the confidence to play the blues. Ronnie paid it forward by giving Chris the confidence to write again.
Who I am and What I do
Backed by two different bands with musicians that Beard has toured and recorded with for many years gives Beard the confidence to stretch voice and guitar. At the same time the in-house production of he and his brother Duane built the record with the right sound.
Chris's best Cd to date!!
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Sat Sep 25
at 9:00 PM
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Smokin' Joe Kubek & Bnois King
For almost 20 years, the red-hot Texas rockin’ blues of Smokin’ Joe Kubek and Bnois King has been thrilling music fans all around the world. Kubek’s raucous roadhouse fretwork is expertly complimented by the equally fiery guitar and soulful vocals of Bnois King. With literally thousands of live performances under their collective belt, the two create a one-two punch of raw, tough, blues-rock filled with intensity and purpose. Gigging with legendary musicians like Stevie Ray Vaughan, Albert King, Freddie King and B.B. King (among so many others), Kubek learned first-hand how to live and play the blues and how to lead a band. Harp declared, “Kubek and King pump out rocking, kicking blues for those times when the feet just want to start stomping.”
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Wed Sep 29
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TIM MCDONALD OPEN JAM
LIVE MUSIC
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Fri Oct 1
at 9:00 PM
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First Amendment Rock Off w/ McDonald Teague Band
The First Amendment Rock Off is dedicated to appreciating the music and the artists who refused to let authorities dictate their art and freedom of expression. The event will feature live performances by the McDonald Teague Band, playing music that has been censored throughout the United States at some time within the last 50 years, including music by Jefferson Airplane, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, and others.
Acknowledging the influence music can have, authorities have repeatedly tried to silence alternative views in music, even censoring many artists now considered mainstream:
In 1955, Elvis Presley was threatened by the police in California and Florida with arrest and obscenity charges if he moved at all during his performances.
By 1963, the FBI had files on singers like Phil Ochs, Bob Dylan, and Jim Morrison who were under surveillance for their anti-war and “subversive” attitudes.
In 1984, a doctor orders the Institute of Living in Hartford, CT, to remove MTV from the mental hospital’s television system because it is believed to induce a “temporary state of insanity.”
In 1985, President Ronald Reagan questions if “reactionary” and “obscene” rock music deserves Constitutional protection.
Tim McDonald and Burt Teague are part of a four-person band that has performed across Connecticut for many years. Burt Teague has won the Hartford Advocate’s Best Guitarist Award three times and Guitar Player Magazine’s award for best blues guitarist.
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Sat Oct 2
at 9:00 PM
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Avenue Groove
A Six Piece R&B/Funk Band with attitude!
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Wed Oct 6
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TAS CRU BLUES JAM
LIVE MUSIC
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Sat Oct 9
at 9:00 PM
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Tas Cru
Original songwriting from this edgy bluesman has earned Tas Cru the moniker, "the master of the triple entendre." His songs are ceccentric, quirky, and sometimes boldly irreverent with a repertoire that is equal parts power, passion, and pure hilarity. This combined with his soulful voice and skillful guitarwork has earned him his reputation as a bonafide "triple threat."
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Wed Oct 13
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DAVE MACK OPEN JAM
LIVE MUSIC
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Fri Oct 15
at 9:30 PM
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Eran Troy Danner
Tasteful guitar and hard drivin’Blues. Danner brings the blues to life with strong Texas styled blues with a sprinkling of classic rock and swing. They will find a way to get you on the dance floor.
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Wed Oct 20
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TOMMY WHALEN OPEN JAM
LIVE MUSIC
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Wed Oct 27
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TIM MCDONALD OPEN JAM
LIVE MUSIC
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Fri Oct 29
at 9:00 PM
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Matt Zeiner Band
The boys are back and better than ever- catch their rare downtown Hartford show at Sally's. The "new" Matt Zeiner band consists of Matt Zeiner, keys and vocals; Dennis Fancher on Guitar and vocals, Ramon Morant on Guitar and Vocals, and Bill Carbone on Drums and Percussion.
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Sat Oct 30
at 9:00 PM
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Duke Robillard
Rhode Island Guitarist/Vocalist Duke Robillard has been a true New England Blues legend for over 30 years. It was a young Duke who founded Roomful of Blues and piloted it to Jump/Swing greatness. He also spent a couple of years with the Fabulous Thunderbirds.
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Wed Nov 3
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MARK NOMAD OPEN JAM
LIVE MUSIC
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Wed Nov 10
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TOMMY WHALEN OPEN JAM
LIVE MUSIC
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Wed Nov 17
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TIM MCDONALD OPEN JAM
LIVE MUSIC
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