Samstag

05.07.2014

21:00

Konzert

BOOGIE WITH THE HOOK (USA, GER)

A tribute to John Lee Hooker

Zakiya Hooker - vocal
Chris James – vocal, bass
John Lee Sanders – vocal, keyboards 

RAD GUMBO
Robert »Dackel« Hirmer – vocal, accordion
Frank Folgmann - guitar
Erwin Schmidl - bass
Gerhard Spreng - drums

Zakiya Hooker, the daughter of blues legend John Lee Hooker, and Ray Frick, agent from Bavaria, are the initators of the project Boogie with the Hook, connecting musicians who have been collaborating with John Lee Hooker and want to revive this unique blues feeling!

Vocalist Zakiya Hooker debuted in 1991 with his father, the great John Lee Hooker. This performance in California opened many doors for her and soon she started collaborating with the big blues and soul names (Etta James, Charles Brown, John Hammond, Taj Mahal, and others). She performed in Paris, Amsterdam, London and the world famous Filmore auditorium, the blues festival in San Francisco and the famous Jazz and blues festival in Monterey.

John Lee Sanders is a
Louisiana blues artist, singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist. For the first 25 years of his life, John was raised in the Louisiana Mississippi delta, immersed in the wealth of jazz, blues and gospel music that became the DNA of North American pop music fort he next 50 years. His childhood encounters with the likes of Elvis Presley and Dr. Martin Luther Kind are part oft he landscape that influenced this gifted piano, sax & vocal performer and composer. At 12 years old, John Lee was billed as „Birmingham’s answer to Little Stevie Wonder“ and opened for many rock and blues legends.

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