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David Vest, and the Grand Koolios
Maple Blues Award winner David Vest is an authentic, Southern-bred boogie-woogie...
In-Person Event
Fri. October 30th 2015 + Add to Calendar
Blue Frog Studios
7:00pm Doors at: 6:00pm
$37.50
Artists
and the Grand Koolios
Presented by:
Blue Frog Studios
1328 Johnston Road White Rock BC
V4B 3Z2
White Rock Blues Society
15798 38A Ave Surrey BC
V3S 0K9
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Physical tickets at: Blue Frog Studios
Event Description
Maple Blues Award winner David Vest is an authentic, Southern-bred boogie-woogie piano player and blues shouter. Born in Alabama in 1943, David grew up in Birmingham, near Tuxedo Junction. He played his first paying gig in 1957, and by the time he opened for Roy Orbison on New Year’s Day 1962, he was a seasoned veteran of Gulf Coast roadhouses and honky-tonks. At the age of 17, David went on tour with Jerry Woodard and the Esquires, some of whom later became key members of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section and the Muscle Shoals Horns. While still with Woodard, he jammed with Ace Cannon, Bill Black’s Combo and the Jimmy Dorsey Band in clubs along the Florida Panhandle, where fellow Alabaman James Harman would soon make his mark. About the time he turned 21 he found himself onstage bac... more...Event Image
