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Thu, Oct 20th , 8-10pm, Concert – Doc MacLean National Steel “Zulu Skies” Blues Tour BC
Ride shotgun with Doc MacLean as the World's Biggest Little Blues Tour storms two continents by land. Keep a couple of extra rounds in the glove box, and keep the tunes cranked up. Before this is over we just might meet the Zulu King.
Forty shows across South Africa. Zulu skies. It's not about wishing and shiny new guitars. It's bare fingers on dead strings. Blues from the darker side of the road. It's truth. Lies. Redemption. It's the vagabond telling songs and singing stories. It's cheap wine and bourbon. It's whispering and shouting of things close to the bone. It's listening to the voices in the wind. It's life lived.
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Tickets $20 (seniors/kids $15) on sale now @ Char’s Landing or call (778) 421-2427 to purchase with Visa/MC/Debit
FMI http://alberni.ca/events/ Char’s 19+ Lounge open 5:30-12midnight 365+ days a year www.charslanding.com Char’s Landing, 4815 Argyle @5th. Port Alberni V9Y 1V9
Biography
Son of a civil rights lawyer and a fiddle player, MacLean was by his early teens playing harmonica and washboard in coffeehouses and festivals, and was appearing on radio and television variety shows. In 1972 he formed a duo with another young musician, Colin Linden, (Grammy nominated producer and recent Dylan guitarist) and became a frequent and popular opener for Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee, Muddy Waters, and John Hammond.
In his travels Doc met and became friends with many older musicians including Son House, Tampa Red, 'Sippi Wallace, Yank Rachel, Robert Pete Williams, Rev Robert Wilkins and Bukka White. His youthful work as an accompanist included tours and performances with Peg Leg Sam the Medicine Show Man, Blind John Davis, Sunnyland Slim, Little Brother Montgomery, Rev Pearly Brown, the Carter Family and Sam Chatmon.
MacLean, who now resides in Toronto, has appeared at many of the larger North American folk and blues festivals. Radio and television appearances have included national programming such as CNN Today, PBS Morning Pro Musica, CBC 90 Minutes Live, Touch the Earth, Morningside, Canada Live, and Saturday Night Blues. Now appearing most often as a solo performer, he is equally comfortable at a folk festival workshop, priming a rowdy blues festival crowd, or telling a story in a hushed theatre. In his father's footsteps, Doc's concerns for social justice have lead him to perform in the prisons, soup kitchens, picket lines, and hospices of the many communities he passes through.
Doc MacLean remains a bit of a blues hobo, performing on the street when the opportunity or need presents itself. A constant traveler, he will come to your town if he is invited. Call now, life can be short.
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