NEW ORLEANS
NEW YEARS PARTY
with
STEVE GERARD
and the
NATIONAL DEBONAIRES
Monday
December 31st
 The Red Onion is proud to announce our New Years Eve bash for 2007, featuring Kansas City based recording artists Steve Gerard and the National Debonaires.
Based on the success of our Texas-themed party from one year ago, we thought it appropriate to honour another great blues region - New Orleans. This years party will feature a sumptuous three-course New Orleans themed menu, decorations reminiscent of Mardi Gras and the famed Crescent City, and some of the finest blues from south of the border.
The band will surely draw international attention to this years New Years Eve Blues Party as their 2007 debut release "New Sounds From Kansas City" charted at #16 on the "Living Blues" radio chart list. That list is the Blues music's Billboard Chart, and is widely recognized as the place to find out who is breaking new ground in the blues world. The CD has received continuous rotation on radio stations around the world, especially in Canada, since its July 2007 release.
 The entire band will be in Calgary for their Canadian debut and will be joined by legendary American blues singer and harmonica player Lee McBee.
Sean Carney (Guitarist and 2007 International Blues Challenge winner) summed up the album in this review:
Steve Gerard & The National Debonaires rocket out of the Midwest with New Sounds From Kansas City, debuting a collection of bold original blues and lesser known gems from the catalogues of T-Bone Walker and B.B. King. Make no mistake, Gerard has assembled a top notch blues orchestra to take these sounds beyond Kansas City with strong regional flavoring from Chicago, New Orleans and California. Big voiced blues singer, David 'Elmo' Bailey has got to be Kansas City's best kept secret, with a deep, powerful blues moan that is all his own, providing the perfect counterpoint to Steve's in-the-pocket, soulful guitar work. 'New Sounds From Kansas City,' is one of the most exciting blues releases I've heard in quite some time. Enjoy!
 "As guitarist, Gerard brings his best game to New Sounds From Kansas City, not as the show stopping soloist but as the master stylist at the spine of the thing who knows the idioms of blues, swing, and jazz so profoundly he can produce the exact effect he is seeking in every song.'
-- Dale Carter, IllinoisBlues.com
Band information is available here: nationaldebonaires.com
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Dinner and Show tickets are available for $100.00 + GST
There will be a limited number of Show Only tickets for $35.00
This event will surely sell out, so get your tickets today and avoid being dissappointed.
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"Ain’t goin’ down that Big Road by myself.” Join two of Canada's most travelled and best loved bluesmen, Big Dave McLean and Doc MacLean as they prowl the Big Road together from coast to coast. This fifty-plus night, all acoustic tour unites these kings of the highway to share songs and stories in a close and personal presentation. Beneath the laughter and the tears, expect hell hounds to be lurking as these veteran players engage in a friendly battle for blues supremacy.
Big Dave McLean is western Canada’s blues powerhouse. After playing tough little prairie towns for over three decades he is no longer, as Colin James once suggested, “one of the great undiscovered bluesmen.” In recent years he has received a Juno, a West Coast Music Award, a Prairie Music Award, and at least eight Maple Blues nominations. Deeply influenced by his youthful experiences with Muddy Waters, Big Dave’s passionate and personal interpretations of blues classics are seamlessly combined with his own stark original works. Cut from the western landscape, armed with some National guitars, harmonicas, and a bunch of small town charm - he’s an acknowledged master at the top of his game. Watch for a new release soon on Stony Plain records.
Doc MacLean is a bit of a vagabond Delta songster, as likely to be seen playing on the streets of Memphis or Atlanta as opening a show for BB King or Duke Robillard. In 1972 he formed a duo with Colin Linden and became a popular opener for Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee and Muddy Waters. Mentored by Son House, Doc went on to tour with Peg Leg Sam the Medicine Show Man, Blind John Davis, Sunnyland Slim, Rev. Pearly Brown, the Carter Family, and Sam Chatmon. Bare fingers, dead strings and broken glass on an old National guitar. His recent work plots an emotional remapping of Delta rooted music, and has won him a fan club which includes a who's who of the blues world.
