Merc Summer Concert Series - The Billy Crawford Band
Venue: Draper Mercantile and Trading Company, Draper
Organizations: The Billy Crawford Band
Date: Saturday, July 30, 2016
Time: 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Event Types: Music
Cost:

Description:
Draper Mercantile and Trading Company presents the Merc Summer Concert Series featuring The Billy Crawford Band on Saturday, July 30, 2016.

Celebrate the summer with great music in an inspiring atmosphere! Sit back and enjoy the blues with The Billy Crawford Band.

Billy Crawford was raised playing bass in church, then gaining an early hard-rock pedigree on electric guitar. But for the past three decades, he has turned his six-string action toward the blues. Now playing with his band, The Billy Crawford Band, he performs blues rock across the region.

Blues guitar might be associated with Mississippi, Texas and Chicago, but a man of the mid-South has something to say about that. The city of Bristol, smack on the Tennessee / Virginia border, claims itself as the birthplace of country music. But one of its native sons is making a huge blues noise.

The common denominator in all of this is Billy Crawford – raised playing bass in church, then gaining an early hard-rock pedigree on electric guitar. But for the past three decades, he has turned his six-string action toward the blues.

For much of the 1990s, audiences around the world heard Crawford’s intense work with blues-rocker Deborah Coleman. He gave up the road in 2002, when his wife gave birth to their son. Turns out, son Tyler is a little guitar hotshot, too.

But his daddy still has something to say. His Bristol-based Billy Crawford Band includes some of that region’s finest blues men. The fire is still burning blue from Crawford’s Guitar, as he rips through blues, ballads, rock, surf – even New Orleans-style. Underpinning it all is a band with plenty of energy and mastery of dynamics.

Links:

• http://www.thebillycrawfordband.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/TheBillyCrawfordBand

Tickets are $5 in advance and $7 at the door. Limited seating, reservations are strongly encouraged.

Dinner will be available for purchase and we will be featuring different beers to taste in our beer flights.

We hope to see you there!

For more information, visit: http://www.DraperMerc.com or https://www.facebook.com/pages/Draper-Mercantile-and-Trading-Company/113050845408292 or call 540-994-5659.