Lynn Drury Band wsg Jony James Blues Band – Levitt Vibe/The Big Easy in Buffalo

LYNN DRURY BAND wsg. Jony James Blues Band
Levitt Vibe Buffalo/The Big Easy in Buffalo NOLA Series
Monday, August 3
Ralph Wilson Centennial Park, near Centennial Pool at 5 DAR Drive, just off Porter Ave.
FREE
5:30pm – 8pm

Never easily corralled, New Orleans’ own Lynn Drury calls her music “NOLAmericana,” giving the listener a taste of the sound. With a distinctive voice, this is definitive New Orleans Americana created in a city that moves to its own groove. She’s been a regular at French Quarter Festival and the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival for years, and for the past two decades has brought her original music to stages around the world.

Jony James has been playing the blues longer than most people have been listening to it. And it shows. Born in Buffalo and raised in Chicago, James came up in one of the deepest blues cities in the world. He returned to Buffalo in the ’90s and got to work. The real testament to Jony James is live, where his guitar playing has earned devoted fans at venues across Western New York and beyond. He calls what he plays Survival Blues. It pours out through a weathered voice telling vivid, open-minded tales of a tumultuous life. Lyrical, urgent guitar work in the tradition of Albert King, Otis Rush, Buddy Guy, and B.B. King, but with a sound that is entirely his own.

Since 2007 The Big Easy in Buffalo has brought New Orleans and Louisiana music and culture to the Western New York region several times a year for free and low cost live performance, as well as music education and mentoring for local musicians, students, and the community. Through The Big Easy in Buffalo thousands of students, dozens of local bands, and countless audience members in Western New York have been exposed to this unique American culture.