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Hello Hornby Island Blues enthusiasts:

The Blues Board has been busy getting the 2012 camp program ready for your perusal and will have all the new materials up on our website soon. We know that you want to check out what is being offered and plan your courses, so this newsletter is intended to whet your appetite for what promises to be a great camp next May.

News bits of 2012 Hornby Blues Camp Instructors:
New To the Camp in 2012
HIBS has lined up Russell Jackson as the 2012 bass instructor. Russell toured and recorded with such blues greats as Charlie Musselwhite, Katie Webster, Matt Murphy, Kenny Neal, and Roy Gaines and spent 7 years touring with the great BB King orchestra. As way of introduction check out this YouTube White Rock interview of the man.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KSUgaG6JQk
There are also some entertaining vids of his work during the BB King years available.
HIBS has also lined up Dalannah Gail Bowen as a vocal instructor and coach. She has opened for B.B.King, Buddy Guy, & Taj Mahal and worked with Willie Dixon, James Cotton, Big Joe Walter, "Shakey" Horton, King Curtis, and Lenny Breau, to name just a few. Check out her "Mama's got the Blues" for a taste:
http://dalannahgailbowen.bandcamp.com/album/mammas-got-the-blues

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Returning to the Camp in 2012
Rick Fines opened for Marie Maria Muldaur & Her Hot Bluesiana Band when her world tour was in Kingston this fall. No doubt Rick was the right opener, though we hope he got to sit in as well. Rick says that for the first time in memory that he had a slow summer and fall. We can only guess playing 20 gigs in 90 days this fall might just be slow for Rick Fines.

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Suzie Vinnick who recently opened for John Hammond has been nominated for in four categories for the 2012 Canadian Maple Blues Awards. They are Female Vocalist of the Year, Album of the Year, Songwriter of the Year and Acoustic Act of the Year.
Her new cd Me 'n' Mabel is an intimate, bare-bones collection of 14 acoustic blues songs featuring Suzie and her guitar - a Larivee parlour guitar, the shapely spruce and maple Mabel - her constant companion for the past eight years. This release is her first solo outing as a blues artist.

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After a short hiatus, Paul Deslauriers will be back at the Hornby camp in 2012. Paul who is always busy in Montreal was knocking ‘em out this past summer at the 2011 Montreal Jazz Festival:
Here he is doing Otis Rush's "Homework"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92tQauAvEVY
OR check out his work with the famed Jack De Keyzer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGErlVrfAko

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We understand that guitar-slinger Paul Pigat was down in California showcasing 2011 Gretsch guitars and had an opportunity to be the first to play a Gretsch Custom Shop G6128T-GH George Harrison "Tribute" Duo Jet. If you haven't checked out his Gretsch YouTube clips they are worth a listen and a look as he wows unsuspecting trade show patrons. Also worth hearing is his version of the old Tin Pan Alley song "Buddy Can You Spare a Dime" on the Gretsch site.
http://www.gretschguitars.com/blog/artists-blogs/paul-pigat-performs-at-the-2011-gretsch-showcase/

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We have it officially that David Gogo has been nominated for the 2012 Maple Blues Awards Electric Act of the Year and Guitar player of the year. He has had a great fall touring with Johnny Winter and trading licks. We hear Winter's standard playlist would go something like this, though with Gogo on the stage you never know for sure.

1. Intro Jam
2. Hideaway (Freddie King)
3. Sugar Coated Love (Jay Miller)
4. She Likes To Boogie Real Low (Johnny Winters)
5. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl (Sonny Boy Williamson)
6. Got My Mojo Workin' (Preston Foster)
7. Johnny B. Goode (Chuck Berry)
8. Black Jack (Ray Charles)
9. Tore down (Freddie King)
10. Lone Wolf (Johnny Winters)
11. Don't Take Advantage of Me (Lee Baker Jr.)
12. Gimme Shelter (Mick Jagger and Keith Richards)
13. Boney Maronie (Larry Williams)
14. It's All Over Now (Bobby and Shirley Womack)
Encore:
15. Dust My Broom (Robert Johnson)
16. Highway 61 Revisited (Bob Dylan)

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Back in 2012 is the incomparable harp master Carlos del Junco who in 2011 spent more time in Europe than he did in North America. It seems countries like Germany, France, Luxemburg, Belgium, Finland, and Croatia couldn't get enough of his harp. Once again Carlos is nominated for the 2012 Maple Blues Award Harmonica Player of the Year. If you haven't checked him out for a while, have and look and listen at how he opened for Dr. John at last month's Toronto Jazz Festival.
http://carlosdeljunco.com/video.htm

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It has been a long time since Michael Jerome Brown has been at the Horny Blues camp but man has he been busy. Pick up a copy of his latest project from Borealis Records: The Road Is Dark and you will know why we are stoked to have him back. There are many other reminders on his myspace site to explain why Michael Jerome Browne has had a total of 17 Maple Blues nominations since 1999.
http://www.myspace.com/michaeljeromebrowne

Since leaving the Hornby Blues Camp last May David Vest has been doing what he has always done - tour. Whether it's from an old upright on the back of a flatbed truck in Alabama, or a Steinway in a concert hall, David Vest has been rockin' and shoutin' the blues since 1957. In the last couple months he has been From Portland to Williams Lake, from Springfield to London. All that hard work has made David a nominee for the 2012 Maple Blues Award piano player of the year, We are pretty damn happy that he will be back for our 2012 camp with his boogie-woogie piano.
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Is there any band or musician west of Vancouver that doesn't have Billy Hick's cell phone on speed dial? Whether working with the Lester Quitzau Trio at the Yardbird Jazz Festival, drumming for Mae Moore's sold out tour shows, or sitting in with The Powder Blues, Jim Byrnes, Marc Atkinson Electric and Dave Gogo, Billy has had his usual never-stop -working mojo on. Damn right he is back for 2012.

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Update on Julian Fauth:
We hear from the Toronto Blues Society that Julian Fauth is still in recovery mode but getting better The Toronto blues community has rallied to the aid of their favourite piano man who had a nasty fall and broke his right shoulder in four places. Julian is slowly recovering his piano stretch. Several benefit concerts have already taken place to see him through.

Maple Blues Nominations:
The Maple Blues Awards is Canada's national blues awards program. Its goal is to promote blues music across Canada, and to recognize outstanding achievement in the field.
The nominees are selected by a panel of some 50+ blues experts. Co-Chaired by John Valenteyn, long-time member of the The Toronto Blues Society and Brent Staeben of the Harvest Jazz and Blues Festival in Fredericton, the panel includes radio hosts, journalists, and festival organizers regionally distributed across Canada. Members of the Nominating Panel are not eligible for any of the awards.
In 2012 the voting will be handled slightly differently. For most of the ballot, the winners will be selected by blues fans from across the country.
The Instrument categories, guitar, harmonica, piano/keyboards, horn, drums & bass, will be voted on by the Nominating Panel.
The winners of the Fifteenth Annual Maple Blues Awards will be announced at the Annual Maple Blues Awards Gala in Toronto, on Monday, January 16, 2012.
Aside from those nominees recognized above in this newsletter, several former Hornby Island Camp Instructors are up for Canadian Maple Blues Awards this year.
Lifetime Achievement Awards
Ellen McIlwaine
Ken Whiteley
Entertainer of the Year
Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne
Electric Act of the Year
Bill Johnson
Rita Chiarelli
Acoustic Act of the Year
Tim Williams
Female Vocalist of the Year
Rita Chiarelli
Recording of the Year
Still Blue (BJ)
Bill Johnson
Producers - Jody Baker & Bill Johnson
Piano Player of the Year
Julian Fauth
Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne
Horn Player of the Year
Chris Whiteley
Bassist of the Year
Gary Kendall
Song Writer of the Year
Bill Johnson

Anyone can vote
Voting closes Saturday, December 10 at midnight PST. Blues fans can cast their votes online at http://www.mapleblues.ca/

Blues RIP:
Blues legend, David "Honeyboy" Edwards died of congestive heart failure on August 29 in his Chicago apartment. He was 96 years old. The "last of the Delta bluesmen" was in the house when the iconic Robert Johnson took his last drink of poisoned whiskey. He witnessed the Mississippi River flood of 1927. In 1953, he moved to Chicago after recording "Drop Down Mama" for Chess Records. Just shy of his 96th birthday, Honeyboy played his last gigs at the Juke Joint Festival and Cathead Mini-Festival in Clarksdale, Mississippi April 16 and 17, 2011.
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RIP: Original harp player then drummer with Muddy Waters, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith has passed. He was the last of the real Chicago veteran drummers and had a loose style of playing that is rarely heard these days Willie "Big Eyes" played on all of Muddy's Grammy Award winning albums -Hard Again, I'm Ready, They Call Me Muddy Waters, Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Live, The London Muddy Waters Session, and The Muddy Waters Woodstock. Mr. Smith, 75, died of a stroke Friday, Sept. 16, in the University of Chicago Medical Center in Chicago, said his son Kenny "Beedy Eyes" Smith. He had lived in Chicago for about 58 years. His backbeat will be missed.

Other Blues News
The Toronto Blues recently received a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts program, Commissioning of Canadian Compositions, to pay former HIBS instructors Diana Braithwaite and Chris Whiteley to compose The Blues Suite, a collection of songs inspired by the history of the music.
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This has to be on the Christmas Present List
Holger Petersen has hosted CBC Radio's Saturday Night Blues for 25 years and Natch'l Blues on Alberta's CKUA network for more than 40 years. Now he's assembled 19 in-depth interviews in a new book called Talking Music (Insomniac Press). Featured artists range from guitarist Ry Cooder, Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman, Fleetwood Mac's Mick Fleetwood, gospel star Mavis Staples, Sun Records' founder Sam Phillips and singers Lucinda Williams, Maria Muldaur and Bonnie Raitt. "Hopefully, these interviews illuminate the wonderful music these people have made," Holger says. "The only difficulty for me was choosing 19 interviews out of the hundreds that I've been lucky enough to have."
That's a wrap for now, but we will be back keep checking http://www.hornby-blues.bc.ca

The Blues is Life.
Brownie McGhee.

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