Fri, Dec 09
|Crofton
Big Hank’s Tribute to the Blues Songs of Christmas Featuring The Kingpins LIVE
Big Hank has his “Ho Ho working” and the highly regarded, veteran bluesman and bandleader is certain “it’s going to work on you.” Big Hank has been touring his Blues Songs of Christmas show for a number of years now and this unique, variety filled program of blues-basted Yuletide tunes.
Time & Location
Dec 09, 2022, 8:00 p.m.
Crofton, 1534 Joan Ave, Crofton, BC V0R 1R0, Canada
About the event
This refreshing take on holiday concerts finds the singer and his talented, veteran band rolling through music that includes tunes going back a century to Christmas blues tunes that have been favourites of the boomer generation that grew up listening to B.B. King and Eric Clapton.
Tunes from the books of Big Joe Turner, Charles Brown, Etta James and Louis Jordan also find their way into the festive mix that has received rave reviews.
It’s been quite the road for Big Hank who cut his teeth on the prairie cabaret circuit early on in his career. He immersed himself in the blues with two of the best blues bands to have come out of western Canada in the seventies and eighties, those being the Edmonton-based Hot Cottage and Victoria’s Uncle Wiggly’s Hot Shoes Blues Band. The latter group signed with RCA, sold an impressive number of albums and opened for the greats like Muddy Waters, Joe Cocker, James Cotton, Paul Butterfield and Koko Taylor.
His love of blues has also been the foundation of acts like The Toasters, A Fistful of Blues and The Kingpins that were also regional favourites.
"The Big Hank Christmas Blues show has been one of the most unique seasonal roots music shows on the road,
and it gets more impressive with each passing year. It's a hot show for the coolest season, and most wonderful time of the year."
Peter North
Roots Music Journalist
The Kingpins are:
Big Hank Lionhart - Vocals / Steve Cross - Guitar / Mick Woodhouse - Bass / Any Graffiti - Drums / Steve Ranta - Keys / Paul Wainwright - Sax
Some of the previous concert halls and venues over the years:
Mary Winspear Charlie White Theatre - Victoria BC
Festival Place - Sherwood Park AB
The Old Bailey Theatre - Camrose AB
The King Eddy - Calgary AB
The Ironwood - Calgary AB
Performing Arts Centre - Stettler AB
Dream Cafe - Penticton BC
First United Church - Salmon Arm BC
Heritage Theatre - Gibsons BC
Horizon Stage - Spruce Grove AB
Vernon Jazz Club - Vernon BC
Hermann’s Jazz Club - Victoria BC
Alex Goolden Performance Hall - Victoria BC
Sid Williams Theatre - Courtney BC
Blue Frog Studios - White Rock BC
Osbourne Bay - Crofton