BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//EventFinder//Add to Calendar//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:evt_76d9ed0afd7e@eventfinder DTSTAMP:20260831T131212Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261009T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261009T220000 SUMMARY:Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musselwhite LOCATION:Siesta Valley Bowl\, 100 Gateway Blvd\, Orinda\, CA 94563 DESCRIPTION:Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame guitarist Elvin Bishop and Grammy-wi nning harmonica master Charlie Musselwhite are fellow blues travelers and living blues giants. The two history-making musicians—both Blues Hall Of Famers—have over 100 years of professional musicianship between them. T hey are among the most famous bluesmen in the world. Although they’ve kn own each other since the early 1960s\, this is the first time that they ev er teamed up to make an album together. 100 Years Of Blues\, the new relea se on Alligator Records\, is blues at its deepest\, warmest and most engag ing.The idea for the album was sparked in 2017 when the two icons laid dow n the original version of the song 100 Years Of Blues for Bishop’s Big F un Trio album. They found that\, with their soul-deep understanding of the blues tradition\, wry senses of humor and similar outlooks on life\, they had a special musical chemistry. In 2019\, Bishop and Musselwhite joined forces and played a series of stripped-down shows—along with their mutua l friend\, master pianist/guitarist Bob Welsh—swapping songs and telling stories. The audiences went wild\, and Elvin and Charlie had so much fun they knew they had to capture the magic in the studio. According to Mussel white\, “This is us sitting down to play the music that we love and reso nating together effortlessly because we’re ‘coming from the same place ’...on many levels.”ELVIN BISHOPElvin Bishop is a natural storyteller\ , an endlessly creative guitarist\, a slyly good-humored songwriter and an instantly crowd-pleasing performer. Born in Glendale\, CA on October 21\, 1942\, Bishop grew up in Oklahoma. He first got hooked on the blues liste ning to late night R&B radio as a teenager\, and began collecting and abso rbing the music. Once Bishop realized that many of his favorite records we re recorded in Chicago\, he used his National Merit Scholarship as a way t o get closer to his musical heroes. He enrolled in the University of Chica go\, whose campus was located near dozens of the South Side clubs. Soon he was spending more time in the clubs than the classroom.After Elvin crosse d paths with harmonica player and fellow University of Chicago student Pau l Butterfield\, the two began sitting in together at the South Side clubs\ , often hanging out with heavyweights including Otis Rush. They first form ed The Paul Butterfield Blues Band in 1963\, cutting their debut LP in 196 5 with Michael Bloomfield as second lead guitarist. The groundbreaking sel f-titled debut album introduced real electric Chicago blues to the rock au dience for the first time. With the release of East/West in 1966\, their s traight Chicago sounds drifted further into progressive and experimental r ock and—with two world-class lead guitarists on board—they helped pave the way for groups featuring multiple virtuoso guitarists like The Allman Brothers Band and Derek and the Dominos. The band\, including Bishop\, wa s inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in 2015.Towards the end of th e 1960s\, after recording three albums with The Paul Butterfield Blues Ban d\, Elvin decided to move on\, heading for the San Francisco area. He beca me a regular at the famed Fillmore Auditorium jam sessions\, and played al ongside Jimi Hendrix\, Eric Clapton\, B.B. King\, The Allman Brothers and many others across the country. He recorded first for Fillmore Records\, t hen Epic and then for Capricorn\, where his career took off. He guested on albums from blues stars including B.B. King\, Son Seals\, James Cotton an d John Lee Hooker. Melding blues\, country and rock\, Bishop further devel oped his signature sound\, a sound he used to create two chart-topping rec ords: Travelin’ Shoes and Fooled Around And Fell In Love (the latter son g reached number three on the pop charts and years later was prominently f eatured in the blockbuster film\, Guardians Of The Galaxy).After a seven-y ear recording hiatus\, Elvin returned to his blues roots in 1988\, signing with Alligator and releasing five albums between 1988 and 2000. After a f ew releases on other labels\, Bishop returned to Alligator with 2014’s C an’t Even Do Wrong Right and once again turned the music-loving world on its head. Reviews poured in from NPR’s Fresh Air\, Rolling Stone\, Livi ng Blues\, No Depression and many others. He appeared on television on TBS ’s CONAN and performed numerous times on A Prairie Home Companion. He’ s most recently performed and recorded two Alligator Records albums with t he Grammy-nominated Big Fun Trio\, a group featuring Bishop\, Welsh and Wi lly Jordan.CHARLIE MUSSELWHITEHarmonica master Charlie Musselwhite’s per sonal history is the kind of tale a novelist would sell his soul for. He i s a larger-than-life musical legend\, writing and singing what he calls\, “music from the heart.” His life reads like a classic blues song: born in Mississippi\, raised in Memphis and schooled on the South Side of Chic ago. A groundbreaking recording artist since the 1960s\, Musselwhite conti nues to create trailblazing music while remaining firmly rooted in the blu e\n\nhttps://www.ticketmaster.com/event/1C0064F522E3D0D0 URL:https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/1C0064F522E3D0D0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR