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BIG HANK'S Christmas Blues Show

Fri. December 6th 2024 Hermann's Jazz Club Victoria BC $25

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BIG HANK'S Christmas Blues Show

We have some new tunes to share with you and we are excited to bring our show ba...
Event is live streamed / online.Event can be attended in person In-Person + Livestream
Fri. December 6th 2024 + Add to Calendar Hermann's Jazz Club (All Ages)
7:00pm - 9:00pm  Doors at: 5:30pm $25 plus fee/tax, walk-ins welcome

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Arts On View Society
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753 View Street Victoria BC
since 2016

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We have some new tunes to share with you and we are excited to bring our show back to Hermann’s Jazz Club again this Season… Keep it Live at Hermann’s Jazz Club…

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 Christmas show for a number of years now and this unique, variety filled program of blues-basted Yuletide tunes is one that has left audiences drenched in the Christmas spirit and coming back for more when the next holiday season rolls around.

Touring from Vancouver Island to the snowbound prairies of Alberta, this Christmas show has consistently tied together a variety of classic blues styles, some r&b and a touch of soul. Blues Songs of Christmas is a show where every song puts a different spin on the season and everything that goes with “the most wonderful time of the year.”

He’s armed with a muscular voice, one that can be as warm as the hearth surrounding a well-stoked winter fire, and one that can alternately rattle the rafters and shake the snow off a 30 foot Christmas tree.

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 originally from Stettler Alberta who cut his teeth on the Edmonton bar and 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 Band are:
Big Hank Lionhart - Vocals / Steve Cross - Guitar / Mick Woodhouse - Bass / Dave Emery - Drums / Steve Ranta - Keys / Paul Wainwright - Sax

Video Links

Merry Christmas Baby Mary Winspear in Sidney BC December 2023

https://dennis-shouldice-photos.smugmug.com/Musical-Performances/Red-Hot-Toasters-Christmas-Show/n-T3L5bM/i-TKvVR6C/A

Christmas Comes But Once a Year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sly1602mVDM

Santa Claus Santa Claus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWu9GzWWRcI

Christmas in Jail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGNnRkJOElk

I Told Santa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF7tyy2qv18

Venue

Hermann's Jazz Club
753 View Street
Restaurant / Cafe / Pub
Capacity150
Accessible

Event Poster

BIG HANK'S Christmas Blues Show - Dec 23rd @ Hermann's Jazz Club

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