BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//NONSGML Sandhills Development\, LLC//NONSGML Sugar Calendar Fe eds v3.4.0//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Lurrie Bell w/ The Blues Prophets X-WR-CALDESC:Portland Downtown X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20211107T060000 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20211107T060000 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Lurrie Bell w/ The Blues Prophets DESCRIPTION:7pm doors - 8pm show\n$25 adv. - $30 day of\n\nBorn in 1958\ , the son of famed blues harmonica player Carey Bell\, Lurrie Bell picke d up his father’s guitar at age of five and taught himself to play. He was clearly gifted.\n\nIn addition\, he grew up with many of the Chicag o blues legends around him. Eddie Taylor\, Big Walter Horton\, Eddie C. Campbell\, Eddie Clearwater\, Lovie Lee\, Sunnyland Slim\, Jimmy Dawkins and many more were frequent visitors to his house. They all helped to s hape and school him in the blues\, but none as much as his father’s lo ng-time employer Muddy Waters.\n\nAt seven years old\, Bell left Chicago to live in Mississippi and Alabama with his grandparents. During this t ime he played mostly in the church\, immersing himself in the passionate expressiveness of the gospel tradition. At fourteen he moved back to Ch icago and continued to play in church as well as forming his first blues band while attending high school.\n\nBy seventeen Lurrie Bell was playi ng on stage with Willie Dixon. In 1977 he was a founding member of The S ons of Blues with Freddie Dixon (son of Willie) and Billy Branch. The ba nd recorded three standout tracks for Alligator Records’ Grammy nomina ted Living Chicago Blues series. In 1978 Bell joined Koko Taylor’s ban d and stayed for several years\, honing his chops and learning the ropes of being a traveling musician. He continued to work with his dad as wel l\, recording the 1984 Rooster Blues album Son Of a Gun and several othe r titles for UK’s JSP Records. Not only was Bell recognized as an exce ptionally talented guitarist and musician\, his knowledge of different b lues styles\, his soulfulness and his musical maturity delivered write-u ps in publications such as Rolling Stone and The New York Times.\n\nBatt ling and defeating a series of personal demons kept him out of the studi o and off the road for a long spell in the late 1980’s\, but Bell pers evered and re-surfaced in the mid-1990’s with a succession of four hig hly acclaimed records for Chicago’s Delmark label.\n\nSince the onset of the new millennium\, Bell’s profile has been steadily rising. 2002 saw the release of the CD Cutting Heads and in 2004 Alligator Records re leased Second Nature an acoustic duet record with his father Carey Bell that was nominated for a WC Handy Award Acoustic Record of the Year by t he Blues Foundation in Memphis.\n\nIn 2007 Bell started his own label Ar ia B.G. Records and released Let’s Talk About Love\, which has been ca lled his most accomplished\, deeply heartfelt album yet. On the strength of this record\, he was voted Most Outstanding Guitar Player in the 200 7 Living Blues Magazine’s Critic’s Poll\, and in 2008 and 2012 he wa s named the magazine’s Male Blues Artist of the Year. Since 2007 he ha s received multiple Blues Music Award nominations as Best Guitarist and Best Traditional Male Blues Artist by the Blues Foundation.\n\n2009 foun d him pairing up with Billy Boy Arnold\, John Primer\, Billy Branch on t he recording Chicago Blues: A Living History which garnered him his firs t official Grammy nomination for Best Traditional Blues Recording. In 20 11 a follow-up was released\; Chicago Blues: A Living History (The Revol ution Continues) featuring Buddy Guy\, Magic Slim\, and Ronnie Baker Bro oks.\n\nAnd in 2012 came the arrival of his second CD on Aria BG Records The Devil Ain’t Got No Music\, a collection of acoustic blues and gos pel songs that recollect the music he often played with his dad and at c hurch in Mississippi and Alabama as a child. In January 2013 The Devil A in’t Got No Music was honored with the Prix du Blues award from the pr estigious French L’Academie du Jazz for the Best Blues Recording of 20 12 and the title song (written by producer Matthew Skoller) received a n omination from the Blues Foundation for song of the year.\n\nIn 2013 Bel l re-signed with Delmark and enlisted famed Chicago producer Dick Shurma n to make the record Blues in My Soul. For this project he wanted to get back to the solid foundation of Chicago-styled traditional guitar blues . Blues in my Soul features three new Lurrie Bell originals plus songs b y Little Walter\, T-Bone Walker\, Jimmy Rogers\, and Big Bill Broonzy an d others. In 2016 Bell returned to studio with Dick Shurman for his next Delmark CD “Can’t Shake This Feeling.”\n\nAt last count Lurrie Be ll has now appeared on over 50+ recordings either as leader or featured sideman. Lurrie Bell’s elegant and intense guitar playing and passiona te vocals have made him a favorite at clubs and festivals around the wor ld and have earned him a reputation as one of the “leading lights” i n the future of the blues.\n\nThe Blues Prophets will be Lurrie's backin g band for this show and the Old Blues Kats (members of the Blues Prophe ts) will open the night.\n\nCovid-19 Policy:\n\nWe are very excited to b e hosting live music shows again in our listening room. OLS is committed to providing a safe environment for all who work\, listen\, or perform live music in our venue. Because our venue is so small\, we will require all staff\, volunteers\, performers\, and patrons to show proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 when they attend OLS events AND to wear ma sks indoors unless they are actively drinking\, eating\, or performing.\ n\nProof of vaccine must come directly from the health care provider tha t performed the vaccination and can be a photo or physical copy of the v accination card or record with an accompanying photo ID. Full vaccinatio n means that the date of the performance you are attending is:\n\n*at le ast 14 days after your second dose of an FDA or WHO authorized two dose COVID-19 vaccine\, or\n\n*at least 14 days after your single dose of an FDA or WHO authorized single dose COVID vaccine.\n\nWe hope we can ease these restrictions once further progress has been made reducing transmis sion of the virus. Until then\, we greatly appreciate your patience and cooperation.\n\nOne Longfellow Square does not assume liability\; the ti cket holder will assume all risks involved. By purchasing a ticket to th is event you agree to assume full liability for any risks incurred befor e\, during and after the event and agree to the current Terms of Use. URL;VALUE=URI:https://portlandmaine.com/events/lurrie-bell-w-the-blues-p rophets/ UID:urn:uuid:96a22b05-c95f-4b1f-b5d0-f619ccf3ef8b STATUS:CONFIRMED ORGANIZER: DTSTAMP:20260505T113357Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220310T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220310T220000 LOCATION:181 State St.\, Portland\, Maine 04108\, US END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR