2021 Blues, Brews and BBQ (CANCELLED)
Venue: St. Luke and Odd Fellows Hall, Blacksburg
Organizations: Blacksburg Museum and Cultural Foundation, Blue Monday Band, Hoppie Vaughan, Isaac Hadden, JoJo Stockton, The Billy Crawford Band
Date: Saturday, October 2, 2021
Time: 12:00 - 6:20 PM
Event Types: Music, Food, Miscellaneous
Cost:

Description:
UPDATE: This event has been cancelled.

The Blacksburg Museum and Cultural Foundation presents the 8th Annual Blues, Brews and BBQ on Saturday, October 2, 2021 at St. Luke and Odd Fellows Hall.

Music Schedule:
• 12:00-1:00 PM: JoJo and the Banal Checks
• 1:20-2:20 PM: Isaac Hadden
• 2:40-3:40 PM: Blue Monday Band
• 4:00-5:00 PM: Hoppie Vaughan & The Ministers of Soul
• 5:20-6:20 PM: The Billy Crawford Band

Join us in person in 2021 to honor & celebrate the history of New Town and St. Luke & Odd Fellows Hall: Museum of African American Heritage.

St. Luke & Odd Fellows Hall, a nationally recognized historic landmark, once served as the social center of New Town, a neighborhood for African-American residents during segregation. It now houses a museum of African-American history and culture, and serves as an important reminder of the resilience, pride, self-reliance, and community spirit of the people who lived in New Town, as well as the legacy of injustice that segregation imposed. The Blues, Brews, and BBQ event recalls some of the happier times in New Town, when friends and neighbors would gather for singing, dancing, community, and fellowship.

As band leader and guitarist for Hott Sauce, Franklin County native JoJo Stockton is no stranger to the Roanoke music scene, where he currently is based. If you’re a fan of neo-soul, R&B, funk or old school music, make plans to see JoJo Stockton.

Link: https://www.facebook.com/hottsauceband

Isaac Hadden is a young, genre-smashing guitarist, vocalist, and bandleader from Southwest, VA, currently based in Asheville, NC. His cutting-edge playing style and animated stage presence, combined with his passion and talent have helped him build a supportive fanbase in the United States and abroad. He was voted Best of the Blue Ridge 2022.

Links:

• https://www.facebook.com/ilhadden/
• https://www.instagram.com/isaachaddenmusic/
• https://soundcloud.com/isaac-hadden-648417521

The Blue Monday Band has been playing Chicago-style blues together for well over a decade, and even longer individually. You'll hear classic songs by Muddy Waters, Slim Harpo, Howlin' Wolf, and more, as well as many originals!

The diversely talented Hoppie Vaughan is all about the soul! He is a blue eyed soul singer, song writer, guitar and bass player. Besides performing solo, he is the front man for Hoppie Vaughan and the Ministers of Soul based out of Roanoke, VA performing classic soul, R&B, blues and funk.

Link: http://www.hoppievaughan.com/

Billy Crawford was raised playing bass in church, then gaining an early hard-rock pedigree on electric guitar. But for the past three decades, he has turned his six-string action toward the blues. Now playing with his band, The Billy Crawford Band, he performs blues rock across the region.

Blues guitar might be associated with Mississippi, Texas and Chicago, but a man of the mid-South has something to say about that. The city of Bristol, smack on the Tennessee / Virginia border, claims itself as the birthplace of country music. But one of its native sons is making a huge blues noise.

The common denominator in all of this is Billy Crawford – raised playing bass in church, then gaining an early hard-rock pedigree on electric guitar. But for the past three decades, he has turned his six-string action toward the blues.

For much of the 1990s, audiences around the world heard Crawford’s intense work with blues-rocker Deborah Coleman. He gave up the road in 2002, when his wife gave birth to their son. Turns out, son Tyler is a little guitar hotshot, too.

But his daddy still has something to say. His Bristol-based Billy Crawford Band includes some of that region’s finest blues men. The fire is still burning blue from Crawford’s Guitar, as he rips through blues, ballads, rock, surf – even New Orleans-style. Underpinning it all is a band with plenty of energy and mastery of dynamics.

Links:

• http://www.thebillycrawfordband.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/TheBillyCrawfordBand

Admission is a suggested donation of $5.00 per person.

St. Luke and Odd Fellow Hall is located at 203 Gilbert Street in Blacksburg, VA.

For more information, visit: https://www.blacksburgmuseum.org/blues-brews-bbq or https://www.facebook.com/blacksburgmuseum/ or https://www.instagram.com/blacksburgmuseum/.