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Special Charity Blues event with The Billy Crawford Band
Venue: Pulaski Theatre, Pulaski
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: New River Blues Society, The Billy Crawford Band
Date: Friday, November 11, 2022
Time: 7:30 - 10:30 PM
Event Types: Music, Charity
Cost: Free

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The Pulaski Theatre presents Billy Crawford Band on Friday, November 11, 2022.

The Billy Crawford Band has been a fixture in the Mountain Empire for the Last two decades, gracing Southwest Virginia and Eastern Tennessee. We are lucky to get Billy and band here one more time before their retirement at the end of 2022. Although they will still play, it will not be as frequent, and who knows where? So catch Billy, Mary, Rex, Keith and Robert on Friday, November 11th.

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

We will be collecting food for a food drive, so please bring non-perishables to donate. Otherwise, no charge to see this incredible group.

The New River Blues Society formed to help keep traditional blues alive in the New River Valley and surrounding area is a 501(c)3 is a non-profit organization. Our mission is to keep the Blues alive by providing an organization to teach, share, and promote the Blues in the New River Valley.

Links:

• https://www.newriverbluessociety.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/New-River-Blues-Society-591156421078771

For more information about the event, visit: https://www.facebook.com/events/676007067424796/.

For more information on the Pulaski Theatre, visit: http://www.pulaskitheatre.org/ or https://www.facebook.com/pulaskitheatre or call 540-994-9555.