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50 Shades of Blues Birthday Celebration with Nickel'n Dimers, Billy Crawford & Dublin Down & More
Venue: Brick House Pizza, Radford
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: New River Blues Society, Nickel'n Dimers, The Billy Crawford Band
Date: Sunday, January 19, 2025
Time: 1:30 - 3:30 PM
Event Types: Music, Miscellaneous
Cost: Free

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Description:
New River Blues Society hosts the 50 Shades of Blues Birthday Celebration with Nickel'n Dimers, Billy Crawford & the Dublin Down and mystery guests on Sunday, January 19, 2025 at Brick House Pizza in Radford, VA.

Come out and party! Enjoy live bands, good grub and drinks, and best of all, good folks aplenty!

The Nickel'n Dimers are a local blues band comprised of a group of long-time friends and bandmates in the New River Valley brought together by a shared affection for old-school blues and swing from the first half of the 20th century. They play "vintage music for modern times".

This group reaches back to the very roots of roots music, sampling from the mischievous and melancholy tunes that gave rise to urban blues and rock & roll. Wielding guitars, violin, percussion, and the occasional harmonica or saxophone, their goal every night is to get your heart a-pumpin’ and your feet out on the dance floor!

Link: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100095439494080

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

There is no cover charge.

Brick House Pizza is located at 311 West Main Street in Radford, VA.

To view the event flyer, visit: https://i.postimg.cc/gkSwfBd4/image.png.

For more information about the celebration, visit: https://www.facebook.com/nrvBluesSociety or https://www.newriverbluessociety.com/.

For more information on Brick House Pizza, visit: http://www.brickhousepizzava.com/ or https://www.facebook.com/BrickHousePizzaRadford or https://www.instagram.com/brickhousepizzaradford/ or call 540-639-5793.