Bumbershoot Blues Block: A Pictorial

Thanks to Tim and Michelle Burge who captured all these great shots for us at the Bumbershoot Music & Arts Festival, where we curated a blues block on the Starbucks Mural Ampitheater stage. It was a special day and a real highlight for everyone involved. The production crew, security, and everyone at One Reel really know how to throw a first-class affair. The Ty Curtis Band kicked things off, followed by the Karen Lovely Band featuring special guests Peter Dammann (guitar) and Hank Shreve (harp). The block culminated with the Harmonica House Party starring the Lee Oskar Orchestra complete with a four-piece strings section and a 2-piece percussion section, in addition to his core band of Andrew Cloutier (drums), Tim Lerch (guitar), Scotty Harris (sax), Lissa Ramaglia (bass) and Ron Weinstein (Hammond B-3). Also part of the House Party, the legendary Magic Dick, a founding and still member of the J. Geils Band who kicked things off with his "Pontiac Blues" and a few others before joining Lee & the orchestra for his classic "Whammer Jammer" and a grand finale, an extended jam of "Low Rider" with Hank also sitting in. Here, we'll let the pictures to do the talking. TY CURTIS BAND

KAREN LOVELY BAND

HARMONICA HOUSE PARTY

MISC.

SOME SHOTS WE TOOK WITH OUR LITTLE DIGITAL CAMERA: Jillian, Karen, Hank, Ed

Lee and Magic with Ian Hunter (Mott the Hoople)

This is a cello case.

The King on a unicycle, gonna juggle those bowling pin-looking things. What's not to like?

Behold the enormity of the Space Needle...

We embedded the video of Magic doing "Whammer Jammer" below but in case it's not working on your browser and you see a black box instead of the YouTube frame... Click here to dig on Whammer Jammer in a new window