Join us for the Ultimate Blues,Plus Festival.21. March 14th, at Gulf Place. BLUES on 30A featuring 5 Blues/Blues-Soul/Blues-Rock Bands with Some Jam! Kids games and activities, Face Painting and Lots of food trucks for all types of food. Crawfish Boil!. Benefiting Exceptional Parents Incredible Children. Multiple Seafood Entrees by Gayton Seafood!
Bands for March 14th:
Headliners:
LAURA VIDA AND LSR
BOUKOU GROOVE
Performances by:
SPEARMAN BREWERS
DIZZYJUKE BAND
SKYLER SAUFLEY and the 99th DEGREE
Tickets are $35 for SINGLE and $60 for a COUPLE.
About Laura Vida
Laura Vida’s music career has spanned several decades and allowed her the opportunity to write and perform with some of music's legends. She has had the pleasure of opening for BB King and Gladys Knight, and other Nashville Stars. She has Co-Written with some Nashville Legends like Jim Weatherly (Midnight Train to Georgia), Larry Henley ( Wind Beneath My Wings) Harlan Howard( I Fall To Pieces and Busted by Ray Charles) as well as many others. She is the current Representative for the NorthWest Florida’s International Blues Challenge and will be competing in Memphis January 2022. She is currently working on a New Blues and Soul album with Her original music. James Stroud, one of the most successful producers in Nashville Said, “When you hear Laura sing, You can hear her soul”. Her hit songs include "Somebody Told Me" "The Color of Music", as well as other.
About Boukou Groove
Formed in 2010, Boukou Groove is a New Orleans funk, soul, and jam band composed of veteran- vocalist/keyboardist/Moog Bass & Donnie Sundal, and guitarist, Derwin “Big D” Perkins. The combination of Big D’s gripping N’Awlins funk guitar and Donnie Sundal’s wailing keyboards and “blue- eyed soul” voice have lit up audiences around the world. That same chemistry has been distilled into their albums A LIL’ BOUKOU IN YOUR CUP (2012), LET THE GROOVE RIDE (2015) and the Single release 2019 “Never Steal Our Thunder”.
Boukou Groove often have top-ranked musicians join them live so it is no surprise that A LIL’ BOUKOU IN YOUR CUP features special guests Sam Bush, the father of Newgrass, on mandolin, and Junior Marvin of Bob Marley’s Wailers on guitar. The song “Two To Tango” features John Cleary on solo piano, and, todate, has enjoyed 1.3+ million plays on Spotify, while the song “Stay Broke” was named “2012 Song of the Year” by Peter Barakan, a renowned DJ and host of "Barakan Beat" on InterFM and "Weekend Sunshine" on NHK FM in Japan.
The title track on LET THE GROOVE RIDE was accompanied by a full-length video release by Live For Live Music, and features special guest Nigel Hall from Lettuce on background vocals. “Blame It On Me” marks Big D’s vocal debut, and is one of the most streamed songs on the album. Bob Marley and the Wailers guitarist, Junior Marvin, also makes an appearance. In addition to Boukou Groove, Donnie Sundal and Big D Perkins have performed and collaborated with numerous other artists. Donnie has played Colonel Bruce Hampton, Ivan Neville, George Porter Jr, Junior Marvin of Bob Marley’s Wailers, Deva Mahal, Nth Power, Nigel Hall (Lettuce) and Sam Bush (live performance and studio recording on his 2017 release “StoryMan”). In 2018, he co-wrote the song“Hold On To Let Go” released by New Orleans funk band Galactic. Big D’s New Orleans funk guitar is featured on the stages of many Legendary New Orleans Artist. His guitar playing and voice also are featured in a nationally aired Crown Royal commercial. Boukou Groove brings their brand of “New Orleans Soul Funk” to audiences along Florida’s Emerald Coast and New Orleans clubs like the Maple Leaf and Tipitinas, they have also appeared at numerous festivals and clubs nationwide, also completed two tours in Japan, performing to capacity crowds on the Live Magic! Festival and the Blue Note in Tokyo. The groove has continued in 2019 with the band making their debut at the 50th New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, and releasing their brand new single “Never Steal Our Thunder”.
