Dance Party / Music Cafe with The Jerry Portnoy Blues Quartet, Featuring Rick Russell

BYORefreshments. Table seating. Great dance floor.  Tickets: $25.00.

Jerry Portnoy began his professional career in the late 60s and since that time has performed, live and on television, for millions of people around the world. During a career that includes six years as a member of the fabled Muddy Waters Blues Band, another six as leader of the Legendary Blues Band, four years at the head of his own band The Streamliners, and another four as a featured member of the Eric Clapton Band, his touring schedule has carried him to every state in the union and twenty-eight foreign countries on six continents, with performances at the White House, Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, the Smithsonian, London’s Royal Albert Hall, and at major jazz festivals worldwide, including the Newport Jazz Festival, the Montreaux Jazz Festival, the Warsaw International Jazz Jamboree, the Hawaii Pacific Jazz and Music Fair, and the Grande Parade du Jazz in Nice, France. Jerry has played on several Grammy Award-winning albums while recording with a wide variety of artists, and was a Grammy Award nominee in 1997 for his work with the Muddy Waters Tribute Band.  Television credits include appearances on Saturday Night Live, Soundstage, MTV, VH1, and the Disney Channel, as well as writing and performing original music for Sesame Street.

Jerry, on harmonica and vocals, will be joined by Rick Russell on guitar and vocals, Bob Worthington on bass, and Ken Gardiner on drums.

Come listen, dance, relax, socialize. Bring your friends and make some new ones. Come have some fun!

If you’re coming with a large group, come early to secure seating together. See you there!