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Recognizing the large number of very talented musicians from Sault Ste. Marie that have played over the past 50+ years, the Sault Blues Society is interested in collecting information on the history of the blues in Sault Ste. Marie.
Anyone willing to share information, stories or images regarding blues music (past and present) in the Soo  is encouraged to forward it to Ted at: 
wallfe@shaw.ca



LOCAL SAULT STE. MARIE MUSICIANS & BANDS PRESENTED BY THE SAULT BLUES SOCIETY
 
Alloy, Cliff                                                                         5ive Below Zero Band                        
Beyer, Bruce                                                                    Big Wheel and the Spokes Band
Blues Harvest  Band                                                       Blues Shop Band
Bolduc, Stuart                                                                  Brass Taxx Band
Case, Jay                                                                           Conway, Keith
Cooper, Pete                                                                    Cosmic Blues Band
Coulter, Ken                                                                     Davis, Al
DellaVedova, Paul                                                           Deresti, Frank
DiSanto, Michael                                                             Gassi, Eugene
Gassi, Ray                                                                         Gough, Mark
Holmes, Jeff                                                                      Johns, Chris
Kominos, Shirley                                                             McCarthy, Rusty                                                         
Mustang Sally Band  from Korah Collegiate(2017)    Norling, Josh                                                   
Paquin, Gerry                                                                   Pinetones Band from White Pines Collegiate(2017)             
Pinnett, Jeff                                                                       Poluck, Joel
Powley, Val                                                                       Proulx, Brien  
Pugh, Lindsay                                                                  Rendell, Jake  
Reville, Lynn                                                                     Reville, Warren                                                                      
Scali, Jay                                                                            Souliere, Tyrone                                                         
Swamp Cats Band                                                           Taddo, Catherine
Valois, Marisa                                                                  Vaillancourt, Pierre
Virta, Martin                                                                    Yeomans, Bob
Young, Ed                                                                         Yurich, Mike
Zak’s Allstars Band

 
SAULT BLUES SOCIETY FEATURED AWARD WINNING BANDS 2011 ------ 2020
JUNO = Canadian JUNO Music award
MBA = Canadian Maple Blues award
IBC = International Blues Challenge

 
2011
Al Woods and the Woodsmen (Algoma Fall Festival) (Water Tower Inn Pub)
MonkeyJunk (2 X JUNO, 10 X MBA) (Water Tower Inn Pub)
Harpdog Brown with guest Graham Guest (2X  MBA) (Loplops)
Paul James (with Stage Right Entertainment ) (1 X JUNO, 1 X MBA) (Canadian)

2012
Jack deKeyzer (2 X JUNO, 7 X MBA) (Water Tower Inn Pub)
24th Street Wailers
Irene Torres and the Sugar Devils (Canadian)
David Rotundo (Friday) (1 X MBA)(Water Tower Inn Pub)
Steve Strongman (Saturday) (1 X JUNO, 4 X MBA)( Water Tower Inn Pub)

2013
Dawn Tyler Watson (IBC 2017 ) (Canadian)
All Star Blues Review (Chuck Jackson, Robin Bank$, Gary Kendall, Teddy Leonard, Bucky Burger)(Holiday Inn)
Bill Durst
Fathead (2 X JUNO, 11 X MBA)
 
2014 - no shows 
 
2015
Wicked Grin (1 X MBA) ( Water Tower Inn Pub)
Cecil Doo Kingue Band ( Water Tower Inn Pub)
Al Woods and the Woodsmen (Water Tower Inn Pub)
Morgan Davis (Solo) (1 JUNO, 7 X MBA) ( Waterfront Legends (Docks))

2016
Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne (1 X JUNO) (Canadian)
Diana Braithwaite (1 X MBA) & Chris Whiteley (1 X MBA) (Rock Star Bar)
Harpdog Brown (2X  MBA) & Little Victor (1X MBA) (Rock Star Bar)

2017
Steve Strongman Band (1 X JUNO, 4 X MBA, IBC 2019) (Machine Shop)
The Snyders (Rock Star Bar)
Harpdog Brown (2X  MBA)  and the Travelin” Blues Show (Rock Star Bar)

2018
Harpdog Brown (Bon Soo) (2X  MBA) (Machine Shop)
MonkeyJunk (2 X JUNO, 10 X MBA) (Verdi Hall)
Reverend Raven and the Cjain Smokin” Alter Boys (US) (Rock Star Bar)

2019
Amanda Fish Band (Bon Soo) (US) ( IBC semi-finals 2017) (Machine Shop)
Ray Fuller and the Bluesrockers (US) (Verdi Hall)
Johnny Max Band (Verdi Hall) (JUNO nominee)
Al Lerman (Solo) (MBA 26 nominations) ( Rock Star Bar)

2020
Jack deKeyzer  (Bon Soo) (2 X JUNO, 7 X MBA) ( Machine Shop)

JUNO = Canadian JUNO Music award
MBA = Canadian Maple Blues award
IBC = International Blues Challenge award

The great bunch of Soo musicians that participated in the 18 Forever Concert -
December 2007

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