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Sunday, September 20, 2009

Weekend: Let your Soul Shine
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BASCOM -- Graná Louise and Troublemaker will headline the Soul Shine Blues Festival, which will take place from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. Sept. 26 at Meadowbrook Park Ballroom in Bascom.

Straight from the heart of Chicago, the singer returns to the Soul Shine Blues Festival bringing sass with class. Louise is a regular act at Chicago's hottest blues clubs, including Blue Chicago, Buddy Guy's Legends, Andy's Jazz Club, Shaw's Crab House, Redfish, KoKo Taylor's Celebrity, B.L.U.E.S on Halsted Street, and Kingston Mines.

"Graná Louise encompasses the blues," said Terri Mercer, executive director of First Step Family Violence Intervention Center. "She is simply hands-down, the quintessential female voice of Chicago blues. Graná Louise's show brims with all the elements that make a performer great. Her deep-throaty-broad- rich voice, belts out the kind of raw gut blues that makes your spine tingle and heart and body ache."

All proceeds from the festival benefit the non-profit agency. Since 1980, the agency been dedicated to helping families become more peaceful, compassionate, caring and resilient. Its programs, including shelter services, classes, court advocacy and crisis line operation, help people discover the relationship skills they already have and learn new ways of thinking about how to be a loving partner and parent.

The Soul Shine Blues Festival will also go gray for its 14th year. It will welcome back one of last year's favorites and a living legend of the blues pantheon, Henry Gray.

A pianist and singer who has played for more than seven decades, Gray began his career with Howlin' Wolf until 1968 before launching a solo career of his own. He has played with a multitude of artists including Robert Lockwood Jr., Billy Boy Arnold, the Rolling Stones and Muddy Waters. He has more than 58 albums to his credit and is credited with helping to create the distinctive sound of the Chicago blues piano.

Gray will appear with Columbus blues musician Sean Carney.

"There are only a few remaining blues artists who can legitimately be seen as originators and Henry Gray is one of them," Mercer said. "He left his indelible mark on the blues art form and on the hearts of our audience last year. We're thrilled to welcome him back."

The show will open with the Soul Shine Blues Band, a house band featuring a number of local favorites.

New this year is the Top Hat auction. In a Top Hat auction, bidders are not prospective buyers, instead, they buy tickets, which are chances to win items. Bidders may buy as many tickets as they like, and bid them on any items they want by placing them in a container in front of the items they are trying to win.

At the conclusion of bidding, the winning ticket is drawn from the tickets bid on each item, and the item is given to the owner of that ticket.

Some of the auction items include an assortment of 12 bottles of wine; a wine basket featuring three bottles of Tuscan red wine retailing at $250; a favorite mother-in-law basket filled with handcrafted items, fresh baked goods and more; autographed, matted and framed photos of Louise and Gray.

The event will also feature a guitar raffle. This year's guitar is an Epiphone Limited Edition Riviera Custom P93 electric guitar, donated by Rick Briney of Tiffin. Cost is $20 per ticket and a limit of 200 tickets will be sold. Winner need not be present to win.

The Soul Shine Blues menu features down home Chicago food. Gracie's Deli, which placed third in Findlay's 2009 Rib-Off, will provide barbecue ribs, chicken and pulled pork sandwiches. Main Street Deli will provide red beans and rice. Pop, beer and wine coolers will also be available.

Tickets are $20 and are available at the door or online at www.soulshineblues.com.

For more information, go online or call 419-435-7300.
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