Kenny Neal

🎉🎸 Brace yourselves for the ultimate blues extravaganza! 🌟✨ Get ready to have your socks knocked off because the ALL-STAR BLUES BASH is grooving into New Orleans on April 28th, 2024, for an unforgettable night of music magic featuring a lineup thatll make your heart skip a beat! 🎷🎵And whos bringing this phenomenal party together? None other than the Chicago Music Hall of Fame, Chicago Music Award Winner, and founder of the All-Star Blues Bash - Wayne Baker Brooks! 🎩🎸 The ALL-STAR BLUES BASH NOLA 2024 featured artists to appear: Kenny Neal, Todays most famous Louisiana Blues Legend is a 5-time Blues Music Award Winner, 3-time GRAMMY Nominee. Born and raised in Louisiana as one of the strongest modern proponents of Baton Rouge swamp blues, Kenny is a second-generation southern Louisiana bluesman who is cognizant of the regions venerable blues tradition and imaginative enough to steer it in fresh directions. 🎸💥 CJ Chenier, the GRAMMY award nominated Crown Prince of Zydeco himself, was born and raised in Louisiana CJ is a ready-made party with deep roots in Americana music. He delivers soulful vocals along with masterful accordion-driven Zydeco and Blues that will make you get up and dance 🌟🎶 Jason Ricci, is a harp extraordinaire and a multiple award-winning jazz, funk, and blues harmonica player, singer, and songwriter. This 2x Blues Music Award winner is one of the most influential, recorded, celebrated, interviewed, and famous harmonica players working in the world today with an amazing and unique take on modern-day harp playing. Marc Stone, the legendary New Orleans Music Legend finely-crafted Blues-infused Rock/Americana original songs ooze with the vibes hes absorbed performing with legends of Funk, New Orleans RnB, Blues, and Zydeco, as well as his work with cutting-edge Americana phenoms, Jam band heroes, Hip-Hop artists, singer-songwriters and African drum masters. He is known all over New Orleans to get you funkified🌟🎶 Wayne Baker Brooks (host), is an American blues and blues-rock guitarist and singer who is considered one of todays top guitarists whose signature style combines powerful vocals with liquid fire guitar playing that honors his rich blues heritage yet effortlessly expands the boundaries of the genre. Born and raised in Chicago, he is the youngest son of Louisiana-born Blues Master Lonnie Brooks (a staple at the NOJF in the 1990s). Wayne is the recent Chicago Music Award Winner Best Blues Entertainer, Chicago Blues Hall of Fame Inductee, and a HistoryMaker Music Maker Success! Past editions of the All-Star Blues Bash have seen Rock and Roll Hall of Famers, Grammy Winners, platinum-selling artists, and blues masters grace the stage, including the likes of Elvin Bishop, Big Head Todd, Bobby Rush, Pine-Top Perkins, Chris Thomas King, Shannon Curfman, and Waynes father the late, great Lonnie Brooks! 🔥🎉 So, if youre ready to dance the night away, sing your heart out, and witness history in the making, mark your calendars, grab your friends, and join us at the legendary venue The Howlin Wolf at 8 pm