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Wayne Baker Brooks

Wayne Baker Brooks - ALL STAR BLUES BASH 2024

The Howlin' Wolf
907 S Peters St

Apr 28, 2024

8:00 PM CDT
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🎉🎸 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 that'll make your heart skip a beat! 🎷🎵And who's 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, Today’s 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 region’s 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 New Orleans Music Legend finely-crafted Blues-infused Rock/Americana original songs ooze with the vibes he’s 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 today’s 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 Wayne's father the late, great Lonnie Brooks! 🔥🎉   So, if you're 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 for festing after dark!🌟🎷   Get your tickets here:   https://www.ticketweb.com/event/all-star-blues-bash-with-howlin-wolf-tickets/13649413?pl=howlin   Let's make this night one for the books! Don't miss out on the ALL-STAR BLUES BASH - where legends play and memories are saved! 🎶✨ #AllStarBluesBashNOLA #AllStarBluesBash2024 #LegendaryNight #blues #bluesmusic #Louisiana #louisianamusic #bluesbash #Zydeco 🌟🎸
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November 9th 2023
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The Howlin' Wolf has a long history as one of New Orleans' finest locally owned and operated venues. Named after the legendary bluesman Chester "Howlin' Wolf" Burnett, th...
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Wayne Baker Brooks Biography

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Wayne Baker Brooks is considered one of todays top guitarists who's 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, IL amongst the most prolific blues legends and blues masters in the world, Wayne Baker Brook's blues roots may run deeper and wider than the Great Lakes themselves. 

Chicago Blues laid the foundation to Wayne's innovative style. Growing up Brooks was a regular visitor to such historic places as Chess Studios, Checkerboard Lounge, Wisefools, and many other blues landmarks at which he witnessed many live performances by blues masters like Buddy Guy, Jr. Wells, Luther Allison, KoKo Taylor, the great Muddy Waters, & his father. The youngest son of blues master Lonnie Brooks - Wayne Brooks was literally born into the blues! 

Leaving no way around the fate appointed him he soon joined his father's  (Lonnie Brooks)  band as his guitarist. And then in 1997 formed the Wayne Baker Brooks Band which while continuing to work with his father's band he appeared in the film Blues Brothers 2000.

With the release of his  acclaimed  debut CD "Mystery" "an album that brilliantly draws on blues, blues rock, soul, funk and beyond". "Mystery" received multiple awards and praise from the music world.

Along with releasing his new release he was soon touring the world and featured on national TV  programs (including CNN's "Showbiz"), as well as endless radio programs including performing for First Lady Hilary Rodham Clinton at Chess Studios (Willie Dixon Blues Heaven Foundation) with legends Bo Diddley, KoKo Taylor, At the conclusion of the band's explosive set, Hillary stated, "My husband is going to be so jealous he missed this!".

WBB  has performed and or recorded alongside such notables as:

Buddy Guy, Koko  Taylor, Bo Diddley, Corey Harris, The Black Crowes, Otis Rush, Jr. Wells,  Shemekia  Copeland, Jonny Lang, Susan  Tedeschi,  Keb  Mo, Jimmy  Vivino, Robert Randolph,  Taj  Mahal, Mick Fleetwood, Otis Clay, Bobby Rush, Elvin Bishop, Billy Branch and many more... 

Wayne Baker Brooks and this Band continue to play the world over with WBB's signature top shelf brand of guitar playing and a live show that should not be missed.
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