This is a huge couple of months for me: a “New England Independently Blue Tour” with the Duke Robillard Band, a Sugar Ray and the Bluetones trip to California and Europe, my first time playing with the Mannish Boys (as well as another chance to play with the great Curtis Salgado), local gigs with everyone from the Bluetones to Darrell Nulisch to James Montgomery to Barrett Anderson, and some recording with Sugaray Rayford and a mix of East and West Coast blues heavyweights.
May
May 3 – w/Sugar Ray and the Bluetones, Acoustic Brew, Voluntown, CT
May 10 – w/The Duke Robillard Band, Tupelo Music Hall, Londonderry, NH
May 11 – w/Sugar Ray and the Bluetones, The Knickerbocker, Westerly, RI
May 16 – w/James Montgomery and Brad Hallen (trio) – Charles Cafe, Millis, MA
May 18 – w/The Duke Robillard Band, Regattabar, Cambridge, MA
May 23 – w/The Duke Robillard Band, Bridge Street Live, Collinsville, CT
May 25 – w/Sugar Ray and the Bluetones, Simi Valley Cajun and Blues Festival, Simi Valley, CA
May 26 – w/The Mannish Boys featuring Curtis Salgado, Audrey Turner, Mike Finnigan, Sugaray Rayford, Frank Goldwasser, Kevin Selfe, and more, Simi Valley Cajun and Blues Festival, Simi Valley, CA
May 29-30 – w/Sugar Ray and the Bluetones, Le Sonograf, Le Thor, FRANCE
May 31 – w/Sugar Ray and the Bluetones, Blues Now, Basel, SWITZERLAND
June
June 1 – w/Sugar Ray and the Bluetones, Blues Station, Tournon d’Agenais, FRANCE
June 3 – w/Sugar Ray and the Bluetones, Blues au Chateau, Oupeye, BELGIUM
June 14 – w/Barrett Anderson, Smoken’ Joes BBQ, Brighton, MA
June 16 – Blues Jam, Cady’s Tavern, Chepachet, RI
June 21 – w/Sugar Ray and the Bluetones, Chan’s, Woonsocket, RI
June 22 – TENTATIVE – w/Darrell Nulisch, Powderhouse Park, Somerville, MA (1 pm)
June 22 – w/Sugar Ray and the Bluetones, Black Eyed Sally’s, Hartford, CT (9 pm)
June 26 – Blues Jam with the Double Ds, Tavern, Plainville, MA
June 30 – w/Sugar Ray and the Bluetones, Mystic Blues Festival w/Al Kooper, Knickerbocker, Westerly, RI
Monster Mike Welch 