The Dust Poets perform the original music of veteran singer-songwriter Murray D. Evans, whose wry writer’s eye explores themes of home town losers, travel in foreign lands, and the absurdity of war. With their upbeat and unmistakable original sound, the band also performs an eclectic collection of country swing standards and underground pop covers. The Dust Poets’ all-acoustic line-up features guitar, upright bass, accordion, mandolin, clarinet, and percussion, plus extraordinary four part vocal harmonies.

If you like highly intelligent and sometimes hilarious song writing, sublime harmonies, the use of clarinets, accordians, and a double bass, you are in for a treat. Please ... go to their web-site. You'll do yourself a favour.

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Show Location: The PENGUIN, upstairs, corner of Pinnacle and Front Street, downtown Belleville.

Maureen Brown has been awarded Best Canadian Blues Drummer 4 times, as well as being nominated for Best Canadian Blues Vocalist 3 times. Her New Orleans rooted band, Maureen Brown & Big Hand, also won Best Canadian Blues Band, for Southern Comfort's New Blues Talent Contest and represented Canada in Memphis for the W.C. Handy International Blues Search. Maureen has performed with such great blues legends as Kim Wilson (The Fabulous Thunderbirds), Otis Rush, John Hammond, Lowell Fulson and Watermelon Slim, to name a few and she has performed for Oscar Peterson, Oliver Jones and Dan Ackroyd, amongst many others. Joining her are some of the world's most respected and recorded musicians, including Pepe Francis, on guitar, Ray Parker, on keys and Rodney St. Amand on bass.

Show Location: The New Bohemian Nightclub, 248 Front Street, downtown Belleville.

If you like your music on the hot, steamy, visceral side ... something that just belongs in a smoky bar in Texas ... something like Stevie Ray Vaughan or Jimmy Hendrix ... where you cool off with a cold beer in a mason jar ... we've got the band and the night for you. One of Toronto's favorite power soul-blues performers.

Grant Lyle is quickly becoming one of Toronto's favorite power soul-blues performers. He captures the authentic feel of the old style blues but presents the music in a captivating and fresh style. Formed in 1998 by Grant Lyle, Brotherhood combines a mix of excellent and seasoned musicianship with youthful energy and enthusiasm.

His newest CD. "Live at Healey's" sees Grant at his very best as he performs your favorites, as well as some exiting new material, along side of some of Canada's most respected artists.

Other recent achievements for Grant include appearances on Breakfast Television and CKVR's Grow TV where his original music was used for the entire show. His CD's have received air time on CJRT, CIUT, CKLN, CKVS, CBC & others. He is on the air in such far-away places as Russia, France, England, USA, and Spain. Grant can be heard on the internet through such wonderful sites as IUMA and CD Baby

Grant Lyle has been featured on television with ONtv, CITY-TV, CKVR, and the CBC. He has been favorably reviewed in National Post, Toronto Star, Toronto Sun, Toronto Blues Society, Exclaim!, Blues On Stage, and countless other newspapers, magazines, e-zines, local papers and journals.

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Show Location: The New Bohemian Nightclub, 248 Front Street, downtown Belleville.

Blues Legend Mel Brown, with his ultra tight band, The Homewreckers and Miss Angel. Described by Living Blues magazine as "one of the last great blues guitar players of his generation" and by Rolling Stone as "Funky, primeval and perfect". Blues Revue hailed his CD as "Dangerously intense, first rate and so good it almost isn't fair.

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Show Location: The New Bohemian Nightclub, 248 Front Street, downtown Belleville.

Tickets: $30 in advance; $35 at the door. Get your tickets here

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