Blues on Sunday with Nelson Checkoway, Per Hanson & Jon Ross
Sat, Sep 09
|Cadenza
Blues - $21 in Advance | $25 at the Door. Student rate $10. The show will also be Livestreamed from Cadenza's Facebook page. Contributions to the artist are encouraged.
Time & Location
Sep 09, 2023, 7:00 PM
Cadenza, 5 Depot St, Freeport, ME 04032, USA
About The Event
“They may not be household names, but they’ve played with people who are.” This is how Saco River Theatre owner Dana Packard introduced a recent concert by the Blues on Sunday Quartet, who are returning to Cadenza in Freeport on Saturday, September 9th.
The Blues on Sunday Quartet or BOSQ was founded last year by area musician Nelson Checkoway and two regional luminaries, drummer Per Hanson and guitarist Jon Ross, as a Sunday afternoon blues residency at Cadenza.
Hanson, a founding member of Ronnie Earl’s Broadcasters, has played and recorded with a who’s who of blues musicians including Little Milton, Debbie Davies and Pinetop Perkins, while multi-instrumentalist Ross has appeared with guitar great Duke Robillard, Joe Louis Walker, and Kim Wilson of the Fabulous Thunderbirds.
Ross and Hanson also toured together with blues harmonica legend James Cotton, and they share a long-standing area connection, having appeared countless times in the…