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Gaye Adegbalola

Blues Band

vocals, guitar, harmonica

featuring Roddy Barnes, piano

October 26

         Gaye Adegbalola embraces and redefines the classic style of the great blues divas of the 1920s and 30s – those often fiercely independent "wild women" who were unashamed to lay their souls bare and unafraid to give advice. Adegbalola and Roddy Barnes conjure up another era and deliver a dynamic cabaret-style performance that is both educational and entertaining. In 1990 Ms. Adegbalola was the recipient of the prestigious Blues Music Award (formerly known as the W.C. Handy Award) for her song Middle Aged Blues Boogie. Originally an educator with Fredericksburg, Virginia, public schools, Adegbalola was honored as Virginia State Teacher of the Year. She is a dynamic, engaging and motivational public speaker, and conducts a variety of workshops and seminars. Topics include Gay Rights vs. Civil Rights: Similarities & Differences and The History of Women in the Blues.   

"Gaye has always been the ultimate modern realization of this breed of blues great (classic blues women). . . She continues to be a pathfinder to the truth in all its naked wonder. . . (Roddy) is the ultimate barrelhouse sideman.."

George P. Seedorff, Big City Blues Magazine

"Adegbalola possesses a classic blues singer's talent to breathe life into mere words. It's the combination of prodigious singing, timely material and exquisite production that raises this effort above any mere "women's blues" label . . . Her identification with humanity's daily struggles--and her ability to articulate them--secure Adegbalola's place within the tradition."

Blues Revue

 “Adegbalola is so supremely connected to her music that one feels the joy, beauty, and pain as if it were one's own."

The Washington Blade

JAZZ SERIES 2008  

Diana Wortham Theatre 

 Downtown in Asheville, NC

$21 members 

$29 non-members

$10 students w/ID

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