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A concert by St. Louis blues greats will highlight the winter benefit, “Barrelhouse, Boogie and Blues,” at the History Museum in the Jefferson Memorial Building in Forest Park on Saturday, February 16. Welcoming guests at 7 p.m., Clayton Love will play his own style of blues piano.
The music and song will continue to fill the Lionberger Gallery, where dinner will be served.
The fundraiser, a coordinated effort of the St. Louis Blues Society and the Missouri Historical Society, benefits the support and development of a St. Louis Blues (Music) Archives in the MHS archival collections.
The cost of $100 per person includes cocktails, dinner, the evening of entertainment and valet parking. MHS and Blues Society members receive a ten percent discount on the ticket price. Seating is limited. Love, who came to St. Louis from Mississippi in the 1950s with Ike Turner’s band, will open the program during dinner when he adds vocals. Silver Cloud, Edwards and Doder will present a classic concert of piano, harmonica and bottleneck guitar, playing blues from the 1930s through the 1950s. “It’s a style of blues you don’t hear any more says Ronald J. Edwards, who plays the guitar and is chairman of the St. Louis Blues Society. “Keith Doder, from the Blue City Band, will join Rudy (Silver Cloud) Coleman and me for this special event. Cloud plays the older style of blues of Memphis Slim, Tampa Red and Sonny Boy Wiliamson, who were all recording in the 1940s.” Mae Wheeler, the well-known St. Louis vocalist, will make a special appearance, accompanied by piano and rhythm section.
She will sing blues music ranging from the style of Bessie Smith and Dinah Washington to Billie Holliday. Ronald E. Henges is chairman of the Barrelhouse Benefit committee. Laurna C. Godwin is co-chairman. Committee members include: N. Barrett Braun, David Detering, Carolyn H. Guest, Ronald J. Edwards, Arthur L. Lueking, Steve Schankman, D. Michael Stewart, and Fr. Robert R. Archibald, president of the Missouri Historical Society, which operates the History Museum.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, February 1991.
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