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Toronzo Cannon @ My Father's Place at The Roslyn Hotel
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Join us for a night of authentic Chicago blues with Toronzo Cannon at Parting Glass Live! The celebrated bluesman, known for his storytelling lyrics and fiery guitar solos, brings the heart and soul of the blues to the stage. Don't miss this electrifying performance from a true master of the genre.
JOE BONAMASSA "Great guitar player, excellent vocalist, amazing personality."
GUITAR WORLD "Among the most inspiring southpaws to ever pick up a six-string... a real deal blueser."
BLUES MUSIC MAGAZINE "An explosive guitarist, a one-man champion of Chicago blues... an influential star."
CHICAGO READER "One of Chicago's finest string-bending storytellers... what makes him stand out in the contemporary blues scene is his talent for songwriting."
JOE BONAMASSA "Great guitar player, excellent vocalist, amazing personality."
GUITAR WORLD "Among the most inspiring southpaws to ever pick up a six-string... a real deal blueser."
BLUES MUSIC MAGAZINE "An explosive guitarist, a one-man champion of Chicago blues... an influential star."
CHICAGO READER "One of Chicago's finest string-bending storytellers... what makes him stand out in the contemporary blues scene is his talent for songwriting."
TICKETS ON SALE NOW!
by Calling The Hotline
302-475-0636
Tickets $50 Each
Call Delaware Veterans Post 1 to Reserve Your Table or Seat Now!
Call 302-475-0636
( If no one answers please leave message & they will get back to you with your confirmation)
You Can Also Reserve Your Spot Now By Calling The Diamond State Blues Society
Or Text
Gene Fontana- 302-547-0913
Or Call
The Saint Georges Country Store
302–836-8202
If You Do Not Want To Reserve A Spot , Tickets Will Be Available @ The Door Day Of Show Same Price!
ALL HAPPENS @
DELAWARE VETERANS POST 1
2535 VETERANS DRIVE
WILMINGTON , DELAWARE
Info e-mail Gene @ mrbluz2@aol.com
COME ON OUT & SUPPORT LIVE MUSIC & KEEP THE BLUES ALIVE!
Remember!
TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR DAY OF SHOW , CASH ONLY!
by Calling The Hotline
302-475-0636
Tickets $50 Each
Call Delaware Veterans Post 1 to Reserve Your Table or Seat Now!
Call 302-475-0636
( If no one answers please leave message & they will get back to you with your confirmation)
You Can Also Reserve Your Spot Now By Calling The Diamond State Blues Society
Or Text
Gene Fontana- 302-547-0913
Or Call
The Saint Georges Country Store
302–836-8202
If You Do Not Want To Reserve A Spot , Tickets Will Be Available @ The Door Day Of Show Same Price!
ALL HAPPENS @
DELAWARE VETERANS POST 1
2535 VETERANS DRIVE
WILMINGTON , DELAWARE
Info e-mail Gene @ mrbluz2@aol.com
COME ON OUT & SUPPORT LIVE MUSIC & KEEP THE BLUES ALIVE!
Remember!
TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR DAY OF SHOW , CASH ONLY!
With his soulful guitar riffs and gritty vocals, Toronzo makes every performance a mesmerizing journey through the heart of the Windy City.
“I want my songs to be heard and experienced, not just listened to,” says cliché-defying, internationally beloved Chicago bluesman Toronzo Cannon. With his richly detailed, truth-telling original songs, blistering, inventive guitar work and impassioned vocals, Cannon is on the cutting edge of today’s contemporary blues scene and is known as one of the genre’s most creative artists. His sound is inspired by his heroes, including Hound Dog Taylor, Muddy Waters, Elmore James, Albert King, Son Seals and Jimi Hendrix. On his third Alligator Records album, Shut Up And Play!, Cannon blazes his own path with 11 emotionally-charged originals. From serious to humorous, his imaginative songs are fueled by his powerful, cathartic guitar solos and his soulfully authoritative voice.
GUITAR WORLD
"Among the most inspiring southpaws to ever pick up a six-string...Cannon shows the Windy City is not done teaching us about electric blues. He's a real deal blueser, combining social commentary in his songs with heartfelt guitar playing topped off with killer vibrato."
BLUES MUSIC MAGAZINE
"Confident and spot-on...Cannon is an explosive guitarist, a one-man champion of Chicago blues...an influential star capable of carrying the traditions of this music and city to the contemporary realm."
LIVING BLUES
“Tough-voiced, lyrically eloquent and musically focused...hard-grinding blues rock and urbane pop-soul balladry. Melodically rich guitar that seethes with emotion. Most impressive is his songwriting: his lyrics are full of wisdom laced with humor and life-toughened resolve.”
Deadline for buying tickets online is 5pm the day of the show.
After 5pm, please purchase all tickets at the door.
NOTE: Bar and aisle stools are first-come/first-serve. We recommend arriving 1 hour before showtime with your party to order food and appreciate your patience.
GUITAR WORLD
"Among the most inspiring southpaws to ever pick up a six-string...Cannon shows the Windy City is not done teaching us about electric blues. He's a real deal blueser, combining social commentary in his songs with heartfelt guitar playing topped off with killer vibrato."
BLUES MUSIC MAGAZINE
"Confident and spot-on...Cannon is an explosive guitarist, a one-man champion of Chicago blues...an influential star capable of carrying the traditions of this music and city to the contemporary realm."
LIVING BLUES
“Tough-voiced, lyrically eloquent and musically focused...hard-grinding blues rock and urbane pop-soul balladry. Melodically rich guitar that seethes with emotion. Most impressive is his songwriting: his lyrics are full of wisdom laced with humor and life-toughened resolve.”
Deadline for buying tickets online is 5pm the day of the show.
After 5pm, please purchase all tickets at the door.
NOTE: Bar and aisle stools are first-come/first-serve. We recommend arriving 1 hour before showtime with your party to order food and appreciate your patience.
Internationally beloved Chicago bluesman Toronzo Cannon brings his remarkable show to High Cotton Music Hall!
Toronzo Cannon was born in Chicago on February 14, 1968, and grew up in the shadows of the notoriously tough Robert Taylor Homes. Theresa's Lounge, one of the city's most famous South Side blues clubs, was close by. As a child, Cannon would stand on the sidewalk outside the club's door, soaking up the live blues pouring out, while trying to sneak a glance inside at larger-than-life bluesmen like Junior Wells and Buddy Guy. He also heard plenty of blues records growing up in his grandfather's home, and listened to soul, R&B and contemporary rock on the radio.
Cannon's sister gifted him his first guitar at age 22, and his natural talent enabled him to quickly master the instrument. Although his initial focus was reggae, he found himself increasingly drawn to the blues. "It was dormant in me. But when I started playing the blues, I found my voice and the blues came pouring out." He absorbed sounds, styles and licks from Buddy Guy, Albert Collins, Hound Dog Taylor, B.B. King, Albert King, Freddie King, Jimi Hendrix, J.B. Hutto, Lil' Ed Williams and others. Although influenced by many, Cannon's biting, stinging guitar sound is all his own.
From 1996 through 2002, Cannon played as a sideman for Tommy McCracken, Wayne Baker Brooks, L.V. Banks and Joanna Connor. But he was determined to prove himself. In 2001, while continuing to work as a hired-gun guitarist, he formed his own band, The Cannonball Express. By 2003, he was working exclusively as a band leader. His first three albums—2007's My Woman (self-released), 2011's Leaving Mood (Delmark) and 2013's Blues Music Award-nominated John The Conqueror Root (Delmark)—document his rise from new kid on the block to promising up-and-comer.
Cannon fulfilled that promise with the 2016 release of his Alligator Records debut, The Chicago Way, with his maturity as an artist on full display. The album was hailed as the emergence of one of the most electrifying bluesmen to burst onto the international stage in decades. The groundbreaking 2019 follow-up, The Preacher, The Politician Or The Pimp, built upon the foundation he'd laid, creating and defining his vision of contemporary blues. Local, national and international media all took notice. CNN filmed Cannon leading a tour of Chicago blues clubs and then broadcast the piece around the world. Local Chicago television station WGN won an EMMY award for their piece on Chicago's new blues master. England's tastemaker MOJO magazine declared The Chicago Way the #1 Blues Album Of 2016, and The Preacher, The Politician Or The Pimp as the #2 Blues Album Of 2019.
Cannon has been nominated for ten Blues Music Awards, and, as his fan base expands, so do his friendships with famous musicians. Gary Clark, Jr. declared, "Toronzo is a beast. He lights the room up," and Joe Bonamassa rightly pronounced, "Toronzo's a great guitar player, excellent vocalist and an amazing personality."
Cannon has performed at clubs and festivals at major cities all over the U.S. and continues to bring his music directly to his fans. He's toured Canada, the UK, made his way across Europe and even to Japan. He has played the Chicago Blues Festival on ten separate occasions, bringing tens of thousands of his fellow Chicagoans to their feet. His live performances unfailingly earn him heaps of critical praise and hordes of wildly enthusiastic new fans. "Listen to a master bluesman at work," declared the UK's Blues & Rhythm magazine. "This is modern blues at its creative best."
Now, with Shut Up And Play! Toronzo Cannon delivers his songs with purpose and passion. "It's not about the solos," says the man whose blazing guitar work continues to impress, "it's about the songs. People get used to everyday life, so it's easy to miss the things around them. I know the problems of Chicago, the hardships. I write about those things. But I love my city, warts and all. I grew up here. It molded me and gave me the people and places I know and love. And it produced the Chicago blues giants that came here from down south. I'm proud to be from Chicago and to be able to stand on the shoulders of every great Chicago blues musician who came before me."
All the attention he's received only makes Cannon more focused. "I feel like I've become an ambassador for Chicago blues. People expect a lot from me," he says. "But it's good, because I'm forced to keep upping my game." And like all the Chicago greats who have come before him, blues is his life's calling. "You don't choose the blues," he says. "The blues chooses you."
Toronzo Cannon was born in Chicago on February 14, 1968, and grew up in the shadows of the notoriously tough Robert Taylor Homes. Theresa's Lounge, one of the city's most famous South Side blues clubs, was close by. As a child, Cannon would stand on the sidewalk outside the club's door, soaking up the live blues pouring out, while trying to sneak a glance inside at larger-than-life bluesmen like Junior Wells and Buddy Guy. He also heard plenty of blues records growing up in his grandfather's home, and listened to soul, R&B and contemporary rock on the radio.
Cannon's sister gifted him his first guitar at age 22, and his natural talent enabled him to quickly master the instrument. Although his initial focus was reggae, he found himself increasingly drawn to the blues. "It was dormant in me. But when I started playing the blues, I found my voice and the blues came pouring out." He absorbed sounds, styles and licks from Buddy Guy, Albert Collins, Hound Dog Taylor, B.B. King, Albert King, Freddie King, Jimi Hendrix, J.B. Hutto, Lil' Ed Williams and others. Although influenced by many, Cannon's biting, stinging guitar sound is all his own.
From 1996 through 2002, Cannon played as a sideman for Tommy McCracken, Wayne Baker Brooks, L.V. Banks and Joanna Connor. But he was determined to prove himself. In 2001, while continuing to work as a hired-gun guitarist, he formed his own band, The Cannonball Express. By 2003, he was working exclusively as a band leader. His first three albums—2007's My Woman (self-released), 2011's Leaving Mood (Delmark) and 2013's Blues Music Award-nominated John The Conqueror Root (Delmark)—document his rise from new kid on the block to promising up-and-comer.
Cannon fulfilled that promise with the 2016 release of his Alligator Records debut, The Chicago Way, with his maturity as an artist on full display. The album was hailed as the emergence of one of the most electrifying bluesmen to burst onto the international stage in decades. The groundbreaking 2019 follow-up, The Preacher, The Politician Or The Pimp, built upon the foundation he'd laid, creating and defining his vision of contemporary blues. Local, national and international media all took notice. CNN filmed Cannon leading a tour of Chicago blues clubs and then broadcast the piece around the world. Local Chicago television station WGN won an EMMY award for their piece on Chicago's new blues master. England's tastemaker MOJO magazine declared The Chicago Way the #1 Blues Album Of 2016, and The Preacher, The Politician Or The Pimp as the #2 Blues Album Of 2019.
Cannon has been nominated for ten Blues Music Awards, and, as his fan base expands, so do his friendships with famous musicians. Gary Clark, Jr. declared, "Toronzo is a beast. He lights the room up," and Joe Bonamassa rightly pronounced, "Toronzo's a great guitar player, excellent vocalist and an amazing personality."
Cannon has performed at clubs and festivals at major cities all over the U.S. and continues to bring his music directly to his fans. He's toured Canada, the UK, made his way across Europe and even to Japan. He has played the Chicago Blues Festival on ten separate occasions, bringing tens of thousands of his fellow Chicagoans to their feet. His live performances unfailingly earn him heaps of critical praise and hordes of wildly enthusiastic new fans. "Listen to a master bluesman at work," declared the UK's Blues & Rhythm magazine. "This is modern blues at its creative best."
Now, with Shut Up And Play! Toronzo Cannon delivers his songs with purpose and passion. "It's not about the solos," says the man whose blazing guitar work continues to impress, "it's about the songs. People get used to everyday life, so it's easy to miss the things around them. I know the problems of Chicago, the hardships. I write about those things. But I love my city, warts and all. I grew up here. It molded me and gave me the people and places I know and love. And it produced the Chicago blues giants that came here from down south. I'm proud to be from Chicago and to be able to stand on the shoulders of every great Chicago blues musician who came before me."
All the attention he's received only makes Cannon more focused. "I feel like I've become an ambassador for Chicago blues. People expect a lot from me," he says. "But it's good, because I'm forced to keep upping my game." And like all the Chicago greats who have come before him, blues is his life's calling. "You don't choose the blues," he says. "The blues chooses you."
Cannon has been nominated for ten Blues Music Awards, and, as his fan base expands, so do his friendships with famous musicians. Gary Clark, Jr. declared, "Toronzo is a beast. He lights the room up," and Joe Bonamassa rightly pronounced, "Toronzo's a great guitar player, excellent vocalist and an amazing personality."
Cannon has performed at clubs and festivals at major cities all over the U.S. and continues to bring his music directly to his fans. He's toured Canada, the UK, made his way across Europe and even to Japan. He has played the Chicago Blues Festival on ten separate occasions, bringing tens of thousands of his fellow Chicagoans to their feet. His live performances unfailingly earn him heaps of critical praise and hordes of wildly enthusiastic new fans. "Listen to a master bluesman at work," declared the UK's Blues & Rhythm magazine. "This is modern blues at its creative best."
Now, with Shut Up And Play! Toronzo Cannon delivers his songs with purpose and passion. "It's not about the solos," says the man whose blazing guitar work continues to impress, "it's about the songs. People get used to everyday life, so it's easy to miss the things around them. I know the problems of Chicago, the hardships. I write about those things. But I love my city, warts and all. I grew up here. It molded me and gave me the people and places I know and love. And it produced the Chicago blues giants that came here from down south. I'm proud to be from Chicago and to be able to stand on the shoulders of every great Chicago blues musician who came before me."
All the attention he's received only makes Cannon more focused. "I feel like I've become an ambassador for Chicago blues. People expect a lot from me," he says. "But it's good, because I'm forced to keep upping my game." And like all the Chicago greats who have come before him, blues is his life's calling. "You don't choose the blues," he says. "The blues chooses you."
Cannon has performed at clubs and festivals at major cities all over the U.S. and continues to bring his music directly to his fans. He's toured Canada, the UK, made his way across Europe and even to Japan. He has played the Chicago Blues Festival on ten separate occasions, bringing tens of thousands of his fellow Chicagoans to their feet. His live performances unfailingly earn him heaps of critical praise and hordes of wildly enthusiastic new fans. "Listen to a master bluesman at work," declared the UK's Blues & Rhythm magazine. "This is modern blues at its creative best."
Now, with Shut Up And Play! Toronzo Cannon delivers his songs with purpose and passion. "It's not about the solos," says the man whose blazing guitar work continues to impress, "it's about the songs. People get used to everyday life, so it's easy to miss the things around them. I know the problems of Chicago, the hardships. I write about those things. But I love my city, warts and all. I grew up here. It molded me and gave me the people and places I know and love. And it produced the Chicago blues giants that came here from down south. I'm proud to be from Chicago and to be able to stand on the shoulders of every great Chicago blues musician who came before me."
All the attention he's received only makes Cannon more focused. "I feel like I've become an ambassador for Chicago blues. People expect a lot from me," he says. "But it's good, because I'm forced to keep upping my game." And like all the Chicago greats who have come before him, blues is his life's calling. "You don't choose the blues," he says. "The blues chooses you."
Toronzo Cannon is a 10-time Blues Music Award nominee and one of Chicago’s premier contemporary electric blues guitarists, vocalists, and songwriters. The former Chicago Transit Authority bus driver delivers blistering, Jimi Hendrix- and Albert King-inspired guitar solos paired with deeply personal, soul-infused originals that capture the grit, humor, and heart of modern life. Catch the acclaimed Alligator Records recording artist performing live behind his album Shut Up And Play! at The Woodshop Listening Room in Chattanooga.