ANNUAL FALLOUT SHELTER FUNDRAISER - FOR THE FOOD PANTRY OF NORWOOD Feat: THE WILLIE J LAWS BAND!

Name: ANNUAL FALLOUT SHELTER FUNDRAISER - FOR THE FOOD PANTRY OF NORWOOD Feat: THE WILLIE J LAWS BAND!
Start: 2025-03-01T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-03-01T21:30:00-05:00
Location: The Extended Play Sessions Fallout Shelter

Schedule

Sat Mar 01 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

The Extended Play Sessions Fallout Shelter | Norwood, MA

Whether it's The Jimmy Fund, METAVIVOR Breast Cancer Research, Service Dogs for Wounded Veterans, Brain Cancer Research or Coats for Kids, The Fallout Shelter always steps up to help those in need. This year we're keeping it local as our two major fans and contributors Peter Bamber and Tim Hoegler have decided to raise awareness and money for the Ecumenical Community Food Pantry of Norwood. Peter and Tim have hosted a Fundraising Event at the Fallout Shelter every year since 2016. All proceeds from this event will go to the Food Pantry...there will be gift basket raffles and ticket raffles and a great concert featuring The Willie J. Laws Blues Band with Special Guests. It's a great cause and a ton of fun so come on out and support those in need.
WILLIE J. LAWS JR.
U S Navy veteran Willie J. Laws Jr, raised in the Gulf Coast of Texas near Corpus Christi, has over 35 years of performing experience and has traveled all over the world making music. Willie J. developed his "funky blues" guitar and vocal sound, influenced by Texas Blues and R&B/Soul, Tex-Mex Tejano/Conjunto, Louisiana Zydeco, and Country. His vocals and guitar work are stunning.
His body of concert work includes performing as the house band for The House of Blues in both Las Vegas (5 years) and New Orleans (2 years), and as well as regularly performing at Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville in New Orleans. Willie J. toured both nationally and internationally with the Smithsonian Folkways/Grammy award-winning band, "Los Texmaniacs". During the course of his career his band regularly opened for BB King, Etta James, as well as Bobby Blue Bland, Hall and Oates, Warren Zevon, Johnny Winter, and The Ohio Players. Willie was mentored by, and toured with, the late Blues great and Texan, Phillip Walker, which you will hear in Willie's Texas "chicken pickin' " playing style. He has toured multiple times to enthusiastic audiences in Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium and Poland. As well as USO tours in the Middle East during Operation Desert Storm, and Japan. He really is beloved wherever in the world he's gone.
Willie now lives in Massachusetts and garnered a 2011 Massachusetts Blues Challenge Award, was a semi-finalist in the 2012 International Blues Challenge and prestigious Beale St King Award 2012 in Memphis TN, two New England Music Award nominations (2015 and 2016), and a 2015 Boston Music Award Nomination. He and his Boston based band toured and performed twice in Russia at the behest of the United States Consul General of St. Petersburg Russia as part of an artistic ambassadorship. In the seven years of playing in New England Willie is known as one of the foremost Blues acts of the region with a modern funky style uniquely his own. His performances are always warm, funny and entertaining, while also musically inspiring.
The Fallout Shelter is an all ages performance venue welcoming worldwide, world class music in an intimate setting. Our studio audience attends to watch the creation and production of the music television series The Extended Play Sessions. The Fallout Shelter events are immersive experiences for both audience and performers alike...a live music experience like no other. We are fully ADA compliant and have wheelchair access. We have a wide selection of beer and wine for your adult beverage pleasures and each show comes with a free commemorative event poster. Our doors open at 6PM. Seating is General Admission. We recommend you arrive at the time the doors open.