blues club @ temperance | The Swaps // Stevie Watts // Ben Holder

Our blues club nights have become one of our most popular evenings of the month. And deservedly so too. They get better and better and, in December, it was a real Christmas cracker. What a brilliant evening.

There were many highlights, but “Sweetheart” was a particular favourite. A great Swaps song taken to another level with the Hammond organ of Stevie Watts, percussion from Ben Haines, guitar from Jason Page and harmonica from Tomohiro Sugisaka (Tomo). Check out the video above. The best version of this song we have heard. Wonderful stuff.

Like many events these days, our blues clubs are now sold out for January, February, March, April AND May. So, we are reasonably confident that the June one will sell out too. And probably very quickly.

We have been working on the line-up and this is going to be another very special one.

This will feature The Swaps (and, if the stars align, Tomo), the return of Stevie Watts on keys (hopefully with Shanade too) and the debut blues club appearance of Ben Holder, a word-class violinist. And maybe some other surprises...

Ben is no stranger to Temperance – he has performed here a few times with John Coghlan (original drummer with Status Quo). He will be bringing his own jazz swing trio in January (that too has sold out).

Usual format with different permutations to keep the sound guy guessing and an all-star jam at the end. Get 'em quick.

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