Mark Naftalin $ Friends Blues Party

Name: Mark Naftalin $ Friends Blues Party
Start: 2025-11-08T18:30:00-05:00
Location: Westport VFW

Schedule

Sat, 08 Nov, 2025 at 06:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Westport VFW | Westport, CT

Join Mark and Friends for this special Blues Party at the VFW in Westport! $20 Advance Tickets
Famed keyboardist and noted producer and radio host Mark Naftalin is bringing his talents to The VFW Westport.
Pathbreakers in the 1960s blues boom, the inter-racial Butterfield Band opened doors for blues masters like B.B. King and Muddy Waters, and Naftalin went on to record and/or perform with a host of blues stars, including Michael Bloomfield, James Cotton, Lowell Fulson, John Lee Hooker, Etta James, Percy Mayfield, Carla Thomas, Irma Thomas, Otis Rush, Big Mama Thornton, Big Joe Turner, and many others. In 2015 he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.
Living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area, Naftalin produced more than 1,300 blues radio broadcasts on three FM stations, in addition and more than 30 blues festivals. His Blue Sunday at The Westport Library is a nod to his Blue Monday Party, a weekly blues show and dance in the Bay Area (1979-83) that featured more than 60 blues artists and groups and was the scene of 86 live radio broadcasts and three TV specials.
In 2002, Mark and his wife, Ellen, moved to Westport, which is Ellen's hometown. His monthly broadcast, The Mark Naftalin Show, is now in its seventh year on Bridgeport's WPKN (89.5 FM, streaming world-wide at wpkn.org).