Misty Blues with LeFever at The Iron Horse

Name: Misty Blues with LeFever at The Iron Horse
Start: 2024-06-23T19:00:00-04:00
Location: 18 Center St., Northampton, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01060

Schedule

Sun Jun 23 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

18 Center St., Northampton, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01060 | Northampton, MA

Misty Blues with/ LeFever
at The Iron Horse
Sunday, June 23rd 2024
SHOW: 7:00pm / DOORS: 6:00pm (Separate Bar Area will be open prior to venue door time)
General On-sale starts March 22nd!
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Reserved Seating: $25 GA / $23 MEMBERS
General Admission Seats: $20 GA / $18 MEMBERS
2019 International Blues Challenge finalist, Misty Blues, is fronted by lead singer/band founder Gina Coleman. The band is based out of Berkshire County, Massachusetts playing original and traditional blues with hints of jazz, soul, funk and tent revival gospel since 1999. The band has recorded with Eric Gales, Charles Neville and Joe Louis Walker, and opened for contemporary blues artists like Tab Benoit, James Montgomery, John Primer, Roomful Of Blues, Albert Cummings and Michael Powers. Misty Blues performs extensively throughout New England and has toured the continental U.S., Canada and the UK. The band has been nominated for a few Independent Blues Music Awards and their original recordings have broad international airplay.
In the summer of 1999 Gina Coleman was performing in the Williamstown Theatre Festival production of A Raisin In The Sun. That production featured the acting of Ruben Santiago Hudson, Viola Davis, Kimberly Elise and Gloria Foster. Coleman was cast as a gospel singer. Nearing the end of the show’s run, Ruben Santiago Hudson gave Coleman a cd collection entitled Men Are Like Streetcars. He told her that her voice was well suited for the blues and urged her to take that next musical direction. Coleman heeded his advance, and after a quarter of a century, Misty Blues has stood the test of time.
LeFever, at its core, is the western Massachusetts duo of Dawn Lepere and Jeff Starns, and they have a knack for unique and catchy songwriting. Filled with Dawn’s rich vocals, rhythm guitar and spoon-playing , and Jeff’s intricate lead and finger-style guitar work, their songwriting styles range from alt-blues to indie rock. LeFever are two time Blues Foundation Blues Challenge Winners and 2024 International Blue Challenge semi-finalists. For this performance, they will be filling out their sound with local legend Frank Manzi on bass and harp, and his talented son Lucas Manzi on drums.