NCFBS Presents: The Nighthawks w/ Reverend Billy C. Wirtz @ Heartwood Soundstage

Name: NCFBS Presents: The Nighthawks w/ Reverend Billy C. Wirtz @ Heartwood Soundstage
Start: 2025-02-15T19:30:00-05:00
Location: Heartwood Soundstage

Schedule

Sat, 15 Feb, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Heartwood Soundstage | Gainesville, FL

Heartwood Soundstage + The North Central Florida Blues Society Present:
⚡ The Nighthawks with Reverend Billy C. Wirtz ⚡
🚪 Doors at 7:00PM
🎶 Music at 7:30PM
Tickets $20 in Advance, $25 Day of Show, $10 for members of the North Central Florida Blues Society (ncfblues.org)
🤘 Indoor Stage-Seated
All Ages
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⚡ The Nighthawks ⚡
Spotify: https://shorturl.at/Tw1wy
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheNighthawks
The Nighthawks have entertained audiences all over the world with their unique blend of Blues, rock, soul, R&B, rockabilly and swing. Mark Wenner has fronted the Nighthawks since 1972, and the original lineup of the quartet ruled the highways and honky-tonks. They opened many shows for Muddy Waters, James Cotton and Carl Perkins, and backed up and recorded with John Hammond and Pinetop Perkins.
“Our sound is based on a Chicago Blues band, but we could always do a country song or an old rock-and-roll song — or even something by a contemporary songwriter or a Motown kind of song,” Wenner said.
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⚡ Reverend Billy C. Wirtz ⚡
Spotify: https://shorturl.at/fwBz7
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/reverendbillycwirtz
Opening for and playing with the Nighthawks is Ocala native Reverend Billy C. Wirtz, a comic genius, gifted pianist and American musicologist who defies easy classification. "I like to think of myself as the Victor Borge of the Blues," states Wirtz, but he goes way beyond Borge both in scope of subject matter (from politics to social commentary) and, of course, in taste. In fact, no theme is too extreme, taboo, or undignified for the Reverend, so long as it garners a good laugh.
Likely the only person on earth to be mentored by Chicago Blues legend Sunnyland Slim and also to work with Root Boy Slim, Wirtz has also worked with the Nighthawks for decades.