Rare Show: The Big Boy Little Band!

Schedule

Fri Sep 26 2025 at 06:30 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

American Legion- Cissel Saxon Post 41 | Silver Spring, MD

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"This guy's a real blues player." - Huey Lewis of The News
Rare Show Featuring The Big Boy Little Band!
Friday, Sept. 26th, 2025, 6:30-9:30 pm. Open to the public. Free admission.
We're looking forward to playing at the DC Blues Society's 4th Friday Happy Hour show!
Award winning blues for grownups!
Big Boy Little aka Bret Littlehales (harmonica & vocals)
Matt Kelley (guitar & vocals)
Wolf Crescenze (bass) &
Joe Wells (drums)
“He was a major influence on shaping the Washington blues scene back then & he's still playing the real 100%, low down & dirty blues to this day." - Bobby Radcliff
“Now Bret's back. I guess I better tighten up." - Mark Wenner of The Nighthawks
"These guys play blues for grown-ups." - Bill Kirchen
Big Boy Little Band "Blues for Grownups"
The deep, deep blues. The kind of blues you used to hear on a distant radio station broadcasting from somewhere down south, late at night.
The kind of blues where you wake up early in the morning and all you can think of is your lover and you wonder where they've gone. The kind of blues that makes you want to go somewhere and dance or shout or just be alive. Those kinds of blues.
Bret Littlehales “Big Boy Little” has been singing and playing blues harp in the Washington, DC area since 1967. He’s opened for such blues greats as B.B. King, Koko Taylor and Junior Wells.
The Big Boy Little Band was honored to represent the DC Blues Society at the Int’l Blues Challenge in 2010 and placed in the Top 10 Finals out of 110 blues bands from around the world and Matt Kelley won the coveted Albert King Award for top guitarist.
The band also features "Wolf" Crescenze on bass and Joe Wells (drums).
The enigmatic, quixotic, mysterious, always entertaining – Big Boy Little Band.
Free admission - dancing - affordable cash bar + food - open to non-members!
Cissel-Saxon American Legion Post 41.
905 Sligo Avenue, downtown Silver Spring, MD.
Entrance on Fenton St., adjacent to public parking lot.
Look for the blue awning.
County parking meters are now in effect until 10 pm. (Works w/ Park Mobile app.)
www.dcblues.org (202) 617-2625
https://www.facebook.com/BigBoyLittleBand
https://www.facebook.com/WolfsMusicWeekly
https://www.facebook.com/groups/wolfsmusicfriends
https://www.facebook.com/wolf.crescenze

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American Legion- Cissel Saxon Post 41, 905 Sligo Ave, Silver Spring, MD 20910-4705, United States

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