Little House Blues – July 20
Aurora’s very own Matt Haenlin returns with his band, Little House Blues, for an encore performance Saturday, July 20th at 8pm. The concert is free, but a suggested donation of $10 would be welcome.
Little House Blues is a collaboration of Bill Blatner on blues harp and vocals, Matt Haenlin on electric guitar, Nina Rossi on electric bass and Ben Sears on drums. They started jamming in the fall of 2017 and liked the chemistry so much that they just kept going, building a repertoire and beginning to perform publicly about a year later.
Based in Massachusetts, the band draws much of its inspiration from the Chicago blues scene of the 1940’s, 50’s and 60’s – iconic figures like Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Little Walter, James Cotton, Louis Jordan, John Lee Hooker and Sonny Boy Williamson inform the spirit of their music. They interpret a range of standards from that period, honoring the inventors of the genre—but also play originals and covers of a few more contemporary surprises in a way that tries to sustain the essence of the blues: “a good time, danceable antidote, however fleeting, to the feelings of self-doubt, weariness and despair so undeniably a part of everyday life, that are the blues as such.” For more information, please call the Morgan Opera House at 315-364-5437