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yardbird suite blues<br />
Carlos del Junco<br />
and the Blues Mongrels<br />
Expect a great night of blues and jazz harmonica<br />
from Canada’s “harp master,” Carlos del Junco.<br />
Carlo has been named the Maple Blues Award’s<br />
Harmonica Player of the Year seven times.<br />
With seven recordings also on his resume and<br />
a reputation for excellent live performances,<br />
Carlos is always a big hit with harp fans, blues<br />
fans and jazz fans.<br />
Charlie” Roberts that won Carlos the 1996 Jazz<br />
Report Blues Musician Of The Year Award. Just<br />
Your Fool, a sizzling live session with Kevin<br />
Breit, was recorded in 1995. In 1993, Carlos del<br />
Junco won two gold medals at the Hohner<br />
World Harmonica Championship in Trossingen,<br />
Germany; judged the world’s best in both the<br />
diatonic blues and the diatonic jazz categories.<br />
With his 2008 release, Steady Movin’ (Northern<br />
Blues), Carlos solidified his reputation in the<br />
world of music. Here’s what John Valentyn of<br />
the Toronto Blues Society had to say about<br />
Steady Movin’ :<br />
“The eagerly anticipated successor to ‘Blues<br />
Mongrel’ is here and is worth the wait. It is<br />
primarily acoustic and perhaps even more of a<br />
demonstration of his prowess on the humble<br />
harmonica... as before there are harp positions<br />
and keys listed for every song, but never does<br />
technical prowess get in the way of enjoyment of<br />
the music.”<br />
Carlos is certainly not your straight ahead blues<br />
harmonica player. His influences range far and<br />
wide and he can quickly move from a straight<br />
ahead blues groove into more adventurous<br />
territory which may include jazz, Latin, New<br />
Orleans second line grooves, or ska. He will<br />
occasionally take a blues standard and flip it<br />
upside down to breathe new life into it.<br />
Playing a ten-hole diatonic harmonica, Carlos<br />
has developed the unique ability to play<br />
chromatically by using an “overblow” technique<br />
taught to him by jazz virtuoso Howard Levy.<br />
Among his recording credits are Blues Mongrel<br />
(2005, Big Reed Records), Up and At ‘Em (2001,<br />
Big Reed Records) and Big Road Blues, a<br />
collaborative effort with Thom “Champagne<br />
when...<br />
Carlos del Junco and<br />
the Blues Mongrels<br />
From Toronto<br />
FRIDAY-SATURDAY, APRIL 2-3 , 2010<br />
TICKETS - MEMBERS $26, GUESTS $30<br />
DOORS 8 PM - SHOW 9 PM<br />
Carlos del Junco - harmonica and vocals<br />
Henry Heillig - bass<br />
Eric St. Laurent - guitars<br />
Mark Mariash – drums<br />
Artist website:<br />
www.davidocchipinti.com<br />
www. yardbirdsuite.com 9
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