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<strong>Big</strong> <strong>Bear</strong> <strong>Today</strong> <strong>March</strong> <strong>2018</strong>—Page 9<br />

`Blues Boss’ Wayne keys Mardi Gras<br />

Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne makes Mardi Gras magic at the Chamber gala<br />

Irish food, Art’s tunes at Barnstorm<br />

Catch Irish songs with Art Harriman<br />

and what many say is <strong>Big</strong> <strong>Bear</strong>’s best<br />

corned beef and cabbage on St. Patrick’s<br />

Day, Saturday <strong>March</strong> 17 at Barnstorm restaurant<br />

in the airport terminal from 5-9 p.m.<br />

Enjoy the traditional meal, which<br />

comes with potatoes and carrots, with<br />

Harriman’s toe-tapping Irish ditties. Soup<br />

of the day is split pea and there’s green<br />

beer for that Irish luck, Guiness and more.<br />

Corned beef and cabbage will be available<br />

at lunch too. Barnstorm’s regular menu will<br />

also be available as well.<br />

Harriman is a Saturday night regular<br />

at Barnstorm till summer, passing out<br />

songlists to guests with dozens of songs,<br />

usual covers like “Route 66,” “Under the<br />

Boardwalk” and such. That’s a small part<br />

of his schtick and every tune comes with a<br />

personal story. After movie appearances<br />

with Elvis, Lana Turner and Hank Williams<br />

Jr. plus on television in the “Bill<br />

Cosby Show,” “Hee Haw” and for six years<br />

on the Children’s Miracle Network Telethon<br />

with Bob Hope, Johnny Cash and<br />

many others, Harriman has met and played<br />

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with just about every celebrity imaginable.<br />

He was the good looking band leader<br />

and Elvis Presley sidekick in the 1968<br />

movie “Live a Little, Love a Little”<br />

Harriman’s “Six-Piece One-Man Fundance<br />

Band” has been a favorite for years, guitar,<br />

tambourine, harmonica, bass, cymbals<br />

and his voice creating music.<br />

His hand-clapping original songs are<br />

what he calls “Good Time Music” and it’s<br />

impossible to listen to “Ol’ Jack<br />

Danielson,” which he co-wrote with late<br />

football star-turned actor Merlin Olsen,<br />

without breaking a smile. “<strong>Big</strong> <strong>Bear</strong> Valley,”<br />

one of several tunes showing off his<br />

yodeling skills, is full of spirit...not unlike<br />

John Denver. And you haven’t lived till<br />

you’ve heard Art play “When the Saints<br />

Go <strong>March</strong>ing In” on his inch-long world’s<br />

smallest harmonica... which he also played<br />

on stage at the Grand Ole Opry.<br />

Barnstorm Restaurant is in the airport<br />

terminal at 501 W. Valley Blvd. in <strong>Big</strong> <strong>Bear</strong><br />

City. Call (909) 585-9339.<br />

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New Orleans-inspired food and drink,<br />

dancing to music by jazz and boogie<br />

woogie star Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne<br />

and his band, and a host of surprises highlight<br />

<strong>Big</strong> <strong>Bear</strong> Chamber of Commerce’s<br />

Mardi Gras Dance Party on Saturday,<br />

<strong>March</strong> 10. Swing those beads!<br />

Held from 5-10 p.m. at the Convention<br />

Center at <strong>Big</strong> <strong>Bear</strong> Lake, the evening<br />

promises to be <strong>Big</strong> <strong>Bear</strong>’s party of the year<br />

with live and silent auctions, and dancing<br />

to internationally-acclaimed and multiple<br />

award-winning artist Wayne and his very<br />

talented band. Guests will enjoy <strong>Big</strong> Easytheme<br />

buffet, specialty cocktails, Mardi<br />

Gras decorations and more during the<br />

Chamber of Commerce’s premier<br />

fundraiser of the year.<br />

“There’s no boogie woogie-blues piano<br />

man out there today who pounds the<br />

88s with the conviction of Kenny `Blues<br />

Boss’ Wayne,” aptly noted the Chicago Sun<br />

Times. The zoot-suited Wayne has headlined<br />

many international concerts and festivals<br />

including Edmonton’s Labatt Blues<br />

Festival, Koktebel Jazz Festival and<br />

Southside Shuffle in Port Credit, Ontario.<br />

Wayne’s nine album releases have garnered<br />

tremendous acclaim including three<br />

Juno Award—that country’s equivalent of<br />

the Grammys—nominations in Canada for<br />

Best Blues and/or Gospel Albums before<br />

finally winning the honor in 2006 for Let<br />

it Loose. His “<strong>Big</strong> City Back Country<br />

Blues” is a <strong>2018</strong> Juno Award Nominee for<br />

Best Blues Album.<br />

In addition Wayne’s 2016 release<br />

Jumpin’ and Boppin,’ a throwback to classic,<br />

rollicking jump blues style of yesteryear,<br />

drew solid reviews so it’s clear the<br />

blues master is very much at the top of his<br />

game. No wonder Living Blues Magazine<br />

named Wayne “Most Outstanding Musician”<br />

(Keyboard) in 2015. He is a Boogie<br />

Woogie Piano Hall of Fame Inductee at<br />

2017 Cincinnati Blues Festival.<br />

“We’re excited to bring a musician of<br />

Kenny Wayne’s stature to <strong>Big</strong> <strong>Bear</strong>,” said<br />

Marlene Cain, Chairman of the <strong>Big</strong> <strong>Bear</strong><br />

Chamber of Commerce.<br />

Terrific auction items are a highlight<br />

of the event with getaways including two<br />

night stay at the Orleans Hotel and Casino<br />

in Las Vegas, perfect place to keep Mardi<br />

Gras going. From furniture to winter season<br />

passes, restaurant gift certificates to<br />

lake adventuress, there’s amazing gifts to<br />

bid on and tremendous values.<br />

Tickets for fun-filled Mardi Gras<br />

Dance Party are just $75 per person which<br />

includes dinner with choice of stuffed<br />

Cajun chicken or shrimp creole (vegetarian<br />

available) plus collard greens, hush<br />

puppies, rice and beans, garden salad and<br />

bourbon banana bread pudding and King<br />

Cake for dessert. $85 includes roundtrip<br />

Mountain Transit transportation.<br />

Tables of eight are priced at $600 and<br />

selling quickly. Reserve your tickets or<br />

tables before they’re gone by calling the<br />

Chamber at (909) 866-4607 ext. 3 or online<br />

at bigbearchamber.com.<br />

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