Blues Events

Stella Hensley and the Magical Amigos are a 3-piece collection of musical friends. Renowned guitarists John 'Magic Boy' Wright (Split Whiskers) and Chris Newman (Climax Blues band) join Stella who is a bluesy songstress with a velvet voice. This trio brings you heartfelt blues, folk and Americana. Not to be missed!

Stevie Jones is an independent singer songwriter based in Kings Cliffe, Northants.

He is also very active as a co-promoter in Oundle assisting with hosting the regular Little Ember Sessions at The Talbot Hotel.

With a musical career spanning four decades of touring and recording he has touched genres ranging from alternative rock, Americana, alt folk and progressive rock and his full band Stevie Jones and The Wildfires have released 4 acclaimed albums to date.

With the Wildfires currently in hiatus Stevie is now focusing as a solo artist and acoustic collaborations including a new partnership with Peterborough-based guitarist Dean Sheldrick.

https://steviejones.com/home

Living Proof was formed in Northamptonshire in 2023, when three members of the defunct blues band Rough Justice got back together to play some acoustic music. They have written the majority of their repertoire and the songs reflect their interest in the world around them and relationships real and imagined. The band members have all enjoyed long careers in music - Kevin McNally (dobro, guitar, vocals) toured in America and the UK with his blues band Red Dog. Gerald Claridge (guitar, fretless bass guitar, vocals) is well known on the UK folk-rock and ceilidh scene, and Simon Loake (guitars, bass, mandolin, harmonica, vocals) has played as a session man, accompanist and band member in the realms of rock, blues, pop, and disco music. Their combined talents, catchy tunes and erudite lyrics make for a great evening’s entertainment. Playing great rock, blues, swing and country music, they will have you smiling, certainly toe-tapping and more than likely dancing!

Kevin McNally…AKA Doc Lesyeux! Kevin has been doing this for a little while now! Starting in the 70s with local rock bands, through the 80s and 90s as singer guitarist with his own blues bands, and depping in countless covers bands, more recently playing steel guitar with bluegrass bands, and currently the trio Living Proof and country band The Western Earls. He plays an eclectic mix of songs, some covers, some his own, with the odd steel guitar instrumental thrown in. From folk, jazz and blues through new wave to country and rock, from Fats Waller to the Georgia Satellites, Dylan to Gallagher (Rory not Liam!) and many stops in-between. All linked with a stream of consciousness and humour, but no miserable introspection! Kevin has played countless clubs, pubs and venues across the UK and Europe, including The Stables, Wavendon, the Water Rats, London, The Robin Hood, Great British Blues Festival, Burnley Blues Festival, Coventry Music Festival, Moira Folk Festival and many Bluegrass festivals. Also most of the clubs on Beale Street in Memphis, as well as across Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi and Texas, as well as UK television and radio shows. ​​​https://youtu.be/6EAcl44uFus?si=XsGJ3fxUc4VxS1NK

Deiah Marie, Kansas-raised and Leicester-based, is an emerging powerhouse, soul singer-songwriter blending gritty blues with powerful soul and attitude. Her influences include Whitney Houston, Adele, Aretha Franklin, Queen, and many more. Drawing from her experiences in life, navigating heartbreak, condescension and betrayal, she hopes to ignite freedom and power in anyone that listens. She grew up in a small town in the middle of nowhere, USA, and it’s there that she began pushing boundaries, questioning societal norms, unimpressed by the lives that women were “allowed” to live. Now, she hopes to inspire people to take back their power and leave negative relationships behind.