A Center for the Arts Event!

Saturday, September 27
The Center for the Arts presents
Blues DANCE Party!
Hammer Smith Band
8:00PM, $18 in advance, $20 at the door

DANCE CONCERT! Theater seating on a first-come-first-served basis with additional seating in The Center Gallery and Van Gogh Room to rest your dancing feet.

A high energy, authentic style of electric blues with jazz and rock influences, the Hammer Smith Band is an Los Angeles based rockin' blues band. The combined virtuosity of these musicians creates a fresh, explosive sound that will bring you to your feetl.

HAMMER SMITH’s versatile blues harmonica style with his genuine rhythm and blues band makes it obvious that they were born with the blues running through their blood. Chris Smith has recorded with Paul McCartney, Sammy Hagar, Smokey Robinson, Dolly Parton, Julio Iglesias, John Tesh, and Michael Jackson, and is a regular performer on television and movie soundtracks.

Smith began playing harmonica in the late 1960s. He studied along the way with harp-master Rick Epping, and found a mentor in blues legend Sonny Terry. The Hammer Smith Band, formed in the early 1980s, plays a high-energy brand of electric blues basted with a sauce conjured from the roots of Cajun, country, jazz and rock. The group has opened for such blues legends as Bonnie Raitt, Albert King, Big Joe Turner, B.B. King, and Johnny Winter.