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The Garvin Gate Neighborhood Association Presents
The Garvin Gate Blues Festival
Garvin Gate Blues News
2010 GGBF Headliners Announced
Friday, October 8th
8 - 9 pm - Moreland And Arbuckle
9:30 - 11:00 pm - Super Chikan
GGBF “Blues Dames and Divas Night”
Saturday, October 9th
8 - 9 pm - Cheryl Renee and Them Bones
9:30 - 11:00 pm - Deitra Farr
Moreland & Arbuckle 
2010: Moreland & Arbuckle
Music has the power to transport us: to carry us to mysterious places and explore new worlds.
On Flood, Moreland & Arbuckle's debut release on Telarc International, a division of Concord Music
Group, the rootsy, hard-driving group from Kansas takes music itself to places it's never been.
Featuring mostly original tunes, Flood presents a dynamic mix of thirteen acoustic and electric songs.
each performed with all the subtlety of a passing freight train.
Ever since guitarist Aaron Moreland first met singer/harpist Dustin Arbuckle at an open mic jam in
Wichita in 2001, Moreland & Arbuckle have established themselves as a force to be reckoned with.
Along with Brad Horner on drums, the group features Moreland playing everything from National steel to a cigar box guitar, and Arbuckle singing and playing harmonica.
Moreland & Arbuckle are traditionalists and innovators at the same time, merging old school Chicago
and Delta blues with garage rock sensibilities. While Arbuckle was mostly influenced by the Mississippi blues, traditional country music and bluegrass, Moreland grew up listening to everyone from Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath to Charlie Patton and Muddy Waters.
Unconfined by convention, Moreland attributes the group's growing popularity to their unique sound
and instrumentation. He says, "Going three-piece, we have a great chemistry."
Guitar Edge magazine wrote, "The pride of Kansas plays Hill Country stomps like his life depends on
it." The Edmonton Journal calls Moreland & Arbuckle "one of the more inspiring young acts putting a
new shine on music rooted in a century-old tradition."
Moreland & Arbuckle's previous release, 1861, won the Indie Acoustic Project 2008 CD of the Year
Award. The band recently performed for U.S. troops in Iraq and Kuwait. "I didn't imagine the trip to Iraq would be so grueling," Arbuckle says. "But it was an amazing experience to share our music with the soldiers. It really did exemplify the powerful spirituality and healing element that music possesses."
"Being a musician is the ultimate job," says Moreland. "What I realize is that music has always been
one of the most important things in my life. In tough times, it was the one thing I could always turn to."
"When I was in my teen years, I never had any direction," Arbuckle says. "But music was a central
feature in my life. It's powerful and compelling, and it's given me purpose."
Moreland & Arbuckle have completed tour dates with Buddy Guy, Robert Cray,
Kenny Wayne Shepher, Johnny Winter and this year have opened for Buddy Guy and Johnny Lang.
Super Chikan 
2010: Super Chikan
James "Super Chikan" Johnson is an American blues musician, artist and guitar maker based in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He is the nephew of fellow blues musician Big Jack Johnson.
James Louis Johnson was born in Darling, Mississippi on February 16, 1951. He spent his childhood moving from town to town in the Mississippi Delta and working on his family's farms. He was very fond of the chickens on the farm, and before he was old enough to work in the fields, he would walk around talking to them. This led his friends to give him the nickname "Chikan Boy". At an early age, Johnson got his first rudimentary musical instrument, a "diddley bow", which was simply a piece of wood with a piece of baling wire stretched from end to end. As he grew up, he came up with new ways to improve and vary the sounds he could make with it, and finally, in 1964, at the age of thirteen, he bought his first guitar, an acoustic model that had only two strings, from a Salvation Army store in Clarksdale.
As an adult, “Super Chikan” began driving a truck for a living. During the long stretches on the road, he began composing his own songs. When he showed some of the songs to his friends, they convinced him to go a studio and record them. He then started playing with some renowned local musicians, but he decided he would rather perform on his own than try to conform his style to that of his band-mates.
He did so, and in 1997 “Super Chikan” released his debut album, Blues Come Home to Roost, influenced by such musicians as Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, and Chuck Berry. He went on to release What You See in 2000, Shoot That Thang in 2001, and Chikan Supe in 2005, and Sum Mo Chikan in 2008.
Chikadelic, Super Chikan's latest CD, was released at the Notodden Blues festival on July 31, 2009. Backed by Spoonful of Blues, Super Chikan once again dives head first into his creative and inventive blues that will have you up dancing-- even to the slow songs! Recorded at the famed Juke Joint Studios in Notodden, Chikadelic will be distributed in the US by Ruf Records.
In the Clarksdale area, "Super Chikan" is probably best-known for performing regularly at Morgan Freeman's Ground Zero blues club, and for being Freeman's favorite blues performer.
“Super Chikan” has toured and performed at festivals in Africa, Japan, UK, Denmark, Canada, Mexico, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Russia and Switzerland, and has performed for the President of the United States. He was recently nominated for four Blues Music Awards by the Blues Foundation including BB King Entertainer of the Year, Song of the Year for "Fred's Dollar Store", Traditional Blues Album for Chikadelic, and Traditional Blues Male Artist. He was nominated for the Best New Artist Blues Music Award in 1998, and has received five Living Blues Critics Awards. In 2004, “Super Chikan” received the Mississippi Governor?s Award for Excellence in the Arts.
Super Chikan was honored at the 2010 Blues Music Awards through the Blues Foundation this year.
Nominee for B. B. King Entertainer of the Year
Nominee for Traditional Blues Artist of the Year
Winner for Traditional Blues Album of the Year for the recording Chikadelic
Cheryl Renee with Them Bones
2010: Cheryl Renee
Cheryl is a Blueswoman with an acrobatic voice, a mastery of the keys and a wildly infectious stage presence and with Them Bones, featuring Al Thomas on guitar and vocals, form an unbeatable combo, a Blues force to be reckoned with. Larry and David provide the bottom for this unique Blues band. Live shows are high-energy evenings of bawdy, bold brassy Blues that leave the fans wanting more. 3rd Place Winners at the 2010 International Blues Challenge in Memphis.
Cheryl grew up in Cincinnati keeping one ear glued to the local Rock and R&B stations during the mid 1960s. She took piano lessons in elementary school but for the most part, Cheryl taught herself. She's been playing and singing professionally since she was 17. When she was 21, she hit the road (first stop, Las Vegas). Touring with various top 40 and show bands, she played most of the U.S. and Canada, then traveled overseas to Germany, Japan, Korea and the Philippines with the U.S.O. She didn't "settle down" for 11 years. When she did settle, it was in New England. With her then husband and The Renée/Randall Blues Band, Cheryl was part of the Boston blues scene and played at the opening of the original House of Blues in Massachusetts.
Now in Cincinnati, Ohio she's still the "Goddess of the Blues". Check out the schedule - you can find her playing single, duo or with Cheryl Renée's Blues Band in all kinds of venues...nite clubs, wedding receptions, birthdays, fund raisers, holiday parties and more!
Deitra Farr 
2010: Deitra Farr
Deitra Farr is considered one of Chicago ’s top vocalists, according to Living Blues Magazine (May 1997). Fiery, energetic, and soul-stirring describes this woman, who has over the years been nominated for Traditional Female Blues artist of the year by the W.C. Handy Awards, Female Blues Artist of the year by the Living Blues Critics Awards, the British Blues Connection Awards, and the Les Trophees France Blues awards.
This Chicago native began her career in 1975, singing with local soul bands, before starting her blues career in the early 1980’s. When Deitra was 18 years old, she recorded the lead vocals on Mill Street Depo’s record ” You Won’t Support Me “. That record was a Cashbox Top 100 R&B hit in 1976. Over thirty years later, that recording has been rereleased and is popular again worldwide.
In 1983, Deitra began her blues career working at the major Chicago blues clubs, such as The Kingston Mines, The Wise Fool’s Pub and Blue Chicago. She also toured the US and Canada with the Sam Lay Blues Band.
From 1993 to 1996, Deitra was the lead singer with Mississippi Heat, recording two CD’s with this all-star group.
In 1997, Deitra resumed her own solo career, continuing to sing blues, while reaching back to her soul music roots. After recording on eight previous CD projects with others, she recorded her first solo CD, “The Search is Over”, for the London-based JSP records. In 2005, Deitra released her second JSP CD “Let it Go!”
The multi-talented Deitra Farr is also a published writer, poet, songwriter, and painter. A graduate of Columbia College (Bachelor of Arts in Journalism), Deitra has recorded many of her own compositions and has written articles for the Chicago Daily Defender, The Chicago Blues Annual, and the Italian blues magazine il Blues. Currently she has a column “Artist to Artist” in Living Blues Magazine.
In 1990, Deitra represented the Chicago Tourism Bureau in Düsseldorf, Germany and has toured England, Wales, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Canada, Holland, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy, Yugoslavia, Greece, Israel, Austria, Latvia, Portugal, Sweden, Mexico, Guadeloupe, Lebanon , Spain, Denmark, United Arab Emirates ( Abu Dhabi and Dubai ), Qatar and Hungary.
Deitra toured Europe with the 2000 Chicago Blues Festival with Lil Ed and the Blues Imperials. In 2003, Deitra completed a six week British tour with Otis Grand and Bobby Parker, as the American Festival of the Blues II. She did the 2004 Chicago Blues Festival European tour with Jody Williams and Andrew “Jr. Boy” Jones. From 2006-2010 Deitra has toured with The Women of Chicago Blues project with Zora Young and Grana Louise. Her band will feature one of Chicago’s best guitar players, Billy Flynn.
Download the 2010 Garvin Gate Blues Festival Press Release PDF here.To: Residents and Business Owners
From: The Garvin Gate Neighborhood Association
Date: September/October, 2010
Subject: Parking and Street Closures for Garvin Gate Blues Festival, October 8 and 9, 2010
This is to notify impacted businesses and residents that the Garvin Gate Neighborhood Association is presenting the Garvin Gate Blues Festival the second week-end in October on Friday and Saturday, October 8 and 9, 2010. The festival will impact parking and driving on several streets during the event.
1200 block of Garvin and 1100 block of Garvin will be closed to parking and travel on Friday and Saturday, October 8 and 9, 2010 as follows:
• 1200 block of Garvin from Friday, 7:00 AM until approximately 12:00 midnight Saturday from the gate at Garvin and Oak south on Garvin to the second alley before Ormsby.
• 1100 block of Garvin from 7:00 AM Friday until approximately 12:00 midnight Saturday from the corner of Garvin and Oak north to the first alley on Garvin towards St. Catherine.
Oak Street both east and west will be closed to parking and travel on Friday and Saturday, October 8 and 9, 2010 as follows:
• 6:00 PM Friday until approximately 12:00 midnight, October 8 from 4th and Oak to 6th and Oak.
• 2:00 PM Saturday until approximately 12:00 midnight October 9 from 4th and Oak to 6th and Oak.s
We apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause you. The festival is an opportunity to showcase Old Louisville and serve as a fund raising event to help improve our neighborhood.
Thanks for your understanding and support.
- Howard Rosenberg
Blues Festival Chairman
The Garvin Gate Neighborhood Association
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