Brighton Center for the Performing Arts

An evening featuring metro-Detroit’s finest blues musicians!

2 Stones Events and the Brighton Center for the Performing Arts have teamed up to present the Brighton Blues Bash! 2 — presented by Cooper &amp; Binkley Jewelers.

At 5:30, the great Etta James is paid tribute by an all-star cast of 12 of Detroit's finest blues musicians: The Woodward Horns (Bobby Streng, Jimmy Smith, Matt Martinez, and James Hughes); bassist David Uricek; drummer Rennell Gonsalves; keyboardist Mark Thibodeaux; guitarists Johnny Rhoades and Kris Kurzawa; and vocalists Tosha Owens, Raye Williams, and Lenny Watkins.

Kicking off the evening at 4 p.m. — A tribute to the late Johnnie Bassett, Detroit’s Gentleman of the Blues, with The Brothers Groove (Chris Codish, keys; Skeeto Valdez, drums; and James Simonson, bass) joined by Brett Lucas, guitar; and Keith Kaminski, saxophone. Learn more about the Johnnie Bassett Tribute by clicking HERE.

Tickets are $30 before Sept. 13. Price will increase to $40 day-of at the door.

The doors for this special Sunday show at the BCPA will open at 3 p.m. The evening will top off a full weekend of blues music with the Brighton Smokin Rock-N-Blues Festival on Sept. 11-12.

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Please bring a non-perishable item for the Livingston County Hunger Council food drive. Monetary donations are taken as well.

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Brighton Blues Bash!

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Sunday, September 13