Fingers Delrey + Brandi and the Alexanders + Empire Beats @ The Way Station

8pm- Fingers Delrey
Genre: blues
For fans of: blues, BB King, Mose Allison,

Toby “Fingers” DelRey developed his hot stylings while a lad at the St. Ignatius Orphanage for Wayward Sinners. Sister Serenity, a crusty old nun with a musical bent, sensed the child’s prodigious talent and, taking him under her wing, tutelaged him with a combination of Jelly Roll Morton, Johann Sebastian Bach and a strict regimen of dowsing the keyboard of the rectory piano -- a 1911 Flambe-Carbone upright -- with a solution of molasses and 190 proof corn liquor, setting it ablaze with the cherry of her White Owl and forcing the young genius to extinguish the flames with his speedy scales.
As Finger’s remarked recently in a rare moment of verbal lucidity: “The blues is in my blood, the stride is in my soul and the fire is in my heart.”

“Thanks a lot for sending me your album. I’ve been playing it on my show...lot’s of good tracks!” - Norman Davis “Midnight Flyer” syndicated radio host (streamed from KYOU San Francisco, CA)
“One of the best piano players of the last ten years in the blues self release scene.......Fine style, great musical taste!” - Simone Bargelli (dj for “Rock n Blues Today”, Italy)

Soul Bag (France-Le Magazine Francais du blues et de la Soul #198, Avril-Mai-Juin 2010) Toby “Fingers” Del Rey **** 4 stars!( Excellent, un disque sans déchet. Ou presque...)

“Kind of avante-garde blues with a touch of Chico Marx!” - David Bennett Cohen, pianist with Country Joe and the Fish, Elvin Bishop, Hubert Sumlin and Jimmy Vivino

fingersdelrey.com
https://soundcloud.com/rgfh10/sex-thing
https://soundcloud.com/rgfh10/blueschoir-frontdoorwoman-3-31
https://soundcloud.com/rgfh10/money-therapy
http://www.youtube.com/user/FingersDelRey

9pm- Brandi and the Alexanders
Genre: Soul/R&B
For fans of: Aretha Franklin, Sharon Jones, D’Angelo, James Brown, Jack Black’s band at the end of High Fidelity

Brandi & The Alexanders perform God damn soul music! We play that good old fashioned good grinding good roaring ain’t nothing wrong with getting down tonight baby and feeling the floor now music.”

www.facebook.com/brandiandthealexanders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tyo3RTt2_Bs

10pm- Empire Beats
Genre: Rhythm & Blues, Rock/Roll&Soul, Real Music

For fans of: Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings, Alabama Shakes, The Shirelles

Join glamorous jazz chanteuses and gutsy blues shouters of the sensational Blue Flame Revue front Mark Boquist’s five to nine piece rhythm band Empire Beats as they explore an expanding book of Rock/Roll&Soul music ~ familiar and forgotten hits from the past and funky new originals. With songs from every side of the love equation, Empire Beats’ energetic revue recalls Rhythm & Blues showcases of another era. Not necessarily retro, definitely not nostalgia, it’s real live music that will make you shake your ass.

empirebeatsnyc.com
https://vimeo.com/128510306
https://www.reverbnation.com/empirebeats