Roy Rogers to Play the Dolphin Florida Blues in West Palm Beach

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The Taras Oceanographic Foundation proudly announces its inaugural Blues Special! concert featuring two-time Grammy Award winning, virtuoso slide guitar player Roy Rogers and his band, the Delta Rhythm Kings. The event is scheduled for December 18, 2009 at 8pm at the Rinker Playhouse at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach, Florida, and benefits the Palm Beach Dolphin Project.

Tickets are $35 and can be purchased directly at the Kravis Center.

If you love music or are wondering what to do for your Christmas/Holidays party this year, then join us. There is a cash bar, you can meet some real life scientists and dolphin whisperers and everyone will receive a small gift after the concert. It will be a great time all around, relaxing from office and gift shopping stress.

Roy Rogers and The Delta Rhythm Kings – will be playing to support Dolphin Research and Conservation. Now its up to you to make sure the dolphins don’t get the blues.

Follow this link to listen to his music: http://www.taras.org/00_chev.php

Performer:
Roy Rogers and the Delta Rhythm Kings
http://www.roy-rogers.com/

Where:
Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, Rinker Playhouse
701 Okkeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach, FL 33401

Tickets:
$35/person
561-832-7469; 1-800-833-3901
http://www.kravis.org/

Date & Time:
December 18, 2009
8-10pm, open at 7pm

Additional Information on Taras Oceanographic Foundation:
Dr. Stefan E Harzen, Chairman and CEO
The Taras Oceanographic Foundation
5905 Stonewood Court
Jupiter, FL 33458
(561) 762-6473
www.taras.org
harzen@taras.org

ROY ROGERS

Born in California in 1950, he began playing guitar at the age of twelve and discovered the great blues players early on. Through the years he developed a distinctive style of playing slide guitar that is instantly recognizable and has turned him into one of the premier slide guitarists performing today.
Rogers formed his own band, the Delta Rhythm Kings, in 1980, hit the club circuit, and then toured Europe with the 1982 San Francisco Blues Festival Revue (recording an album with that Revue in Paris).

Shortly after returning from Europe, Rogers joined John Lee Hooker and his Coast to Coast Blues Band. Roy eventually began to open shows as a solo act, performing some of the classic country blues and original compositions he’d been perfecting for years.

Said Hooker, “I just can’t say enough good things about Roy. Some of the best slide I’ve heard, best blues I’ve heard.”
Years later Roy would produce a total of four recordings for John Lee Hooker for which he received two Grammys. He received additional Grammy nominations for his songwriting and his work on television and movie soundtracks, including “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “The Hot Spot” which he recorded with Miles Davis, John Lee Hooker and Taj Mahal.

He self- released his first live recording – Live at the Sierra Nevada Brewery Big Room - in 2005. The concert received wide national television exposure on PBS stations as part of the “Sierra Center Stage” series.  His latest release - Split Decision - which came out this summer, is his first studio recording with his band, The Delta Rhythm Kings, in seven years.

Jazz & Blues Florida will be hosting promotion nights for this event at Boston's on the Beach, The Orange Door, and Chef John's where you can win FREE tickets to this concert. Watch for updates at www.JazzBluesFlorida.com/Promotions


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