World Champion Blues Band at FREE Show this Friday at the Bo Diddley Community Plaza!

Selwyn Birchwood Band

Bridget Kelly Band

Rick Randlett

Florida's World-Class Blues!

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The Selwyn Birchwood Band, the 2013 International Blues Challenge winner, will headline the free Downtown Blues Show on Friday, November 7 at the Bo Diddley Community Plaza!  Florida born and raised, Selwyn has played many of the major Blues festivals this year, including the Chicago Blues Festival.

His ability to win over an audience -- any audience -- is proven night after night on the bandstand. With his warm, magnetic personality, Birchwood is as down-to-earth as his music is fun, thought-provoking and vital. His mission is to spread his music far and wide, to share his joy, to play his heart out, and to push the blues into the future. "There's nothing I'd rather be doing than playing the blues," he says. "And I try to convey that with every song and with every performance."

     

In 2013, the 28-year-old Birchwood catapulted from local hero to shooting star. In addition to winning the world-renowned International Blues Challenge, Birchwood also took home the Albert King Guitarist Of The Year Award. It wasn't long before Alligator Records president Bruce Iglauer offered Birchwood a contract.

The Tampa Tribune says Birchwood plays with "power and precision reminiscent of blues guitar hero Buddy Guy. He is a gritty vocalist commanding with his axe." According to Iglauer, Birchwood is the real deal. "Selwyn Birchwood is a terrific young blues talent with a huge future. He writes smart, infectious, fresh songs and delivers them with a warm, conversational vocal style and a fun-loving attitude. He's a killer guitarist, switching between a regular six-string and lap steel. Live, he's a ball of energy, interacting with the audience like they were in his living room. Selwyn is destined to be one of the next stars in the blues world."

The opening acts are Rick Randlett and the Bridget Kelly Band.   The Bridget Kelly Band’s new CD Forever in Blues is currently #14 on the national Roots Music Report Blues chart and Rick has had two releases on the charts in past YEAR. These are the North Central Florida Blues Society's representatives to the 2015 International Blues Challenge to be held in Memphis TN to determine the best unsigned blues artists on the scene today!