Chris Bergson at City Vineyard

Hailed by MOJO Magazine as the NY street poet with a blues soul, Chris Bergson was inducted into the New York Blues Hall of Fame at B.B. King’s Blues Club in February 2015. With MOJO Magazine's #1 Blues Album of 2008, Fall Changes, recorded at Levon Helm’s studio in Woodstock, NY, #2 Blues Album of 2011, Imitate the Sun, #3 Blues Album of 2014, Live at Jazz Standard and Bitter Midnight, #3 Blues Album of 2017, New York guitarist/singer Chris Bergson has established himself as one of the most inventive songwriters in modern blues music (All Music Guide). All Music Guide writes of Ellis Hooks, who has recorded critically acclaimed albums as a leader for Evidence and Artemis Records, sung with Stax legends Steve Cropper and Little Milton and performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival and Italy's Porretta Soul Festival: Hooks is the true continuum in the celebrated Southern traditions of soul, blues, and gospel; his voice, while reminiscent of some of the greats, is nonetheless his own, and his phrasing is a trademark...

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Hailed by MOJO Magazine as the NY street poet with a blues soul, Chris Bergson was inducted into the New York Blues Hall of Fame at B.B. King’s Blues Club in February 2015. With MOJO Magazine's #1 Blues Album of 2008, Fall Changes, recorded at Levon Helm’s studio in Woodstock, NY, #2 Blues Album of 2011, Imitate the Sun, #3 Blues Album of 2014, Live at Jazz Standard and Bitter Midnight, #3 Blues Album of 2017, New York guitarist/singer Chris Bergson has established himself as one of the most inventive songwriters in modern blues music (All Music Guide). All Music Guide writes of Ellis Hooks, who has recorded critically acclaimed albums as a leader for Evidence and Artemis Records, sung with Stax legends Steve Cropper and Little Milton and performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival and Italy's Porretta Soul Festival: Hooks is the true continuum in the celebrated Southern traditions of soul, blues, and gospel; his voice, while reminiscent of some of the greats, is nonetheless his own, and his phrasing is a trademark. Given the powerful nature of his recordings and his now-storied intensity in concert, Hooks may indeed be the artist who brings these historic traditions back into the musical dialogue and onto the charts in the 21st century. For this rare, intimate duo show, Bergson and Hooks will be performing music from their critically acclaimed CD/DVD release Live in Normandy along with some new original material.

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