Willie J Laws Band with Mark Berney

1 Pond Street,Sharon MA 02067

22 September, 2022

Description

An evolving music collaboration with the legendary Willie J Laws Band! Come out and enjoy this guest artist invitational and hear some truly phenomenal blues music. We are offering two seatings - 7 PM to 8:30 PM and 8:45 PM to 10 PM. Tickets are $10 per person. Reservations for this event are being sold by the table, or we have a very limited number of single tickets. For questions, please email [email protected]. Our September guest is Mark Berney, an accomplished trumpet player, band member of multiple bands, and music teacher at University of Rhode Island, who resides in Sharon. Find Mark on Instagram @brassberney The Willie J Laws Band is one of the notable Blues acts with a modern funky style that’s uniquely its own. The band’s sound includes deep Texas roots music, add some funk, and jazz influenced bass patterns, and the influence of various Afro-Caribbean drum beats, a genre-bending sound tempered with a groove from Motown, Memphis, Muscle Shoals, the Gulf Cost of Texas, and New Orleans. This isn't strictly Blues, much of it is original music with it's own sound and tempo. You will enter the Willie J Laws Band musical train, cover a varied terrain with its assorted musical sounds. It's an exciting, fast moving train, and you will most definitely enjoy the ride! Come hear the “The Last Prophet of the Funky Texas Blues.”