Tab Benoit To Bring His Delta Blues to Charlotte
Guitarist To Play Neighborhood Theatre Along With The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Blues guitarist extraordinaire Tab Benoit, known for his rich Delta blues tones and vocals to match, will be lighting up the Neighborhood Theatre this Friday evening. In the tradition of all the great blues players from the Bayou of Louisiana, Benoit’s setup is simple. You won’t find any special effects here. His straight-up explosive style comes courtesy of his workhorse 1972 Fender Telecaster and all the talent in his fingers.
Honing his craft with living legends playing in local blues clubs, Benoit has developed a style distinctly his own and has been making his presence known ever since his 1993 debut Nice and Warm. Check out a little of his fire from his performance at the Telluride Blues & Brews Festival.
Tab will be bringing his masterful Delta blues style to the Neighborhood Theatre in Charlotte on Friday, December 9th along with The Dirty Dozen Brass Band. This will be a performance you won’t want to miss!
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Upcoming Tour Dates
Dec 9 (Fri) – Charlotte NC@Neighborhood Theater*
Dec 10 (Sat) – Knoxville TN@The Bijou Theater*
Dec 11 (Sun) – Rocky Mount VA@Harvester Pmance Center*
Dec 13 (Tue) – Winston Salem NC@The Ramkat*
Dec. 14 (Wed) – Bristol VA@The Cameo Theater*
Dec 16 (Fri) – Louisville KY@Headliners Music Hall*
Dec 17 (Sat) – St. Louis MO@The Hawthorne*
Feb 17 (Fri) – Cleveland OH@House of Blues
Feb 19 (Sun) – Ithaca NY@Hangar Theater
March 3 (Fri) – Iowa City IA@Englert Theatre
March 4 (Sat) – Bloomington IL@The Castle Theatre
March 6 (Mon) – Memphis TN@Lafayettes Music Room
March 7 (Tue) – Memphis TN@Lafayettes Music Room
March 9 (Thu) – Oxford AL@Oxford Performing Arts Center
April 1 (Sat) – Houston TX@Heights Theatre
April 2 (Sun) – Dallas TX@The Kessler
April 15 (Sat) – St Petersburg FL@Tampa Bay Blues Festival
April 22 (Sat) – Newberry SC@Newberry Opera House
Sept 7/8/10 (Thur/Fri/Sun) – Las Vegas NV@Big Blues Bender
Nov 7/8/9/10/11 (Tue/Wed/Thur/Fri/Sat) – Ft Lauderdale FL@The Big Easy Cruise
More About…Tab Benoit
Tab Benoit is renowned throughout his thirty-plus-year career for his passionate environmental activism. To that end, he performed two nights in his hometown of Houma, Louisiana at the 16th Annual Voice of the Wetlands Festival. He also appears prominently in the IMax motion picture Hurricane on the Bayou, a documentary of Hurricane Katrina’s effects and a call to protect and restore the Wetlands, and produced a CD to help restore that state’s Coastal Wetlands. Benoit was inducted into the Louisiana Folklife Center Hall of Master Folk Artists in 2020. Benoit is one of the featured musicians in the Sony Picture Classics 2022 movie JazzFest: A New Orleans Story, Frank Marshall & Ryan Suffern’s documentary on the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.
One of the most impressive guitarists to emerge from the rich Bayous of Southern Louisiana in recent time, Tab Benoit’s guitar tone can be recognized before his Otis-Redding-ish voice resonates from the speakers. He doesn’t rely on any effects and his setup is simple. It consists of a guitar, chord, and Category 5 Amplifier. The effects that you hear come from his fingers.
THE DIRTY DOZEN BRASS BAND
Celebrating over 40 years since their founding in 1977, New Orleans-based Dirty Dozen Brass Band has taken the traditional foundation of brass band music and incorporated it into a blend of genres including Bebop Jazz, Funk and R&B/Soul. This unique sound, described by the band as a ‘musical gumbo,’ has allowed the Dirty Dozen to tour across 5 continents and more than 30 countries, record 12 studio albums and collaborate with a range of artists from Modest Mouse to Widespread Panic to Norah Jones. Forty-plus years later, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band is a world famous music machine whose name is synonymous with genre-bending romps and high-octane performances.
