BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
PRODID:-//PYVOBJECT//NONSGML Version 1//EN
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20120209T082237Z-63176@montalvoarts.org
DTSTART:20100911T193000
DESCRIPTION:[ More info at : http://montalvoarts.org/events/summer2010_cray
 _bbvd/ ] Tin-eared critics have frequently damned him as a yuppie blues wa
 nna-be whose slickly soulful offerings bear scant resemblance to the real 
 down-home item. In reality\, Robert Cray is one of a precious few active b
 lues artists with the talent and vision to successfully usher the idiom in
 to the future without resorting either to slavish imitation or simply play
 ing rock while passing it off as blues. Just as importantly\, his immensel
 y popular records helped immeasurably to jump-start the contemporary blues
  boom that still holds sway to this day. Blessed with a soulful voice that
  sometimes recalls '60s great O.V. Wright and a concise lead guitar approa
 ch that never wastes notes\, Cray's ascendancy was amazingly swift -- in 1
 986 his breakthrough album\, Strong Persuader\, for Mercury (containing "S
 moking Gun") won him a Grammy and shot his asking price for a night's work
  skyward. Unlike too many of his peers\, Cray continues to experiment with
 in his two presiding genres\, blues and 
DTSTAMP:20100518T095601
LOCATION:Lilian Fontaine Garden Theatre\, 15400 Montalvo Rd.\, Saratoga CA 
 95071-0158
SUMMARY:The Robert Cray Band & Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR