Jan Blues Fest CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE & KIRK FLETCHER

A concert pairing the American blues harmonica player Charlie Musselwhite with the guitarist Kirk Fletcher, presented within the January Blues Festival's tenth anniversary year at Union Chapel in London.

Charlie Musselwhite, born in Kosciusko in 1944, has been active since 1967, when a debut album, Stand Back! Here Comes Charley Musselwhite's Southside Band, was released on Capitol Records. The festival's material describes Musselwhite as a harmonica player who started out alongside Muddy Waters and Howlin'Wolf in the clubs of Chicago's South Side, and credits the artist with more than 20 albums, a Grammy and over 33 Blues Music Awards.

Kirk Fletcher, an American guitarist born in Compton in 1975, has been active since 1995 and released the album I'm Here & I'm Gone in 1999. Described as an electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter, Fletcher has worked on stage and in the studio with Joe Bonamassa, Cyndi Lauper, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Pinetop Perkins and James Cotton, and has received several Blues Music Award nominations.

The programme falls within blues, country and folk. Union Chapel is a religious building on Compton Terrace in London, and Snowboy acts as DJ and host for the evening.