mick knight – SMART

ABC Acoustic Blues Club – John Lee Williamson Tribute. 13th Feb 2023 – Upstairs Jenny Lind. 8pm

January 23, 2023January 23, 2023 by Alan Esdaile

This month we tribute blues harmonica great, the first Sonny Boy Williamson. Featuring Jem Turpin with Trev White and Andy Ingram plus Piers Clark and Mick Knight.

ABC Acoustic Blues Club – Ragtime Blues Guitar Stories – Monday 9th Jan 2023

January 8, 2023January 8, 2023 by Alan Esdaile

Mick Knight… Come and join me and my guests for the first ABC of 2023. A laid back evening of Ragtime Blues Guitar Classics.

ABC Acoustic Blues Club – Revue 22 – The Jenny Lind. Mon 12th Dec 22

December 11, 2022December 11, 2022 by Alan Esdaile

Mick Knight… We are celebrating six months of ABC this December. Come and join us for Blue Monday Revue 22….before we head into 2023 where we already have some great shows planned. Thank you to everyone who has contributed and supported us. May the blues be easy on you this Xmas. Mick Knight

ABC Acoustic Blues Club – Blind Boy Fuller Tribute – Jenny Lind. Mon 14th Nov 2022.

November 13, 2022November 13, 2022 by Alan Esdaile

Mick Knight… Fulton Allen born 1904 or 7 or 9 … in Wadesboro North Carolina. He was an eclectic, popular and influential recording artist. Though he made over 120… 78rpm sides he never performed on stage preferring the street and informal gatherings. Come and join us as we recreate some of the sound of the East Coast blues of Blind Boy Fuller…..with Sister Suzie, Piers Clark, Jem Turpin, Nick Smalley and Mick Knight.

Here’s Roger Hubbard at the ABC club Hastings UK on October 10th 2022 playing a 1928 Martin 0-18 guitar. Filmed by Jon Renouf.

Graham Belchamber… it was a marvellous evening of Robert Johnson music.

Here’s another video from the ABC Acoustic Blues Club…

ABC Acoustic Blues Club – Mississippi John Hurt tribute – The Jenny Lind 12th Sept 2022

September 11, 2022September 11, 2022 by Alan Esdaile

John Smith Hurt was born in Teoc Mississippi in 1892. He was a farmhand and labourer until the last few years of his life. His music was performed for family, friends and at country dances. In 1928 he recorded some blues 78’s that 35 years later led to him becoming a star of the blues revival. Come and join us as we pay this small tribute, play some of the songs and tell some of the story of Mississippi John Hurt…. with Piers Clark and Mick Knight plus Eddy Odel and possibly more!