Where
One day in the canyon Tuacahn Center For the Arts
What
Six Blues Bands in Concert at The Southern Utah Blues Festival
The Scene
Twenty five hundred seats for listening in the canyon , lots to do
When
October 26, 2024 9 AM to 10 PM. (Live music Noon -10)
Artist Lineup
October 26, 2024 12PM- 10PM ~ The Bands
SOUTHERN AVENUE
Memphis-based, GRAMMY®-nominated Southern Avenue inked their first record deal with legendary Stax Records in 2016. The first Memphis band signed to Stax in over 40 years, their self-titled debut was an immediate phenomenon, reaching #1 on iTunes’ “Top Blues Albums” chart before being honored with the 2018 Blues Music Award for “Best Emerging Artist Album.” READ MORE
Ghost Town Blues Band
GTBB’s new album Shine debuted at #1 on the Billboard Blues Chart. Recently headlining the blues stage at The Montreal Jazz Festival and appearing at The Lucerne Blues Festival in Switzerland, Beale Street’s latest success story, 5-time Blues Blast Music Award Nominee and International Blues Challenge Runner-up is Ghost Town Blues Band. Not your grandpa’s blues band, their live show has been captivating audiences in the U.S., Canada and Europe with their “second-line horn entrance,” cigar box guitars and electric push brooms to Allman Brothers style jams and even a hip-hop trombone player. The band’s stage show and energy is unparalleled and has been called the best new live blues show in the world. READ MORE
Jordan Mathew Young
Jordan Matthew Young has shared the stage with the likes of ZZ Top, Shooter Jennings, Lukas Nelson, James Harman, Samantha Fish, Tinsley Ellis, John Németh, Indigenous, Kyle Gass Band, Shook Twins, Walter Parks, Eric McFadden, Jared James Nichols and is the proud winner of Album of the Year and Best Rock Band and was runner up for Band of the Year and Best Blues Band in the 2016 Best of Utah Music Awards READ MORE
Jimmy Carpenter
Saxophonist, singer-songwriter, arranger, and Gulf Coast Records recording artist, Jimmy Carpenter is on a roll! He won the 2021 and 2022 Blues Music Award for Best Instrumentalist/Horn. And he is now a Grammy-Winning Composer, for a composition he contributed to the New Orleans Nightcrawlers’ winning album, Atmosphere. Jimmy has toured internationally with Tinsley Ellis, Jimmy Thackery, Walter Wolfman Washington, Eric Lindell, and Mike Zito and the Wheel. 2019’s Soul Doctor, his first album on Gulf Coast Records, was extremely well-received worldwide, and in September 2022 he released his fifth solo album, The Louisiana Record, a collection of his favorite New Orleans songs, also on Gulf Coast. He has been a working musician for over 40 years, spent many years in New Orleans, and now resides in Las Vegas, where he is the Musical Director of one of the hottest blues festivals in the world, The Big Blues Bender. READ MORE
Tas Cru
With six albums in the last eight years , Cru is slated to release his Tas Cru Band LIVE in 2024. This album showcases his 2024 tour band performing his fan’s top-ten requested songs. To no surprise, these fan-fed songs are all rough and tumble. Gone are the frills of a studio album. The band just gives each song a best go, kicking down the fences – cage-free – loose, loud and proud!
Cru is a well-seasoned performer and entertainer. He knows how to read an audience. By intuition, Cru adjusts his sets on the fly to make sure he reaches them. While this is a skill acquired from years of performing, having a repertoire of well over 100 original songs to draw on certainly gives him a leg up on most others. READ MORE
Dick Earl’s Electric Witness
Dick Earl has been spreading the love for blues for decades with his raw vocals, solid guitar styling, and stirring harmonica, “from the depths of a true bluesman’s soul.” (KTIM Radio)
With Isaac Ericksen, Mari Ericksen, and Thomas Anderson, Dick Earl’s Electric Witness showcases a rhythm section that is second to none that has won notoriety on the Utah Blues Festival stage (2023) and beyond. Their self-titled debut album can be streamed on all major platforms so that you can experience their brand of Blues whenever, wherever!
Recently, Electric Witness competed in the 2023 International Blues Challenge held in Memphis, Tennessee, where they finished 3rd overall! What an achievement! It was an honor for the band to represent the Las Vegas Blues Society in this prestigious event hosted annually by The Blues Foundation. READ MORE
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Red Rock Music Association 
The purpose of this 501(c)3 Association is to provide education and support for bands of various genres of music, to include jazz, rock, rhythm and blues, and blues, to provide an opportunity for adults in the Washington County Community to work together to perform these genres for the public, to provide education, exposure, and musical entertainment for local public venues, and to increase community awareness, education and appreciation for these genres of music. Please support our events and donate any amount if you can.
What We Do
Tuacahn Amphitheatre 
Tuacahn Center for the Arts is a 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to edify and inspire the human spirit through professional world class family entertainment and an unparalleled artistic and educational experience that matches the majesty of our canyon.
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To provide education and support for bands of various genres of music, to include jazz, rock, rhythm and blues, and blues, to provide an opportunity for adults in the Washington County Community to work together to perform these genres for the public, to provide education, exposure, and musical entertainment for local public venues, and to increase community awareness, education and appreciation for these genres of music.