Monkey Junk Live!

The Canada South Blues Society Chatham Kent is pleased to announce that we're back!! We are proud to present Monkey Junk Friday, April 22nd at the KBD. Doors open at 7:00pm show starts at 8:00pm. We are only selling 160 tickets to this show as we are spacing out the tables into tables for 8 hoping to spread out the crowd a bit and make you all feel a bit more comfortable . So be sure to get your tickets fast.

Tickets are available at the KBD in Chatham, Kakoon Spa in Ridgetown, online at  ticketscene.ca or call Bob at 519-676-9150 to hold tickets at the door. To reserve seats for the show please email me.

If you saw Monkey Junk at the Shrewsbury show you know what a great band they are. You are in for a real treat. Check them out at  monkeyjunkband.com

Since 2008, the name MonkeyJunk has been synonymous with the emergence of a new kind of blues on the Canadian and international scenes. Continually pushing boundaries and blurring genre lines, the Ottawa-based trio has added an edge to their music by incorporating swampy blues & rock with thoughtful and intelligent lyrics. MonkeyJunk is Tony D on lead guitar, Steve Marriner on lead vocals/baritone guitar/harmonica and Matt Sobb on drums. The band has released 5 full-length albums and are looking towards a sixth tentatively scheduled to be recorded and released in late 2021. As one of the hardest working bands on the scene today, these Canadian ambassadors of blues/rock are constantly working to up their game in terms of songwriting and musicianship, on record and especially live! 23 Maple Blues Awards, 2 Indy Awards, 1 USA Blues Music Award, 2 JUNO AWARDS!

Hope to see you at the Show!!!!

Ghost Town Blues Band Live @ The KBD Hall!

The Canada South Blues Society Chatham Kent is proud to announce our next show, featuringGhost Town Blues Band, Friday, December 6th at the KBD. Tickets are available at Hip Entertainment and the KBD in Chatham, Kakoon Spa in Ridgetown, or call Bob at 519-676-9150. A crowd favourite in their past performances for us, this will definitely be a sold out show, so be sure to get your tickets as soon as you can to avoid being disappointed. You don't want to miss this show, it's going to be great. Please be sure to spread the word about this show.

GTBB's new album Shine debuted at #1 on the Billboard Blues Chart. Recently headlining the blues stage at The Montreal Jazz Festival, 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 today.

“GTBB shows what can happen when the past is distilled through young sensibilities, voices, and instruments. This is 21st century blues at its best.” -Living Blues MagazineThe Canada South Blues Society Chatham Kent is proud to announce our next show, featuringGhost Town Blues Band, Friday, December 6th at the KBD. Tickets are available at Hip Entertainment and the KBD in Chatham, Kakoon Spa in Ridgetown, or call Bob at 519-676-9150. A crowd favourite in their past performances for us, this will definitely be a sold out show, so be sure to get your tickets as soon as you can to avoid being disappointed. You don't want to miss this show, it's going to be great. Please be sure to spread the word about this show.

GTBB's new album Shine debuted at #1 on the Billboard Blues Chart. Recently headlining the blues stage at The Montreal Jazz Festival, 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 today.

“GTBB shows what can happen when the past is distilled through young sensibilities, voices, and instruments. This is 21st century blues at its best.” -Living Blues Magazine

The Canada South Blues Society is proud to announce our next show featuring 2019 Blues Music Awards nominee for Best Contemporary Female Blues Artist & Instrumentalist of the Year-Horn, & 5 time BMA nominee, Vanessa Collier, Friday April 26th at the KBD in Chatham.Tickets for this show are $25 for Society members and $30 for non members. Tickets are available at Hip Entertainment in Chatham, the KBD, Kakoon Spa in Ridgetown, or call Bob @ 519-676-9150. Vanessa headlined last years Shrewsbury Ribs and Blues and tore it up! This is going to be a great show. Be sure to get your tickets soon as this will definitely be a sold out show.

"If you haven’t been fortunate enough to meet Vanessa and witness one of her head-turning, fiery, and passionate performances, you should definitely make sure you do. As a master musician and multi-instrumentalist, Vanessa Collier, weaves funk, soul, rock, and blues into every powerful performance and she is downright impressive. With soulful vocals, searing saxophone, and witty songwriting, Vanessa is blazing a trail, racking up an impressive arsenal of honours, and has already singled herself out as an artist of distinction and one we would all do well to watch."

“A young singer with a fierce, compelling voice, she also played a mean saxophone and had the charisma to get the crowd in the palm of her hand for a full hour. ”— Lynn Saxburg, Ottawa Sun (reviewing Vanessa's performance at the 2017 Ottawa Bluesfest)

Southern Avenue at the KBD!

The Canada South Blues Society Chatham Kent is extremely proud to announce our Christmas Show, Saturday, December 8th, at the KBD Hall,  featuring Southern Avenue. Southern Avenue is an up and coming band that is taking the world by storm. We have been anticipating this show for some time and we think it may be the show of the year. 

“Southern Avenue’s debut album is the beginning of a legacy…What we have here, is a young, yet seasoned group of artists, who took everything Memphis has to give, rubbed their own magic on it, and are delivering it to us in a single serving. It’s not blues, soul, Gospel or R&B. It’s all of the above, blended in such a way to create its very own category.” 

American Blues Scene

“This debut album from Southern Avenue is the tastiest thing out of Memphis since Gus’s Fried Chicken went national. Sounding somewhat like the Staple Singers doing an album of bluesy southern rock, this band will be huge, mark my words…Fans of acts ranging from Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings to the Black Keys will find a lot to like here…”

Ink 19

“Tierinii Jackson’s voice is stadium quality. There’s much more Beyoncé force than Memphis Minnie grit there, and it’s a blessing. To me, that’s what makes this band worth talking about. In addition to the ridiculous amount of talent you get by tallying everyone in this band, Southern Avenue is youthful and vibrant. They’re out here giving life to a genre too long dominated by people obsessed with emulating the past. And that’s a good deed done for blues fans everywhere.”

I Love Memphis

Our Christmas shows are always sold out shows, so please be sure to get your tickets early so you don't miss this show. Tickets for members are now $25, and for non members $30.Available at Hip Entertainment in Chatham, Kakoon Spa in Ridgetown, the KBD in Chatham, or call Bob at 519-676-9150 to reserve tickets and seating. 

Be sure to check out Southern Avenue on youtube or at www.southernavenuemusic.com

Danielle Nicole Band Live!

The Canada South Blues Society is proud to announce our up coming show featuring Danielle Nicole, on Friday October 26th at the Kent Belgian Dutch Canadian Club. Danielle Nicole has become one of the most sought after performers on today's Blues circuit. Ticket are available at Hip Entertainment in Chatham, the KBD in Chatham, Kakoon Spa in Ridgetown, or call Bob at 519-676-9150 to reserve tickets. We have been trying to bring Danielle to Chatham for quite some time, and we are very excited to finally be able to present her to Chatham. This is going to be a great show that you don't want to miss. Be sure to tell your friends also. Check Danielle out on youtube and I'm sure you will agree.

When it comes to an ability to belt out blues that bring your bones to a simmer, vocalist and bassist supreme Danielle Nicole is cut from the same soulful cloth as Etta James, Koko Taylor and Shemekia Copeland. In other words she is the vocal personification of everything blues fans love about the genre. She can be soft and sweet. She can be nurturing and wise. But mostly she can be wild.. An acclaimed singer and bassist who has won the admiration of critics, fans and fellow musicians alike, Danielle angelic, if rough-edged voice is destined to soar into the hearts of unsuspecting blues fans.

Danielle's distinctive, inventive bass work—which resulted in her becoming the first woman to win the Blues Foundation's 2014 Blues Music Award for Best Instrumentalist, Bass—is the product of years of intensive roadwork.

To reserve seating or tickets for this show email or call me at 676-9150

Reverend Raven and the Chain Smoking Altar Boys

The Canada South Blues Society Chatham Kent Wishes you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. To get the New Year going with a bang, we are pleased to present, from Milwaukee, Reverend Raven and the Chain Smoking Altar Boys, on Friday, January 19th at the KBD. Tickets are available at Hip Entertainment and the KBD in Chatham, at Kakoon Spa in Ridgetown, or call Bob at 519-676-9150 or email Bob. This is going to be a fun show to start the year with. Hope to see you there. To reserve your seats for the show just phone or email Bob.

Bringing crowds to their feet at the hardest to please and sophisticated night clubs in the Midwest, Reverend Raven and the Chain Smoking Altar Boys play traditional blues, straight up with a big dose of passion. With smoking grooves, served up with hot harmonica and smooth stinging guitar they play original songs peppered with nods to Slim Harpo, Little Walter, Jimmy Rogers, Billy Boy Arnold, Junior Wells and the three Kings.

Since 1990 he has opened for B.B King, Gatemouth Brown, Pinetop Perkins, Koko Taylor Band, Junior Wells, Billy Branch, Magic Slim, Elvin Bishop, Sugar Blue, Lonnie Brooks, William Clarke, Lefty Dizz, Rod Piazza, Fabulous Thunderbirds, Duke Robillard, Jeff Healy, Trampled Underfoot, Mike Zito, Nick Moss, Tommy Castro and numerous others at festivals and at Buddy Guy’s Legends where he has been on rotation as a headliner for 16 years.

Joe Louis Walker Live!

The Ghost Town Blues Band Live!

They're Back!!!!! The Canada South Blues Society is proud to present Ghost Town Blues Band on Friday, February 10^th at the KBD in Chatham. Ghost Town tore it up at the Shrewsbury Ribs and Blues this past July and we as honored to have them back in Chatham.

Beale Street’s latest success story, 2016 Independent Blues Award winner for "Best Contemporary Blues Song", 2015 Blues Blast Music Award Nominee for “Best Blues Band” and 2014 International Blues Challenge Runner-up is Ghost Town Blues Band.  Horns, harmonies and homegrown instruments combined with an energetic and roots rich festival set makes Ghost Town Blues Band one of the “must see live bands on the festival circuit today.”

Tickets are now available at Aug's Video in Chatham and Blenheim, at the KBD in Chatham, at Kakoon Spa in Ridgetown, or call Bob at 519-676-8977 to reserve tickets. This show will definitely sell out, don't miss out, be sure to get your tickets early. If you haven't seen Ghost Town, ask someone who has, you really don't want to miss this Band!! Check them out on youtube or at http://www.ghosttownbluesband.com/

We now also have Gift Cards available. They are $20 each and good for admission to any show we present. The perfect gift for the music lovers on your list. They are available at both Aug's Video locations, or call Bob.

We wish all of you a Merry Christmas and all the best for the New Year. See you at the show in February!

Duke Robillard Live

The CSBS (Chatham-Kent) is proud to announce our next show, Friday December 2nd, featuring a true Blues Legend, Duke Robillard.

What do Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Jay McShann, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, John Hammond, the late Jimmy Witherspoon, Dr. John, Maria Muldaur, Roomful of Blues, and the Canadian band The Rockin’ Highliners all have in common?

Answer: Duke Robillard

Guitarist. Bandleader. Songwriter. Singer. Producer. Session musician. And a one-man cheering section for the blues, in all its forms and permutations. And every one of those names has shared recording studio space or stage time with a man who is a legend in the blues community.

The Blues Music Awards (formerly W.C.Handy Awards) have named Duke Robillard "Best Blues Guitarist" four years out of five (2000,2001,2003,2004) making him the second most honored guitarist for that award! He was also nominated in that category in 2005, 2007 and again in 2008.

I suggest you get your tickets early for this show. Our December shows are always a sell out, and the demand for Duke Robillard tickets is already strong. You really don't want to miss this show!!! Tickets are available at Aug's Video in Blenheim and Chatham, at the KBD Club in Chatham, and at Kakoon Spa in Ridgetown. Or call Bob at 519-676-8977 to reserve tickets and tables. Be sure to check Duke out on youtube and atwww.dukerobillard.com

Hope to see you at the show, Bob Christmas

The 24th Street Wailer in Concert

Chris Duarte Group presented by The Canada South Blues Society (Chatham-Kent)

From Canada South Blues Society President Bob Christmas

The Canada South Blues Society Chatham Kent is pleased to present Texas Blues Guitarist, Chris Duarte Friday, April 1st at the KBD If you like Texas Blues in the style of Stevie Ray, your will definitely want to be at this show.

Tickets are available at Aug's Video in Chatham ans Blenheim, Kakoon Spa in Ridgetown, at the KBD Hall, or call Bob at 519-676-8977 to reserve your tickets and book a table. Tickets are going fast, so be sure to get yours soon.

Thanks, hope to see you at the show!