Event Categories: Community Event, Entertainment, Family Friendly, Live Music, and Party/Fete
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Friday Sept 1, 7:30PM at SJSA featuring Craig Holiday Haynes (drums), Beeble Callwood (bass) John Wynwood (guitar, piano, harmonica, vox) 25$ pp
Craig Holiday Haynes, (named after Billie Holiday) is quite blessed to be able to do what he loves most and that is “make good music”, travel, and meet great people. His travels have enabled him to learn different cultures and be appreciated by people all over the world, while as he says making it a “groovier place”. He started out his professional career playing tenor saxophone, at the age of 14 in and around NYC, when he played with the Fabulous Uniques recording an R&B hit and backing up people like Brooke Benton (A Rainy night in Georgia) and The Toys (Lovers Concerto). Craig later studied African percussion with Chief Bey and went on to study more. On his 20th birthday he switched up, and started playing the drum set seriously and toured with R&B/ Disco artist “Gary Toms Empire”. He later performed and/or recorded with Sun Ra (turning down an offer to join James Brown because he now wanted to play jazz), Barry Harris, Clifford Jordan, Freddie Hubbard, Gloria Lynne, Lionel Hampton, Tony Bennett, The Boys Choir of Harlem, The Allman Brothers Band, Leslie West, Geri Allen, Marcus Miller, Gladys Knight, Eddie Palmeri, actor Danny Glover and many, many others! Craig has toured North America, Brazil, Cuba, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, North and West Africa and is the son of legendary drummer and three-time Grammy Award winner Roy Haynes! Lionel Hampton once said “Craig Haynes’ drumming reminds me of the great drummers of the past…and like you’ve never heard before”
John Wynwood has performed all across the US, Europe, Canada and The Caribbean. Playing guitar, piano, harmonica, bass, drums and singing it is an exciting blend of styles and influences from Chicago, Memphis, New Orleans, Detroit, The Mississippi Delta, Texas, and more. John learned, traveled and worked with many blues legends such as Hubert Sumlin, Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, Pinetop Perkins, Bob Stroger, Carey Bell, Tony-O Melio, Bob Margolin, Buddy Guy, James Cotton, Paul Oscher and more… He also worked all over New York City regularly with his own band as well as Jimmy Vivino, Kendra Morris, Willie Bridges, Baron Harrison, Sweet Georgia Brown, Malcolm Briggs, Al Bundy, Johnny Parker, Steve Guyger.
Beeble Callwood is local to St. John. He is proficient on many instruments and is considered one of the best
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