Sportsmen's Tavern - June 19 - 7:00 PM
Tickets $20

Born in Tupelo, Mississippi and raised among the same spirits (and some of the actual people) who nurtured a young Elvis generations before, Thorn has rambled down back roads and jumped out of airplanes, worked for years in a furniture factory, battled four-time world champion boxer Roberto Durán on national television, signed with and been dropped by a major label, opened for Bonnie Raitt, Mark Knopfler, and John Prine among many other headliners, and made some of the most emotionally restless yet fully accessible music of our time.

Sportsmen's Tavern & Music Hall
Thursday May 31 @ 7pm
Tickets $12

“… his approach to this music makes him arguably the most exciting young blues player on the scene today … It’s a combination of talents that allows the best bands to transcend their genres, and that’s they key to Nick Moss & the Flip Tops’ appeal. They play with fire and fury but also with control, constructing a brilliant set that never gets boring.”
– Blues Revue Magazine

Sportsman's Tavern
Wednesday, July 11
7:00 PM

Tickets: $10 Ray Bonneville is a Canadian born, Austin based singer, songwriter, guitarist and harmonica player, who is known for his “loose, darkly funky vibe” (All Music Guide). His Red House release Goin’ By Feel was named one of the best CD’s of 2008 by DownBeat Magazine and featured the Americana hit “I Am the Big Easy,” which was #1 most played song on folk radio that year and won the Folk Alliance Award for Song of the Year.

Sportsmen's Tavern & Music Hall
Tuesday July 10 @ 7pm
Tickets $10

Bart's band is made up of Reese Wynans on B3 (Stevie Ray Vaughn), Lynn Williams on drums (Delbert McClinton), and Paul Ossola on bass (Saturday Night Live Band - 10 yrs - Grammy Award winner with Levon Helm) with Bart on lead guitar and vocals. Bart recently won the Gibson Guitar Best Blues Guitarist Award at the International Blues Challenge and the band placed 2nd in the overall competition out of 228 bands. Bart traveled with the Bo Bice Band for several years as lead guitarist and has many fans in the area.

Sportsmen's Tavern & Music Hall
Sunday June 3 @ 4pm
Tickets $10

As a two time W.C. Handy Award nominee, who has toured with Lynwood Slim, Janiva Magness, Charlie Musselwhite and The Fabulous Thunderbirds, as well as performing with James Cotton, Pine Top Perkins, Hubert Sumlin, Mojo Buford, Ted Harvey, Larry Carlton, Robben Ford, Michael Landau, Elvin Bishop, Ronnie Earl, Doyle Bramhall, Michelle Branch and many more… Kirk Fletcher is considered one of the best young guitar players on the blues scene today.

Sportsmen's Tavern - August 8 - 7:00 Tickets $20

You must have heard it before, but I'm telling you; 'being a musician is the BEST job in the World!' You just got to love being on stage, playing LOUD guitar with a strong band backing you up! .... and the good thing is; I got to do it a lot!!

Sportsmen's Tavern & Music Hall
Wed. June 6 @ 7pm
Tickets $15

Siblings Danielle, Kris and Nick Schnebelen grew up with the Blues. Their parents, Bob and Lisa, were active in the thriving Kansas City Blues scene, playing in local bands and competing in the Kansas City Blues Challenge. Bob and Lisa’s band didn’t make it to the International Blues Challenge in Memphis — but their kids did. TUF took First Place in the competition and Nick won the Albert King award for best guitarist.