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OPTION 1:The DELTA WIRES is a big, high-energy harmonica and horns blues band from the Oakland/San Francisco Bay Area. They were Finalists out 100 blues bands from all over the world, in the Blues Foundation's 2008 International Blues Challenge held in Memphis, TN. The DELTA WIRES have recorded 5 CDs, and were voted Voted "Best Band" Oakland/East Bay 2008, by the readers of Oakland Magazine. They have appeared at the San Francisco Blues Festival 2008, the Russian River Blues Festival 2009, the Monterey Bay Blues Festival 8 times, headlined the Shasta Blues Society’s Redding Blues by the River Festival, have played Crescent City Blues Festival, Central Valley Blues Festival, Oakland Blues and Heritage Festival, Napa Valley Mustard Festival, and many others. The DELTA WIRES have toured or played with many noted artists including Van Morrison, John Lee Hooker, Freddie King, The Doobie Brothers, Buddy Guy and Junior Wells, John Mayal, Charlie Musselwhite, Boz Scaggs, Bad Company, The James Gang, Elvin Bishop, and numerous others…
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OPTION 2:
Delta Wires is a Big, high-energy, harmonica & horns blues band which started as a college anthology of blues project in Oakland, CA. 2008 FINALISTS in Blues Foundation's International Blues Challenge in Memphis TN, out of 100 band representatives from blues societies all over the world. Voted "Best Band" Oakland/East Bay 2008, Oakland Magazine. For years Delta Wires have shared billing with such blues luminaries as Van Morrison, Boz Skaggs, Freddie King, Buddy Guy, Lowell Fulson and many others. These elements culminate in this finely-honed presentation of rhythm and blues stylings as an art form. Take one talented Italian city kid with his harmonica, and his boyhood bass-playing buddy, raised in the Oakland/East Bay area - the heart of West Coast Blues - add a virtuoso guitarist and talented 3-piece horn section with Mississippi Delta and Chicago Big Band influences, all driven by a classic “fat back” drum pulse, to create this hybrid of urban sound. Anchor this explosive combination with years of heart, soul and sweat on stage and you've got a definitive representation of a generation of the Bay Area music scene.
The DELTA
WIRES name was derived from the image of a band with modern, "electric"
instrumentation, playing a style of music born in the Mississippi "Delta".
What began as a college project and anthology of blues music from the Mississippi Delta to
the South Side of Chicago, inevitably evolved into a band which has become
known for its originality, versatility, and crisp, tight, exciting sound.
What some reviewers have said about DELTA WIRES:
"From jump rhythms to nasty, lowdown Windy City laments, DELTA WIRES electrifies the audience... This tight Bay Area troop, fronted by vocalist/harmonica genius/composer Ernie Pinata, melds Mississippi Delta tunes and Chicago-style arrangements with rock, soul, and swing sensitivity...It's terrific! This rockin' blues band is spectacular -- tight, topical, and torrid." - Lee Cooper, Ph.D. - Rock & Blues News
"a tough, rocking, socking band, knocking out crowds...the WIRES are burning up! " -Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle
"They blow hard from the get-go, a tight horn section blending comfortably with the spirited, intense harmonica from lead man Ernie Pinata ... as fierce a Sonny Boy Williamson-influenced harp as you will find" - Bill Kisluik, BLUES ACCESS Magazine.
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Instrumentation:
Ernie Pinata - Harmonica/vocals
Tom Gerrits - Bass/vocals
Richard Healy - Guitar
Tony Huszar - Drums
Larry Jonutz - Trumpet/backup vocals
Jim Orsetti - Sax/backup vocals
Danny Sandoval - Sax/backup vocals
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