This is a note to all procrastinators out there – a group to which I belong – there are only 30 tickets left for the Selwyn Birchwood show in the Side Door this Friday night.
Don’t wait any longer. This show WILL be sold out by the time Selwyn and the band take the stage at 8 p.m.
Selwyn is a big enough draw to play our 830-seat Hough Hall, but he loves playing the Side Door. There are only 181 tickets available and all but 30 are gone. To get yours just follow this link or call our box office at 727-822-3590.
If you don’t know Selwyn, keep reading.
After graduating from USF, he won the Blue Challenge in Memphis and quickly moved from playing clubs to headlining theaters and festivals around the world. His two Alligator Records albums both topped the charts and he’s a regular face on the cover of blues magazines.
Here’s what some big time publications have said about Selwyn:
“A powerhouse player and emotive performer…his band, his material and both his skilled guitaring and soulful vocals are the essence of fully-formed. Birchwood is a major player. Highly recommended.”
–Rolling Stone
“Selwyn Birchwood is an indelibly modern and original next-generation bluesman; his tough vocals, guitar and lap steel touch on classic Chicago blues, Southern soul and boogie.”
— Washington Post
“Watch out for Selwyn Birchwood…a genius revelation and a pleasure. Roaring Fender Strat and down-south lap steel guitar.”
— Blues Matters
“Selwyn Birchwood is making waves, surprising people and defying expectations. Be on the lookout. He revels in the unexpected.”
— Living Blues
And my buddy Marty Clear did a preview of a recent Selwyn show for the Bradenton Herald and an excerpt from that story appears below:
By Marty Clear
If you’re a blues fan in Bradenton, you’re really lucky. You get to see an dhear Selwyn Birchwood. Birchwood is one of the hottest young blues musicians around. He won the International Blues Challenge four years ago — a huge competition that attracts musicians from all over the world — and that same year, he took home the Albert King Guitarist of the Year Award. Not long after that, he signed with Alligator Records, one of the most prestigious independent blues labels.
He lived in Tampa until recently, and now he lives in Orlando, so he performs around here a lot, at places like the Blue Rooster and at Bradenton Blues Festival’s events.
Blues magazine describes the new album as “urgent” and “uncompromising.” The Washington Post calls Birchwood a “tough, indelibly modern next generation bluesman.” The Wall Street Journal says he is “fiery and original.”
Birchwood, is a lanky 30-year-old who plays scorching but fluid electric guitar and writes songs that are influenced as much by blues forefathers as they are by Jimi Hendrix. There’s raw emotion in his songs and his signing and polished virtuosity of his playing, and his live shows are always a treat.
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