Name: Live on the Bandstand launch event: Honeyboy Hickling Blues Band & The Melvin Hancox Band
Start: 2024-05-12T11:30:00+01:00
End: 2024-05-12T16:30:00+01:00
Location: Birmingham Botanical Gardens

Live on the Bandstand launch event: Honeyboy Hickling Blues Band & The Melvin Hancox Band

We're celebrating the return of regular live music to the Gardens with a special launch event 🥳
Join us on Sunday 12 May for the launch of Live on the Bandstand, featuring performances from both Honeyboy Hickling Blues Band and The Melvin Hancox Band.
Make a day of it!
Schedule:
11:30am - 1:30pm Honeyboy Hickling Blues Band
2:30pm - 4:30pm The Melvin Hancox Band
Date: Sunday 12 May
Please note that the Honeyboy Hickling Blues band have replaced the Nightcrawlers for this event.
🎟️Tickets: The performances are included with general admission to the Gardens.
💚Members admission free (that's 8 free gigs for you and a guest included with your membership this summer!) To become a member visit https://www.birminghambotanicalgardens.org.uk/become-a-member-today/
Keep an eye out for guest food vendors throughout the year.
⭐️ About the Honeyboy Hickling Blues Band ⭐️
Harmonica player Honeyboy Hickling is well known for his individual bluesy sound and in a long career has worked with, among many others, Steve Marriott and recorded with Bo Diddley and Anthony Thistlethwaite’s (of The Waterboys) Blue Stars. He is joined by guitarist Bob Wilson who has worked with Birmingham’s finest (including Steve Gibbons, Idle Race and Ruby Turner) and toured the UK and Europe with Canadian blues star, the King Biscuit Boy. Bassist Frank Walker played with the likes of The Flying Hat Band and Alvin Stardust while drummer Tony Baylis can point to such names as Trevor Burton, Chicken Shack and Steve Gibbons.
⭐️ About The Melvin Hancox Band ⭐️
"Melvin has toured through Europe, the U.S.A. and even Costa Rica. They have also worked alongside Tony McPhee, Savoy Brown and Canned Heat.
In 2019 Melvin formed his current Melvin Hancox Band, bringing to it his experiences of "two decades of rock and roll drenched in psychedelic rain".
This is a partnership event with Big Bear Music.