About this Event
S.E.Willis moved to Flagstaff, Az in 1967 and began his career as a musician shortly afterwards. He’s been a significant presence in Northern Arizona ever since, returning regularly during his 35 years in the San Francisco Bay Area and moving back in 2021. Willis is a multi-instrumentralist, starting with organ and harmonica and later adding piano and accordion. He was inducted into the Arizona Blues Hall of Fame in 1994, and has since received a Bay Area Music Award (Bammy) and a Blues Foundation Award for Band of the Year (Elvin Bishop Band). He has released 10 albums of his own music and appeared on a number of other recordings with the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir, the great New Orleans drummer Zigaboo Modeliste, Bishop and many others. His latest release is the recording “S.E.Willis and the Willing Live in Oakland, CA” from a show on May 5, 2024. He has been a featured soloist on many of the Legendary Blues Cruises and toured in Europe, North America and Japan. He has also appeared on stage with Elvin Bishop, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddly, Jimmy Rogers, James Cotton, Pinetop Perkins, Albert King, George Thorogood, John Nemeth and many more.
For Willis’ Coconino Center For the Arts show on Friday November 20 he will be joined by Tucson resident folk singer Kathleen Williamson as the show’s opener and special guest. Kathleen is well known in Northern Arizona and has released a number of CDs of her own original material.
The band will be:
Steve Willis: vocals, piano, accordion, harmonica
Roger Smith: bass, vocals
Ace Slim: guitar, vocals
Janet Daniel: drums
The show will be based on Willis’ 2007 release “Taproot: The songs of Hank Williams and Robert Johnson” and feature songs from those two great American singers and songwriters plus Willis originals and other surprises.
Event venue & nearby stays
Coconino Center for the Arts, 2300 N Fort Valley Rd, Flagstaff, United States
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