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"TOM LAVIN & THE LEGENDARY POWDER BLUESFor over four decades Powder Blues has been Canada’s leading blues band. The mix of swing blues jazz rock & roll and r & b has an appeal so wide that people from seven to seventy swing side by side at a Powder Blues concert. Over the years the band has toured non-stop through Canada the United States and overseas spreading feel-good music that makes folks dance and shout.
Band highlights include winning Canada’s Juno headlining the world-famous Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland winning the Blues Foundation Award in Memphis Tennessee and touring the US and Europe with legends like Willie Dixon John Lee Hooker B.B. King James Brown Albert Collins James Cotton and Stevie Ray Vaughn.
Leader Tom Lavin has written many of the band’s best-known songs including ‘Doin’ It Right’ (‘On the Wrong Side of Town’) and ‘Boppin With the Blues’. Born in Chicago where he worked with local bands and blues legends Tom moved to Vancouver gigging in the downtown nightclub scene. This led to work as studio musician song writer band leader record producer and film composer.
2025 is the band’s 47th Anniversary. Their more than dozen CD titles and DVD continue to sell world-wide making Tom Lavin & the Legendary Powder Blues one of Canada’s longest-standing musical ambassadors."
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Chilliwack Cultural Centre, 9201 Corbould St, Chilliwack, BC V2P 4A6, Canada
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