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The Broad Street Cafe - 1116 Broad Street, Durham, 27705

Wednesday November 25
=95 8P  Continuum Blues Jam- Come out to the Blues Jam every other
Wednesday sponsored by Continuum Consulting Services.  Butch Haas will
be facilitating this free-to-the-public jam. So bring your gear, sign
up for a time, and jam with some of Durham=92s finest! Drums, keyboard,
bass, guitar and harp amps provided.

Thursday November 26 - THANKSGIVING - CLOSED

Friday November 27th - Closed for Lunch BUT OPEN at 5pm for Dinner and
Music

Friday November 27
=95 8P Negative I (alt/rock/pop)
Negative I is composed of singer/songwriter/composer Drissy and Lead
guitarist/composer Chris Blakely.  Both members have been working and
performing with other bands growing up in Morocco and California
respectively. They started working together on original Alternative
Rock music since December 2007.  They have been playing around the
Triangle in different venues that promote original work.  They perform
with varying musicians, which allows them to experiment with different
sounds that they incorporate in their demos.  Negative I was featured
on www.originalmindproductions.com for working with photographer Keith
Papke while doing a photo shoot for their upcoming Album.  Drissy just
released her first single "Cold" as a solo artist, it is available
worldwide on itunes.  They are currently working on some musical
projects with Nikk Furrie from "La Caution"; a French Rap/Electro/Hip
Hop group known for their Laser dance song; "The a la Menthe" in the
OST Ocean's Twelve.  They are also working on their upcoming single
"Alien" with The Industry Connect in Raleigh, NC.

=95 10P Black Dog Syndrome (rock/swing)
It's been a great year for Durham's popular rock/swing band - produced
by Mitch Easter, featured on NPR's Car Talk, and published in American
Songwriter Magazine. BDS's new CD "Isolate the Cue" just received a
GRindy Award by RadioIndy.com as one of the top indy rock CDs in 2009.
The band features vocal legend Kimmie Wilson and the sizzling sax of
Mike Canale.

RadioIndy.com Review:  "Black Dog Syndrome explores the smart and
provocative elements of rock, R&B, blues, jazz, and other Southern
influences that fires the imagination.  In the biting sax, the
incendiary guitar, and the imagery-rich lyrics a listener hears the
components that made artists like The B-52=92s and Southern Culture on
the Skids so original and compelling."

Saturday November 28
=95 8P Eric Sommers (guitar/harmonica/vocals)
In the 80's Eric Sommer broke out of the Boston folk music scene with
a mixture of roots-pure fingerstyle acoustic guitar and new wave pop,
a blurred combination of Nick Lowe, The Cars and Spider John Koerner
influences. This unique alchemy created a driving, guitar-based sound
backed by a tight, infectious beat and laced with Byrds-style jingle
jangle guitar work; this sound landed him and his band The Atomics
into Cantones, the hardcore, working-class punk bar in downtown
Boston, just off an area called The Combat Zone, as the house band.

First writing power pop rock songs, Eric slowly blended his acoustic
feel, open-tunings and slide guitar into a more personal writing
approach, producing a wide rang of very personal songs, songs based on
years of road work, travel and observations as well as autobio
material. Eric was regularly called on by legendary promoter Don Law
to fill in at the new Paradise Theatre, where he shared the stage and
a number of tours with many national acts such as David Bromberg, Leon
Redbone, John Mayall, Dr. John, John Hammond, Little Feat, The Byrds
(McGuinn Clark and Hillman) and new wave British acts like Nick Lowe's
Wreckless Eric, Brahm Tschikovsky and Gang of Four.

Sommer, who paid his guitar dues on the streets of Boston during high
school, left the US for Europe and played in Amsterdam and Hamburg,
before settling in Aarhus, Denmark where he toured with Danish bands
and held steady gigs at Den Hoyle and De Gavverit, very popular clubs
for American ex-pats in Europe, and then moved to Amsterdam and lived
on a houseboat while playing the Netherlands music clubs and German
concert circuit. Back in Boston, Eric took a few guitar tips from
David Landau, brother of Springsteen manager Jon landau, at Berklee
from Mick Goodrick of the Gary Burton Quartet and Steve Howe of YES,
all while listening to every Joe Pass and Charlie Christian recording
he could find.

The Atomics continued to hold down the house band spot at Cantones and
after shows and tours with a number of new wave and punk acts like The
Dead Kennedys, The Atomics evolved into one of the best local pop
bands in Boston. The trio disbanded in the mid 80's and Eric moved to
New York, then Atlanta and finally the Mid Atlantic area, settling in
Adams Morgan, a hip east-village like area of Washington DC. Eric
mixed his music and visual interests together and launched the
Georgetown Film Festival in 2001 which combined indie films with a
music festival. This combination led Eric into =93motion music=94 and he
has created film scores and soundscapes for a number of short films,
features, animations and docs.

But touring and road work is Eric's passion, and he is a regular
performer in many national venues, and has built a solid musical and
performance reputation across the country. Eric's goals are rooted in
what John Lee Hooker once said to him at a J.Geils show at The
Catacombs in Boston : =93If you ain't playin', then you payin'=94.

Since 1995 Eric has been touring and playing all over the US and
currently plays an average of 200 - 270 shows a year. He has been a
regular performer at The Bayfront Blues Festival in Duluth, MN, The
Carrboro Music Festival in Carrboro, NC and the Eno River Festival in
Raleigh, NC. His recent shows have included bills with Mates of State,
OLD 97's and Jerry Douglas of Union Station. Jim Reed of Savannah
Connect said =93Anyone who's been in need of a fix of spectacular,
percussive and virtuosic guitar work can rest easily. Eric Sommer's
coming to town. One of the finest American guitarists on the road
today...=94

=95 10P On The Fly (blues/jam/drum & bass)
"On The Fly" is a by product of a potentially cancelled gig in the
ninth hour ~ burning up the phone in the tenth ~ pulling it all
together in the eleventh ~ and kicking !@! right on time. It is the
combined talents of Aaron Mills of Cameo with Pat Madison and Post
Postlethwait of PM Bulldozer. They are "On The Fly" and off the hook.

Sunday November 29
=95 7:30P Aaron Mills Project - Sunday Night Jazz Jam
   Starting at 7:30, Open Jam at 9

If you are in any way a fan of jazz, this is not to be missed !!!
Aaron Mills, best known as the audacious bassist of classic funk act
Cameo,  has inspired a generation of groovy musicians, but his long
time love affair with jazz has inspired The Aaron Mills Project.
Aaron has been playing at the Cafe for a few months now, along with
Wayne Kee, Bobby Hinton, Warren Fraizer and others. Aaron has brought
Sunday night jazz back to the Cafe in a format that includes a cast of
regulars as well as featured guest musicians every week. Towards the
end of the evening, the night becomes an open jam, so, if anyone wants
to come blow their horn....

The Broad Street Cafe - 1116 Broad Street, Durham, 27705
www.TheBroadStreetCafe.com