Tom Lavin and the Legendary Powder Blues Band

45TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR – SPECIAL FINAL PERFORMANCE!! GROSVENOR THEATRE AT THE KAY MEEK ARTS CENTRE 1700 MATHERS AVENUE – WEST VANCOUVER SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2023 – 7:30-9:30 PM For 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. Powder Blues’ debut album, ‘Uncut’, was ignored by major labels who said there was ‘no market for the blues’. Undiscouraged, the band sold it off stage and sent it to radio stations whose switchboards lit up with calls asking, ‘who’s that?’ After selling 30,000 copies in a few weeks, the same record labels competed to distribute this ‘non-commercial’ product. To date Powder Blues have sold over a million records worldwide. 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. Tom has won BCMIA awards for ‘Guitarist, Singer, Songwriter and Producer of the Year’, a Juno award for ‘Best New Band’ and the American W.C. Handy award. He has over a dozen gold, and platinum records for Powder Blues, Prism, April Wine, Long John Baldry, Amos Garrett, and many others. 2023 is the band’s 45th Anniversary. Their more than a dozen CD titles and DVDs continue to sell world-wide making Tom Lavin & the Legendary Powder Blues one of Canada’s longest-standing musical ambassadors. On Saturday, November 4th, at 7:30 pm, Tom Lavin and the Legendary Powder Blues band will wrap up their 45th anniversary tour with a special performance in the Grosvenor Theatre at the Kay Meek Arts Centre in West Vancouver. Accessible parking is available on Mathers Avenue and in the parking lot behind the theatre (located off Inglewood Avenue). Wheelchair access to the elevator is available through the Mathers Avenue entrance only. Tickets for this once in a lifetime event are available through http://www.kaymeek.com or by phone at (604) 981-6335. Ticket price: All seats – $72.50 (including $3.00 fee). Proudly presented by: Famous Artists Limited For media enquiries, please contact Kathleen Gibbs at kathleen@famousartists.ca.