The 23rd annual Concert on the Green, featuring Tom Lavin & The Powder Blues and opening with Gabriola’s own Road Poets promises to be the event of the year.
For over four decades Powder Blues has been Canada’s leading blues band. The mix of Swing, Blues, Jazz, Rock & Roll and Rythm & Blues 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.