Uploaded March 2021 | Updated September 2026, 10 hours ago
This Q & A Session is presented for students and teachers in Northwest Michigan and beyond, as part of a partnership between the Dennos Museum Center and Ramsdell Regional Center for the Arts.
Questions:
1. Where are you originally from and how did you get into the Blues?
2. Who are some of your favorites Blues players? What are your favorite songs?
3. There are different styles of Blues music. What style(s) do you play?
4. What advice would you give to young musicians who want to learn to play and sing the Blues?
5. If you could perform with anyone alive today, who would it be and why?
Knowles first burst onto the scene in 2007 with his band Back Door Slam, garnering rave reviews, national US television appearances (Jimmy Kimmel Live, Good Morning America), extensive triple-A radio airplay, and two top 5 Billboard Blues charting albums. Since then, Knowles has independently released two more studio albums, 2014’s The Outsider and 2016’s Three Miles From Avalon, which also hit the top 5 on the Billboard Blues chart. An EP, 1932, showcasing his talents on acoustic guitar, specifically a 1932 National acoustic guitar, was released in early 2017.
The Dennos Museum Center and The Ramsdell Center for the Performing Arts present on a special Windy City Line Up this spring. Our audiences in the Northwest Lower Michigan Region are invited to join us online for two Chicago Blues performances. Watch a live recording of Davy Knowles on March 26th and Toronzo Cannon on April 9th on the Dennos Museum Center Youtube channel. Both Youtube Premieres will be streamed starting at 7:30 p.m. EST.
Both concerts are free to attend, and will be pre-streamed by a live Zoom session with each performer starting at 7:00 p.m. EST.
This engagement is supported by the Arts Midwest Touring Fund, a program of Arts Midwest that is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional contributions from Michigan Council for Arts & Cultural Affairs and the Crane Group.
Program support is also provided by Westshore Community College and Northwestern Michigan College.
This Q & A Session is presented for students and teachers in Northwest Michigan and beyond, as part of a partnership between the Dennos Museum Center and Ramsdell Regional Center for the Arts.
Questions:
1. Where are you originally from and how did you get into the Blues?
2. Who are some of your favorites Blues players? What are your favorite songs?
3. There are different styles of Blues music. What style(s) do you play?
4. What advice would you give to young musicians who want to learn to play and sing the Blues?
5. If you could perform with anyone alive today, who would it be and why?
Knowles first burst onto the scene in 2007 with his band Back Door Slam, garnering rave reviews, national US television appearances (Jimmy Kimmel Live, Good Morning America), extensive triple-A radio airplay, and two top 5 Billboard Blues charting albums. Since then, Knowles has independently released two more studio albums, 2014’s The Outsider and 2016’s Three Miles From Avalon, which also hit the top 5 on the Billboard Blues chart. An EP, 1932, showcasing his talents on acoustic guitar, specifically a 1932 National acoustic guitar, was released in early 2017.
The Dennos Museum Center and The Ramsdell Center for the Performing Arts present on a special Windy City Line Up this spring. Our audiences in the Northwest Lower Michigan Region are invited to join us online for two Chicago Blues performances. Watch a live recording of Davy Knowles on March 26th and Toronzo Cannon on April 9th on the Dennos Museum Center Youtube channel. Both Youtube Premieres will be streamed starting at 7:30 p.m. EST.
Both concerts are free to attend, and will be pre-streamed by a live Zoom session with each performer starting at 7:00 p.m. EST.
This engagement is supported by the Arts Midwest Touring Fund, a program of Arts Midwest that is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional contributions from Michigan Council for Arts & Cultural Affairs and the Crane Group.
Program support is also provided by Westshore Community College and Northwestern Michigan College.
