(Blues) S.E. Willis & the Willing -- Bird and Beckett (& Dinner Before)

🎶 (Blues) S.E. Willis & the Willing -- Bird and Beckett (& Dinner Before) ▪︎ Listen here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pYm1Piq6aR0 ▪︎ Bird and Beckett is a small, intimate venue and seating is limited. You MUST call to reserve a spot. (415) 586-3733. ▪︎ Please bring $20 CASH(!) for the cover charge at the door. Also, please bring additional CASH for your meal(!) The restaurant will not give separate checks. ▪︎ Meet at 5:15 sharp at One Waan Thai (2922 Diamond St.) This is located one block from the Glen Park BART/MUNI Station. ▪︎ PLEASE don't be a no-show. If your plans change, remember to update your RSVP prior to the event. ▪︎ A last minute cancellation will count as a no-show. 🔆 Pianist S.E. Willis started playing music in old Route 66 towns. In 1994, he was inducted into the Arizona Blues Hall of Fame and has since received a Bay Area Music Award (Bammy) and a Blues Foundation Award for Band of the Year. He has released 10 albums of his own music and appeared on recordings with the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir, the great New Orleans drummer Zigaboo Modeliste, Elvin Bishop, and many others. He has been a featured soloist on many of the Legendary Blues Cruises and toured in Europe, North America and Japan. He has also appeared on stage with Chuck Berry, Bo Diddly, Jimmy Rogers, James Cotton, Pinetop Perkins, Albert King, George Thorogood, John Nemeth and more. Willis has dedicated his working life to preserving and advancing traditional American music, perhaps most clearly with his 2007 release “Taproot: Songs of Robert Johnson and Hank Williams” and 2014’s “Turtle Dove Bounce,” a tribute to the piano players who defined 100 years of Blues piano style, in particular Pinetop Smith, Little Brother Montgomery, Big Maceo Meriweather and Leroy Carr. His original compositions respect and advance that tradition. Willis is known for tight, high energy shows and masterful vocals and instrumentalism.