Pikes Peak Blues Community Presents
"GOING TO MEMPHIS" !
Doors @ 7:00 PM / Show @ 8:00 PM
Tickets: $10.00 plus Ticketing Fee
Local favorite BJ Estares and Route 61 are heading to Memphis this January to represent Colorado Springs in the Internaitonal Blues Challenge!
This event is a fundraiser to support their work and to help the Pikea Peak Blues Community get them there!
The Mission of the Pikes Peak Blues Community :
The Pikes Peak Blues Community exists to enhance the vitality of Blues and American Roots Music by supporting live performance and education. We support the live performance area in our annual Paint The Town Blue summer concert series and our open to the public quarterly Jams. We support the education area with our ever developing Blues In The Schools program and by bringing in blues educators for workshops. as we did 9-28-13 featuring blues legend Bob Margolin. We are an affiliate society and are aligned with the Blues Foundation!
http://www.pikespeakblues.org

About BJ Estares and Route 61:
"Versatility is the key to success". BJ Estares and Route 61 practice this truth by performing in any format requested; Acoustic solo, duo or trio, Electric Power Trio, the standard Route 61 Electric Blues Quartet and up to 6 pieces by adding the best piano and sax players in the region. Just tell us what you need, we can make it happen! Blues Singer / Songwriter BJ "Beej" Estares sold his first song in 2005 to friend and mentor Big Jim Adam. "No Man At All" was first recorded by Jim on "Live at Jimbo's". Through the last eight years, Beej and his band, "Route 61", have experienced steady growth in popularity through versatility and creativity in the Pikes Peak Region.
Early honors include openers for The Ronnie Baker Brooks Band (solo) at the Crystola Inn and Tommy Castro at Stargazers Theatre with the Route 61 Acoustic Trio. In 2013, BJ and the Route 61 acoustic trio opened for two time IBC winner Lionel Young at Stargazers. BJ and the full Route 61 ensemble performed all original tunes from the first CD release "Full Time Student Of The Blues" at the Pikes Peak Center's Studio B Showcase in 2012 and were invited back in 2013 to perform cuts from his latest endeavor, the "all original" release "Easy Street".
A steady schedule of performances at Jack Quinn's Irish Pub, the Pike Peak Brewery and other small venues has also helped foster a wider fan base in the area.
http://www.reverbnation.com/bjestaresroute61

About the International Blue Challenge:
The Blues Foundation, is world-renowned as THE organization dedicated to preserving blues music history and celebrating recording and performance. The International Blues Challenge is the Blues Foundation's signature event that turns all of Beale Street into a four-day big blues venue for more than 120 blues acts from around the world. The 2015 International Blues Challenge will be the 31st year of Blues musicians from around the world competing for cash, prizes, and industry recognition. The world's largest gathering of Blues acts represents an international search by The Blues Foundation and its affiliated organizations for the Blues Band and Solo/Duo Blues Act ready to take their act to the international stage. Acts fill the clubs up and down Beale Street for the quarter-finals on Wednesday and Thursday, the semi-finals on Friday and the finals at the Orpheum Theater on Saturday.

http://www.bealestreet.com/international-blues-challenge.html
- See more at: http://www.stargazerstheatre.com/stargazers-theatre-event-center/ppbc-going-memphis-fundraiser#sthash.0XaT9Xne.dpuf