Center for Southern Folklore - Brown Bag Lunch Concert: The Bourbones

The music is FREE and you can bring your own lunch or buy ours - every Thursday & Friday 12-1 !

The Bourbones features four of the hardest rocking young blues musicians that ever came out of the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. They were one of the "hot picks" in the Kansas City Blues News, which led to their being recorded by Memphis journalist turned musician William Lee Ellis at their last appearance at the Center for Southern Folklore in April, 2008. In the past year or so, they've played shows throughout America's heartland including performances in Kansas City, St. Louis, and the Juke Joint Festival in Clarksdale, MS, where they played with Jimbo Mathus. One of their proudest achievements was being asked to play at Morgan Freeman's legendary blues club, Ground Zero. Blues historian Tom Gary describes their guitar sound as "not having heard tone like that since the sound of "Tone King" amps in the early 1990s." The modern day sound of the Bourbones is revered by their fellow musicians for having the same raw, slightly unrefined tone and spongy feel of these genuine 40-year old vintage amps.

What's for lunch? Local and Touring Single/Duo/Group Acts will Perform Blues, Soul, Rockabilly, Bluegrass, Jazz, and Folk - just come by and find out who's playing.