PUTNEY — Twilight Music continues its 12th annual Twilight on the Tavern Lawn series of folk, world beat, rock, jazz, zydeco, Celtic, swing, blues, and bluegrass summer concerts on Sunday, June 29, with an evening of hard-driving, house-rocking, in-your-face blues by the Chris Kleeman Band.
The seven-concert series continues every other Sunday through August 24. Concerts begin at 6 p.m. downtown on the Putney Tavern lawn (bring a lawn chair or blanket) or, in the event of rain, at Next Stage at 15 Kimball Hill.
Next in the series is Philadelphia-based Americana and acoustic blues duo Beaucoup Blue on Sunday, July 13.
The Chris Kleeman Band has been called “Vermont's best-kept blues secret.” From his first record produced by B.B. King and his 2002 appearance with King at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Kleeman has kept the blues alive and well.
Kleeman's blues are multi-spectral, rolling from stinging slide guitar to deft rag-time; from the Southern styles of Mississippi John Hurt, Robert Johnson, and Blind Willie McTell all the way up that big river to the blues of Chicago and Muddy Waters and Elmore James, with the Piedmont Blues of people such as Blind Boy Fuller and Brownie McGhee thrown in for good measure.