Born October 16, 1948 in Dallas Texas, Andrew began his professional career at age 16 playing with Freddie King’s backing band, the Thunderbirds. In 1967 Jones join R&B, soul singer Bobby Patterson and the Mustangs. They signed with Abnak Records and recorded several 45 singles on the Jet Star label. During this time he saw and met session guitar great Cornell Dupree. Dupree use to sit in with Jones and the other musicians on Andrew’s local area gigs.

In 1973 blues great Freddie King asked Jones to join his band again. In the 80’s Andrew was working with local artist R.L. Griffin, and also R&B singing great Johnny Taylor. In late 1987 Andrew went to California to join Russell Jackson, and Tony Coleman as the Silent Partners. Jackson and Coleman are both known for their work with B.B. King. In mid 1988 Jones along with Jackson and Coleman recorded with Katie Webster on her critically praised Alligator Records album, (Swamp Boogie Queen). In late 1989 Andrew and Charlie Musselwhite were recording on Sonny Rhodes album, and they hit it off. Later Musselwhite talked to Jones about starting a band with Jones in it. In the early to mid 1990’s they recorded three albums together: (Ace of Harps), (Signature), and (In My Time). Andrew co-wrote two songs with Mussewhite, River Hip Mama, on (Ace of Harps), and It’s Getting Warm In Here, on Signature. The band won a W.C. Handy award for best band in 1995.

Andrew returned to Dallas in 1996 and later that year signed and recorded his first CD for J.S.P. Records, (I Need Time). In 1998, Rounder Records released Andrew’s second CD, (Watch What You Say), and was also nominated for a W.C. Handy award for best new blues artist. In 2001, Andrew’s third CD, (Mr. Domestic) was released on his own label Galexc Records. In 2005, Andrew signed and recorded his fourth and his first live CD, (Jr. Boy Live). In 2009, Andrew signed with Electro-Fi Records, and released his fifth CD, (Gettin’ Real). Andrew thinks that this is some of his best writing to date. The multitude of rave reviews may indicate that the critics agree.

“A Stunningly Accomplished Blues Guitarist” –LIVING BLUES
“Slow Burning Guitar with Emotion Filled Vocals” – BLUES ON STAGE

Thanks to the TBS sponsors, without whom The 9th annual TBS blues series would be impossible: The Mortgage Makers, The Sackville Save Easy, The Sackville Tribue Post, Ove Samuelson Law Office, George’s Roadhouse, Rod Allen Co. Ltd., the Marshlands Inn, The Argosy and CHMA.

For more on the band please visit: http://www.myspace.com/andrewjrboyjones
For our website, please visit: http://www.mta.ca/tbs
For our out of town friends, you can buy your tickets by phone by calling Ducky’s at (506)536-1344.

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On her way to Macedonia, Johansen will be stopping over in Vienna, Austria, for the launch of her latest book, The Shadow Road, the conclusion to her Warlocks of Talverdin quartet. The first book in this fantasy series for teens, Nightwalker, was included in VOYA’s Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror List 2007, was an Ontario Library Association Top Ten Best Bets book for 2007, and was also the winner of the 2008 Ann Connor Brimer Award.

For more information on the tour or Johansen’s works, please visit her website at: www.pippin.ca.

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Sherry Smith (left) and Marguerite McNeill in a scene from Dan McIvor’s Confession, playing at Live Bait Theatre in Sackville NB, Oct. 15-17.

Confession, last year’s new play by award–winning Canadian dramatist Dan McIvor, opens a whirlwind 3-day run at Sackville’s Live Bait Theatre tonight at 8 pm.

“This is the second in our October mini-series of three fresh, exciting, Maritime plays,” explains Live Bait’s Artistic Director, Karen Valanne.  “Sheldon Currie’s touching comedy, Lauchie, Liza and Rory, played to enthusiastic playgoers from across the central Maritimes at the beginning of the month and we fully expect that trend to continue.”

Confession has been described as a play about who we were, who we are and what we will become. The action takes place both in the present moment and in the past memories of three characters who, by sharing their secrets, discover how much alike they really are: Kit, the daughter, outspoken, funny and rebellious at 21; Kath, the mother, somewhat sardonic and bitter in her 40’s; and Kitty, the old lady who tries to piece together the puzzle that is her life by finding a way to confess her greatest failing.

The script combines monologues delivered to the audience and dialogue between the characters as they struggle to know the story they share and how they will tell it. In the end it is the unity of these three very different women, the coming together of their diverging voices, that reveals the truth about them.

Interpreting the roles are three talented performers: the luminous Margaret Smith as Kit; Shaw Festival veteran Sherry Smith as Kath; and the internationally recognized film and stage actress, Marguerite McNeil, as Kitty.

Confession is a Mulgrave Road Theatre production, directed by Ann-Marie Kerr and designed by Andrew Murray and Ingrid Risk.  The Guysborough NS company commissioned McIvor to write the work, which he has revised extensively since its premiere in the fall of 2008.  After the Sackville engagement, October 15-17, the tour will continue to Sydney and Halifax.

Further information and reservations may be obtained by calling the Live Bait Theatre box office at (506) 536-2248.

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