Blues Showcase Concert With Lee Finkelstein and Bobby Harden
The Department of Music in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences is excited to announce a featured performance in the Jim and Joyce Faulkner Performing Arts Center. The "Blues Showcase" concert will feature legendary musicians Lee Finkelstein and Bobby Harden, members of the Original Blues Brothers Band.
Finkelstein, a world-renowned drummer, known as one of the world's funkiest drummers, has toured around the globe with Tower of Power, Ben E. King, Donna Summer, and is the co-founder of the Funk Filharmonik. Harden, a noted soul/rhythm and blues singer is the lead singer of the Original Blues Brothers Band. He has toured with soul legends Solomon Burke, Eddie Floyed, Ben E. King, Robert Cray, Delbert McClinton, and Howard Tate.
The concert will also include UAMusic instructor of guitar Jake Hertzog, assistant professor of theory Joon Park on keyboards, local musician Drew Packard on bass, and several UAMusic students on vocals, guitar, and keyboards. The concert will include music by Bobby Harden, Robert Johnson, Jimi Hendrix, and more! This exciting performance is not to be missed as the University of Arkansas celebrates Black History Month with the 2018 Black Music Symposium: Shaping American Music.
Thursday, Feb. 1, at 7:30 p.m.; Faulkner Performing Arts Center
Free tickets are available at the door
Contacts
Justin R. Hunter, administrative specialist III
Department of Music
479-575-4702,
jrhunte@uark.edu
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