9:00pm • $15 • Tickets on Eventbrite and at the door

Kurt Crandall - Music has taken Kurt throughout the United States with stops in Kansas City, Washington, D.C., Macon, Chicago, Seattle and most recently Richmond, Virginia. After living in Kansas City and touring throughout the Midwest, he moved back to the East Coast. While in D.C., he played regularly with Jesse James Brown (former bass player for Bo Diddley). After just one year in D.C., Kurt relocated to the Deep South, where he spent three years playing with the Macon Blues All-Stars which included several alumni from Otis Redding's band. Kurt left Georgia and moved to Chicago to immerse himself in the city's storied blues scene as well as travel nationally and internationally to promote his debut album - True Story. During his tenure in Chicago, he landed on the regular rotation at the House of Blues, Shaw's Crabhouse, Andy's Jazz Club, Wise Fools Pub and Smoke Daddy and played with blues heavyweights Dave Specter, Kenny Smith, Barrelhouse Chuck and Jimmy Sutton. He is currently promoting his 4th recording - STARTS ON THE STOPS - and looks forward to touring the country and abroad to promote the album.

Ed Crowley - Started by Greenbelter Ed Crowley, the band Fast Eddie and the Slowpokes first appeared at the DC Blues Society’s “7th Annual Fish Fry and Blues Show” at the American Legion in Silver Spring, and by the next year it had won the Society’s Battle of the Bands and the right to compete in the 2013 International Blues Challenge in Memphis.

More glory came in 2016 when the Slowpokes won the DC Blues Society’s “Memphis or Bust Battle of the Bands,” where they competed against 187 bands and made it to the semi-finals. (From that trip Ed remembers a “great harmonica showcase on Beale Street.”) Success in Memphis led to their performance at the Kennedy Center in March of 2017.