South Sound Blues Association Holiday Party and celebration of TWENTY YEARS of the South Sound Blues Association, at the Spanish Ballroom.

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This year’s Holiday Party will also be a celebration of the 20th anniversary of the South Sound Blues Association. To honor this occasion, the event will begin with an All-Star jam featuring musicians who have played a significant role in the South Sound blues scene over the past two decades. It will be an exciting opportunity to hear many of the area’s leading musicians, most of whom front their own bands, spontaneously making music together.

Featured musical guests: The Coyote Kings!

Since 2006 Blues rockers, Coyote Kings, have been performing and recording, winning awards, collecting rave reviews, and playing to enthusiastic audiences and devoted fans. With five albums released and one on the way, “That little ‘ol band from Walla Walla” has established themselves as a musical force in the Northwest and World-wide.

In 2014 vocalist, Michelle “Mush” Morgan, and drummer, Curtis Johnson, left for other pursuits. The band was reborn as Robin Barrett and Coyote Kings, with Robin’s writing, singing, and sometimes blistering (but always tasty) guitar work fronting the band and Kit Kuhlmann on bass and Gordon Townsend-Farr laying down the groove.

Coyote Kings’ Tiphony Dames & Robin Barrett

Robin Barrett and Coyote Kings received the 2014 Empire Award for “Best Blues Band” and Robin for “Best Blues Guitarist.”Following their 2013 award winning 4th album, “Nasty Habits & Dirty Little Secrets,” RBnCK’s latest CD “Howl,” has won the 2015 Empire Award for “Best Blues CD!”  http://coyotekings.com/bio