Event Start Date: | May 28, 2023 |
Event End Date: | May 28, 2023 |
Event Start Time: | 9:00 PM |
Event End Time: | 12:00 AM |
Venue: | Chelsea's Live |
Event Location: | 1010 Nicholson Dr |
City: | Baton Rouge |
Venue: | https://www.225liveevents.com/venue/detail/Chelsea's Live/1185 |
Chelsea's Live presents Jon Cleary & The Absolute Monster Gentlemen Kenny Acosta Sunday, May 28 Doors at 7PM Show at 8PM Tickets: https://bit.ly/3lSihmQ Chelsea's Live 1010 Nicholson Drive Baton Rouge, LA 18+ Jon Cleary’s love and affinity for New Orleans music goes back to the rural British village of Cranbrook, Kent, where he was raised in a musical family. Cleary’s maternal grandparents performed in London in the 1940s, under the respective stage names Sweet Dolly Daydream and Frank Neville, The Little Fellow With The Educated Feet – she as a singer, and he as a crooner and tap dancer. ��As a teen Cleary grew increasingly interested in funk-infused music and discovered that three such songs that he particularly admired – LaBelle’s “Lady Marmalade,” Robert Palmer’s version of “Sneakin’ Sally Through the Alley,” and Frankie Miller’s rendition of “Brickyard Blues” – were attributed to Allen Toussaint as either the songwriter, the producer, or both. Cleary’s knowledge of Toussaint’s work expanded significantly when his uncle returned home to the U.K., after a two-year sojourn in New Orleans, with a copy of a Toussaint LP and two suitcases full of New Orleans R&B 45s. A respected session and sideman, British blues pianist and composer Jon Cleary has worked with rock, blues, and soul artists like Bonnie Raitt, D'Angelo, Maria Muldaur, Taj Mahal, and Eric Clapton.