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Blues bash to aid ailing musician

A big lineup of area performers will sing the blues to raise greenbacks for one of their own.

By Times Staff Writer
Published February 17, 2006

NEW PORT RICHEY - A bevy of Tampa Bay area blues musicians will gather from 1 to 11 p.m. Sunday at the Bourbon Street Concert Club, 4331 U.S. 19, for a benefit concert for guitarist Damon Fowler, who was seriously injured in a December automobile accident.

Fowler, 26, who fronts the Damon Fowler Group, has been a mainstay of the Central Florida blues scene since his early teens and has released three CDs.

Since the accident, Fowler has undergone several surgeries and skin grafts on his scalp and left shoulder. Doctors have assured Fowler he eventually will be able to pursue his craft full time. However, they have cautioned him to not hurry the healing process. Concert proceeds will provide financial assistance while the musician recuperates.

The concert lineup includes Traveling North, Strange Brew, Lazy Boy and the Rockers with Julie Angel, Wendy and the Soul Shakers with Rick Curran, the Tommy McCoy Blues Combo, the Howling Buzz Blues Band, Michael Shaun Norton, the Damon Fowler Group with Roger "Hurricane" Wilson, Sarasota Slim, Shawn Brown and the Willie Lomax Blues Revue, Sean Chambers with Bo Didley Jr., Jimmy Griswold with Greg Poulos and T.C. Carr, plus the Damon Fowler Group with Ed Wright, Freight Train Annie, Rick Derringer and Fowler.

The event also will include a silent auction, hourly raffles and door prizes. Admission is $10. Children 12 and under are free. For information, call 727 843-0686, or visit www.clubbourbonstreet.com

[Last modified February 17, 2006, 02:15:35]