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To kick off this year\u2019s Series \u2013 from The Hammer \u2013 arguably Canada\u2019s best Soul\/Blues\/Roots male vocalist (and a damn fine songwriter too) \u2013 Harrison returns to The Cove for a fourth visit. Growing up in Hamilton the Kennedy house was always full of music thanks to his famous uncle \u2013 Jazzman Jackie Washington who would bring artists home like Lonnie Johnson, Duke Ellington and Billie Holiday when they were passing through. Harrison began his career in the late \u201860\u2019s when his dynamic vocal talent earned him a spot on the world famous Motown band \u201cChairmen Of The Board\u201d who shared the stage with artists like B.B. King, James Brown, Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder and many more.<\/p>\n
When the band broke up in the \u201870\u2019s Harrison returned to Hamilton and took a \u201creal job\u201d as a factory foreman only playing music on the side for the next couple of decades. But his love of the Blues was too powerful and in 2000 he returned to music full time with his first album \u201cSweet Taste\u201d. 7 more have followed including his most recent \u201cWho U Tellin\u2019?\u201d 4 of them were nominated for Juno Awards and he won in 2015 for \u201cThis Is From Here\u201d.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s also won 9 Hamilton Music Awards and received an astounding 38 Maple Blues Award nominations since 2005 in the categories of Male Vocalist, Acoustic Artist, Songwriter and Album Of The Year. Internationally he\u2019s been nominated 8X for American Blues Music Awards and won the prestigious French Academie Charles Cros Award in the Blues category (other winners include Buddy Guy, Doctor John and Otis Taylor).<\/p>\n
The past few years Harrison has hooked up with the great Eric Bibb and toured with him, Ruthie Foster and another Canadian talented Michael Jerome Browne wowing audiences everywhere especially in Europe where he has a huge following.<\/p>\n
Fee: $70.<\/p>\n
Date<\/strong> : Event location<\/strong> : Contact<\/strong> : Phone number: 613-273-3636<\/p>\n E-mail: thecoveinnwestport@gmail.com<\/a><\/span> – Website: www.BluesOnTheRideau.ca<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To kick off this year\u2019s Series \u2013 from The Hammer \u2013 arguably Canada\u2019s best Soul\/Blues\/Roots male vocalist (and a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,38,50,53,66,67,70],"tags":[248,1249,1714],"class_list":["post-6053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blues-on-the-rideau","category-rideau-lakes","category-the-cove","category-things-to-do","category-westport-ontario","category-westport-on","category-westport-ontario-events","tag-blues-on-the-rideau-with-harrison-kennedy-band","tag-rideau-lakes-on","tag-westport-events"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/westportontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/westportontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/westportontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/westportontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/westportontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/westportontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57897,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/westportontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6053\/revisions\/57897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/westportontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/westportontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/westportontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFriday, September 13<\/strong><\/span>, 2019 from 7-11pm<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
\nThe Cove
\n2 Bedford St.
\nWestport, Ontario K0G 1X0 Canada<\/p>\n
\nJames Doran <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n