Charlie Musselwhite | Cookout Concert Series

KC TURNER PRESENTS 

CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE

+ AKI KUMAR

13th Annual COOKOUT CONCERT SERIES

HOPMONK NOVATO OUTDOOR VENUE

Sponsored by JAMBAR

MOSTLY SEATED ON GROUND LEVEL

LIMITED SEATING ON LAWN & TOP OF HILL

ALL AGES

ABOUT:

Charlie Musselwhite’s journey through the blues was from his birth in Mississippi to Memphis, Chicago and California. Arriving in Chicago in the early sixties, he was just in time for the epochal blues revival. In 1966 at the age of 22 he recorded the landmark Stand Back! to rave reviews. A precipitous relocation to San Francisco in 1967, where his album was being played on underground radio, found him welcomed into the counterculture scene around the Fillmore West as an authentic purveyor of the real deal blues. 

Fifty years of nonstop touring, performing and recording have reaped huge rewards. Charlie Musselwhite is living proof that great music only gets better with age. This man cut his (musical) teeth alongside Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf and everyone on the South side of Chicago in the early 1960’s. Thank your lucky stars that he is still with us telling the truth with a voice and harp tone like no other.

More than 20 albums later he is at the top of his game, a revered elder statesman of the blues nowhere near ready to hang up his harps, his depth of expression as a singer and an instrumentalist unexcelled and only growing deeper.

Charlie has been collaborating with the world’s finest Artists for many years, including Ben Harper, Cyndi Lauper, Eddie Vedder, Tom Waits, Bonnie Raitt, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Gov’t Mule, INXS, Mickey Hart and Japan’s Kodo Drummers, George Thorogood, Eliades Ochoa, Cat Stevens and personal friend and best man at his wedding John Lee Hooker.

Musselwhite, more than any other harmonica player of his generation, can rightfully lay claim to inheriting the mantle of many of the great harp players that came before him with music as dark as Mississippi mud and as uplifting as the blue skies of California. In an era when the term legendary gets applied to auto-tuned pop stars, this singular blues harp player, singer, songwriter and guitarist has earned and deserves to be honored as a true master of American classic vernacular music.

2019 GRAMMY Nominee NO MERCY IN THIS LAND with Ben Harper

2014 GRAMMY Winner GET UP with Ben Harper 

13-time GRAMMY Nominee

33-time Blues Music Award Winner

Many-time Living Blues Award Winner

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EVENT INFO:

Q: Is this show outdoors?

A: Yes. This event is held in HopMonk Novato's outdoor concert venue.

Q: Are kids allowed?

A: The shows are all ages. Kids need a ticket to attend. No babies in arms.

Q: Is there seating?

A: Seating is limited and is first come. You're allowed a LOW-BACK chair in the lawn section. At the top of the hillside section there is table seating that is first come. We recommend arriving at the time doors open. Some shows are open dance floor/standing room only while others are mostly seated. Varies from show to show.

Q: Is there parking?

A: Parking is free and there is plenty of it.

NO PETS

NO COOLERS

NO BACKPACKS

NO OUTSIDE FOOD

NO UMBRELLAS

NO REFUNDS | ALL SALES FINAL

Tickets: After completing your purchase on See Tickets, you will receive an email confirmation with your attached PDF ticket(s). You MUST print and bring your PDF tickets AND VALID PHOTO IDENTIFICATION to be admitted for the event. You may download the See Tickets app and show your ticket on your mobile device for entry in lieu of printing.