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CRAWDADDY CLUB RICHMOND welcomes the DAVE KELLY BAND

Dave Kelly is the founder member of The Blues Band with Paul Jones, Hughie Flint & Tom McGuinness forty three years ago. When The Blues Band started back in 1979 Dave was already a seasoned blues artist with a reputation across the world. In the early sixties he started performing acoustic, mostly Mississippi style blues, in folk clubs.
His first performance was a floor spot at The Half Moon Putney in 1964 - a session run by Gerry Lockran, Cliff Aungier & Royd Rivers. In 1966 he went to the USA and played at Gerde's Folk City in New York where he was invited to join three bands ? but declined - wonder who they were! On returning from the States he joined The John Dummer Blues Band as lead vocalist and guitarist. It was with The Dummer Band that he made two UK tours backing John Lee Hooker and one with Howlin Wolf also played with Freddie King. After leaving the JDBB late in '69 he went back to solo performing and toured and recorded with the legendary Eddie 'Son' House.

Since then he has also worked with, Buddy Guy and Junior Wells also The Allman Brothers Band as guest, as well as continuing to tour with The Blues Band He won the British Blues Awards acoustic artist of the year for five consecutive years and so is kicked up to the House of Lords and not entered any more. The Blues Band have now made their farewell tour.

More recently he has toured in acoustic duos/trios with Paul Jones, Maggie Bell, Bob Hall, Ben Waters, as well as regular tours with Christine Collister and The Travelling Gentlemen, and several with Long John Baldry back in the 90?s.

The Dave Kelly Band of course play the blues, but not exclusively, it is also a vehicle for Dave to persue his other much loved musical formats. 

The Dave Kelly band has existed sporadically since 1982 with various settled line-ups including Mick Rogers, John Irish Earle, Lou Stonebridge Steve Donnelly, Tex Comer, Ed Deane, Pick Withers, Marcus Cliffe, Pete Emery, Peter Filleul to name a few.

The current band is a five piece:
Pete Emery lead guitar 
Lou Stonebridge keyboards and vocals
Sam Kelly drums and vocals
Homer Kelly-Tarrant bass guitar and vocals