Name: An Evening with David Vest & Friends @ Sports View Lounge - Oak Bay Recreation Centre - Oct 04, 2024
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An Evening with David Vest & Friends

An evening with the legendary David Vest

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Music Jazz / Blues

Fri. October 4th 2024 + Add to Calendar

Sports View Lounge - Oak Bay Recreation Centre

7:30pm - 10:00pm

$34.94

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David Vest

Blues/jazz/boogie-woogie from Victoria BC

Available for Shows/Gigs

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Beacon Ridge Productions

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2560 Vista Bay Road, Victoria, BC Victoria BC

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They don't make them as real as David Vest anymore. The son of an Alabama sharecropper, the longtime Victoria BC resident is still going strong 50 years after he first stepped on stage with the likes of Big Joe Turner. Long revered as one of the great boogie-woogie piano players, Vest is a six-time winner of Canada's national Maple Blues Award for Piano Player of the Year.

He is also a prolific songwriter. He wrote the first songs ever recorded by Tammy Wynette, and his tunes have been covered by artists ranging from Paul deLay to the legendary Downchild Blues Band, whose cover of Vest's "Worried About The World" gave Downchild their first number one song (Roots Music Report blues song chart).

Although he now lives in Canada, David Vest is an authentic, Southern-bred boogie-woogie pia...no player, blues shouter and world-class entertainer. Some say he is the real deal. He is one of a kind, one of the greatest living boogie-woogie pianists.

Born in Huntsville, Alabama in 1943, David grew up in Birmingham near Tuxedo Junction. He played his first paying gig in 1957, and by the time he opened for Roy Orbison on New Year’s Day 1962, he was a seasoned veteran of Gulf Coast roadhouses and honky-tonks. At the age of 17, David went on tour with Jerry Woodard and the Esquires, some of whom later became key members of the Muscle Shoals Swampers. He jammed with Ace Cannon, Bill Black’s Combo and the Jimmy Dorsey Band in clubs along the Florida Panhandle, where fellow Alabaman James Harman would soon make his mark.

He had seen Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash by 1958. He saw Bo Diddley, Jimmy Reed, and John Lee Hooker in the prime of their careers. About the time he turned 21 he found himself onstage with Big Joe Turner, who said that David Vest’s playing made him feel like he was back in Kansas City. His first recording featured the last song written by Alton Delmore. David himself wrote the first songs recorded by Tammy Wynette, as detailed in her recent bio. He also dated a sister of the Louvin Brothers, toured with Faron Young (who threatened to kill him), backed Red Foley in a show where all the stars got robbed, worked in a theatre with Fannie Flagg and became the first American artist to record in Romania. David received the "direct laying on of hands" from Texas piano legends like Big Walter The Thunderbird, Katie Webster and Floyd Dixon. He toured with Jimmy T99 Nelson and Miss Lavelle White, when he wasn’t jamming with Arnett Cobb, Milt Larkin, Jimmy Ford and Straight No Chaser in Houston.

From 2002 through 2006, he was co-leader of the Paul deLay Band, reaching the Top Ten on Billboard's national blues chart with The Last of the Best. David's many festival appearances under his own banner or with other artists include VanIsle Music Fest, Bumbershoot, King Biscuit, Waterfront (Portland), Winthrop, Edmonton, Calgary, Tremblant, Trois-Rivières, Harvest Jazz and Blues, Baltimore Blues Fest, Houston Juneteenth, Ritzville and New Orleans Jazzfest.

Time has done little to diminish David's energy, skill and creative drive. He has said that he intends to continue performing "as long as the flavour lasts." Whether working solo or with his band, or appearing in spectacular "pianorama" shows, he continues to bring audiences to their feet and to demonstrate why he has been called “one of the greatest living boogie-woogie piano players.”

The Upstairs Lounge is a licensed restaurant and bar, doors open at 6 pm for dinner service, the concert starts at 7:30 pm. show more

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Sports View Lounge - Oak Bay Recreation Centre

1975 Bee Street

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