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The return of Blind Boy Paxton
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MONDAY 6th MARCH 2017
THE RETURN OF BLIND BOY PAXTON
Wednesday 5th April – Christchurch at Blue Smoke Tickets through undertheradar
Thursday 6th April – Auckland at The Tuning Fork Tickets http://www.ticketmaster.co.nz/event/2400525CD53622AA
Blind Boy Paxton returns to NZ for two shows in April.
Blind Boy Paxton is a modern day songster, minstrel and bluesman. His name is Jerron (say Jer-Ron as in Geronimo) but you call him Blind Boy. Blind Boy Paxton is the living embodiment of the true blues in the twenty-first century, but plays it all in the true songster tradition: ragtime, hokum, old time, French reels, Appalachian mountain music, blues and lots more.
The multi faceted, physically gigantic, three hundred pound, legally blind, orthodox Jew is only in his late twenties but has earned a reputation for transporting audiences back to the 1920s and making them wish they could stay. He sings and plays the banjo, guitar, piano, fiddle, harmonica, Cajun accordion, and the bones. He has the eerie ability to transform traditional jazz, blues, folk, and country into the here and now, and make it real.
Jerron says “Believe me, the blues is not some half-dead thing hooked up to a respirator. It’s as relevant now as it ever was. Hip Hop is just a newer form of my people’s expression, and the blues is an older one. Ain’t nothing new under the sun. The roots of the tree don’t cast no shadow, but they hold up everything above.”
He can mesmerise audiences with his humour and story-telling . Not only wowing local audiences last year he also took time to charm the local media
Kim Hill on Radio NZ … http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/201791995/jerron-'blind-boy'-paxton-bringing-back-the-past
Performing for TVNZ under a Brown’s Bay walnut tree http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2016/03/blind-boy-paxton-blues-music-staunchest-champion.html
as well as an interesting chat with Grant Smithies http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/music/77413774/jerron-blind-boy-paxton-talks-about-the-roots-of-the-blues
https://www.facebook.com/JerronBlindBoyPaxton/
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