13th Almost Annual Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival - Concert Review - Stilladog - Guest writer
This year’s festival started off under partly cloudy skies with Patty Reese rendering an acapella version of the Star Spangled Banner . As she sang you could gaze out over the Chesapeake Bay and imagine, as I did, the British warships heading back out to sea after failing to capture Fort McHenry. Then a moment of silence was observed for the passing of BB King. The festival kicked off with the Marcus King Band followed by a female band of local DC musicians put together specifically for this performance called the Sisterhood of Soul . Then a last minute substitute band, The Record Company , replacing the previously booked Davy Knowles. The highlight of these opening acts, in fact one of the true high points of the whole festival, was the performance turned in by Little Margie Clark of Sisterhood of Soul. The little old lady (formerly of the 60s group The Jewels) packed a powerful voice. And when she ad libbed some serious scat she blew the lid off t...