Shoe Suede Blues featuring Peter Tork
While Peter Tork and his Shoe Suede Blues band usually plays a few Monkees hits, its focus in concert is on traditional blues sounds, such as those on their latest CD, “Cambria Hotel.”
Throughout the past few years the band has appeared at theaters, festivals, colleges, and clubs from the east coast to the west coast, and in between. Recent tours took them to Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, and New York City. Following the f...
Shoe Suede Blues featuring Peter Tork
While Peter Tork and his Shoe Suede Blues band usually plays a few Monkees hits, its focus in concert is on traditional blues sounds, such as those on their latest CD, “Cambria Hotel.”
Throughout the past few years the band has appeared at theaters, festivals, colleges, and clubs from the east coast to the west coast, and in between. Recent tours took them to Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, and New York City. Following the first leg of a Monkees reunion tour late this past spring, Shoe Suede Blues had several dates in Germany.
Consisting of some of the most talented musicians in the United States, Shoe Suede Blues is an entertaining quartet that has audiences yearning for more.
Peter Tork
It wasn’t always the blues for Peter Tork. And it certainly wasn’t always Monkees. Long before he became a legendary part of the prefab phenomenon known as the "The Monkees," Tork was already a well-respected musician/artist in the burgeoning New York folk and blues scene. Tork’s gift for playing a plethora of instruments (bass, guitar, keyboard, banjo and French horn) generated high demand for his services as a sideman/back-up artist. Peter knocked around for several hungry years in the mid-60's, hanging and performing with the likes of John Phillips, Steven Stills, Dave Van Ronk, Van Dyke Parks and Arthur Lee, among others.
In June of 1965 Tork auditioned for what was to become a TV show called The Monkees – a band that was styled after the Beatles. Tork was selected and thus joined up what was to become a ground breaking multimedia TV project never before seen on TV centering around a zany, young, rock/pop band, four members in all.
Throughout the years since The Monkees, Tork has continued to perform as a solo act, with bands and then found a love affair with the blues in the 1990s, which ultimately turned into his current band, Shoe Suede Blues.
For booking and PR information, contact Dan Hirshberg, 908-813-8689, or email joehirsh@msn.com.
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