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GA-20 Album Release w/ Big Jon Short

GA-20 is a brand new Boston based electric blues trio inspired by traditional blues of the 50s and 60s.. The band features Pat Faherty on lead vocals and guitar, Matthew Stubbs (Charlie Musselwhite and Matthew Stubbs & The Antiguas) on guitar & Time Carman on drums.. GA-20 signed with Karma Cheif/Colemine Records in Oct 2018 and will be releasing a 45 & LP in 2019.

Armed with foot percussion, a National Reso-phonic Guitar and Lowebow cigar-box reso-hillharp, Big Jon Shorts high energy solo performances bring a foot-stomping show that taps into the heart of the songs, regional styles, and folklore of the Blues and its importance to American music.Based in the Northeast US, he travels and performs between 150-200 shows per year in BBQ joints, blues rooms and festivals from Massachusetts to Mississippi. With performing experience in fifteen states and five countries over the last ten years he has been able to perform at some of the best known venues for Blues music and for more than two years he held a residency at the famed Terra Blues in NYC all while continuing his work as a public school teacher, running Blues in Schools programs and workshops. In 2010 he was awarded the Worcester Cultural Commission Artist Fellowship for his work as a Blues performer and educator and he is currently supporting his most recent live recording of One-man band/Country Blues Live at The Stomping Ground.

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