Thu, Jul 11
|Hot Tin Roof
(SOLD OUT) Johnny Sansone with Mel Melton & The Wicked Mojos
If you don’t already know who Johnny Sansone is, it’s high time you found out about him. Grammy Nominee, BMA Winner...world renowned harmonica and accordion player, singer/songwriter - what more could Hillsborough ask for! We will also have local favorite El Jefecito food truck onsite for the show
Time & Location
Jul 11, 2019, 8:00 PM
Hot Tin Roof, 115 W Margaret Ln, Hillsborough, NC 27278
About the event
Johnny Sansone started out early playing music. His father, a saxophonist who’d been in Dave Brubeck’s band during World War II, introduced him to the saxophone at age 8. Johnny picked up the guitar and harmonica by the time he was 10 and had a life changing experience at 12 when he saw a Howlin’ Wolf show in Florida. That was the moment the young Sansone knew he was destined to play the blues as his lifetime vocation. He sat in with Honeyboy Edwards at 13. During the 1970s Sansone studied with blues harmonica legends James Cotton and Jr. Wells. In the 1980s he toured with Ronnie Earl, John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Rodgers and Robert Lockwood Jr.
Sansone led the life of an itinerant bluesman, traveling around the country from temporary bases in Colorado, Austin, Florida and Chicago before settling down in New Orleans in 1990. As leader of Jumpin’…
Tickets
RAD Insiders - Johnny Sansone
Tickets for this show are $36 + shipping and processing fees of $4. Please add your mailing address to receive your commemorative tickets for this show!
$35.00
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