R.L. BOYCE MEMORIAL NYC OCT. 10 -11, 2026
BIG BLUES MANE Extravaganza, R.L. BOYCE Memorial
OCT. 10 & 11, 2026 NYC
NYC Mississippi Juke Joint Party celebrates music of NEA National Heritage Fellow Hill Country Boogie King Como Blues legend R.L. BOYCE
North Mississippi Blues workshop, Exhibit, Juke Joint Jams
SAT. OCT. 10. 2026 1PM-1AM $0 – $150
All ages
Williamsburg Music Center 367 Bedford Ave. BKLYN NY 11211
L to Bedford, JMZ to Marcy
North Mississippi Blues Workshop (Limited to 20) 1PM-5PM (4hrs.) $150
Please bring own practice amp
Tickets at Eventbrite
BIG BLUES MANE Workshop
Instruction by Modern Blues Legends
Lightnin Malcolm, R.L.’s second guitarist, and drummer of 30 years. Appears on R.L.’s Grammy nominated release Roll & Tumble, and BMAward nominated Boogie w/ R.L. BOYCE Live. Lightnin has also played and recorded with Cedric Burnside, R.L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough, Paul Wine Jones, Mississippi All Stars, and Tab Benoit.
Robert Kimbrough Sr.(CPSB), Straight outta Holly Springs Mississippi, born under the sign of the blues Robert is the youngest son of Cotton Patch Blues Legend Junior Kimbrough. Junior Kimbrough was the first person who gave RL an opportunity to plays his “style” at his Juke Joint in Chulahoma, Mississippi. Robert will share his father’s guitar techniques which creates the hypnotic sounds of Cotton Patch Soul Blues. CPSB4LIFE
Brian Hurd NYC’s premiere Blues hound, who blows a mean harp fronts super hip downtown trio Daddy Long Leggs, and Howlin’ Hurd and The House Rockers. Daddy Long Leggs is very popular in Europe, and recently returned to Australia, and toured Japan. Brian is endorsed by Hohner Harmonica.
Brother Tito Deler aka Harlem Slim Uptown sharp dressed Bluesman who plays a steel body National Resonator guitar. Drawn to the Mississippi Delta blues of Willie Brown, Son House, Skip James. Tito has played with various Mississippi bluesfolk such as R.L. Boyce, Jimmy “Duck” Holmes and Leo “Bud” Welch who have mentored and embraced him as one of their own. He has played in a few Jukes and Festivals in the South including the Bentonia Blues Festival.
Pop UP Exhibit 5PM-7PM FREE
Let’s Boogie, R.L. BOYCE Life in Pictures
A dynamic multi projector video collage presentation of R.L.’s remarkable life created by Brooklyn NY artist Amy Verdon, who was a personal friend to Rl for 10 years, and represented Mr. Boyce for the last seven years of his life. Released two CD’s, one BOOGIE w/ RL BOYCE Live, nominated for BMAward, produced the R.L. BOYCE PICNIC from 2018-2023, and nominated R.L. BOYCE for the NEA National Heritage Fellowship. She is your host for the event. Amy is FANCY! And stage banner by Detroit/ Mississippi graffiti artist Michael Carter.
JUKE JOINT JAM for the Big Blues MANE 7PM -11PM FREE
Within the Black community Juke Joints were common spaces that emerged within a space where people gathered to create good times. A place where one could leave their cares behind experience healing music in an accepting space with good food, corn liquor, where one could renew one’s self. R.L. was known for allowing anyone up to play. His improvisational simple repetitive style encourages the musician’s jam.
Special guests Harmony Love Bartz, Dave Dawson, Tucky Parkis, Ms. Slide Guitar Wendy Jean Garrison, and more.
BIG BLUES MANE Extravaganza, R.L. BOYCE Memorial
SUN OCT 11, 2026
7PM $20 (must be 21)
Tickets at BandNada
BIG BLUES MANE Juke Joint PARTY
The Gutter 200 N.14th St. BKLYN NY 11249
L to Bedford
Catch that train!
NYC MISSISSIPPI JUKE JOINT PARTY celebrating the music of Como Mississippi Blues Legend BIG BLUES MANE, R.L. BOYCE
Join us for a night of mesmerizing North Mississippi Blues. Celebrating music of Hill Country Boogie King R.L. BOYCE, who dedicated 50 years of his remarkable life playing the Blues.
We GONE2 BOOGIE!
Sharde Thomas Rising Stars Fife & Drum Band Sharde is the granddaughter of Otha Turner, R.L. Boyce’s uncle. R.L began his musical odyssey in 1970 at age 15 as a drummer in his uncle’s Fife and Drum band. Sharde carries on one of the oldest traditions of American Blues music, a Fife and Drum marching band. This style of music are the seeds of all American pop music. Sharde appears on the soundtrack to the wildly successful film “Sinners”.
New Moon Acoustic Blues New York City’s duo the powerful, who play emotional sounds of America in the early 1900s. Singer-guitarist Karl Schwarz fluent in styles growing out of the Mississippi Delta and the Piedmont, as well as traditional gospel and spirituals. David A. Barnes blows a mean harmonica, a member group Memphis Blood.
Brother Tito Deler aka Harlem Slim Uptown sharped dressed man plays Blues inspired by Son House, Fred McDowell infused with his Dominican Roots.
Howlin’ Hurd and The House Rockers Fronted by Downtown NYC Blues hound, Brian Hurd of Daddy Long Leggs who just return from a tour of Australia, and Japan. His live performances are a must see. Howlin’ Hurd is out preachin’ the Blues. Come TESTIFY!
Robert Kimbrough Sr. BluesConnection (CPSB4LIFE) The youngest son of North Mississippi Cotton Patch Blues Legend Junior Kimbrough. Get caught up in the hypnotic trance inducing sounds of Cotton Patch Soul Blues. Cotton Patch Soul Blues 4 Life!
Lightnin’ Malcolm North Mississippi Electric One Man Band who played, recorded and toured with Mr. Boyce for 30 years as his second guitarist, and drummer. Lightnin has also recorded and toured with Cedric Burnside, Mississippi All Stars, and Paul Wine Jones. The man is ELECTRIC.
LET’S BOOGIE!
Brought 2U by FANCY! & Gotham City Blues Society NYC
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