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Popa Chubby with special guest Dana Fuchs with Dana Fuchs

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Norfolk

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Thu, May 22, 2014
Norfolk, CT
Show: 8 PM

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Public Onsale: 3/2/14 12 AM

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Blues Rock / Soul

Popa Chubby with special guest Dana Fuchs

Popa Chubby

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Artist Bio

Popa Chubby, born Ted Horowitz has been hard rocking the blues in his fierce and soulful way for more than 30 years. Over the course of a career that dates back to 1994, he has been a force of to be reckoned with on the guitar, and his tempestuous, soulful playing has never been more powerful. An imposing figure with a shaven head, tattooed arms, a goatee and a performance style he describes as “the Stooges meets Buddy Guy, Motörhead meets Muddy Waters, and Jimi Hendrix meets Robert Johnson," Popa Chubby is an endearing character who is one of the genre’s most popular figures.

His career has always been about moving forward and carving a place for himself in the imposing terrain of the music business, overcoming odds to continue growing and maturing as a creative force. He has built a constantly increasing base of fans across the world, where in many territories he is a star. A native New Yorker, Horowitz's first gigs were in the NYC punk scene as a guitarist for what he reflects was a "crazy Japanese special effects performance artist in a kimono called Screaming Mad George who had a horror-movie inspired show." Right from the start he was immersed in rock ‘n’ roll as theater, and learned from George and others playing CBGB’s at the time that included the Ramones, the Cramps, Richard Hell, whose band, the Voidoids he joined that rock ‘n’ roll should be dangerous. He reflects, "Musicians like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols weren’t just bands. They were a threat to society."

The Blues however was the foundation of his playing style. He recalls, "Since I’d grown up on Hendrix, Cream and Led Zeppelin, when I started playing blues in New York clubs I understood that the blues should be dangerous, too. It wasn’t just from playing in punk bands. Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters were dangerous men. They’d cut or shoot you if they thought it was necessary, and Little Walter packed a gun and wouldn’t hesitate to use it. That danger is a real part of the Blues and I keep it alive in my music.”

Popa Chubby is his own man for better or worse. He reflects, "I’m living in a wild time, and that is where the inspiration is drawn from. There are my issues, but the picture is much bigger than me and my situation. Everything is breaking down in the world. The lines are being redefined. We all need something.”

Dana Fuchs

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Hailed as the new Janis Joplin, even before she played the legendary rock icon in an off-Broadway musical, Dana Fuchs is a raspy-voiced blues-rock-soul singer/songwriter whose versatile career has embraced music, theater, and film. Born in New Jersey in 1976, she later moved to the small rural town of Wildwood, Florida with her musically oriented family, where, at age 12, she began singing in the First Baptist Gospel Choir. Inspired by her parents' Ray Charles and Hank Williams record collection, she moved to New York City to sing the blues after leaving high school, where she teamed up with Jon Diamond, a seasoned guitarist who had previously performed with Joan Osborne. Together, they formed the Dana Fuchs Band, which built up a reputation as one of the best live acts on the city's blues circuit, paving the way for Fuchs to land the lead role in the Eric Nederlander production of Randall Myler's Janis Joplin musical, Love, Janis.

In 2003, they released their first album, Lonely for a Lifetime, through Antler King Records, but Fuchs put the band on hold until 2008 in order to concentrate on silver screen commitments. She starred as Sadie in Julie Taymor's 2007 Beatles-based musical romantic drama Across the Universe, singing two solos ("Helter Skelter" and "Why Don't We Do It in the Road"), made a brief cameo in the 2008 ensemble piece New York, I Love You, and wrote and performed on the soundtrack to the Maggie Gyllenhaal movie, Sherrybaby. From there, she ignited performance stages all over the world’s blues-rock circuit with her burnt-honey vocal and bruisingly honest songwriting. Meanwhile, her band’s acclaimed studio catalogue grew steadily in acclaim, with 2011’s Love To Beg toasted as Classic Rock’s blues album of the month, 2013’s Bliss Avenue dubbed “blisteringly good” by the UK’s Bluesdoodles and 2015’s acoustic album, Broken Down of which AXS says, “Her spectacular voice holds up through all the intimate spaces of a bloodshot moon and the roadside exits of lost loves.” Now Blues Matters declares, “Out of darkness comes light and a reborn Dana Fuchs, armed with the album of her life, Love Lives On. New label. New city. New sound. And new horizons for an artist who deserves to realize her dizzying potential.”

"Dana Fuchs is one of the best blues singers out there...period. Her voice is phenomenal. Great, raw powerful, distinctive vocals. Love Lives On is really a terrific album...9.5 out of 10, and we don't give out a lot of 9.5's!" -Blues Rock Review. Dana is currently on her Love Lives On world tour in support of her latest Memphis soul-blues album, Love Lives On (2018 Get Along Records).