02/02/2025
The Gourmet Blues Concert Series is thrilled to have Marquise Knox as our next headliner. Performing for the first time in San Diego, on his birthday on February 8th
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Marquise says "The blues were passed to me through the blood" He hails from a musical family deeply rooted in the Blues. He learned how to play guitar from his grandmother Lillie. He also played with his uncle Clifford, who was a major influence in Marquise’s life. For Marquise, Blues is his heritage and way of life. He spent his early teenage years in St. Louis mentoring under the late great Blues legend, N.E.A. (National Endowment of the Arts) Heritage Fellowship recipient and Grammy Award winner Henry James Townsend. Marquise’s talents have earned him performing rights with some of America’s most notable blues performers such as blues legends B.B. King, Pinetop Perkins and David “Honeyboy” Edwards.
When you listen to Marquise, you get the sense that this is what those masters must have sounded like as young men. Marquise’s blues are so transparent and bare.raw. It’s so incredibly easy to feel his music as totally entirely legitimate. That’s above all what makes it so appealing. That’s what makes Marquise Knox special. He’s the whole complete package. A throwback blues master on the rise. Does anyone believe in reincarnation?” –
Opening for Marquise, is a longtime San Diego institution, Texas guitarist Lafayette Falkquay fronting the Lafayette Blues Band.
This is a not-to-missed rare West Coast appearance for both of these blues men. From beginning to end a night of greasy low down dirty blues.
Your soul will be spoon-fed
For tickets go to our website.
gourmetblues.com
