B. B. Kings Blues Club Announces Their Upcoming Schedule Of Events
By: Gabrielle Sierra Oct. 13, 2010
B.B. King Blues Club & Grill is located at 237 West 42nd Street (between 7th and 8th Avenues) New York, NY 10036
Tickets may be purchased via Ticketmaster - www.ticketmaster.com / 1-800-745-3000 or at the B.B. King's Box Office: 10:30am - Midnight ($2 per ticket service charge)
We are a full-scale restaurant. Our menu is American Continental with a Southern flair. We also have a full bar with all premier liquors and domestic and international cold beer. You can have the option of eating in Lucille's Grill next door, or you can eat while watching a show. We serve a full menu at all of our concerts. A $10 food and/or beverage minimum is standard for table seating during shows.
Unless otherwise noted, all shows are suitable for all ages and offer general admission seating. Seating for all shows is first come, first seated; we do not take advance table reservations, except where noted as a condition of a VIP ticket. Standing room for all shows is available at our bar.
For further show information, directions to the venue and for the latest updates visit us on the web at www.bbkingblues.com or call 212-997-4144.
All events are subject to change.
NEW SHOWS JUST ADDED
R&B NIGHTS w/ SWV's COKOSun. Nov. 14
* Tix on sale NOW!A Tribute To U2
BEAUTIFUL DAY
Fri. Jan. 21
* Tix on sale NOW!
NYE LATE NITE PARTY
THE NEW DEAL
Fri. Dec. 31
* Tix on sale Oct. 15 @ 10AM
Original IRON MAIDEN Vocalist
PAUL DIANNO
Tue. Dec. 21
* Tix on sale Oct. 15 @ 10AM
RAHEEM DEVAUGHN
Mon. Nov. 29
* Tix on sale Oct. 15 @ 1PMHoliday Matinee Freak Show
CONEY ISLAND CIRCUS SIDESHOW
Thur. Dec. 30
* Tix on sale Oct. 20 @ 10AMNEW SHOWS COMING UP
CMJ Showcase
La La Brooks of THE CRYSTALS
& PAULA VALSTEIN
Wed. Oct. 20
Former American Idol
Tue. Nov. 9
A Tribute To QUEEN
CELEBRATING QUEEN
Sun. Nov. 21
COCO MONTOYA
Mon. Nov. 22
& PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC
Fri. Dec. 3
BIG BAD VOODOO DADDY
Mon. Jan. 10
GUNS N' ROSES Tribute
APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION
Fri. Jan. 14
Bob Marley Birthday Bash
CANNABIS CUP REGGEAE BAND
Sat. Feb. 5 - 2 Shows!
FREE LIVE MUSIC NIGHTLY - 8PM - AT LUCILLE'S BAR & GRILL
(Located right next door inside B.B. Kings)
FREE AFTERWORK SALSA ON THE SQUARE
Every Thursday!
We have a great rotating cast of live bands performing daily.
For the complete Lucille's schedule:
http://www.bbkingblues.com/lucilles/index.shtml
For the Complete Schedule to Date, please visit:
http://www.bbkingblues.com/schedule/index.shtml
SCHEDULE TO DATE
EVERY SATURDAY:
BEATLES BRUNCH
STRAWBERRY FIELDS
EVERY SUNDAY:
GOSPEL BRUNCH
Harlem Gospel Choir
Oct 14 "Our Latin Thing" Fania All-Star Tribute
Oct 15 Dionne Warwick
Oct 16 Air Supply (Early & Late Show)
Oct 17 International House of Metal - Has Been Moved To THE STUDIO at WEBSTER HALL
Oct 18 Forever Ray - A Tribute To Ray Charles
Oct 19 Carl Palmer Band
Oct 20 La La Brooks from THE CRYSTALS & PAULA VALSTEIN (Early)
Oct 20 Hip Hop Legends: Pete Rock, CL Smooth, Brand Nubian & Das Efx (Late)
Oct 22 Raul Malo (Early)
10/22 GHOSTFACE KILLAH (WU TANG CLAN) (Late)
Oct 23 The Foreign Exchange
Oct 24 PAUL BRADY & MAURA O'CONNELL
Oct 25 ERIC BURDON & THE ANIMALS
Oct 26 The Tubes w/Fee Waybill (Early)
Oct 26 Joe Budden & Friends (Late)
Oct 27 The Watch Plays Genesis
Oct 28 Average White Band
Oct 29 The Toasters & The Pietasters
Oct 30 The Whispers
Oct 31 GONG SHOW LIVE
Nov 1 PROJECT/OBJECT Featuring Ike Willis & Ray White Perform the Music of Frank Zappa
Nov 2 THE MOTH
Nov 3 ROBERT CRAY BAND
Nov 4 HOT RIZE featuring Tim O'Brien
Nov 5 Frank Marino & MAHOGANY RUSH
Nov 6 BASIA
Nov 7 Ralph Stanley & His Clinch Mountain Boys
Nov 8 Rockers On Broadway
Nov 9 American Idol's Jason Castro
Nov 11 THE MOTH GRANDSLAM XVII
Nov 12 ASIA featuring John Payne - UNPLUGGED (Early)
Nov 12 SLICK RICK (Late)
Nov 13 Shelly Garrett‘s Beauty Shop
Nov 16 HUBERT SUMLIN "Howlin For Hubert"
Nov 17 PETER ROWAN, THE STEEP CANYON RANGERS
Featuring ELIZABETH COOK
Nov 18 EDDIE MONEY
Nov 19 WILL DOWNING
Nov 20 Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes
Nov 20 G13 Post Furthur Fest Shows
Nov 21 G13 Post Furthur Fest Shows
Nov 21 CELEBRATING QUEEN
Nov 22 COCO MONTOYA
Nov 23 Bruce Springsteen Tribute - B STREET BAND
Nov 24 "Our Latin Thing" Fania All-Stars Tribute
Nov 24 Strawberry Fields 12PM
Nov 25 Strawberry Fields - The Ultimate Beatles Tribute
Nov 26 Groove Buffet - Matinee Show
Nov 26 Classic Albums Tribute - Traffic, Led Zeppelin, & CSNY
Nov 26 Hindenberg - Led Zeppelin Tribute
Nov 27 Jimi Hendrix TRIBUTE
Nov 28 JEFFREY OSBORNE (rescheduled)
Nov 29 RAHEEM DEVAUGHN
Nov 30 GIL SCOTT-HERON (Produced by Jill Newman Productions)
Dec 3 George Clinton & P-FUNK ALL-STARS
Dec 4 A Peter White Christmas featuring Peter White, Mindi Abair, & Rick Braun
Dec 5 THE MARSHALL TUCKER BAND
Dec 8 Strawberry Fields
Dec 11 A Charlie Brown Christmas with David Benoit
Dec 12 BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA w/ Ruthie Foster
Dec 17 Ronnie Spector XMAS SHOW
Dec 21 PAUL DIANNO - The Original Voice of IRON MAIDEN
Dec 23 A Jazz Nativity
Dec 24 A Tribute to the Beatles - Strawberry Fields
Dec 26 SCHOOL OF ROCK PLAYS - PINK FLOYD'S WALL
Dec 27 BADFISH - TRIBUTE TO SUBLIME
Dec 28 BADFISH - TRIBUTE TO SUBLIME
Dec 29 The Machine - Pink Floyd Tribute
Dec 30 The Machine - Pink Floyd Tribute
Dec 31 Chuck Berry New Years Eve - 2 shows!
Dec 31 THE NEW DEAL (Late Night Show)
Jan 1 BIG SHOT - TRIBUTE TO Billy Joel
Jan 2 MEMORIES OF ELVIS
Jan 4 Johnny Winter Residency
Jan 10 Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Jan 11 Johnny Winter Residency
Jan 14 GNR Tribute - APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION
Jan 15 The Smithereens
Jan 16 Mother's Finest
Jan 17 Harlem Gospel Choir MLK MATINEE SHOW
Jan 18 Johnny Winter Residency
Jan 19 ROLLING STONE TRIBUTE
Jan 21 U2 Tribute - Beautiful Day
Jan 23 WATKINS GLEN REVISITED
Jan 25 Johnny Winter Residency
Jan 29 BOBBY CALDWELL
Jan 30 Back to the 60s - featuring the lead singers of The Outsiders, The Buckinghams, Climax, The Cuff Links and The Archies
Feb 4 BUCKWHEAT ZYDECO
Feb 5 CANNABIS CUP BAND - Bob Marley B-DAY CELEBRATION (2 Shows including early matinee)
Feb 10 Tramps Like Us - Bruce Springsteen Tribute
Feb 14 BUCKWHEAT ZYDECO
Feb 24 George HarrisON TRIBUTE
Mar 5 Oleta Adams
Mar 27 Gagathon - A Lady Gaga Birthday Tribute w/
RAD BROMANCE & Corn Mo
April 1 "Clapton is Godfrey"
Eric Clapton Birthday Tribute
April 6 HABIBE KOITE
April 16 THE GOOD RATS (Early & Late)
April 30 JON ANDERSON - THE VOICE OF YES
May 30 Bob Dylan Birthday Bash - Highway 61 Revisited
The following are the complete and current upcoming event listings for
OCTOBER 25 - 31
at B.B. King Blues Club and Grill, NYC
NYC's Longest Running Beatles Show
STRAWBERRY FIELDS
featuring former members of Broadway's BEATLEMANIA
Doors: 11am - Show: 12pm
Ticket includes All-You-Can-Eat-Buffet, Show, Tax and Tip
$40 adv, $42.50 door
STRAWBERRY FIELDS is a look-a-like, sound-a-like Beatles tribute,
dedicated to bringing you as close to a real Beatles concert as you can get.
They take you on a Magical Mystery Tour beginning in 1964 complete with
mop top hair, black suits with thin ties & the 1st four albums of music. Next
stop, 1967, features the psychedelic era of "Sergeant Pepper Lonely Hearts
Club Band" album with all the costumes & jackets on the album cover. The
last stop includes: "White Album", "Abbey Road" & "Let It Be".BUFFET MENU: http://www.bbkingblues.com/brunch/index.shtml
EVERY SUNDAY AFTERNOON, join us for GOSPEL BRUNCH
THE WORLD FAMOUS Harlem Gospel Choir
Get your dose of the Holy Ghost!
Ticket includes All-You-Can-Eat-Buffet, Show, Tax and Tip
Doors: 12:30pm - Show: 1:30pm
$40 adv, $42.50 door
Every Sunday, for the past 9 years, the world fam
ous Harlem Gospel Choir has brought their experience of Harlem & the Black Church to BB King's in a foot-stomping, hand-clapping, joyous gospel brunch-buffet show. The homestyle "all you can eat" southern buffet is guaranteed to fill the hole in your soul, and the Choir's joyous performance will have you dancing on the stage.BUFFET MENU: http://www.bbkingblues.com/brunch/index.shtml
Monday, October 25
DATE CHANGE - PLEASE CONTACT PLACE OF PURCHASE FOR TICKET EXCHANGE OR REFUND
ERIC BURDON & THE ANIMALS
Doors 6PM, Show 8PM
$35.0 Adv, $40.00 Day
* General admission seated show - First come, first seated - Standing room at the bar.
Reserved VIP booths on floor available for 4 and 6 people - $55.00 per ticket - Must buy entire booth. A booth for 4 people costs $220 - A booth for 6 people costs $330
One of the seminal figures of the 1960s British Invasion during his tenure with The Animals and in the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame, legendary singer Eric Burdon has charted with 25 Top 40 hits including classics like:
"HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN"
"IT'S MY LIFE"
"DON'T LET ME BE MISUNDERSTOOD"
"WE GOTTA GET OUT OF THIS PLACE"
"SPILL THE WINE"
Eric Burdon's life has been a musical journey matched by few other performers in rock music history. He has gone from the driving force of the grittiest British Invasion band, to pioneering the San Francisco psychedelic rock scene, to fronting WAR - the biggest funk band of the 1970's, to cutting an LP with an early influence, jazz-blues great Jimmy Witherspoon, to coming full-circle and reuniting his original band, The Animals, for a series of projects and a world-wide tour, to forming a New Group of Animals and releasing a series of live CD�s and a recent DVD concert.
THE TUBES Featuring FEE WAYBILL
Featuring:
Fee Waybill: Lead Vocals
Roger Steen: Lead Guitar/Vox
Rick Anderson: Bass
Prairie Prince: Drums
David Medd: Keyboards/Vox
Doors 6PM, Show 8PM
$20.00 Advance, $25.00 Day of Show
* General admission seated show - first come, first seated - Standing room at bar
* Reserved VIP booths on floor avail for 4+6 people - $40/ticket - Must buy entire booth. Booth for 4 = $160 - Booth for 6 = $240
The Tubes will go down in the rock history books as one of the most exciting, in-your-face tight-knit group of musicians who epitomised the hilarity of popular American culture by making it into a the ultimate rock n roll extravaganza. Their live shows involvEd Mock bondage rituals, simulated sex, 12-foot high rock stars by the name of Quay Lude singing ‘White Punks On Dopeâ€TM, exploding televisions, chainsaws and an array of semi-clad dancers. Some say they were about 15 years ahead of Madonna, and light years ahead of the politically correct. Tuesday, October 26 (Late)
JOE BUDDEN & Friends
Event Page: http://www.bbkingblues.com/schedule/moreinfo.cgi?id=5195
Doors @ 10PM, Show 11PM
$20 Adv, $25 Day
VIP tickets avaible @ $100 each and include a meet and greet, autographed Poster, CD, and a T-Shirt.
Standing Room Only - All Ages
Winner of the 2003 Vibe Next Award, Joe Budden has released consecutively the legendary and still unrivaled Mood Musik 2: Can It Get Any Worse? (2005), the critically acclaimed Mood Musik 3: For Better or For Worse (2007) and Mood Musik 3: The Album (2008). One of the most consistent artists to date, his matchless lyrical artistry continues to garner him worldwide respect and success in such places as Europe, Africa and Asia. Known as a purist, an intelligent artist, and a non-conformist, Joe Budden is a verbal straight shooter always keeping his musical storytelling honest and true to life; placing him in an elite league with other hip-hop artists such as Lupe Fiasco, Kanye West, Common and Jay-Z.
In the tradition of Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart, the Tubes were one of the first bands to write and perform songs in a head-on theatrical onslaught. They simply didnâ€TMt entertain, they shocked audiences into submission. The Tubes were one of the pioneers of the rock video years before MTV became a household name, and used the medium in their early performances. The band tapped into the American zeitgeist and ridiculed its materialistic values, superficial advertising methods, took a poke at religious fundamentalists and often questioned sexual taboos. They took popular culture by the scruff of the neck, turned it upside down, and made it into entertainment. Wednesday, October 27
BLUE SHOW: The Complete Foxtrot album performed plus extras from very early GENESIS production and unreleased material
THE WATCH PLAYS GENESIS
Doors 6PM, Show 8PM
$17 Advance, $22 Day of Show
Reserved VIP booths on floor available for 4 and 6 people - $35 per ticket - Must buy entire booth. A booth for 4 people costs $140 - A booth for 6 people costs $210
The Watch are an early-Genesis tribute band who also record their own material. Billed as The Blue Show - the Foxtrot album - they start with acoustic-based songs and build the tension as they add more powerful numbers. Exactly the way Genesis themselves used to do it around 1970/71.
These guys really knew their subject, with singer Simone Rossetti sounding exactly like Peter Gabriel. As they moved into the powerful numbers such as Time Table and Can Utility and the Coastliners, you could feel the atmosphere build. By the time we got Musical Box and In the Cage, the band were feeding off a rapturous reception.
Guitarist Giorgio Gabriel (his real name!) managed a beautiful rendition of StEve Hackett's classical solo piece Horizons, made all the more captivating by playing it on 12-string.
Performing everything from Foxtrot could only mean one thing - the highlight of the evening would be Supper's Ready. It was flawless: absolutely stunning. Tears flowed. Like most of the audience I've seen all the Genesis tribute bands of the last few years, including the technically brilliant but slightly soulless Musical Box. No-one outwith Genesis themselves has played this song better. I would dare to say they were the best tribute band, Genesis or otherwise, I've ever seen.
From rockradio UK Thursday, October 28
AVERAGE WHITE BAND
Doors 6PM, Show 8PM
$25.00 Advance, $30.00 Day of Show
* General admission seated show - first come, first seated - Standing room at bar
* Reserved VIP booths on floor avail for 4 and 6 people - $45 per ticket - Must buy entire booth. A booth for 4 = $180 - A booth for 6 = $270
A bunch of white boys from Scotland playing deep house 70's funk was and is anything but average. The bands self-titled debut topped the American pop charts with the instrumental "Pick Up the Pieces," which was also later nominated for a Grammy.
"Person To Person", "Cut the Cake", "Schoolboy Crush", "If I Ever Lose This Heaven", "Cloudy", "Queen of My Soul", and "Let's Go 'Round Again" became some of the band's most well-known tunes from their mid-late '70's heyday.
In the '90's, AWB's timeless grooves have been sampled by some of the biggest names in the hip-hop, rap, and acid jazz worlds, confirming without a doubt the strong impression the band has made on a new generation. Young bands such as Jamiroquai and Brand New Heavies cite AWB as a major influence. Friday, October 29
THE TOASTERS + THE PIETASTERS
Featuring Special Guest Openers:
Hub City Stompers
Royal City Riot
+ More TBA
Doors 6PM, Show 6:30PM
$15.00 Advance, $17.00 Day of Show
Standing Room Only - All Ages
The Toasters, are "Ska Pioneers" (Billboard magazine) and boldly go where no ska band has gone before. Having been compared to the Ramones, due to their longevity and adherence to core principles, the Toasters are held to be one of most influential ska bands out there. Their lean, mean ska machine has galvanized audiences and musicians alike with their embrace of the Jamaica-born pop music style that overwhelmed England in the 1960's, migrated to America in the early 1980s, and went global in the 1990s. The hallmark Toasters sound sits at the nexus of Reggae, Jazz, Punk and Soul and is the musical equivalent of a brass knuckle-duster.
Saturday, October 30 - 2 Shows!
One of R&B music's most beloved and consistently popular vocal groups
THE WHISPERS
Shows Times: 7:30PM & 10PM
$40.00 Advance, $45.00 Day of Show
* General Admission Seating - First come, first seated
Reserved VIP booths on floor avail for 4 + 6 people - $60 per ticket - Must buy entire booth. A booth for 4 = $240 - A booth for 6 = $360
The Whispers, began their legendary and timeless career in 1963, producing a string of hits over the last four decades. The Whispers emerged as the leading romantic singers of their generation, racking up one gold album after another and charting numerous R&B hits. The Whispers are arguably the most celebrated R&B balladeers of their generation and still make women swoon with their silky yet forceful tenors of twins Walter and Scotty. In the new millennium The Whispers still perform around the world to thousands of loyal fans. The Whispers have not made any personnel changes and still consists of Walter Scott, Wallace Scott, Nicholas Caldwell, and Leaveil Degree. The Whispers are one of only a few old school groups that can boast of having over 40 years in the industry with a worldwide fan base, maintaining their vocal dominance and original members.
Sunday, October 31
THE GONG SHOW LIVE - Halloween Party!
Featuring Host: Comedian Ray Ellin
Judges: Comedian Chuck Nice, The Radiochick Leslie Gold + Dan Naturman
+ The Gong Show orchestra led by Sandy Gennaro
Doors @ 6PM, Show @ 8PM
$20.00 Advance, $25.00 Day of Show
* General admission seated show - First come, first seated - Standing room at the bar.
In an event especially suited to Halloween, New York's most bizarre, deranged and hilarious theatrical stage show, Gong Show Live (www.gongshowlive.net), returns to BB Kings on 42nd Street in Times Square for a speciAl Halloween show on Sunday, October 31 at 8 pm.
Chipps Cooney Comedian/illusionist from Edgewater, NJ who made it to top 30 of America's Got Talent
Cultured Kramden - Ralph Kramden reincarnated as an erudite scholar
Heidi the Yodeling Guy - A goat-milking, yodeling, frenzied phenomenon from Las Vegas
The Amazing Amy Elderly female contortionist from NYC who performs to a Star Trek theme and who was rejected by America's Got Talent
April and May Female ventriloquist from Hell's Kitchen, NYC who delivers singing telegrams by day and whose act (as seen on Rachael Ray, The Soup, and Last Comic Standing) often ends with her in her underwear
Wild Cherryz Burlesque Troupe: Long Island ladies with hot bodies and a steamy burlesque act
Jessica Delfino Avant-garde New York comedian who sings a public service announcement while accompanying herself on the rape whistle
The Single Mommas - New Jersey/Washington, D.C. trio with a pregnant new twist on Beyonce's "Single Ladies"
Wonder Boy, The Interpretive Dancing Robot Lifeguard/aspiring NYC firefighter by day who whose mother really is a clown
Last-minute acts selected from the show's audience will also be selected to perform. Complete show info is available at www.gongshowlive.net.
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