On drums and background vocals is Steve Amedee of Colorado legends The Subdudes. Joe currently leads his band West Side Joe & The Men of Soul, who released their first album, Keep On Climbin', in 2021 with a sound drawing comparisons to Los Lobos, Staple Singers, Tedeschi Trucks Band, and Little Feat. Collins in 2007 and has since worked with local artists such as Jeff Finlin, Lionel Young, John Magnie, and Al Chesis. Joe has shared stages with Charlie Hunter, Tower of Power, and James Cotton, and worked in the studio with legendary producer Willie Mitchell. He also played gigs with Memphis blues artists Earl the Pearl, Billy Gibson, Larry Lee (guitarist for Al Green), and Big Joe Turner (bassist for Albert and B.B. After playing with Reba for five years, Joe started his own group, Minivan Blues Band, which became a staple of the Memphis roots rock scene. "West Side'' Joe Schicke was raised in Memphis, TN, and earned his recording and performing credentials with Memphis' Blues Rock Queen Reba Russell. More information can be found on their website. They had a chemistry that really comes across beautifully.”įor local listeners, the band will be premiering their new music video with a live show at The Lyric Cinema in Fort Collins. “We had a local improv-comic named Jessica MacMaster to star in the video, along with my daughter Stella. Jessica McMaster Investigative Reporter Social jessica.mcmaster. “I think Chris did an amazing job,” says Schicke. Collins features in the video, like CSU, Old Town, and Horsetooth Reservoir.” The video was directed by local bluegrass musician Chris Weist from the band Woodbelly. “We recorded at Stout, a local studio, and we have two of the most amazing local musicians, Bevin Luna and Saja Butler, singing with us on the song, and we made sure to include lots of Ft. Collins" the song and video turned out,” says Schicke. As the last piece of their album cycle, it was important to the band to feature the local community that played such a role in the creativity and inspiration behind their work.
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With her extreme dedication, no doubt she will thrive as a professional performer, composer and private fiddle teacher.The video is set in Schicke’s hometown of Fort Collins - the city that really inspired the song. When Jessica is not performing, she can be found finger picking her guitar, writing a song or fiddle tune, playing her keyboard or sketching portraits in pencil. Jessica performs for special events, music festivals, fairs, private house parties, weddings, schools, fundraisers and community events thoroughly enjoying the opportunity to share her music and please her audiences. Another performance cherished by Jessica was opening for three time Juno Award winning fiddler Ashley MacIsaac at the 2017 Festival of Small Halls Ontario, where she received a standing ovation and he asked her to accompany him on stage for a couple of fiddle tunes. Cormier, special guest of Scott Woods and special guest of Larry Mercey (from the seven time Juno Award winning Mercey Brothers Band). Jessica has performed at Ottawa’s National Gallery of Canada for the Canada-United States Inter-Parliamentary Group, Toronto’s WinterFolk Festival, the Perth RCMP Musical Ride and the Havelock Country Jamboree. She was interviewed live on Kingston’s CKWS-TV and was profiled in Halifax’s Celtic Life Magazine – December 2014 issue ( ). Currently she is a 2018 Canadian Folk Music Award nominee. Jessica already has many impressive accomplishments including a 2016 Canadian Folk Music Award nomination for Young Performer of the Year, based on her first CD recorded at age 12, Toronto’s 2017 CNE Rising Star Talent Competition semifinalist and a 2018 Canadian Songwriting Competition semifinalist in the category of Under 18 for her original fiddle medley. See, for example, Hyman, From Dreyfus MacMaster, Colonial Migrants. Jessica has since been developing and refining her own unique style from her private lessons with professional fiddle teacher, Cindy Thompson of Almonte, and very much draws from others such as Shane Cook, Tim Chaisson of the East Pointers, Scott Woods, Ashley MacIsaac and Natalie MacMaster. Marglin, Mediterranean Modernity through Jewish. Jessica was first introduced to the fiddle with Cindy McCall at the Blue Skies Community Fiddle Orchestra of Maberly. Her upbeat Celtic, East Coast and Ottawa Valley style repertoire amazes all her audiences. Jessica Wedden from Ontario, Canada is a 16 year old fiddler, trick fiddler, step dancer, composer, 2016 & current 2018 Canadian Folk Music Award nominee.
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