Nine-time Maple Blues Award winners Diana Braithwaite and Chris Whiteley from Toronto have been thrilling audiences from Europe to South Carolina with their brand of red-hot blues.
With a solid band behind them, this electric blues show combines classic and original blues that rock the room.
Featuring Diana’s unforgettable, rich voice, and Chris’ award-winning skill on guitar, trumpet and harmonica, they capture the audience with their musicianship, stories and even some “blues dancing” she learned from the legendary Jeni Legon, who performed with Count Basie.
Diana was recently included in the top 10 candidates for female traditional blues singer at the prestigious American Blues Awards.
The couple’s list of awards includes nine Maple Blues Awards, Gemini Award, Golden Sheaf Award (songwriting) and six Juno nominations.
CBC Radio has recorded them often — most recently their commissioned work The Blues Suite at the Glenn Gould Theatre in Toronto. Their 2013 CD Scrap Metal Blues has been getting rave reviews.
Visit www.hotblues.ca for video and sound clips. Braithwaite and Whiteley start performing Thursday at 8 p.m.
