Blues Defenders hosts a weekly concert with headliners and swing dancing. Willy has performed and/or recorded with Elvin Bishop, Frank Morgan, Charlie Musselwhite, and Carlos Santana. He is currently member, drummer, and primary singer with Elvin Bishop, and Lead in Anthony Paule soul orchestra.
One of the most prodigious and gifted electric bluesmen on the planet...a deeply soulful singer and incendiary guitarist
Mark Hummel’s Blues Harmonica Blowout™ started on a Sunday night in 1991 at Ashkenaz in Berkeley with four harmonica players: Rick Estrin, Mark, Dave Earl and Doug Jay. Each player performed a twenty-to-thirty minute set, and everyone jammed together with Hummel’s Blues Survivors as backup. Over the next five years, it grew to become a multi venue event around California