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"Sauce Boss" Bill Wharton & The Ingredients on tour with special guest Randall "Big Daddy" Webster - Ireland September 27 - October 10

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The “Sauce Boss" Bill Wharton & The Ingredients with special guest Randall “Big Daddy" Webster travel from Florida to bring their Blues and Gumbo to Ireland September 26 - October 10, 2006.

BILL WHARTON (Sauce Boss) has cooked gumbo for over 136,000 people for free. He mixes his own spicy slide guitar blues and hot sauce right into the New Orleans style gumbo, and at the end of the show, everybody eats. It's a soul-shouting picnic of rock & roll brotherhood. Sauce Boss also brings his show to homeless centers throughout the US through his charity Planet Gumbo (planetgumbo.org). “He stirs up the crowd as well as the roux, giving his audience a demonstration of both cooking and guitar skills they'll never forget"--the Times-Picayune (New Orleans). “Wharton rips into solos in the same class as Billy Gibbons or Ry Cooder. Aficionados and casual blues fans alike should appreciate what the Sauce Boss cooks up"-- Performing Songwriter Magazine. “Bill Wharton is an American original, the kind of citizen that makes us proud to live in this country . . . Wharton and his band play a rich flavor of blues ... making better records each time out"--CMJ New Music Report

RANDALL WEBSTER'S (Big Daddy) foot-stomping original blues is powered by his four-octave vocal range and capable guitar--they often call him the “Pavarotti of Blues." There's an undeniable musical connection between Webster's blues and Ireland. Says Big Daddy: “The tradition of playing music from the soul ("ceol dan anam" in Irish) is much the same in Ireland as it is in America. Take the feel of a Bo Diddley beat as it's similar to that of a jig, and the mournful notes of an Irish air are found all across blues." “Randall 'Big Daddy' Webster has lived and breathed the blues for over 25 years; first soaking it in as a wild child while growing up in the shadow of the Windy City (Chicago) during the 1960's and 70's; later swimming the undercurrent of 'Deep River Blues' while he jammed with Bluesmen at the confluence of the Mississippi and the Ohio waterways during the 80's; and for the last twenty-plus years he's tread through the swamp Blues of Florida's backwoods jook joints making the gators growl along the way. He's a true champion of America's great indigenous music. The influences cut sharp, the tunes run deep, and the spirit held high when Randall 'Big Daddy' Webster stirs up his spicy gumbo of original home cooked Blues, trusting his four-octave voice, pulsing rhythm guitar, and beating foot makes it all simmer into a fine blues brew"-- Chicago Blues Annual. And as a director of the Big Bend Homeless Coalition, Webster has established the Americana Blues Caravan to raise money and awareness for homelessness issues in the Florida Panhandle.

For this Ireland tour (number 40), Webster returns to perform his solo acoustic show in support of his good friends Bill Wharton & his band, The Ingredients.

IRELAND TOUR SCHEDULE:
September 28th, 2006 @ Galway Oyster Festival, The Quays, Galway City
September 29th, 2006 @ Barry's Public House, Grange, County Sligo
September 30th, 2006 @ McGrory's of Caldaff, Caldaff, County Donegal
October 1st, 2006 @ The Blue Stacks Festival, Killybegs, County Donegal
October 3rd, 2006 @ The Trinity Rooms, Limerick City
October 6th, 2006 @ The Granary, Killarney, County Kerry
October 7th, 2006 @ The Kinsale Good Food Circle Festival, Actons Hotel, Kinsale, County Cork
October 8th, 2006 @ The Watergate Theatre, Kilkenny, County Kilkenny

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