Gordon Bonham will appear with his Blues Band on October 5. photo by Cindy Steele
and acting out the voices at the same time. Most children have never seen puppetry done on stage this way before.”
Peppa will be a long way from her home in Great Britain when she visits Indiana, but Gordon Bonham, performing at BCMC October 5, knows our area well. His time in Indiana includes a fifteen-year stretch living in Brown County, and he’ s spent the past several years as a staple of the Indianapolis music scene, performing his brand of high-energy, Chicago-meets-Texas guitar blues regularly there.
For Bonham, his spot on the BCMC’ s roster is a natural fit.“ We’ ve got a pretty good blues scene around here,” he says.“ I’ ve played lots of places like the Pine Room, Brown County Inn, and Bean Blossom Blues Festival for years. Now we’ ve got this great new place outside of Nashville, with a bigger capacity. That’ s gonna be really cool.” Fans of Bonham’ s can expect to hear some of his originals as well as his renditions of old favorites, he says.
Bonham partly attributes his success to the universal appeal of the blues.“ The blues is the basis of so much American music, like rock and gospel, so it’ s not a surprise that it’ s persisted this long, across generations. It has the ability to touch people in a really basic way they can relate to.”
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Peppa Pig’ s Adventure will happen live on October 16. photo by Dan Tsantilis
Sept./ Oct. 2019 • Our Brown County 29