Mark Hummel

Grammy-nominated Harmonica man/singer/songwriter/bandleader/author/impresario MARK HUMMEL was born in New Haven, CT but moved to Los Angeles as a newborn. Hummel took up an interest in blues harp & rock-blues music in high school but soon discovered the originators like Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson & Little Walter. Soon after, Hummel frequented the Ash Grove club on Melrose Ave. in LA where he saw (in a three month period) three blues legends he would later work with on a regular basis; Charlie Musselwhite, Brownie McGhee (w/Sonny Terry) & James Cotton. By 1985 Mark Hummel’s Blues Survivors hit the road full time & continued till the present (Hummel’s memoir, “Big Road Blues: 12 Bars on I-80” recounts many road exploits). Hummel’s been featured on over thirty recordings since 1985 including his 2014 Blind Pig Records, Remembering Little Walter (a recording of a Hummel Blues Harp Blowout.) The CD was nominated for a Grammy Award and won two Blues Music Awards. Hummel’s most recent release,True Believer, is a vocal/harmonica album that redefines the scope and beauty of what the instrument is capable of in the right hands. It’s been riding high in the charts & featured on XM Sirius radio since Dec.
STEVE FREUND is a Brooklyn born guitarist & vocalist who spent 20 years in Chicago playing with the best of the old timers, twenty years with Sunnyland Slim, twelve years with James Cotton, recording/producing Magic Slim, Snooky Pryor, Henry Grey, Koko Taylor, Boz Scaggs , Lonnie Brooks on a Grammy winning album. Playing with Otis Rush, Bo Diddley, Eddie Taylor, Hubert Sumlin, Big Walter Horton, Floyd Jones, Lee Jackson and many more.
RANDY BERMUDES is a bass player who’s spent 15 years in Charlie Musselwhite’s band, played seven years in Fabulous Thunderbirds, five years in Little Charlie and the Nightcats as well as Hummel’s road bands prior.
AKI KUMAR is best known as the Bollywood Blues harmonica playing leader taking the world by storm but doubles as a fine blues drummer as he will be demonstrating on this gig!
Steve Freund-guitar
Randy Bermudes-bass
Aki Kumar-drums
Tickets: $30 per show
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